Voilence and Robocop

Paul Verhoeven's Robocop is ripe with gruesome and gritty violence.  Violence is to be expected from Verhoeven with films like Total Recall and Starship Troopers (which is very similar to Robocop).  Most of the violence in Robocop is fun violence with a lot of blood.  Whenever someone is shot, they are shot ten more times.  When Murphy is killed in the beginning of the film, his hand is blown off with a shotgun.  Then the rest of the the thugs unload their guns on him, about fifty shots.  As if that isn't sufficient, then he is shot in the head.  That's what is known as overkill.  The violence in Pan's Labyrinth is much more realistic.  When Vidal beats the nose in of the local hunter and then kills his father one can't help but feel sick because its so horrible and real.  I find myself rooting for Robocop due to how he was brutally murdered.  This makes it easier to laugh at the violence in this film.  Although this film is unique, it seems to appeal to more of a mass audience.  I guess that's why I've seen Robocop and Starship Troopers over thirty times combined.