Once upon a time (earlier this week), a fan asked Detroit mayor Dave Bing on Twitter if the city could honor fictional hero RoboCop for his peace-keeping efforts on behalf of the city in Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film. To his credit, the mayor replied, though the response was less-than-welcome: "There are not any plans to erect a statue to Robocop. Thank you for the suggestion."
That should have been the end of it, right? No way. Super-specific lobby group DetroitNeedsRoboCop is accepting donations for the building of such a statue, a move which the city responded to thusly: "Should the opportunity present itself to receive a donation of this, or any other works of public art, we will consider acceptance and appropriate placement."
Excellent. RoboCop is a hero and he deserves to be honored as such. So what if he's fictional? There's plenty of precedent! Just look at the shiny new list after the jump which illustrates that fact!
by Patrick Hester
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'Just Go With It' Is Just The Latest Movie Caught In A Web Of Hilarious Lies!
Posted 2/11/11 3:50 pm EST by MTV Movies Team in Commentary
Today's release of Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston rom-com vehicle, “Just Go With It,” will blaze away the winter chill with its sunny twin rays of confusion and misdirection.
Sandler’s character, Danny, uses a wedding band to attract women. When the bodacious Palmer (Brooklyn Decker) falls for his trick but insists she can't date a married man, Danny asks his long-suffering assistant, Katherine (Aniston), to pretend to be his wife so he can project cozy family vibes, act out a divorce, and net the babe. Pretend to be married to your boss? Involve your precious kiddies in the ruse? Go through with a fake divorce? That sounds like a scenario for surefire moral turpitude and occupational chaos, right? Not according to Aniston’s character, who decides to “just go with it.” Not to worry, on the big screen, no one ever gets caught in his or her own web of lies!
Although Katherine might seem a trifle hasty, she is not the first illustrious resident of a rom-com to feign myopia in service of plot. In fact, ridiculous scenarios and character short-sightedness have combined to produce box-office bullion time and time again. Below, we take a look at the golden era of dupes — the narratologically complex ‘90s — in which characters, in solidarity with their audience, willingly suspended their own disbelief and dismissed all instincts to "just tell the truth," deciding instead, “Eh, might as well just go with it!”
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