The lion roar at the presentation. Okay, it was stupid (next to the live ammunition fact), but when it fell down the stairs and made horse squealing voice, it was DERP moment. That was completely unnecessary to add some weird animals voices to a big robot. Even back in 1987.
I think it was a pig squeal that they added. As for it being unnecessary and weird, I don't feel that way at all. The sound effects they used for him seemed very fitting to me. The tiger sound they used, I feel, was successful because they obviously wanted him to be intimidating, which worked. Then him falling down the stairs was a comedic moment, and the squealing only added to that. I can see where you're coming from, but the movie isn't meant to be 100% serious, so to me it just fits right in, along with all the other craziness in this awesome movie.
shareI think it was meant to be serious back when it was made. If you look at the quality of many other movies in the 70-80s specifically in the non-genre category, they look funny. It's just that the "serious" tonality has made a progress. While i agree back then directors seemed to have more liberties at what they do, and thus 3-3.5h movies were much more common. Nowadays standards exclude this when your budget exceeds $100 million (with exceptions of course), but usually they have to follow the foolproof formula for maximum returns.
shareFor the most part it's serious, yes. But there are several moments in the film that were meant to be funny. The commercials, Bixby Snyder, when ED falls down the stairs and when he's blown up, and probably a few others. That's why I love this movie, today's movies try to be far too serious. I understand there were more liberties back then, that's why I think it was the golden age of cinema and many of today's films aren't that great. They treat it too much like a business and not as much as an art form. The Robocop reboot wasn't that great for this reason. Studio execs were pulling too many strings, hence the pg-13 rating, and they tried to make it too serious. It's about a man being turned into a cyborg, the initial concept is a little ridiculous. The original realized that and avoided the 100% seriousness, whereas the new one did not and made it as serious as possible. And all that seriousness revolving around an already somewhat ridiculous concept just doesn't work.
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