Demolition Man - Life Simulator 2020 Edition
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- Greetings and salutations, citizen. Spread joy-joy feelings by watching this review of the 1993 sci-fi action classic, Demolition Man. And don't forget to obey the Verbal Morality Statute.
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"We're Police officers! We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!"
Especially if they're glorified social workers with no actual experience fighting crime.
Cops in America: pathetic!
The result of people going overboard in demanding a more neutered police force.
sweden basically
Cops in payday tbh
I'm a chemical expert and C4 is a gel when first made. It is normally cast into blocks but can be cast into any shape you make a mold for. The real sin is that C4 is really insensitive and will not explode if set on fire. It will burn, but it requires much more energy to actually detonate it.
Interesting to know! Great post!
Cool
I'm not but I knew that anyway
Electricity required for reaction
Inaccurate it's the energy, not a chemical reaction . Closest is nitroglycerin. It will blow if agitated
Film was 40 years ahead of its time. One of Stallone's and Snipes' best films.
I agree. I'm not sure about Stallone but I think Snipes still has another great movie like this in him.
Both of them are epic.
@@Black-Circle actually it goes further back to stories of ancient mythology but i see your point.
It's such an underappreciated cult classic. I was wondering when Drinker would get around to it.
Actually, I'd say it was only about 30 years ahead of its time, if you catch my drift! XD
My dad recently visited my home for the first time in a decade. My wife had decorated the bathroom with a sea theme. I put three seashells on the counter and my dad caught the reference. I had told my wife about it (she had no idea what I was referring to) and I'm glad my dad pulled through!
Is that how the three seashells work? You have to pull through?
Bless you for such a deep cut reference. I pray that my own kids will someday be that cool
This movie was literally 25 years ahead of it's time.
It's not a movie it's a prophecy
Same as 1984
@@NormanReaddis don't forget about Brave New World and They Live
And it drew from the past. Main antagonist leader has what appears to be a Chinese style eunuch
@@sabiti5428
the leader is a japanese weeb tho lol
although people trying to be japanese nowadays are still on point
In Africa every minute 60 seconds pass
Drinker: 'OK, you're going to jump from that helicopter using a bungee rope.'
Stuntman: 'Oh... Uhm, won't I bounce back up into the rotors?...'
Drinker: 'Nah, it'll be fine.'
Wouldn't it be physically impossible with all the energy lost from gravity pulling him down and all the other friction/heat/wind resistance?
@@roguereaver634 Correct! You win a physics for today!
@@roguereaver634 You assume that the helicopter won't move at all. Imagine the heli moving down, while the stuntman is bouncing back. That could be an issue. Therefore the heli has to hold the altitude. Otherwise you are right.
@@ollih.901 I'm going to assume that a guy flying a helicopter for a stunt jump is pretty good at maintaining his attitude
Also, the chopper would have to drop in altitude AFTER the bounce but BEFORE he got all the way back up, because if he dropped before the bounce the tension wouldn't be enough to get him all the way back up
@@Arassar As an external factor air currents can also play a role, but its unlikely that they would film that scene in a storm. I just wanted to point out possibilities, even if they are unlikely.
Personally I would be more concerned about the bungee rope being attached properly and having the right length.
Demolition Man is a cautionary tale about how, when society vilifies all forms of masculinity, society inadvertently allows those who express masculinity in its most violent and immoral form, to act with impunity. The way to counteract this problem is to NOT to demonize masculinity as a whole, but to allow those who express their masculinity within a moral framework to act as a check against those with no moral boundaries.
This is underrated comment. Cannot agree more with you
And therein lies the hidden depths of this movie.
"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times."
BASED and redpilled.
Hugs and words definitely aren't going to stop the Simon Phoenixs of the world.
11/10
The sheer brass balls on a villain like Fenix, though.
"You're under arrest!"
"No, I'm not."
Favelas are like that too. Gangs aren't criminals in 3rd world countries, it's local government. You can probably trust a gang member's word more honestly than a politician anyhow.
@@slowfudgeballs9517 that makes sense, they have been paid to murder and steal their whole lives instead of lying and getting paid for it
In the movies account of historical events it was explained to John Spartan that several pandemics occured that caused changes in societal behaviors such as social distancing no handshakes and physical contact being discouraged and seen as unsafe.
Sure.....
This movie is either a masterpiece or predictive programming.
Exactly, it also predicted electric vehicles, widespread use of the taser as an alternate for lethal force (supposedly) and Arnold Schwarzenegger's political career (governor not pres) also VR, coded locks for homes, and "dietary" fast food and corporate takeovers. It was incredible that things like would become the norm less than a decade later.
@@deathstrike Woah! Yes. Great observations! 👍
@@deathstrike And politicians using people of color to bring chaos and destruction in the streets. And useless [defunded] police force.
That scene where he is talking about his emotions to an automated terminal, is the equivalent of people posting those "self-help" and "self-esteem" memes
Lol look at the Amazon mental health booths they put in the warehouses. It's surreal
@@Peglegkickboxer wow, really? Can you have a wee at the same time?
Its even more realistic... I get a lot of ads in youtube-videos for a ''internet-counselor'' where you can make a psychotherapy via screen. Thats indeed very close to the thing Demolition man portrayed.
@@Peglegkickboxer You’re shitting me right ?!
You mean like how people go back to comments and say thanks for the likes they received when in actuality such likes mean nothing in the long run?
“Hurting people isn’t a good thing! Well...sometimes it is, but not when it’s a bunch of people looking for something to eat!”
Yes, how action heroes are meant to be, loved the old days.
Zombies?
@@ericb4127 not really people anymore. Herschel's barn in Season 2 of The Walking Dead showed that.
"Hey, Luke Skywalker, use the Force."
😒foreshadowing😏
That scene where he swears at the machine and uses the tickets for toilet paper is f.ing gold
I read on IMDB a few years ago that Stallone wanted his friend Jackie Chan to play Simon Phoenix but Chan declined because it could confuse the Asian audience who is used to see him as a hero. And I have to say, this worked out better with Snipes. He's really spectacular in this movie, I love the crazy character he portrays here and he does so well. Stallone, Bullocks and the others all do a wonderful job but when Snipes is in a scene, he just takes over everything.
I love the scene were he kicks the glass and it doesn't work and then he asks the guy "How much do you weight?" and the guy starts answering but Phoenix just picks him up and smashes him into the glass. Lovely.
Snipes was great in this movie. He was basically the Joker.
I really doubt most of the Asian audience sees him as a hero regardless with him and his pro-ccp ‘morals’, such a shame as he’s an amazing actor
I loved this movie so much I put 3 Sea Shells in my bathroom.....took 2 years for someone to pick up on the reference but it was totally worth it.
@@Nevets_2770 That seems plausible.
By pick up on the reference do you mean someone actually wiped their ass with them?
yeah but how do they work?
*laughs in Schneider*
@@AAron-gr3jk 2 seashells to pull extra poop out like chopsticks, wipe with the 3rd. I always thought (hoped) that they were buttons like flush, bidet, dry, but nope apparently they're actual shells
And on top of it all, Sandra Bullock is an absolute smoke-show in this one.
I know late reply but you're right. She is lightspeed hot
@@Ryan_Gutz i know late reply but lol
You're forgiven
Absolutely
Yes she looks amazing in this one.
Simons Phoenix’s best quote: “Look, you can’t take away peoples right to be assholes”…
Google hated that
Britain 2024 would like to know your location.
Wesley Snipes made overalls look BADASS in this movie.
He looked like Dennis Rodman gone wild(er)
@@areyoujelton Dennis Rodman actually started dying his hair because of Simon Phoenix
Overalls were actually popular IRL when this movie was made. I'm not ashamed to say I owned a few pair in the 90s, and still do but wear them for very different reasons now. I don't know how on earth we thought they were cool in the 90s, but they were. For some other great examples see any 90s teen TV show; Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince of BelAir, Family Ties, and Blossom to name a few that come to mind.
He looks like the painter from balamory but badass
they say Snipes moved so fast they told him to slow down to film his moves
LA looking like a war zone probably had something to do with the LA riots that occurred in 1992 (the year before the movie was released).
Yeah I am pretty sure he knows that and the question was rhetorical.
@Joe Blow I have to say that's a bad take
Because Stallone is a Republican and scared of the world.
@@storytellingchampion6438 it's not
@@rettc4030 I feel like separating people for arbitrary differences is a mistake and a fallacy.
When they leveled that building in the beginning of the movie, I remembered that MTV had a contest where the winner would be the one who had control of the detonator for the demolition charges. The winner probably became an arsonist later in life but damn, can't really blame him if he had access to that for only a moment in time.
OR he became a Demolition Man, Ha get it, Demo-Man?! Okay, Ill show myself out :D
My God, Bullock's character is basically every 90s obsessed Zoomer.
Demolition Man predicted 90s Nostalgia!
Bullock was 29 when this film came out. It's set in 2032, so she would have been born in 2003, along with Greta Thunberg and Olivia Rodrigo.
@@NJGuy1973 that’s depressing
@@NJGuy1973 Her character can be even younger than 29 too.
@@NJGuy1973 Sandra Bullock was hot!
I mean, 90s nostalgia was easy to predict. In the 90s we had heaps of 60s nostalgia.
I absolutely love the last line the Critical Drinker has for us: "Be well!" That surely gave me joy-joy feelings.
Enhancing your calm is the best way to avoid going on a murder death kill spree at the local Taco Bell.
@@jimthar17I love Taco Bell, but man if I keep eating it I may have to get some more seashells, already broke 2/3
"why do all of these action movies show LA to be a warzone?"
Me: The 1992 LA Riots
Predator 2 came out in 1990.
Exactly.
@@BulletTooth504 Yeah, but that was still at the height of the crime wave, so everyone expected violent urban centers filled with drugs to get worse.
the speculation really came from the power the blood, crisps and Hispanic gangs had back then. They still operate low key but not like back then.
And then you roll down the window only to see California well on it's way to that.
Have you guys seen Pirates of the Caribbean meme where Sparrow gets off his sinking ship at the docs just as it pulls in? It's got the captions "California, Californians, Your State" 🤣
The reason why L.A. was depicted as a war torn police state so often in the early to mid 90s was because it could've easily happened. The LA gangs overran huge section of the city from 90 - 92. There were the LA Riots in April of '92. By '94 there was the Simpson trial. Then the Northridge Quake also in '94, then the Seventh Heaven Rave Riots in '96, those are just a few highlights. So, between 90-96 LA was actually on the edge of collapse in the eyes of thousands of people.
I was there!😢😢😢😢
Demolition Man was fun to see on the big screen. Wesley was having a good time, Sly was in good form, and Sandra Bullock was adorable all over the place.
Denis Leary was brilliant as well.
This movie hits all the Huxleyian and Vonnegutian markers. Simply brilliant, and such fun to watch.
Change the ‘no sex’ to ‘hookup culture, where sex is transactional & meaningless to most’, & ‘polite to everyone’ to ‘polite to those who agree with you on everything’... & it’s on point to now....
Truly a Brave, New World.
@@Grubnar And yet we only get weed instead of soma.
Ocarina in their book this is just a transitional phase to justify the further step to distance ourselves from who we truly are, just like the current scenario we live in. I want them to die... forever.
iM3 Phirebird
**_deep & resounding shudder_**
This movie and The Running Man staring Arnold Schwarzenegger almost perfectly predicted the future.
EDIT: Escape from New York and Escape from LA are pretty accurate as well.
Running Man is probably the most overlooked Arnie movie, and that’s just sad.
you forgot idiocracy,
@@AlbionVega Yes it is, one of my favorite part is when he killed so many people that the audience started placing bets on him to win.
@@pierrebe4492 While that movie is hauntingly accurate I was speaking in terms of action movies.
Minority report is getting that way too
This is one of my favorite movies. Wesley is a genius at being a mad man
People cheer on Heath Ledger for his portrayal of the joker but it seems nobody remembers Snipe's Simon Pheonix lol.
5:13 - I dunno, Drinker... Given how the world is today (3 years after you made this vid), I'd say this was just another scarily accurate prediction by this amazing cinematic masterpiece!
The start of the film where Phoenix has taken a city is basically CHAZ
Don't insult Phoenix like that
@@cavecanem1741 Thank you, chaz is a joke
I thought I saw a similarity
If Simon Phoenix was running CHAZ there would be so many more people dead and Trump would have to call the National Guard.
@@Azraelseraphim chaz was most violent city on planet
I just watched this again, first time in years. When I was a teenager I thought it was a cool film. But now it's fucking terrifying.
You hang out with bad people.
In many ways, Demolition Man is a loose adaptation of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" (several of the character names echo the book like Lenina Huxley and John Spartan (John the Savage)). The premise is similar. A society technologically bred and conditioned to be "perfect" is introduced to a character that doesn't follow their programming. Yup, both the book and this film are eerily prophetic in many ways. Too bad so many people have given up their individuality, critical thinking, and determination in the face of adversity in favor of PC-ness, groupthink, and hedonism.
My exact thoughts, down to the character names. A society bred to be stable and non-threatening.
thus spoke zarathustra anyone?
Except Brave New World is more about Logical Positism: the complete and utter surrender to science letting science replace religion, philosophy, morality and art. A cold dead world where people while at peace and not needy, are completely lacking in self actualization
And Covid is being used to further this track and traced dystopian centralised power hungry witless agenda.
No one has given up their individuality
We need a Drinker review of Starship Troopers!
I second this!
Yes!
I'm waiting for it lol
I would like to know more.
fk ye!
There is a deleted scene where Spartan meets his daughter. She's still in the movie for a few seconds, she's one of the resistance fighters.
Wow didn´t know that. I´m a huge fan since the movie released and in my mind, there was always that thing about his daughter that I wish they resolve somehow.
@@DNSchank I remember getting creeped out the first time I saw it, since I wondered if Sandra Bullock might be his daughter.
@@Dr0p0fahat Yeah! I forgot I thought something like that too but when they met the first time.
The woman on the far right was his daughter. i.stack.imgur.com/sq0XJ.jpg
@@Dr0p0fahat thanks
I still cannot get over how close to reality this is.
1993: Demolition Man
2020: Demonetization man
2020: Demonetization person
FTFY
2020 - Demolition Cis
Mephistopheles 10 k, It's over 9000 I think it’s the term the “Alphabet people” use for white males”. Alphabet people being LGTBQetcetcetc....
It’s Identity stuff. I’m not an expert... thank God.
@Mephistopheles 10 k, It's over 9000 It means anything normal. It used to have a very generic use in science but then the crazies decided to use it.
@@kaptinbarfbeerd1317
I think you mean Demolition *MAAM*
Watching this again three years after it was first posted and this is without question the Drinker's best opening.
There is a deleted scene that reveals his daughter is with the underground rebels. I guess they cut it for time or pacing.
I thought Sandra Bullock was his daughter? That's a theory...
No way!
Incest - a game that is fun for all of the family!
@@creekandseminole Spartan mindfucked his own daughter then...
I'm pretty sure they cut that scene because it just didn't make any sense. John Spartan spent around 70 years in cryo-stasis, so his daughter would have been really old if she was still alive, yet in the deleted scene where she is with the rebels, she's like late 20's/early 30's-ish? She was definitely not in her 70's or 80's. It would've been a massive plot hole.
God this movie is so much fun. Wesley Snipes definitely stole the show. Even Dennis Rodman was impressed by him.
Wait?!? Wasn’t that Dennis Rodman playing Phoenix?
@Enwurd Jogger no we dont
He sold that role without a doubt :)
Rocko Lmao!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Let's not forget that Wesley Snipes' character was what inspired Dennis Rodman to dye his hair.
"It's been deemed that anything not good for you is bad; hence, illegal."
I've personally never smoked and yet I STILL don't think they should have banned smoking in all indoor areas.
@@FromtheHerts81 Actually, that's literally one "good" thing _they_ have ever implemented as far as laws are concerned. Shocking admission, I know.
Here's why- smoking indoors affects non-smokers as well. Smoke doesn't know to stay in the smoking section only- it travels wherever the drafts will carry it. It had literally nothing to do with trying to "control" smokers but everything to do with non-smokers or people who simply didn't want to smell that crap not having to be subjected to inhaling it. Why should I not go to my favorite restaurant anymore simply because a smoker will be in there hotboxing the joint up?
I'm a non-smoker as well- but we simply don't have great ventilation systems that completely remove smoke from indoors. I remember traveling through a European airport back in the 90's where they had a smoking section *in* the airport- that stuff wafted everywhere _beyond_ the stupid little designated area for smokers.
@@FromtheHerts81 I'm a smoker but I disagree with you. At least now we, misanthropic smokers, have an excuse to leave the mortals inside and isolate ourselves for a couple minutes every so often.
No but seriously, smoing inside is only ok if the place has great air conditioning AND the smoke room is well isolated from the rest of it. Which is rare. Otherwise smoke becomes very irritating even for the smokers, not to mention those who do not smoke themselves
@@glebbokhan9777 You do yourself a disservice, Gleb. Just think of what it's like smoking outside in winter. There has to be another way, I feel. There always is. Besides, the UK public were against a blanket ban in the early Noughties. But did they listen? Think of the Iraq War protests and you'll find out...
Pretty much what they're trying to do with sugar now in Scotland, trying to buy something (other than water) to drink that DOESN'T have artificial sweeteners in it is damn near impossible. Only option left in most places is Coca Cola, which they charge you more for (sugar tax)
I haven’t seen this since it came out in the theater. I never forgot it. Especially:
“Eat recycled food. It’s good for the environment and…*okay* for you.”🥴
That quote's from Judge Dredd but It's in and around the time I suppose 🤷♂️
@@kabukidad82 Wow. Yer right. I don't remember seeing that movie. I obviously confused it. Disclaimer: (? I hope) I was REALLY stoned when I watched movies back then. :P
@@leftyzappa you and me both broseph! It's all love 👊
God damn I love this movie. I remember going to see it when I was a kid. It was really the definitive "summer blockbuster". They don't make them like this anymore.
When I first watched this movie in the '90's, I agreed with your opinion that John Spartan getting blamed for Phoenix's murder spree was illogical. And then 2020 happened, and I when I rewatched this movie with some friends, I realized that this mentality is 100% how 2020 handles police officers.
They always find someone to blame!
Morality Policing as Tim Pool called it
The writer was even more accurate than they realized.
That isn't how 2020 handles police officers. The Police Unions are extremely powerful, if you even threaten an officer with an investigation, the Unions will threaten to get all the police to not protect or serve you anymore. It's almost a protection racket they are running.
@Cure4Living The Unions fought tooth and nail against the investigation that started the BLM mess. Their efforts failed because the public video got out, but they did everything they could to hush up the investigation. It's one thing to defend the police if their innocent, it's another to undermine the investigation to find out what happened. The Police Union acted before they themselves knew what happened. It's because police officers receive a double standard in their favor that the BLM movement exploded. It's not like people went out the protest for no reason. There is a problem with the system but nobody is acting rationally at the moment.
That moment when you can’t tell if he’s talking about the movie or real life
Even Nostradamus watches Demolition Man like "Damn, they got more right than I did."
Pretty much
Wesley Snipes was the most enjoyable bad guy I've ever seen in this movie. Every ridiculous thing he does makes sense, because he absolutely revels in chaos, and it's awesome. I haven't watched it in years, but I still remember the little techno tracks they played as he beat the crap out of everyone, almost like he was dancing. And Stallone was definitely in his prime here. Every movie that came out around this time was like a competition between Stallone and Schwarzenegger, and the audience benefited from it greatly.
As for Spartan being charged, that scene is already a bit into the films alternate "future". So they are probably on some level reflecting attitudes that lead to Cocteau's vision for society.
Even without that, i believe it, they could make a case that he was criminally negligent in the line of duty, disobeyed orders and in that fashion shift the blame to Spartan rather than Pheonix. But beyond that We are seeing officers and civilians charged for defending themselves .
Of course I live in between Seattle and Portland and it all seems pretty believable
I thought that too more or less, that at that point Spartan was allready living in a crazy pc society, and one mistake like that would be enough to allow the lefttists to put the very good cop in prison.
Hell a officer make a judgement error on the job nowadays and a whole city is turned into the opening of this film.
One major problem with the explosion that killed the hostages. The C4 is a red herring. You set fire to C4 and it burns up not explode. You need a detonator of some kind for a C4 explosion.
good luck to you. Hope you're plenty outside of both cities, but no matter what stay safe.
gen Z reactionary complain that violent movies are to blame and not a militarized police, then extol violent movies while saying Portland is a PC hellhole yet decry the real protesters and yet praise a comedians protesting against the police force of this fake pc city. what a bunch a bootlickers, keep living in the bubble.
I like how this movie is full of little subtlety like the character's name of Sandra Bullocks, Lenina Huxley
Explain
@@theextracrispycolonel9504 Just Google "Lenin" and "Huxley", you'll figure it out.
Oh, and you need to fix the education system wherever it is where you live.
@The Extra Crispy Colonel Aldous Huxley wrote “Brave New World,” and I don’t think I need to explain who Lenin was.
Finally, someone else noticed it too! I'm pretty sure the world of 'Demolition Man' was very much inspired by 'Brave New World'.
@@theextracrispycolonel9504 I looked up the Huxley's book and apparently a female character named ,,Lenina Crowne" falls in love with a barbarian named ,,John" who, in short, is an outsider with 1930's mentality forced to live in a civilization of 2540 a.c.
2020: the perfect dystopian combination of Demolition Man, Idiocracy, and Outbreak #DIO. Oh to go back to a time when all that was just considered silly fiction.
Kono DIO Da!
Contagion
More Wag the Dog than Outbreak. Still Dustin Hoffman though.
Idiocracy is such an underrated movie. Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho for president 2020!!
Not really Outbreak. More like Contagion or Carriers. But I see your point.
I've watched it quite a few times, often with long gaps in between, starting in 1993 when I was 14. It's certainly hit differently over the years.
In regards to plot holes and contrivances, one that didn't fly under my radar the first time was how Cocteau didn't see that coming.
Me: Getting ready to say "go away now" in unison with The Drinker.
The Drinker: "Be Well"
Me: "NANI!?"
same thing happened to me
Hey look, a movie that he likes.
@@sleepalaska I laughed out loud when I heard "Be well" 🤣🤣🤣
When that happened, I actually laughed and responded with "be fucked" in sync with Sly. XD
WTF??? Both Doomcock and The Drinker???
Ah the 90s. Movies like this were unapologetic. How good we had it and how we didn’t even know.
I'm glad to be an 80s baby. One usually doesn't appreciate what they have until it's gone. At least we still have comedy... for now
@@cavecanem1741 "At least we still have comedy..."
Where what kind of comedy produced today is actually fun? I keep having to dig up stuff from the 80s, 90s, 00s to find stuff to laugh about.
@@Varangian_af_Scaniae That's what internet memes are for:
th-cam.com/video/baOj69Yq4wg/w-d-xo.html
@@Varangian_af_Scaniae my brother, at the very least you must know about Anthony Jeselnik. Dead baby jokes live on.
She’s not called Huxley for no reason.
A brave new world 🌎
And LENINa Huxley, on the top of that. :)
@@Full_picture Lenina, herself, is a character in Brave New World.
Bought the DVD over twenty years ago. Still one of my favorite movies. And it did predict Arnold going into politics, among so many other things.
Glad that they never made the amendment to allow him to be President though. It's easy enough to lie your way into being President when you weren't born here already. We don't need to outright legalize it.
I`m old enough to remember when DVD became the newest "must have" in home entertainment. After ditching my faithful VCR I then had to decide which videos I wanted to start replacing with DVDs and top of the list was, Demolition Man followed by, The Rock and sadly only a few others.
@@ianrobson9601 LOL I also bought The Rock as one of my first DVD's. And Terminator 2... which was only available as a Japanese DVD back in the early days (luckily with an English track, but seriously, Terminator 2 in Japanese is awesome)
Yeah man, that movie is some kind of looking glass into the future. Spooky shit. ;)
@@thomaskositzki9424 After the notification of your comment I`m just about to watch Demolition Man again for like, the thousandth time. Sandra Bullock is smoking hot and I've got a bluRay 1080p version which is superb quality. It's so good it`ll, Set Your Ass On Fire.
Ignoring the problems of society and just pretending they don't exist won't make them go away. That's the main message of this movie.
........or the powers-that-be decided to sweep all things they reject under the rug coz they don't want to get their hands dirty........if Simon Phoenix wasn't there, the outcome might be an "Escape From LA" scenario in the end........
The issue is that one group thinks they are problems, while the other group just wants to be left alone to be human.
Im not sure there really is a message its based of a comic book I think.
Nah, it'll be fine!
Addended:
*"It's a film that asks important questions, like, 'What if Rambo took on Dennis Rodman?'."*
🤣🤣
Rodman is said to have been inspired by Wesley Snipes' character to dye his hair blond. So in some ways, this movie helped shape Rodman's persona.
Hepatitis?
@@mrmacross lol persona...
@@jakedill1304 A new version of _The Odd Couple_ ?
Or an odd _literal_ couple? (Dennis, again, in the dress.)
I have noticed something. this movie and Judge Dredd have Sylvester Stallone as the main lead with two love interest that have tight black pants...so good. Sandra Bullock looked so good in those future police uniform and in Judge Dredd we have Diane Liane with tight black judge pants.
"He is a decorated policeman! Surely they believed his word over a criminal!"
It's crazy how much well did they predicted this too!
Good point! Somehow I missed that one.
I caught that too lol
I knew someone would bring the one thing up soceity gets right, nowadays. 🤦♂️
If the hostages would have been still alive, Spartan would be partly guilty of their death. He is only human, like most policemen.
All that was missing from that scene is Spartan being called a racist.
Hey, at least we've found some dumb racists in the comments!
i love how a Cheesy Action Flick predicted most of our over-sensitive future...
The main character’s last name is Spartan; we’re in for a treat.
Since the movie 300 the word Spartan is just another term for badass lol
@@LJAndrews1986 and it was... before that, so more prophecy in a way
I have been waiting for a protagonist called John Muscular.. But since the 90's is over there won't be one :T
His name is John Spartan...117 😇
Spartan 117 is also named John. And 117 is the flight number of Cougar and Merlin's F-14 during the opening scene of Top Gun.
Just, you know, fun facts.
90s: everone makes fun of the "happy joy" song from this movie
2020: baby shark dudu du dududu baby shark dudu du dududu
Oh, just fuck you for putting that damn song in my head! Fuck completely off! (I'm kidding, but really, don't do that.)
No stop please not that damn song ,its worse than let it go
An article from Bloomberg last year: _“Baby Shark,” the viral earworm and de facto anthem for the Washington Nationals during the team's World Series run last year, gave its producer Kim Min-seok a fortune of about $125 million._
Now back to your regularly scheduled mundane existence.
@@SPQR7117: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
In the 90s i had No idea what a happy joy song was i was all about hardcore back then
Demolition Man is the most accurate prediction of the future ever made. They've got the music wrong though.
My favorite quote of the movie: "You mean, exchange body fluids?"
midasracer excuse me ma’am, may I please exchange body fluids with you, pls 🥺
I always liked “what’s your boggle?” Lol
@@joejitsu034 Aggresively say, "Be well!"
Please sign this consent form.
Yes sir he was exchanging body fluids without my permission
The bit where he swears at the verbal morality machine to get fine slips to use as shit roll was amazing🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Demolition Man is definitely one of my favorite action movies. It got so much right about our current world and the character of Huxley is one of the few that I deeply relate to on a personal level. In many ways, I feel just like her. She is a quirky, nice, sheltered, nostalgic member of law enforcement that pines for a bygone era. An era that she doesn’t really understand, especially it’s more tougher aspects. If Huxley was recast as a mid-30s guy from New England, than I could perfectly fill her role.
This movie reminds me of a time when movies weren't glossed over with identity politics and biased agendas. Dang, do I miss those days.
They gave you food for thought without attaching a hose to it and trying to knock you over spraying it at you.
It is more than that. Most movie aren't shoved full of SJW bullshit, it is that studios use their demographics analytics spreadsheet create a test-tube baby that appeals to the widest array of people possible in order to make the most money. What he get is soulless, shallow bullshit.
Kevin S Thats a perfect metaphor for how they do things today.
When i watched it in theaters, i never in my wildest nightmares expected my actual world to become something like this.
I curse myself for not paying attention.
You aren't the only one. There are many who share your sentiment. Myself included.
Don't be so hard on yourself. No man knows the future.
I've been all along bitching we were heading this way..
Often told ppl this movie will be close to reality...dmittedly didn't see the "everyone's an expert online" thing coming though..
I had a couple of friends literally laughing their asses off with a "funny" commercial that had the safest, most family friendly kind of "humor", complete with zanny sound effects and acting. This reminded me of the car scene in the movie.
That future is already here.
You’ll be reporting to the thought adjustment facility soon.
I love the reference props given to Brave New World. 'Lenina' is the name of one of the main characters of the book, and 'Huxley' is the authors last name. (and if you haven't read the book, there's a lot of similarities between the societies and you should definitely give it a read)
People being forced to be nice (or else consequences.) is so relevant. I Iove this movie.
Yes I remember this film. The Golden Oldies bit was my favourite. Like when the pianist is singing 'The Jolly Green Giant' at an official function, and the lady asks what would John Spartan say if she called him a moron? "I dunno - thanks?' He replies
This and Idiocarcy is where society is headed. Hell, we’re living it.
it'll be worse than that... they didn't just go to this suddenly. baaaad things happend (even in comparsion to dystopian, violence free "utopia") between these timelines...
Yeah we are living in a total nanny state now! If the police were any less violent and brutal my neighbors would only be protesting once a month instead of once a week. And they still don’t have Apache helicopters. How is my militarized nanny police force supposed to protect me from an out-of-control black man with only a S.W.A.T. Car, a few AR 15s, and 10 officers with 17 round semi-automatics ready to empty a clip at the first thing that moves? Ridiculous I tell ya
We're living Demolition Man and we're headed for Idiocracy.
@@NPC-nn4qe nah, we're full speed towards 1984 actually.... maybe Brave New World, if we're "lucky"
@@treyvonervin745 that they coud actually use em that why red states are working and soycock run district are srinking due out of control crime and shit
I still love how they hinted at Arnie being the president, he at least got into politics!
Too bad he wasn't president
We definitely could use him
Don't forget the double standards that were brought up. The Chief of Police constantly used "Caveman" and "Meat-Eater" as insults towards John, and he never got fined.
Just like how insulting, smearing, harassing, threatening, etc. all seem to be totally fine when it's towards certain groups.
You noticed that, too?
certain groups as in white people, men specifically.
@@Xenotypic Or if they're conservative minorities. They don't know what they want. Only the left knows what they want
Bingo
@@Xenotypic ayo don't forget straight.....these people really hate straight people
If they made this movie today, it would be condemned as “right-wing reactionary propaganda”
@Mr Creosote
I can see them adding a similar warning at the start of Red Dawn... (the original of course)
"Disney/Sony/Warner Bros/ANTIFA do not endorse the following portrayal of Amercan patriotism, rising up to dismantle an oppressive totalitarian regime, the murder of innocent Communists, or the use of firearms within any context, especially to defend ones family and or property... Please see the accompanying trigger warning and retreat to your nominated safe space should your faux mental health problems begin to overwhelm you..."
It wouldn't get made at all today, sadly
Like The Joker - LOL
@AL BUNDY They'll probably add a "sensitivity introduction" before the film if it ends up on Netflix.
condemned, labeled as qanon misinformation, and erased from public view. But not before being criticized as racist for suggesting that a black man could possibly be a bad guy and having the director's house doxxed and vandalized in retribution by blm terrorists. Boy, what an age we live in.
I watched this movie out of the blue about a month ago having not seen the film in well over ten or 15 years, and I must say it holds up shockingly well. The movie has aged fantastically and I highly recommend giving it a watch.
Really underrated I think. Stallone was perfect for this...
Stallone's advice at the end: "You get and little dirty, and you get a lot clean" is the solution to finding balance between those that are genuinely offensive and bigoted , and those that are always offended (super woke).
This movie has given me "joy-joy" feelings ever since I saw it in the theater 25 years ago. "In the future, every restaurant is Taco Bell."
Or Pizza Hut depending on which country the DVD was released
The only perdiction of the movie that never even came close to happening
@@sothasil7716 Well Yum! does control a lot of the fast food industry with all their various brands, but are no where near displacing McDonald's and the like.
@@sothasil7716 After the studio wars of 2016, all movies are Disney.
Is a touch closer.
As someone who lives about an hour's drive from LA, I can confirm that looking like a warzone seems to be it's default state every time I visit.
Saw this for the first time a few days ago, the entire time I thought to myself. “Holy shit, this seems a little too real.”😅
When Drinker said "Be well" at the end, I was legitimately concerned.
This movie really has become too relevant in recent years, and that can be rather scary.
No
Yes
You are not allowed to touch someone anymore. You are full of germs and bacteria.
uhhh.. yeah, but didn't we originate from those exact germs and bacteria? Did we reach the point where we deny our own natural existence?
This movie feels like it’s only slightly far away from our current society
"how do you put C-4 into barrels?"
By carefully stacking them.
@Scott Webb Still laughing at a so-called "mechanic" putting an incindiary grenade on a humvee to turn off a malfunctioning horn... Baghdad was fun for me.
@Scott Webb yeah, it's rather insensitive, but with a large fire that could/will make it go BOOOOM
C4 is nothing than "average" high performace explosives mixed with plasticisers and so on... it's no sci-fi sh1t...
Should just have stencilled "Explosive Barrels" on them.
@@garytwinem5275 or painted red... 😝
@@Blei1986 No you cant detonate C4 with fire either. You can literally throw a brick of c4 into a camp fire if you are too lazy to find something else to burn and somehow have c4.
80% of this movie’s budget was spent on glass
& the other half on explosions 😂
& the other half on buildings
Eh,,, you should definitely watch Jackie Chan's Police Story (1985)
@@joejitsu034 except for the very last explosion, they ran out of money on that one
_"Glass? Who gives a shit about glass? Who the fuck is this?"_ -JOHN McCLANE
"If I have to choose between freedom and security I will always choose freedom"!
People never appreciate freedom until they lose it. It's why I personally believe that every adult after graduating from high school should spend 2 years in some form of civil service. Military, police, paramedic..does't matter.
soooo, defund the police?
@@muridae637 Wow...Talk about useful idiot. You're an excellent example. Bravo.
@old school honour and respect. oh, forgive me, you meant freedom, sorry man, this is confusing.
So freedom but with laws and police that regulate you, so basically both rather than freedom over security.
You got freedom, but you died from a demographic shift that is hostile to you. Try Again?
This might be my fav Stallone movie. I’ve watched once every 3-4 years since it came out. Absolutely fantastic, and definitely smarter than it’s perceived to be from the exterior.
"I wanna run through the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading playboy magazine, why? Because i might suddenly feel the need to!"
Denis Leary's whole rant towards the latter half of the film is great but sadly gets closer and closer to reality. We truly are in the darkest timeline.
Wesley Snipes was a treat in this film and Spike Lee tried and horribly failed at channeling that same energy in his Chiraq character.
I love how people are still talking about this movie.
Listen to Dennis Leary's song "I'm an Asshole."
His libertarian monologue for this movie was zero percent acting.
And that song was also stolen from a Louis CK act. But hey, at least he became the mask convincingly enough.
Leary actually stole most his standup from Bill Hicks (RIP), a fucking legend.
He basically recited his stand up monologue
Crybabies whining about how Leary stole most of his routines. Comedians borrow from each other all the time: even Robin Williams and Richard Pryor 'stole' material from other acts. It's just that some are more thin-skinned about it than others.
Also: Denis Leary had better delivery than that douchebag Hicks. It's why Leary got an ad-run on MTV, and all Bill got was to schlep it on HBO until his ticket got punched.
@@chesterstevens8870 Lery lso did this tune, kind of pt 2...th-cam.com/video/1hqRV5hr8w4/w-d-xo.html
1996 Sandra Bullock was perfection.
I wonder how messy the Drinker would get trying to use the 3 seashell method...
Keep drinking until he figures it out or just passes out
You can get the 3 seashells at Tesco.
It still amuses me that a movie set in LA was filmed in San Diego. I remember so many of the locations from growing up there.
As Nostalgia Critic noticed, this movie indeed predicted a lot of modern tendencies.
Especially the things related to control over people "for their own safety", and how it left behind the people who just want personal freedom.
God, PLEASE stop watching those scumbags Rob and Doug walker. They absolutely deserve nothing.
Dmitry Karpenko things seem new once enough people forget.
@@noplace4akitty047 actually, I did, and switched to a more... Proper stuff Haha!:D
But that time he was on point, I give him credit for that.
BTW, did they do something wrong recently?
I've heard bad stuff on their producer, but I don't follow them that much.
Predicted the Patriot Act of the early 2000s.
@@dmitrykarpenko2271 long story short, Doug/ Rob walker and their producer Mike are known to be completely misogynistic. Basically stealing their own employees money. There's a whole "open letter" Google document that the staff of channel awesome but them on comple blast. And they never denied any of the claims IIRC. Allison Preggler from the channel "movie nights" (great channel btw) was one of the front runners of the "open letter" document. Like they say "don't be a doug walker, be a James Rolfe" the second guy being the "angry video game nerd"
This movie and "Idiocracy" are the best version of the near future so far
From Frames 9:35 to 10:04 the Drinker went from the Drinker? To Disgruntled Honest Drinker....with the Jerry Springer bleep at every turn! LOVE IT! 👍👍👍👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Facebook is just one big EGO Boost button, so they nailed that prediction
You look GREAT today! (Orange Man Bad)
I’ve seen this movie so many times, and it never gets old