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Originally Posted by Catatronic

I'm complaining. I wish they didn't. Trying to make it more "kid friendly" is what killed part 3.

While I agree they should never have attempted to officially go after the younger demographic. We were already seeing it because it was a bad-ass movie and considered "off-limits" to a lot of us kids back then. The notoriety/taboo was 50% of the appeal, anyway.

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Originally Posted by Dragasses

what did?

The studio that made the Robocop films thought they could build it into a huge franchise by targeting a younger audience. So they made the third film less violent than the first two and put it all kinds of PSA-type crap so they wouldn't offend the PMRC-like groups out there at the time.