8 Famous Movie Scenes You Didn't Know Were Stupidly Hard To Film

The one thing they never tell you about being half man and half machine? Sometimes the mechanical part of that equation can be a real son of a bitch. Just ask Peter Weller, who became famous for his portrayal of a cyborg police officer very appropriately named RoboCop.

When you spend all day on set buried underneath a hulking suit of armor -- albeit one made mostly from plastic and rubber -- you learn that even the most menial tasks can be about as difficult as being a jockey with a persistent case of hemorrhoids. The "high tech" suit restricted Weller's movements so much that even a simple gesture like, say, catching a set of car keys being gently lobbed in his direction took hours to complete.

That's not a hypothetical example, either. In fact, it's the first scene he filmed while in costume as RoboCop. In what amounts to a one-second scene (or 1/6,000th of the movie for all you math lovers), Weller spent his entire day on set trying desperately to smoothly snatch some keys out of the air. But every time he tried, the damn things kept bouncing off his rubber hands.

Keep in mind, it took Weller upwards of 9 hours just to get into the cumbersome costume to begin with, and then he had to spend the rest of his day unsuccessfully attempting an action most golden retrievers can muster after a few minutes of practice.

Apparently the director had never heard of magnets.