DEMOLITION MAN (1993) Retrospective / Review
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DEMOLITION MAN (1993) Retrospective / Review
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Demolition Man was a better Judge Dredd movie than the actual Judge Dredd movie!
LOL
Ya well they didnt make a reboot of demolition man....
Quality joke
Adam Power We have a better Dredd movie called Dredd
@@Teatime7771 I am aware of that. Of the dystopian sci-fi action films from the 90s starring Sylvester Stallone as a hardass rule-bending cop sent down for a crime he didn't commit, Demolition Man is the better of the two.
It also predicted Arnold Schwarzenegger entering politics.
That was good.
I wouldnt say predicted. Arnold probably talked about his future ambitions to his friends. And they put it in the movies for giggles.
hopefully hell become president. on the other hand, then we might also get that sjw society from the movie
@@coolbuddydude1 Ambition is one thing, making it a reality is another. Whoever thought that he'd win for sure?
I forgot about that! 😂
"Demolition Man" and "Last Action Hero" sums up my whole childhood.
Bruh, you had a 3 hours long childhood ? Sad
Conan the barbarian and Star Chaser xD
Sandra Bullock looks amazing in this.
+TheMaul3r_Real Still is.
CampingMIG yeah her ass was fat as fuck!
Yeah, she looked pretty hot back then. Too bad she became just a mean middle aged women later on.
CampingMIG Hell yes she did
@@christianblade2052 That's a common trait among hot women who age.
Most underrated movie of all time. I think this movie is one of the greatest sci-fi action movies ever made.
I wouldn't say, "of all time", but definitely underrated.
Last Action Hero is the *really* underrated movie!!!
Yeah, became reality in 2020.
and out of all the movies that predict our future, this one is eerily coming true.
@@RonJohn63 I wouldn't even say underrated. It's considered Stallone's last great action movie in his prime
Sandra Bullock is still hot as hell but she's at her hottest right here!
Major Ramsey Agreed. But her acting is beyond overrated.
It's clean
I find her the best on the movie Speed but she is amazing in this movie too
She looks like Micheal Jackson these days
Agreed, she is the type of girl you take home to Mom and Dad.
This movie showed me just how cute Sandra is.
+Bryon Lape she's still smoking hot to this day
SlCKB0Y Agreed
@@majorccunliffe4662 Can't??? Movies are time capsules. People even wank to adult film stars who've died already.
Scary how accurate this vision of the future is getting
Not really, except in one detail the police are on Simon Phoenix's side nowadays
ImCallingJapan are you blind? No contact with people, what you say is monitored and you are find for certain words, CCTV constant monitoring you
@@Team_Banchamek "no contact with people" Uh, a virus caused that situation. And I love how people demonize political correctness when all it means is they can be punished and have social media accounts closed for insulting people in a bigoted way. Suddenly having real consequences to your actions is a problem?
@@imcallingjapan2178 ignorance is bliss. The virus didn't cause anything, politics did. Covid isn't a new virus, different variations of it has been around forever. You wouldn't recognize a gun if it was showed in your face. And you're advocating criminalization of freedom of speech, and you don't even realize it. Brainwashing works wonders. That's not intended as an insult, it's just the truth.
@@havardwindingstad4112 A virus isn't political. Come back when you have something of value to add, maybe
I was born in the 80's.
I see today's world and sometimes I can't avoid to feel like John Spartan in this movie.
Luis Angel Pimentel yeah. you time travelled the slow way
I was born in the late 70's and totally agree with you. I'm not looking forward to living in the sewers and eating rat burgers, but I'd take that over a dystopian PC nightmare.
Ha, so true
How many people here realize that their vision of future is exactly the kind of reality we are going forward to.
I was thinking the same thing. The west is running out of masculinity real fast.
@Hl A Yeah, but you'd better not wipe your ass with that ticket. ;)
Jon in BC, Canada
Really you saw a retrospective showing you that people were bitching about political correctness all the way back in '92 to the point a movie was made that was a satire on it and your takeaway was that it validated your opinion instead of showing you that in fact people have always bitched about that (hell George Carlin was railing against it in the 80's).
The powers that be are guiding us all to that world via subliminal cultural engineering. Just watch the "AT&T You Will commercials" then realize these commercials were made 2-4 years before the internet went public in '95, about 13-16 years before the iPhone came out to AT&T in 2007! The powers that be know damn well what they're doing to us. 🤨
Yes it’s true political correctness out of control and the futuristic technology.
Still holds up. Great Action comedy!
Still relevant today!
Oliver.. im totally disappointed you did not touch on the heavy influence of future dystopian literary work like Brave New World and 1984 in the writers vision of the future. Even look at Sandra Bullocks character name.. Huxley. A nod to Aldous Huxley.
You should watch Dave Cullen's commentary on the film. He delves into the influence of 1984
And Lenina ...
Wasnt there a Czech sci fi writer who was plagiarized by this film?
@@s.ormgamalson6489 Close: Hungarian writer István Nemere claims this movied plagiarised his novel Holtak harca (Fight of the Dead).
Love the reference you make towards Dennis Leary stealing Bill Hicks' comedy. Cheers, mate!
2014: In the UK we don't have Taco Bell
2019: The other day I walked past a KFC that had been changed to a Taco Bell
This film is predicting the future!
Most dystopian stories seem to revolve around an apocalyptic future or have an overtly authoritarian government. What I loved about Demolition Man is that it was much more subtle with its social commentary, first showing the benefits of submission up front and gradually revealing the corruption. That more than anything makes the story relevant and keeps it from being dated.
According to the book “I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action”, Stallone had at one point asked Jackie to play the villain role that ultimately went to Wesley Snipes (at the time Jackie was coerced by his manager, Willie Chan, to give the States another go despite his four disastrous attempts about a decade earlier). Jackie turned it down as he “didn’t feel right about that role” (he had mentioned just a few paragraphs earlier in that section of the book that he turned down an appearance in the Michael Douglas-starring film “Black Rain”, because he did not want to be in a film that made Asians look bad and where he would be playing a bad guy - and he HAD played baddies earlier in his career and it did not go down too well).
Texy88 Jackie Chan was RIGHT to avoid the role. Snipes was perfect for it.
Hi yes,,,I'm from the year 2022 and Jackie chan has since came out as a full fledged member of the Chinese Communist party
I am in love with this channel! Too awesome!
Really nice video, a really great review. I watched this movie for the 20th time (at least) yesterday, a classic.
Just a shame that you didn't mention that Demolition Man is some kind of blockbuster version of Brave New World.
There are so many clues. The book's written by Aldous Huxley in early 1930's, and the name of the female hero is Lenina.
The story depicts a clean/shiny future in which anyone has to do what he was programmed to do when he was born (as a test-tube baby).
John is raised in the Savage Reservation and is often called "the Savage" just like John Spartan.
Even Simon Phoenix says to Spartan "What a Brave new world. Sorry you have to leave."
But still a great review.
You should watch Dave Cullen's commentary on the film. He delves into the influence of 1984 on the film.
Send a Maniac to catch a Maniac!!!
Send a maniac to catch one.
Even as a kid I saw through the three sea shells gag as one of those things thats not supposed to make sense, having it explained that way, im like >.< ugh, I will take toilet paper anyday. John Spartan was ahead of everyone on that one, swearing at the ticket machine was brilliant XD
It makes sense youre supposed to scoop your shit out with shells.
They actually do make toilets like that, very high end. The shells are merely buttons, each aimed to send a jet of warm water to cleanse.
I love this movie! I love it in the same way that other people love Robocop, Tim Burton's Batman or Predator.
Unofficially, the movie is indeed a futuristic BATMAN story in several regards and the character arc fits in perfectly:
SPARTAN: Caped Crusader
PHONIEX: Clown prince of crime and the most deranged criminal mastermind
HUXLEY: Batgirl
ZACHARY LAMB: James Gordon
CATEOU: Ra's Al Ghul
Demolition Man is a criminally underrated action flick from the 90's. More people remember how bad Judge Dredd was as opposed to how smart and entertaining Demolition Man was compared to other 90's action fare. Snipes completely steals the movie and Bullock and Stallones chemistry was excellent with great humor thrown in. Great review as always Ollie.
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Wesley snipes was like a black joker in this movie
@ComocosonoEWL they could never come close to Simon. Simon was chaotic evil.
He did manage to make Simon Phoenix incredibly unhinged and pretty disturbing.
ComocosonoEWL No!! BLM are nothing like Simon Phoenix. Phoenix is a crazy. BLM are not. Simon cares nothing about justice. BLM wants justice.
@ComocosonoEWL You're miserable.
We are living in that future right now .
I cannot deal with how pretty Sandra Bullock is in this movie. Literally every frame of every scene of her is an aphrodisic piece of art. She's the eternal waifu. Nobody has ever looked so perfect in a black, slim-fit leather police suit. This movie gave me an uniform-fetish that has yet to be quenched.
😆👍❗❤️ Kinky! 🤣👮❗
If someone froze me in the 90’s and thawed me out now, I’d tell them to put me back in the fridge.
Couldn't agree with you more i was 16 in 94 when this movie come out. The world sucks now movies music and culture this movie would never be made nowadays.
We’re about to go into this fiction. It’s 2020 and it seems no more fiction but a cruel reality we’ll be in soon.
Sad but true.
We must react.
Lol all the doomer boomers coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches. Cant even enjoy this movie anymore can you?
@@m2heavyindustries378 Are you OK, kid?
This is legit 1 of my favourite films of all time, great video along with many other you've made. Great channel
"Excuse me rambo i need to borrow this"
***** I preferred the reference in Tango & Cash when someone asks his character if he thinks he's Rambo. "Rambo....is a pussy!"
I like Stallone a lot, he's not afraid to make jokes at his own expense.
Paul Dennett In The Expendables series they are definitely not afraid to make fun of each other and their movies.
This movie is a classic!
BTW anyone notice Jack Black playing an extra in this movie?
Yea he was one of Friendlys men. Jesse Ventura was also in Demolition Man in small cameo as one of the cyro prisoners that Simon thaws out
Jackie Chan said in his autobiography Sylvester Stallone offered him the role of Simon Phoenix but declined because playing a villain didn't suit his image and was careful not to upset his fans in Asia.
It's certainly a culturally relevant film with it's alternative title, 'SJW Hell'.
Yes
More likely "SJWs wet dream"
@Freeze Peach like the earth is flat......
@Freeze Peach Must be fun living in a bubble, safely divorced from reality.
@@TheKain202 It's called the internet. You wouldn't widely hear that acronym in the real world.
i loved music, games and videos on a Saturday morning after the chart show :)
sob, i miss you 1990s!
Seeing you discuss Wesley Snipes in this movie has me wondering if you've done any of the Blade movies. I'd love to see your thoughts on the trilogy.
I have reviewed Blade, best to do a search first before making a request ;)
+Oliver Harper lol I should've known. Your videos are great. As I was watching this one it made me think about the Blade movies. I'll look through your videos and find it. Thanks.
Oliver Harper Have you done Beverly Hills Cop? I don't see it
I adore this movie. Yes, I said it. It's one of my favorite Sly Stallone films. Sandra Bullock looked fantastic as well and Wesley Snipes was such a charismatic villain. Those futuristic things looked cool. That sex scene was so fun. Amazing film!
They filmed the Taco Bell scene in my cafeteria at Hughes Aircraft Co. in El Segundo CA. The other wing of the building had a futuristic Sharper Image store with strange-looking merch but it never made it into the film.
“In the end, it took just one man. John Spartan. They called him the Demolition Man.”
We called him Master Chief.
This movie and Blade are two of my absolute faves with Wesley Snipes in a lead role. I always really liked this movie, Thanks for the awesome Review Olly! :D
No New Jack City?
Add new jack city
What makes this movie great is how eerily prescient it was in satirizing certain elements of authoritarianism which we are STILL heading towards today! I watch this movie at least once every couple of years and frankly it almost frightens me how spot on some of it still is. In fact I think it’s more relevant now than ever! If it weren’t for the satirical tongue in cheekiness of it all, I think it would be almost uncomfortable to watch. Thankfully the humor still works quite well.
One of Sly's most underrated films from the 90's. I much prefer watching Demolition man over Judge Dredd anyday.
Something about Demolition Man has aged much better than Judge Dredd. Maybe it's just rather more charming.
Didn't know about Leary stealing jokes from Bill Hicks. What a git!
Snipes and Bollock at 15:00
A great review. I think you really hit on the perfect integration of production facts and history and talking about the film itself. I've often thought you sometimes spend a little too much time going into the film's narrative too thoroughly but I think you found a great balance of all the elements with this review. I remember when this film came out Sandra Bullock was just huge!
thanks for your feedback. Duly noted about discussing a films narrative. I generally always keep it down to 2 and half mins at most when discussing the story. :)
Great review as always Ollie. I've always been a big fan of Demolition Man and this made me want to watch it again. You know I've NEVER seen the Pizza Hut shots in any version of the movie??? Weird. I laughed out loud at the three seashells explanation. I've never seen that before lol. Great upload buddy, very well researched and edited together. Liked and favourited!!
The Pizza hut stuff I believe was for the films initial release and eventual release to VHS & PAL LaserDisc. The DVDs and Blurays in the UK are now the USA prints. Thanks for your feedback buddy.
Ahhh ok. I'm sure we had it on VHS back in the day. Guess I wasn't paying attention!! Looking forward to the next retrospective Ollie. Cheers for this
Oliver Harper I love that movie too, keep making those video's man. I also didn't know about the Pizza Hut change and like the other guy said the seashell part was hilarious.
stewmurray47 the pizza hut version is very popular hehe in europe, it's the only version they show on tv, so i was very surprised that there was a taco bell vers. noone knows tacobell here :-p
The restaurant branding was confusing to hear about later, but Sandra Bullock was interviewed and asked about the seashells a year ago. She said it must have been a bidet and a Japanese toilet. Is funny that the question of still being asked so long after the initial movie release!
In 2020, the Demolition Man high five made a comeback.
Oliver: I recently found your channel and have been binge watching your retrospective/reviews. I just wanted to say you do a great job. Entertaining, enlightening, and educating. Keep up the good work my friend.
I also heard a rumor Stallone wanted Jackie Chan for the Simon Phoenix role. they have been friends for a while , butJackie Chan did not want to play the villain and disappoint his hardcore Asian audience
Very underrated movie. Classic.
What an amazing film ! One of Sly's best, he gives a great performance there, to me he truly was at the top of his game. One of his last great films (with other greats at the time like Cliffhanger and The Specialist). While I loved Snipes in this one, I can't help but imagine how awesome it could have been with Schwarzenegger in the role. Oh and Elliot Goldenthal's score truly gave this one a unique edge. It is quite unconventional and surprisingly sophisticated for an action movie, but again this one is much more than just a straight action movie. Great review Mr. Harper !
Man, just found you by pure accident and im puzzled how you dont have more Subscribers, your Content is pretty spot on.
If i'm not mistaken, there is a line in the movie where Spartan says he was conscious for all 36 years of being frozen. Being trapped in your mind for 36 years would be like a hell scape. It's possible i'm just remembering it wrong, but if I am remembering it correctly, that kind of experience should destroy someone mentally.
One of THE BEST action films of all time. I watched this religiously when I was a kid.
"What seems to be your boggle?"
How much do you weigh? 😏
Top review Ollie. You know I don't ever recall seeing the Pizza Hut recut edit, I had the movie on vhs back in the day, not to mention the numerous times I've watched it on tv and it was always Taco Bell....weird.
Likewise Rob, everytime I have watched the movie it's always been Taco Bell.
'Mellow greetings what seems to be your boggle?'
'My Boggle?'
Thank you again Ollie. I've been looking forward to this.
This movie predicted Arnold Schwarzenegger getting into politics, more specifically being president. Close enough and very cool. :)
It could still happen but it's unlikely. If they did change the laws, I'm certain he'd win though.
I respect your love for movies , and your efforts to include information about St, games etc
Always had a crush on Sandra Bullock
Brilliant review Oliver. I remember watching this at the cinema when I was 14 I loved then and still do.
I really enjoyed this video! My wife and I just happened upon this movie again a couple days ago on tv, and it still holds up remarkably well. I'm surprised that you didn't mention all the little nods to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Thanks a lot Oliver Harper. Thanks to you and your retrospective I bought Demolition Man. Hadn't seen it in years. It does hold up really well after all these years. I loved the characters of Phoenix and Spartan. They're enemies sure, but their dialogue between each other is so funny I almost feel like they're pals. Pals who shoot at each other. Anyway, great job as always.
Outside of the Rocky films, this is one of my favorite Stallone films.
Yeah, Rocky, Rambo and Demolition Man. Top 3 Sly movies for me.
Major props for the mention of Bill Hicks being ripped off by Leary. Love your videos, keep up the awesome work.
I had the extraordinarily bad luck to have missed seeing this in the cinema due to the staggering of international release dates. I moved away from Europe, just before its release there, to Asia only for its run THERE to end. I then had to wait for its release on VHS (which took mooooonths back then) all the while being teased and trolled by other kids who HAD seen it. I was so desperate that I even bought the paperback novel adaptation of the film. Another fun fact was that I visited a Planet Hollywood restaurant that had some props from the film - armed with this mix of information I pieced together a strange hybrid version in my imagination which ultimately was somehow a little more satisfying than the film when I finally was able to rent it on VHS. Those were the times my friends and I do miss them. Great review, Oliver! This film and the associated memories surrounding it will always give it a very special place in my personal mythology.
Loving this channel!
Remember watching it at the cinema as a teen, my jaw hit the floor on the opening scene when the stuntman bungee jumps out of the helicopter, amazing.
This is such a great quality channel. Only recently discovered it
This is one of your best. You pack so much into 20 mins
Thanks always wondered how the three sea shells worked .
This movie predicted the future.
If Taco Bell becomes the primary restaurant of the wirld, then we are all screwed. And so would be the world's plumbing. lol
It's all part of a conspiracy involving Taco Bell, Charmin, and American Standard...
Great movie. First time Stallone sports his black beret and Wesley Snipes proved to film producers that he could fight (actually I do believe that without this movie , Blade would have never happened).
Steller video Oliver! Love it. Your take on the movie has put it in a new light for me, it really is a good commentary on how things could go, or here in America, are going. Class division, nobody wanting to get their hands clean by dealing with defective societal rejects, less freedom and more "safety" can lead to blandness. Thanks for the great video.
Love your reviews Olli,keep them coming!
Brilliant mix of action and humor and very original. The 90s.
I had a debilitating crush on SB watching this movie in '93.
Awesome review, Oliver!!!!! This is one of my favorite action films from the '90's. In fact, I still have the Taco Bell movie poster and the Sega CD game at my parents house. You forgot to mention though that this was also one of Benjamin Bratt's first roles. Thanks again for uploading this and I'm looking forward t your next review!!!!! :-)
"Be well....BE FUCKED!" lol
Always saw this as a twin piece to last action hero
Love the review as usual. I have to see this great film again.
I always believed the seashells gag was funniest if left unexplained
My absolute favorite movie of my entire youth. An awesome flick!
hehe I remember seeing this with my dad many years ago and we both had a laugh at the sea shells.. Of course coming christmas he got me 3 sea shells as a present.. still got them to this day haha
Ikr...how were they used? Inquiring minds want to know
@@alisterfolson Water jets to cleanse.
Best "game over" screen ever!
Great review, Oliver! :) I'm a huge fan of your videos and the reviews you make. "Demolition Man" I've seen countless times when i was a kid along with my brothers, and the 3DO Game console really was a classic for its time. :D Keep up the great work, bro!
06:33 Microchip implant being scanned Oliver, how'd you miss that in your future tech is now here portion :O
16:58 Theres also the retina and palm/finger print scanner and automation with computers in our homes, Siri like.
Using Sea Shells after Taco Bell would be rough because everyone knows Taco Bell = Diarrhea.
TheWilder30 That's why you use the second seashell twice.
What under the Light is Taco Bell anyway?
Amazing film. So many great messages with it that are talked about today with prisons being over crowded and stuff. Wesley Snipes is awesome as a baddie.
Great video, Oliver Harper.
I love all the theories on the internet about how to use the 3 shells.
Love this movie! so glad I bought this on Blu Ray. Awesome review.
These overviews are fantastic
Oliver, you should do a review of Cobra.
A major flaw is that they sidelined Sandra for the finale.
This movie has aged very well.
*in stallone's voice
*PHOENIX!!!*
This movie makes more sense now then it did in 1993 and we are 10 years away from 2032.
This movie was way ahead of its time
another fab retrospective, Oliver! My favorite sequence is still when Phoenix goes to the museum- love that whole bit. Trivia- did you know Bullock and a few of the other uppercity dwellers had very light facial prosthetics done to smooth lines and make their features more symmetrical and tranquil looking? (most noticeable on Bullock)
lol- I have no idea! But her lips in Gravity kindof freaked me out! O_o
*shudder*
Always found it kinda funny that the name of the infamous Scott Peterson is in the cryo prison
This glowing endorsment of one of my all time fav films has got you another sub. Be well.