Excellent analysis sir. In the same vein but on an entirely elevated intellectual level I highly recommend you consider watching and possibly reviewing 1967's epic television masterpiece, Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner".
Spartan's actions did not lead to the deaths of the hostages. The hostages were already dead and cold, which is why they didn't show up when the cops searched for them via thermal imaging. It was a frame job.
I live en México, here police isn't capable to deal with drug cartels, but I still prefer the shitty police from this movie than the corrupted we have here.
Problem is those shity police in the movie almost always become the corrupt shity police like Mexico's. If they don't have the "huevos" to do whats right and stand true to their oaths from political pressure theyre already a half step from taking money to look and stay out of the criminals way.
I always thought of idiocracy as breeding high school jocks and rampant teen pregnancy far outpacing smart sensible people waiting till they die for the right time to have kids. I think it isn’t really showing left or right , just that stupid people are breeding faster than smart people.
Those two movies merged and became one weird documentary.
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wrong because idiocracy could never happen in the real world but we are living the beginnings of the demolition man style world. infact many things predicted in that movie are happening now meanwhile they only thing about idiocracy that is happening is the mob mentality or as I call it tribalism.
I tell my children to “enhance their calm” all the time. Works about as well as in the movie. I think this movie has become less cheesy as it’s aged. The PC world of Cockteau seemed super ridiculous in 1993, but as the years have passed it starts to look more like a prophecy. Can there really be a better yardstick for sci-fi than that?
It was Chessy then and for a while after because all the suggested outcomes where SOOOO absurd to anyone with a brain. Fastforward almost 30 years and instead of it being a satire its almost becoming the lefts playbook on how they want things. Poes Law in action how this movie when from a satirical action comedy to a actual case study in how extreme PC culture can ruin a society.
Ironic how some of the things we think will be mocked into oblivion will actually grow, while the things we have high hopes for a lot of times will wither and die.
Ironic how some of the things we think will be mocked into oblivion will actually grow, while the things we have high hopes for a lot of times will wither and die.
Demo Man still seems to hold its own against the sci-fi movies seen in theaters today. The plot might be unrealistic, implausible, even ridiculous ... but at least the story doesn't serve as a shallow framework for mountains of CGI/VFX, or need incredible mutant superpowers or magical warp physics to be entertaining.
Dave - You do realise that the "cheesiness" was 100% Deliberate?? One of my friends said he did not like it as the people were "singing adverts" - That was the cheesy joke - It was done for the purpose of making the audience cringe as well as realise what stupid rules and attitudes this society had. The toilet paper swearing scene was just awesome! LMFAO! - Again, done for the purpose. This film was a Deliberate spoof - although it did make a very relevant point and threw in some great action sequences too! :-)
banderfargoyl Snipes made that film, like how Tommy Lee Jones did in Under Siege. The hero's were both awesome, but it was the outstanding villains that made the film great.
This movie aged so fucking well. Snipes and Stallone, the fact that three seashells are actually deliberately placed in a lot of cyberpunk games, and *that leary rant* make it stand out as a cheesy action movie that's a lot funnier now with the benefit of hindsight...exactly the point of science fiction
Maybe it is a guilty pleasure, but have I always liked this movie, and the Leary quote is a freaking classic. And I know it was a marketing gimmick, but I also simultaneously cringe and chuckle when I hear the line "Now all restaurants are Taco Bell", ah the hive mind at work.
I love the reference to "a non-smoking section," as if smoking sections would still be an option in an extreme nanny-state future, when in fact they are already gone.
@ Torelethain Demolition Man is one of the few movies that I will watch on tv when it is aired, no matter how often I have seen it by now. It is just a "good mood" movie for me. No guilty feelings about it at all. I have watched Blade Runner a bazillion times, I was in the cinema for the new Blade Runner two times and yet I enjoy the occasional brainless Transformers type of movie and feel no guilt about it. And Demolition Man is actually far from being brainless.
I like the subject matter of the film. But found it as a rip off instead of homage to the works up 1984, Brave New World, & Fahrenheit 451... also The Matrix. But if you're not into reading sure
I really liked _Demolition Man_ . I enjoyed its over-the-top take down of the PC state, and ... I confess to really enjoying cheesy one-liners and platitudes. (IT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD).
This film is damn near Perfect - It may not be an Oscar Bait Movie but it does exactly what it wants to, the characters are strong and fit in {Lenina Huxley is a brilliant Female Lead in Sandra Bullock's best role!}, the plot never slows down or fails to engross, the Action is top notch except for the final explosion which is rather anti-climactic after the massive pyrotechnics at the start of the film, And the Politics are PROPHETIC! Not sure how you can say this isn't a good film unless you're suffering from some film snobbery there Dave?
For anyone who hasnt seen Demolition Man but agree with Edgar Friendlies speech PLEASE watch it. Daves reading while getting the point across lacks the passion and energy that Dennis put into it while playing the part of Edgar. You want to see a passionate rebuke of what PC culture is pushing us to and a championing of individual choice watch the movie and pay attention to Edgars speech when John finds him
My favourite line of his was when Spartan asked Friendly to lead his people, to which he replies "I'm no leader i do what i have to, sometimes people come with me." For some reason i respected his character even more after i heard that.
Then what does John say after that speech. "Yeah, and I think he wants to kill you" Kinda similar to how leftist treat opposite view points now. They probably would kill us if they had the chance
Judge Dredd is probably more accurate for the future. Maybe not a few big megacities, but certainly the collapsed economies and endemic violence outside the rich/government zones.
Well, technically, Antifa and their supporters aren't far from Judge Dredd. They make themselves both judges and juries over others, and argue vigorously, that they're also justified in being the executioners.
I love this movie on so many levels. It's got great action, but it's not just a dumb action movie. It has been eerily predictive, technologically: iPads, self-driving cars, cars that adjust to the driver's settings, electric cars, and less-lethal police weaponry. It's also been sadly predictive of where we seem to be headed societally, with political correctness run amok, "offensive" language punished, and physical contact with anyone for any reason becoming taboo. And of course, Sandra Bullock is just SO goddamn adorable! Bonus: the fight scene between Simon Phoenix and the cops took place in Irvine, California, near the building that used to be Taco Bell's headquarters. The "museum" was just down the street, a very unique octagonal building in Irvine that now belongs to the Prudential insurance company. Both are very near where I was working at the time. The futuristic, angled building which served as the SAPD headquarters more recently appeared as the besieged science outpost in the first episode of "The Orville". It's located at 1 Baxter Way in Thousand Oaks, California.
This movie has aged well, for obvious reasons. None of the future tech is laughable, and much of it is still futuristic if a little closer. We are also far closer to a nanny state than the late 90's ... so this movie is a good watch now.
yes it is more or less what the left wants, right now too many people don't really give a damn... yet. but once it gets to the point where it has effect on peoples daily routine or comes into their home the push back is going to be massive and look just as bad as the SJW movement we likely end up in a fair middle ground
Sandra Bullick's character's name, Huxley, was of course from the author of Brave New World Aldous Huxley. I believe it was even Lenina Huxley, and one of the characters in Brave New World was named Lenina.
Who would've thought that fucking film would resonate today. Love it then, still love it now. Oh Dave, can I recommend another movie you should review? The greatest horror film off all time, The Thing, the eighties one not that shitty prequel.
Most of 'Demolition Man' is lifted from the Hungarian novel 'Fight of the Dead' by Nemere István which was a more serious work that used Science Fiction to protest Soviet attempts to quash Hungarian culture. 'Demolition Man' also lifts from William Shatner's Tek World novels. Interestingly a remake of 'Demolition Man' has been mooted while Amazon Europe are making a series based on 'Fight of the Dead' and Netflix are making a series based on Shatner's novels.
I love this movie. My only gripe, and a minor one, is that the museum that houses the guns also had ammo as well. Not something I can see any museum doing.
I actually really like this movie. Yeah, I know parts of it are cheesy etc, but I know that was intentional and I didn't dislike it. I think this, along with The Giver, are basically what SJW's want. You should certainly review *that* movie. I don't even do social commentary outside of gaming and even I saw The Giver and thought "hmm maybe a video about this?" but I'm sure you or someone else could do it better.
I watched this again a couple weeks ago. Amazing how much they got right. What was a satire has become scarily true. No touching, no swearing, no opinions. Be well, Dave Cullen.
I loved the fact that Stallone laughed at the idea of Schwarzenegger being elected to office - long before Arnold ever thought of running - other than The Running Man.
I just wish they'd left in the part where he finds his daughter living among the Scraps. (I read the book; it was cool.) She's actually in the movie for about two seconds: Spartan protects her during the 'Friendly meeting' when Phoenix starts his attack. IIRC, she's got her father's old police shield on her belt; which is how it's described in the book too.
Love the (not really to anyone who read the book, but to everyone else) subtle homages to Brave new world. John Spartan instead of John Savage, Lenina being the female love interest in the book and Huxley being the author etc 🤣
I love Leary's character in this, have since the first time I saw it over a decade ago. Love it even more now with all the shiteaters trying to convince everyone that words are violence.
If there were only one reason to like this film it would be Bullock saying, "You really licked his ass!" That quote still brings out the 12 year old in me! Edgar Friendly reminds me of the protagonist in Ayn Rand's "Anthem" named "Equality 7-2521" but called himself "Prometheus." There is a point where he wonders why humanity would sacrifice their freedom! I personally wonder that every day.
When New York regulated the size of soft drinks a few years back I thought of this movie. Now DC has outlawed the sale of menthol cigarettes. Virginia Beach has signs up that say no cursing (They're no and a series of 4 special characters). The catch is for everything you do I can figure out a way that it negatively affects me, therefore it should be made illegal.
I was thinking about this movie the other day and how some things from it seem to have come to pass. the 1 thing different from the movie though is cops are way more militant now. in the movie they had almost nothing to do and had gotten where they didn't know what to do when there was a violent situation. in real life today our cops are basically like the military now who need accountability.
It's 2021 a year after Covid first came on the scene can you make an updated video. So much more has happened that this movie touched on. Virus , totalitarian government , cancel culture, political correctness etc.
I remember watching this movie as a kid and trying to figure out the three sea shells. Unfortunately, all we had was one conch shell. All I can remember was the blood... so much blood...
God I loved this movie seen it at least 10 times but I would rather die in the most horrific way possible than to never be allowed to SMASH again. FUCK THAT.
Sorry I of course meant to say West coast, not East coast.
The Dave Cullen Show great analysis! Eerie how right it is now.
There's a difference?
Excellent analysis sir. In the same vein but on an entirely elevated intellectual level I highly recommend you consider watching and possibly reviewing 1967's epic television masterpiece, Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner".
You confused Baile Átha Cliath with Gaillimh?
how dare you,
I'm deeply offended
Dave Cullen, you are hearby fined One Credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Code.
Spartan's actions did not lead to the deaths of the hostages. The hostages were already dead and cold, which is why they didn't show up when the cops searched for them via thermal imaging. It was a frame job.
*LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE*
Yes, but we don't find that out until the end of the movie while Phoenix is taunting Spartan.
They were already dead! Cold as Haagen-Daaz!!
exactly. I rolled down the comments looking for the prick who would actually clear that point out
court of public opinion.
See kids? In the '90s, we _laughed_ at political correctness.
You lot went and did it all wrong.
The 90s seem more awesome with age...
even video games were better in the 90s....
The 80s were better.
The new political correctness is to obsess about political correctness.
It's people from your generation that taught the super-sensitive SJWs what they know, I'd say you did it wrong
All the dislikes must come from people who don't know how to use the three seashells.....
I keep waiting for the three seashells to be invented.
A Dumb Edgy Name Is your Vision augmented?
Does anyone?
I’m still laughing, good one.
Haha fantastic comment.
"We're the police, we're not training to deal with this kind of violence!" arrived a few years ago. .
Exactly, Sweden discussing using the army to police places like Malmö comes to mind.
I live en México, here police isn't capable to deal with drug cartels, but I still prefer the shitty police from this movie than the corrupted we have here.
Problem is those shity police in the movie almost always become the corrupt shity police like Mexico's. If they don't have the "huevos" to do whats right and stand true to their oaths from political pressure theyre already a half step from taking money to look and stay out of the criminals way.
I remember the whole theater audience in 1993 (I live in L.A.) laughing when they heard that line
Like Idiocracy, this movie started as a movie, and has serious potential to become documentaries... :-/
Sure. But while this movie satirizes the left, Idiocracy satirizes the right.
@@Kira1Lawliet I'd say idiocracy satirizes the worst of both. Either way, here we are.
I always thought of idiocracy as breeding high school jocks and rampant teen pregnancy far outpacing smart sensible people waiting till they die for the right time to have kids. I think it isn’t really showing left or right , just that stupid people are breeding faster than smart people.
Those two movies merged and became one weird documentary.
wrong because idiocracy could never happen in the real world but we are living the beginnings of the demolition man style world. infact many things predicted in that movie are happening now meanwhile they only thing about idiocracy that is happening is the mob mentality or as I call it tribalism.
"Somebody put me back in the fridge." One of Sly's best.
Disney won the media wars, now all media is Disney.
In 50 years, we’ll be seeing Shadowruns against the Disney Megacorporation and they’ll be founders of the Corporate Court.
Kiotor Florida and California will be renamed Disney in the future.
Once Disney and Comcast merge, game over.
@@MarkMcDaniel would they then be called: "Dis Com" ?
@@Morgue12free -- NBC Universal Comcast Viacom Disney, etc, etc...
Phoenix had already killed the hostages before the explosion, he just pinned it on Spartan.
Did such a good job he even convinced Dave.
Random American haha well played xD
I tell my children to “enhance their calm” all the time. Works about as well as in the movie. I think this movie has become less cheesy as it’s aged. The PC world of Cockteau seemed super ridiculous in 1993, but as the years have passed it starts to look more like a prophecy. Can there really be a better yardstick for sci-fi than that?
It was Chessy then and for a while after because all the suggested outcomes where SOOOO absurd to anyone with a brain. Fastforward almost 30 years and instead of it being a satire its almost becoming the lefts playbook on how they want things. Poes Law in action how this movie when from a satirical action comedy to a actual case study in how extreme PC culture can ruin a society.
Ironic how some of the things we think will be mocked into oblivion will actually grow, while the things we have high hopes for a lot of times will wither and die.
Ironic how some of the things we think will be mocked into oblivion will actually grow, while the things we have high hopes for a lot of times will wither and die.
memnarch129
Hey, I'm still waiting on Taco Bell to win the Fast Food Wars. (And I'm imagining the Burger King doing a drive by on Ronald McDonald.
Demo Man still seems to hold its own against the sci-fi movies seen in theaters today. The plot might be unrealistic, implausible, even ridiculous ... but at least the story doesn't serve as a shallow framework for mountains of CGI/VFX, or need incredible mutant superpowers or magical warp physics to be entertaining.
Dave - You do realise that the "cheesiness" was 100% Deliberate??
One of my friends said he did not like it as the people were "singing adverts" - That was the cheesy joke - It was done for the purpose of making the audience cringe as well as realise what stupid rules and attitudes this society had.
The toilet paper swearing scene was just awesome! LMFAO! - Again, done for the purpose.
This film was a Deliberate spoof - although it did make a very relevant point and threw in some great action sequences too! :-)
That movie was funny as hell. I loved how they shrunk down that conference table, replacing the attendees with TV monitors. Snipes was great.
"Be well" - Be Fucked! LOL!
banderfargoyl Snipes made that film, like how Tommy Lee Jones did in Under Siege. The hero's were both awesome, but it was the outstanding villains that made the film great.
"So Much For the Sea Shells!" LOL!
"Thanks a lot, you shit-brained, fuck-faced, ball-breaking, duck-fucking pain in the assssssss..."
Worst of all, it really is becoming reality in The Peoples Republic of California.
It's true!
I'm eating rat burgers right now.
Is every restaurant Taco Bell?
I prefer Taco Time
denniselliott27 yes
denniselliott27 no, but soon every entertainment media will be Disney.
This movie aged so fucking well. Snipes and Stallone, the fact that three seashells are actually deliberately placed in a lot of cyberpunk games, and *that leary rant* make it stand out as a cheesy action movie that's a lot funnier now with the benefit of hindsight...exactly the point of science fiction
Yes exactly, sorry if I came across differently but that's what I meant (y)
Maybe it is a guilty pleasure, but have I always liked this movie, and the Leary quote is a freaking classic. And I know it was a marketing gimmick, but I also simultaneously cringe and chuckle when I hear the line "Now all restaurants are Taco Bell", ah the hive mind at work.
I love the reference to "a non-smoking section," as if smoking sections would still be an option in an extreme nanny-state future, when in fact they are already gone.
hey it evne prodicted SJW's ot thier extremes here.
@ Torelethain
Demolition Man is one of the few movies that I will watch on tv when it is aired, no matter how often I have seen it by now. It is just a "good mood" movie for me. No guilty feelings about it at all.
I have watched Blade Runner a bazillion times, I was in the cinema for the new Blade Runner two times and yet I enjoy the occasional brainless Transformers type of movie and feel no guilt about it. And Demolition Man is actually far from being brainless.
Bullock never looked hotter!
jim22277 true story
She still does, tho. But i get your point.
those pants
teufeldritch never miss'em.
I was going to hit like but you had 69 likes. tee hee. BTW yeah I agree this has to be the only film I absolutely adored Sandra Bullock in.
That was Hollywood’s viewpoint only 20 years ago? Amazing how they have changed so much.
Hollywood naturally goes where public opinion dictates.
Public opinion naturally goes where Hollywood dictates.
Such a movie with such messages wouldn't have been made today in 2018.
Movies like these are meant to make such things look ridiculous, that way when you see it happening, you dismiss it. "Nah, that can't be real!"
25 years ago
This, and Idiocracy are now in the documentary category.
Watched equilibrium (2002) last night, would like to see your take on it!
it was pretty good
I like the subject matter of the film. But found it as a rip off instead of homage to the works up 1984, Brave New World, & Fahrenheit 451... also The Matrix. But if you're not into reading sure
And yet other kids could resist better than their parents. I was really hammered to find out his son was a sense offender all along.
Tommy Hill Equilibrium, its not a bad film, but I wouldn't say its that great either; but I did enjoy the subject matter.
Love that film!
I really liked _Demolition Man_ . I enjoyed its over-the-top take down of the PC state, and ... I confess to really enjoying cheesy one-liners and platitudes. (IT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD).
I still love the movie. One of sly's best!
This film is damn near Perfect - It may not be an Oscar Bait Movie but it does exactly what it wants to, the characters are strong and fit in {Lenina Huxley is a brilliant Female Lead in Sandra Bullock's best role!}, the plot never slows down or fails to engross, the Action is top notch except for the final explosion which is rather anti-climactic after the massive pyrotechnics at the start of the film, And the Politics are PROPHETIC!
Not sure how you can say this isn't a good film unless you're suffering from some film snobbery there Dave?
For anyone who hasnt seen Demolition Man but agree with Edgar Friendlies speech PLEASE watch it. Daves reading while getting the point across lacks the passion and energy that Dennis put into it while playing the part of Edgar. You want to see a passionate rebuke of what PC culture is pushing us to and a championing of individual choice watch the movie and pay attention to Edgars speech when John finds him
My favourite line of his was when Spartan asked Friendly to lead his people, to which he replies "I'm no leader i do what i have to, sometimes people come with me." For some reason i respected his character even more after i heard that.
memnarch129 his beer commercials
Had similar range in them aswell.
Then what does John say after that speech. "Yeah, and I think he wants to kill you" Kinda similar to how leftist treat opposite view points now. They probably would kill us if they had the chance
Dennis Leary is an asshole.
The movie happens in *SJW future* ...
That's what makes it fiction... SJWs don't have a future...
I think England is that SJW future. There policemen had a standoff against a stuffed tiger.
NOT YOU Awe, did that trigger you??
@@HiraghmI hope that SJW has no future.
@NOT YOU The only people that should have a problem with this comment are SJW's so I guess you're it?
Dangerous criminals aka individuals.
Andrew T.K.T Pawlowski Dangerous individuals aka conformists.
Ravendarke 777 Liberals are diehard conformists.
Targeted individuals
Democrats you mean?
sounds like the current world.
I do like this film but it seems some people thought it was a guide to the future. Thank god they never watched Judge Dredd.
Judge Dredd is probably more accurate for the future. Maybe not a few big megacities, but certainly the collapsed economies and endemic violence outside the rich/government zones.
Well, technically, Antifa and their supporters aren't far from Judge Dredd. They make themselves both judges and juries over others, and argue vigorously, that they're also justified in being the executioners.
I am the law !
There is speculation those two are in same universe. Dread is on East coast and San Angeles is west coast
I found the cringe induced moments were only cringy when I was a kid, now they serve as a grim warning of a possible future.
03:46 tbh this was prolly just Denis Leary ad-libbing!
Tommy Hill him warming up for stand up
It could be taken from one of his stand-ups verbatim. Edgar Friendly as such isn't much of a character. He's just Denis Leary. :p
I'm pretty sure it was. I remember seeing it covered in a TH-cam video about movie scenes that were improvised.
1993's "Demolition Man" accurately predicted the over-sensitive, hyper-political correctness we see now in 2018 which started since 2016.
i always liked this movie
We now live inside two prescient movies combined: Idiocracy and Demolition Man.
I love this movie on so many levels. It's got great action, but it's not just a dumb action movie. It has been eerily predictive, technologically: iPads, self-driving cars, cars that adjust to the driver's settings, electric cars, and less-lethal police weaponry. It's also been sadly predictive of where we seem to be headed societally, with political correctness run amok, "offensive" language punished, and physical contact with anyone for any reason becoming taboo.
And of course, Sandra Bullock is just SO goddamn adorable!
Bonus: the fight scene between Simon Phoenix and the cops took place in Irvine, California, near the building that used to be Taco Bell's headquarters. The "museum" was just down the street, a very unique octagonal building in Irvine that now belongs to the Prudential insurance company. Both are very near where I was working at the time.
The futuristic, angled building which served as the SAPD headquarters more recently appeared as the besieged science outpost in the first episode of "The Orville". It's located at 1 Baxter Way in Thousand Oaks, California.
This movie has aged well, for obvious reasons. None of the future tech is laughable, and much of it is still futuristic if a little closer. We are also far closer to a nanny state than the late 90's ... so this movie is a good watch now.
The real question is....do you know how to use the three seashells?
I better swear a bit around and use nice paper...
Children of Men, Idiocracy, Escape Grom L.A., and the American show "Dark Angel" are also great topic pieces!
Equilibrium is another relevant one.
How about Elysium?
I absolutely loved Dark Angel. I was so saddened when they cancelled it soon after the start of Season 2 I think it was.
Southland Tales!!!!! Just watch the intro. you'll be hooked.
+denniselliott27 Pretty good, but also new. Most people already know it.
Completely prescient:
There's no toilet paper.
Going to Taco Bell is a big deal.
People avoid physical contact due to spreading disease.
Scary how this is close to reality
First film me and the mrs saw together in the cinema >.>
"Good things from the garden, garden in the valley
Valley of the jolly green giant"😆
I love this movie for its satire. The scary part is that it seems to be coming true. The left just need their Raymond Kockteau (?)...
yes it is more or less what the left wants, right now too many people don't really give a damn... yet. but once it gets to the point where it has effect on peoples daily routine or comes into their home the push back is going to be massive and look just as bad as the SJW movement we likely end up in a fair middle ground
Look to the Canadian PM for your Raymond Kockteau [sp?] in the making. C-16, B-89, and M-103 anyone??!!
yes that is very true sadly, but our lovely Trudeau will not get a 2nd term(I'm Canadian) if he does we are doomed
Came here during covid 19 and my god how fitting
Sandra Bullick's character's name, Huxley, was of course from the author of Brave New World Aldous Huxley. I believe it was even Lenina Huxley, and one of the characters in Brave New World was named Lenina.
Little did we know that our future IRL dystopia would not be terminator or 1984 but instead it would be demolition man.
This video needs an update in the world of COVID and the Great Reset.
I remain amazed that both this film and "PCU" got made during that era.
This movie aged like fine wine.
It's really too bad that it isn't more well liked...
Possibly the most relevant sci-fi movie at this time?
Love your channel ..such a crime you don't have a million subscribers. .keep up the good work
Who would've thought that fucking film would resonate today. Love it then, still love it now. Oh Dave, can I recommend another movie you should review? The greatest horror film off all time, The Thing, the eighties one not that shitty prequel.
Kajetan Gams and if he does it will get terrible reviews.
Spoiler the black guy is the Thing.
Co Jones Ah is that going by the theory the whiskey was petrol? I don't by it personally, but still I like it.
Most of 'Demolition Man' is lifted from the Hungarian novel 'Fight of the Dead' by Nemere István which was a more serious work that used Science Fiction to protest Soviet attempts to quash Hungarian culture. 'Demolition Man' also lifts from William Shatner's Tek World novels.
Interestingly a remake of 'Demolition Man' has been mooted while Amazon Europe are making a series based on 'Fight of the Dead' and Netflix are making a series based on Shatner's novels.
"You can take this job and shovel it"
"We live in a time where some people in our society today consider words to be a form of violence." Too true.
Cocteau was an authoritarian sociopath with a messiah complex. He even talked about society as His Society.
I love this movie. My only gripe, and a minor one, is that the museum that houses the guns also had ammo as well. Not something I can see any museum doing.
Well, it was a society that has not known violence for decades. So, I doubt they understood how bad an idea it was.
So... how do the three seashells work?
Wash, rinse, dry.
In this movie they even solved the toilet paper shortage crisis with the 3 shells, lol.
Hey Dave ...
Did you ever do a review on *Equilibrium* starring *Christian Bale* ?
If you haven't watched it before, you should check it out.
Our life is not far from this now.
I have always loved this movie. Please investigate the 3 seashells, we need answers.
I actually really like this movie. Yeah, I know parts of it are cheesy etc, but I know that was intentional and I didn't dislike it. I think this, along with The Giver, are basically what SJW's want. You should certainly review *that* movie. I don't even do social commentary outside of gaming and even I saw The Giver and thought "hmm maybe a video about this?" but I'm sure you or someone else could do it better.
“Equilibrium,” is also the way we heading too. I would recommended...
The biggest question laid down by this movie is: How the hell do you use the Three Seashells?
This was a back to the future part 2 of its own
I watched this again a couple weeks ago. Amazing how much they got right. What was a satire has become scarily true. No touching, no swearing, no opinions. Be well, Dave Cullen.
I loved the fact that Stallone laughed at the idea of Schwarzenegger being elected to office - long before Arnold ever thought of running - other than The Running Man.
You need only look at the mayor of NYC who banned hot dogs to see that the Cocteau mentality is a real thing in current times.
Unfortunately, this movie is becoming reality. For those that want it to happen, they need to see it to wake up
This is Australia now
This movie aged horrifically well
I just wish they'd left in the part where he finds his daughter living among the Scraps. (I read the book; it was cool.) She's actually in the movie for about two seconds: Spartan protects her during the 'Friendly meeting' when Phoenix starts his attack. IIRC, she's got her father's old police shield on her belt; which is how it's described in the book too.
Regardless of the cheesiness, I love this movie. One of my favorites from my childhood.
I love the way Sandra keeps looking at Stallone in a puppy like manner. I would have.
Love the (not really to anyone who read the book, but to everyone else) subtle homages to Brave new world. John Spartan instead of John Savage, Lenina being the female love interest in the book and Huxley being the author etc 🤣
I remember really liking this movie when I was younger. Now, it is actually my favorite documentary.
I saw this movie as a kid. I remember it had a few seconds of boobies in it. xD That means two thumbs up for a 90s kid.
Lol. I remember.... "Oh! Wrong number!"
Perhaps Justin Trudeau's reference material for a New Canada??
So has anyone figured out how the three seashells thing works yet?
Friendly is basically Leary from "No Cure for Cancer".
But it has a young Sandra bullock in it so it gets a thumbs up from me
One of my all time favorite movies. So scary how relevant it is now.
I love Leary's character in this, have since the first time I saw it over a decade ago. Love it even more now with all the shiteaters trying to convince everyone that words are violence.
It's so nice to see a "future" which isn't completely dominated by society's fixation on cellphones.
If there were only one reason to like this film it would be Bullock saying, "You really licked his ass!"
That quote still brings out the 12 year old in me!
Edgar Friendly reminds me of the protagonist in Ayn Rand's "Anthem" named "Equality 7-2521" but called himself "Prometheus." There is a point where he wonders why humanity would sacrifice their freedom! I personally wonder that every day.
Dystopian *Present
I remember being a kid and playing a demolition man pinball machine on my first ever foreign holiday. Good times
One of my most fondly remembered movies of the 90s.
This film becomes more relevant by the year
The external shots were filmed in Irvine at the former Fluor building, off the 405 Fwy, between Jamboree and Culver.
Bob Morgan Also filmed in San Diego
When New York regulated the size of soft drinks a few years back I thought of this movie. Now DC has outlawed the sale of menthol cigarettes. Virginia Beach has signs up that say no cursing (They're no and a series of 4 special characters). The catch is for everything you do I can figure out a way that it negatively affects me, therefore it should be made illegal.
Am I the only one who would prefer a Mad Max post apocalypse over a dystopia
Nope, you're not.
Hollywood tells you what they did , they are doing and what they are about to do
One of my favorite movies ever. Dennis Learies character is one of my inspirations to this day!
I was thinking about this movie the other day and how some things from it seem to have come to pass. the 1 thing different from the movie though is cops are way more militant now. in the movie they had almost nothing to do and had gotten where they didn't know what to do when there was a violent situation. in real life today our cops are basically like the military now who need accountability.
It's 2021 a year after Covid first came on the scene can you make an updated video. So much more has happened that this movie touched on. Virus , totalitarian government , cancel culture, political correctness etc.
When I watched this as a kid I had no idea it would crossover into reality it's frightening, that Denis Leary quote always stood out to me though.
New saying for liberals should be don't go full Kucktoe lol
Yes that may not be how you spell it but I'm sure you get the idea lol
I remember watching this movie as a kid and trying to figure out the three sea shells. Unfortunately, all we had was one conch shell. All I can remember was the blood... so much blood...
God I loved this movie seen it at least 10 times but I would rather die in the most horrific way possible than to never be allowed to SMASH again. FUCK THAT.
Lori Petty was original going to play Sandra's role. Always wondered what the movie would've been like if Petty played that role.
Simon Phoenix, you are charged with 765,294 counts of micro-aggression. How do you plead?
Love this movie
How to use 3 seashells tho?
Excellent job! This should be required viewing for Universities everywhere as a cautionary tale against Political Correctness!!