Demolition Man (1993) Reaction & Review! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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  • čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
  • Demolition Man was an awesome time. From the beginning to the end, the film was edited perfectly. There was a great mix of comedy and action, all while keeping the world grounded in reality. The predictions of the future aged remarkably well and the performances were very good too. I would recommend this classic to everyone. This is a film with a lot of re-watchability and I am going to watch this film every couple of years when I need a healthy dose of the 90s.
    Full Length Reactions to ALL the films I've watched and Early Access at Patreon: / shanwatchesmovies
    0:00 Intro
    1:28 The Film
    23:37 The Review
    31:18 Outro
    Hey guys, I'm Shaneel (Shan). Welcome to the channel!
    My reaction and review to for the first time. Hope you enjoy the video!
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  • @paulhewes7333
    @paulhewes7333 Před 3 lety +218

    "Fuck you, lady" by the little girl in the archival footage is still one of my favorite bits from the 90s.

    • @waRr3nxx
      @waRr3nxx Před 3 lety +10

      I loved that line. I still have an old school DVD copy i got as a kid that has it. Back when the DVD cases were those weird folding snaps to close

    • @Ammeeeeeeer
      @Ammeeeeeeer Před 3 lety +9

      That girl deserves an Oscar :)

    • @Chanteuse66
      @Chanteuse66 Před 3 lety +4

      It was funny, but years later, I came to realize that the reporter's question was completely valid. I'd seen it as, "Why destroy a mall for a kid worth only a few thousand dollars?" But really it was, "Why did you cause MILLIONS of dollars in damages when the ransom was a much smaller amount?"

    • @paulhewes7333
      @paulhewes7333 Před 3 lety +13

      @@Chanteuse66 Maybe it is funny because the girl is annoyed the reporter is saying the little girls life was only worth the ransom.

    • @jp3813
      @jp3813 Před 3 lety +11

      @@Chanteuse66 That's basically the same question. The ransom is for the kid's life, which is being compared to the mall's damages. Plus, the reporter specifically said "to rescue a girl". If you're saying that the ransom should've just been paid then you're putting a lot of faith on the criminals to actually return her safely.

  • @michaelgordon3552
    @michaelgordon3552 Před 3 lety +149

    FUN FACT: Stallone is now 74, which is the actual age of John Spartan in Demolition Man.

    • @StevenFox80
      @StevenFox80 Před 3 lety +5

      and still no Schwarzenegger Presidential Library :(

    • @deacongowan909
      @deacongowan909 Před 2 lety +1

      How did you come up with that, out of genuine curiosity? I don’t ever remember seeing his age on here. That seems legit, though. He looked late 30s/early 40s when he was frozen. That’s interesting, nonetheless. Nice fun fact.

    • @bluecollartradesman715
      @bluecollartradesman715 Před 2 lety

      @@StevenFox80 Good old USA and their Xenophobia

  • @vicrattlehead8417
    @vicrattlehead8417 Před 3 lety +87

    As time goes on I can relate more and more to Denis Leary's character.

    • @17thknight
      @17thknight Před 3 lety

      That's not a good thing.

    • @Jonabob87
      @Jonabob87 Před 3 lety +4

      @@17thknight Why not?

    • @jp3813
      @jp3813 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Jonabob87 Well, does Leary's character seem happy about the way society has gone?

    • @bluecollartradesman715
      @bluecollartradesman715 Před 2 lety

      Watch Denis's music video "I'm An Asshole".

    • @sanic1085
      @sanic1085 Před rokem

      Sadly, yep.

  • @PerfectHandProductions
    @PerfectHandProductions Před 3 lety +54

    Demolition Man is often dismissed as a cheesy action film but it showcases a respectable depth. Unlike the dreary war torn dystopias of the 80s and 90s, this film offers a glimpse of sleek, clean, comfortable dystopia in which every aspect of life is controlled and individuality and liberty are suppressed in the name of safety. It's essentially a future in which PC culture has reached its logical extreme. The film is far more relevant now than when it was released.

    • @Theomite
      @Theomite Před 3 lety +5

      It's shocking to me how much they got right while also getting it so wrong. mostly because they can't predict the exact shape of the technology when it gets here.

    • @LordTyph
      @LordTyph Před rokem

      Also, it's 'past' version of California remains pretty relevant too.

  • @LeeMaitland
    @LeeMaitland Před 3 lety +62

    My favourite part of this film is when the police officer says with a thoroughly offended look on his face '... maniac has responded with a scornful remark!'. Makes me laugh even now.

    • @ShanWatchesMovies
      @ShanWatchesMovies  Před 3 lety +15

      Same here man! Their speech pattern and dialect are hilarious!

    • @Theomite
      @Theomite Před 3 lety +14

      The fact that they're all beefy stunt guys playing bumblers who don't know how to fight makes it all the better for me.

    • @kurtjk01
      @kurtjk01 Před 2 lety

      Predicted the future.

  • @Taylor_Wolfe115
    @Taylor_Wolfe115 Před 3 lety +54

    "What seems to be your boggle?" My friends Hate when I say that lol

  • @maximillianosaben
    @maximillianosaben Před 3 lety +141

    Wesley Snipes essentially plays The Joker in this movie, and he's darn good at it.

    • @simonhassnilsson7009
      @simonhassnilsson7009 Před 3 lety +11

      and now i want a batman film with Wesley Snipes as joker thank you very much, heck i even think you could get stallone again, he'd probably make for a pretty good batman/Bruce Wayne

    • @HABO2210
      @HABO2210 Před 3 lety +4

      Or a grown up Denis The Menace

    • @porkfrog2785
      @porkfrog2785 Před 3 lety +9

      hey that's on the nose...he even has weird colored hair

    • @jakesnow5728
      @jakesnow5728 Před 3 lety +10

      My favourite part of this movie, he just looks like he's having a ball in every scene.

    • @torrent0411
      @torrent0411 Před 3 lety +3

      Legend has it , they didn't use any of the scripted scenes snipes did, they just let the cams roll after the scenes were over and didn't tell snipes......

  • @jeffburnham6611
    @jeffburnham6611 Před 3 lety +52

    Wesley Snipes did serve time for income tax evasion. In fact, it was brought up in the movie The Expendables 3, where Snipes was asked what he was in prison for, and he replied, "tax evasion" lol.

    • @pablom-f8762
      @pablom-f8762 Před 3 lety +2

      Didn't he use an Egyptian cult to avoid taxes for religious beliefs? Something whacky like that.

    • @Waterford1992
      @Waterford1992 Před 3 lety +2

      @@pablom-f8762 Is'nt Religion tax exempt in the USA?

    • @pablom-f8762
      @pablom-f8762 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Waterford1992 not sure how tax law works, but the judge did give him three years in a federal prison. After that he was just making straight-to-DVD flicks.

    • @ShanWatchesMovies
      @ShanWatchesMovies  Před 3 lety +4

      Wow! That's a lot to unpack here! LOL

    • @philipcoggins9512
      @philipcoggins9512 Před 2 lety

      @@pablom-f8762 I believe his argument was that since the money was earned outside of the United States, he thought he didn't have to pay taxes on the movies he made outside of the US...

  • @nathanphillipconnors
    @nathanphillipconnors Před 3 lety +74

    Nothing brings more joy to my day than the smile on Shan's face when he sees an explosion.

  • @thomaseggle8886
    @thomaseggle8886 Před 3 lety +17

    Another great movie with Snipes is Major League. It's a classic.

  • @Chamomileable
    @Chamomileable Před 3 lety +54

    The craziest thing is that this movie's vision of the future seems less and less stupid every year. Snipes and Stallone do so well to act as a sort of Batman and Joker. Hell, if there's ever a chance, I bet Snipes would play a fantastic twist on Joker.

    • @jp3813
      @jp3813 Před 3 lety +5

      A Batman who demolishes every building and a Joker who doesn't randomly kill his own thugs nor care about his archenemy's survival.

    • @tanelviil9149
      @tanelviil9149 Před 3 lety +6

      ANd your parents made all that happen, by voting for LIBERALISM....Liberalism that was already infected with MARXISM in the 60s , in america and now this is the result of over 50 years of *CULTURAL MARXISM.*
      The only thing that is missing from the movie is the ANTI WHITE RACISM and HETERO WHITE MALE HATE that gets promoted 24/7 today.

    • @jp3813
      @jp3813 Před 3 lety +5

      @@tanelviil9149 Liberals are against sexual freedom?

    • @tanelviil9149
      @tanelviil9149 Před 3 lety +4

      @@jp3813 Pls read my comment again, you seem to have reading disability or comprehension skill issues.
      I SAID:
      That liberalism is *INFECTED* with MARXISM. and it was already back in the 60s.
      Classical liberalism is long dead.
      What we have now is CULTURAL MARXISM.

    • @jp3813
      @jp3813 Před 3 lety +5

      @@tanelviil9149 If you read carefully, the word "classical" was never used until your 2nd post.

  • @roosta0074
    @roosta0074 Před 3 lety +23

    This is another of my most-watched films. I watched it a bunch when I was a kid. I still find myself using references like "no free rides" even today. Wesley Snipes must have been enjoying himself immensely. He steals the show out from under Sly. It scares me when I see shadows of that society emerging, people dumbed down to the point they are too stupid to know any better.

  • @raphaelperry8159
    @raphaelperry8159 Před 3 lety +96

    To this very day there's still nobody who knows how the three sea shells work.

    • @the98themperoroftheholybri33
      @the98themperoroftheholybri33 Před 3 lety +42

      Pfft, get a load of this guy, he doesn't know how the 3 sea shells work

    • @raphaelperry8159
      @raphaelperry8159 Před 3 lety +9

      I can only imagine some kind of scooping action combined with a little scraping. But then what/ Do you have to wash them or just throw them away? Who would replace them? They're made of metal! Those things are valuable. This thing gets very complicated.

    • @the98themperoroftheholybri33
      @the98themperoroftheholybri33 Před 3 lety +9

      @@raphaelperry8159 LOOOOOL you're way off bud, you sound like my 3 year old cousin when he was learning to use the 3 sea shells

    • @bluebird3281
      @bluebird3281 Před 3 lety +4

      Don't try to figure it out , they break and splinter : (

    • @VDViktor
      @VDViktor Před 3 lety +8

      You open the shells and there are fresh wet wipes inside, is all

  • @carlosestruga4322
    @carlosestruga4322 Před 3 lety +26

    About Schwarzenegger presidential, this movie came the same year as Last Action Hero, there you can see the other side of the joke. Arnold 4th wall breaker with Die Hard director and Lethal Weapon writer.
    Edit: All reunited years after Predator

    • @PhantomFilmAustralia
      @PhantomFilmAustralia Před 3 lety +3

      Don't forget that Blane (Jesse Ventura) from Predator is also in Demolition Man, as the cryo-con who killed Cocteau.
      Coincidentally both Schwarzenegger and Ventura became US state governors years later.
      I love how stuff ties into other stuff.

    • @carlosestruga4322
      @carlosestruga4322 Před 3 lety +1

      I remember in this year i started hearing about Schwarzenegger thinking about politics. What happens between this two movies is more the rivality and friendship between them. The Stallone in the othe movie is something different 🤣🤣

  • @mynock7729
    @mynock7729 Před 3 lety +21

    Gotta watch Wesley in Passenger 57 and Dropzone....classics

  • @anonimuso
    @anonimuso Před 3 lety +19

    Demolition Man is one of my favorites. Definitely a cult classic. The little girl telling the reporter to F off is great.
    @1:38 Looks like 2020 to me. Cities burning, criminals taking over parts of cities.
    @10:48 The three sea shells is a massive meme.
    @21:12 Plot twist, Spartan and Phoenix were the original donors used for the Storm Trooper clones.

  • @squirreledhistory906
    @squirreledhistory906 Před 3 lety +53

    I love how the future is partially based off of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Plus, the female leads are both named Lenina and you have John Spartan instead of John the Savage.

    • @iamburko
      @iamburko Před 3 lety +15

      And Wesley Snipes literally calls out Brave New World when firing the future-weapon.

    • @stevematthews7686
      @stevematthews7686 Před 3 lety +10

      Not many people even remember Aldous Huxley anymore!

    • @3DJapan
      @3DJapan Před 3 lety +9

      Thankfully there was no soma.

    • @dacsus
      @dacsus Před 3 lety +3

      And how it is similar to today world.

    • @dionnel8882
      @dionnel8882 Před 3 lety +3

      @@stevematthews7686 we still read his books in school!

  • @Dacre1000
    @Dacre1000 Před 3 lety +16

    Perfect double bill with Last Action Hero.

  • @JoeCensored
    @JoeCensored Před 3 lety +14

    Another fun fact. In the US market, all restaurants are Taco Bell. Outside the US market all restaurants are Pizza Hut, which is actually the same company but Taco Bell is not well known outside the US. Also I remember Taco Bell ran a major ad campaign featuring that scene at the time.

    • @PV1230
      @PV1230 Před 3 lety

      Yum brands

    • @kennypangman4636
      @kennypangman4636 Před 3 lety

      I saw that version, the actors re-read everything from Taco Bell to Pizza Hut in post-production but it doesn't look very good on film, you can read their lips saying Taco Bell but you hear Pizza Hut, it's kinda funny.
      And the superimposed Pizza Hut logo does look a little off, it's easy to see the TB logo was covered up.

  • @vwlssnvwls3262
    @vwlssnvwls3262 Před 3 lety +18

    This is just a good, classic, no holds barred action movie. I like when action movies are just for fun, and don't take themselves too seriously.

  • @cadleo
    @cadleo Před 3 lety +26

    The social commentary in this film is prophetic. You will really like this one. Sandra B mvp

  • @zmarko
    @zmarko Před 3 lety +34

    My favorite part of the movie is the offensive language fine machine that chimes in every time someone swears, many times very subtle in the background.

    • @Theomite
      @Theomite Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah, the only time it doesn't happen is when there isn't one around like when Friendly cusses.

    • @tonystark5-29-70
      @tonystark5-29-70 Před 3 lety +2

      OH... JUST WAIT!!! THEIR COME THE WAY EVERYTHING IS HEADING!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

  • @peterschmidt4348
    @peterschmidt4348 Před 3 lety +46

    I highly recommend "THE NEVERENDING STORY"! If You haven't seen it yet.

    • @k-guy1236
      @k-guy1236 Před 3 lety

      I'm sure he has, but he'll just pretend like he hasn't. Ok don't know if he pretends but I'm sure a lot of these movie reaction channels do.

    • @danielg6566
      @danielg6566 Před 3 lety +2

      It's a charming movie in its own way and very inspiring

  • @Tusc9969
    @Tusc9969 Před 3 lety +16

    One of Wesley Snipes' best performances as a villain, loved him in this and I think he stole the show!!
    You should check him out in New Jack City as a drug Kingpin of NYC.

  • @Jayyy667
    @Jayyy667 Před 3 lety +50

    Who knew how close we would come to this future. Almost prophetic

    • @the98themperoroftheholybri33
      @the98themperoroftheholybri33 Před 3 lety +20

      "You have been fined 5 credits for the hate speech act legislation"

    • @erikjohnson3859
      @erikjohnson3859 Před 3 lety

      @@the98themperoroftheholybri33 What an awful world to live in where people dont have the freedom of speech to destroy freedom of speech, right?

    • @kickassandchewbubblegum639
      @kickassandchewbubblegum639 Před 3 lety +10

      @@erikjohnson3859 the movie shows you a perfect utopia on the outside but under it it is a tyrannical society...based loosely off the book in the 60s with the handicapper general...this drive to make society perfectly equal everyone lost freedom...no crime, no nothing...perfect right...but no creativity, no freedom, no nothing...and those that tried to fight that had to run into the sewers to be free...
      the sewer people are essentially trump supporters today...stallone plays a cop fed up with antifa and blm...all chaos ensues...getting him frozen...
      and wesley snipes plays the leader of blm and antifa from the past...

    • @menotu000
      @menotu000 Před 3 lety +7

      Instead we have gone the way of Idiocracy.

    • @erikjohnson3859
      @erikjohnson3859 Před 3 lety +3

      @@kickassandchewbubblegum639 Wesley plays the leader of a peaceful activist group fighting for equality. Makes sense.
      Your type of comment is why people say this is Idiocracy, just so you know.

  • @mordicus420
    @mordicus420 Před 3 lety +23

    Was waiting on this one 🤘
    Just imagine seeing this movie in theaters 🎥 😳 😍
    Westley plays 1 of the best villain of all time 🔥

  • @JoeCensored
    @JoeCensored Před 3 lety +22

    This movie feels more relevant today than when it released.

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 Před 3 lety +3

      Well.. we are closer to 2032 than ever..... in two ways

    • @kittylynnlpn
      @kittylynnlpn Před 3 lety +2

      I was thinking the exact same thing. I'm surprised I didn't greet each other by bumping elbows or that they all didn't wear masks. Awesome movie! I forgot Benjamin bratt was in this movie. Lol! Writing was awesome! I think I appreciate this movie a lot more now than I did when it came out

    • @porkfrog2785
      @porkfrog2785 Před 3 lety +1

      I thought it was beyond stupid when it came out, but they Jules Verne-ed the f*** out of this age. The only thing I remember liking was Snipes' joyously mad performance and Bullock-not her character, just her. But they basically nailed some of the tech and parodied our times perfectly

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 Před 3 lety +2

      @@porkfrog2785 most of the tech was future concept from major manufaturer at the time. Like world fair stuff. Self drivning cars have been tested since the 80tys. Really just the last years of HD camerad and GPU thst made it practicsly possible.
      The fist self drivning prototype ... I think it wad 2001. It drove like 10 feet. Stoped and calculated for 10 minutes. Then drowe 10 more feet

    • @porkfrog2785
      @porkfrog2785 Před 3 lety

      @@matsv201 what about the sex-neuro-interface stuff? I first saw that in maybe Barbarella' 1967? And in a Woody Allen film a few years later
      They got any plans for that? I hope not...but if there's money in it

  • @klasyk1532
    @klasyk1532 Před 3 lety +24

    You saved me from boredom at the end of a workday yet again!

    • @B355Y
      @B355Y Před 3 lety +5

      Same here man lol

  • @porkfrog2785
    @porkfrog2785 Před 3 lety +16

    Anybody remember scenes from 2020 of cops not being allowed to fight back? This movie goes from accurately predicting tech like self-driving cars, to parodying everything in this weird US of today, including police not 'allowed to' meet force with force. Here in Ohio, the shooting of a girl in mid stab is criticized: should have spoken to her with 'a firm tone of voice'

    • @realisticthought1781
      @realisticthought1781 Před 3 lety +2

      The world has gone full dumb

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae Před 2 lety

      Actually, we know how to employ force correctly (backed by both statistics and science), it's just US police force doesn't have the culture for it and hasn't been trained for it.

    • @LordTyph
      @LordTyph Před rokem

      I think what makes that worse is that the knife fight itself in that case got downplayed.

  • @jaredisfine
    @jaredisfine Před 3 lety +30

    "You're on TV!" is one of the most overlooked cheesy action movie one-liners ever.

    • @paulhewes7333
      @paulhewes7333 Před 3 lety +3

      Only "The Last Boyscout" can top this movie for cheesy one-liners.

    • @atti97
      @atti97 Před 3 lety +2

      @@paulhewes7333 both films producer by Joel Silver.

    • @PhantomFilmAustralia
      @PhantomFilmAustralia Před 3 lety +2

      _"Let off some steam, Bennett."_

    • @atti97
      @atti97 Před 3 lety +3

      @@PhantomFilmAustralia Commando 🤣🤣🤣🤣. He's dead tired

    • @PhantomFilmAustralia
      @PhantomFilmAustralia Před 3 lety +2

      @@atti97 _"Stick around."_ 😂🤣

  • @nikolaiquack8548
    @nikolaiquack8548 Před 3 lety +9

    Love this movie. There's some very clever societal commentary that still sort of applies today...kinda. Actually, scrap that "kinda".

  • @JoeCensored
    @JoeCensored Před 3 lety +11

    Fun fact, code 187 irepeated several times earlier in the film is the actual California Penal Code covering murder.

    • @ceeball
      @ceeball Před 3 lety +2

      And it was reasonably well known at the time too from many movie/show/music references and I don't live anywhere near California. It made me smile a bit when the cops didn't know it but many of us in the theatre did.

    • @porkfrog2785
      @porkfrog2785 Před 3 lety +3

      isn't '187' a Sam Jackson film?

    • @eatsmylifeYT
      @eatsmylifeYT Před 3 lety +2

      Why do people keep calling shit like this "fun facts"? How are these fun?

    • @LordTyph
      @LordTyph Před rokem

      ...This makes so much sense now. Of course it'd be this neutered of a society, it's freaking California.

  • @kittylynnlpn
    @kittylynnlpn Před 3 lety +5

    Wow! One of my favorite action movies ever! But I just realized I like it so much better and appreciate it so much better now than I did when it came out in the theater. Amazing reaction! I always love it when you watch things get blown up. Lol! I grew up watching westerns and Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone and Schwarzenegger. The part about him being president even before you became governor oh my goodness gracious. Made my day!

  • @spacetiger5076
    @spacetiger5076 Před 3 lety +35

    Some days it really feels like we are hurtling towards that sort of future, here.

    • @17thknight
      @17thknight Před 3 lety

      Boomers crying about progress, what else is new

    • @Supreme_Goldfish
      @Supreme_Goldfish Před 3 lety +2

      @@17thknight While yes, older generations will always complain about advancements (I'll probably yell at my kids for how we didn't have VR headsets and holograms everywhere, I can't wait) Demolition Man's "perfect" technocratic utopia is very disturbing, can we agree?

    • @LastBastian
      @LastBastian Před 3 lety +1

      @@17thknight progress or regress?

    • @tanelviil9149
      @tanelviil9149 Před 3 lety +2

      ANd your parents made all that happen, by voting for LIBERALISM....Liberalism that was already infected with MARXISM in the 60s , in america and now this is the result of over 50 years of *CULTURAL MARXISM.*
      The only thing that is missing from the movie is the ANTI WHITE RACISM and HETERO WHITE MALE HATE that gets promoted 24/7 today.

  • @heyitsmemg7494
    @heyitsmemg7494 Před 3 lety +12

    “You’re doing a good deed”.
    I don’t know why but that’s my favorite line in the movie.

    • @DerOberfeldwebel
      @DerOberfeldwebel Před 3 lety +1

      Mine was 'They're letting everyone into this century !'

  • @johnwilliamson2207
    @johnwilliamson2207 Před 3 lety +25

    If you look around Huxley's office there's a model of a bus sitting on her shelf, this movie predates 'Speed' by a year or two lol.

    • @t0dd000
      @t0dd000 Před 3 lety

      Speed is such a terrible movie.

    • @aaronking5640
      @aaronking5640 Před 3 lety +2

      @@t0dd000 nope

    • @ridhosamudro2199
      @ridhosamudro2199 Před 3 lety +2

      @@t0dd000 nope

    •  Před 3 lety +3

      @@t0dd000 _SPEED_ is a classic. Only the first one.

    • @robertdean925
      @robertdean925 Před 3 lety +1

      @@t0dd000 according to you maybe

  • @LMoftheCoast
    @LMoftheCoast Před 3 lety +10

    The political commentary in this film is 100% on point. Such a great movie.

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 Před 3 lety +3

      Someone watched this and thought it was a instruction manuam
      L

  • @tessesmom
    @tessesmom Před 3 lety +15

    Clicked on this as soon as I got the notification xx great movie, can't wait to see your reaction

  • @Goldberg070
    @Goldberg070 Před 3 lety +4

    Demolition Man is so underrated. A great movie and my favourite Stallone movie apart from Rocky and Rambo. And I like the references to the novel Brave New World. :)
    For a good Wesley Snipes movie to watch, I recommend New Jack City. Also a very underrated movie in my opinion.

  • @jamesjoseph1249
    @jamesjoseph1249 Před 3 lety +11

    A phoenix will rise from the ashes...that's why he doesn't die in the fire at the start.
    But Spartan basically uses the opposite of fire to kill him.

    • @LordTyph
      @LordTyph Před rokem

      A Phoenix is reborn in fire and heat to escape the cold embrace of death.

  • @thisisscorpio6024
    @thisisscorpio6024 Před 3 lety +4

    Pause at (10:39). Back then in 1993, all the talk was about Sandra Bullock's pants. It's like, Women are going to wear those tight pants in the future? (Yes they are...)

  • @bluelagoon1980
    @bluelagoon1980 Před 3 lety +9

    Hell, yeah! This is one of my favorite cheesy 90s action films! Not many people have reacted to this yet.

    • @JalotsoMovieCorner
      @JalotsoMovieCorner Před 3 lety +1

      Action Movie 2020 MEAN GIRLS English Best Action Movies 2020 what movie name

    • @bluelagoon1980
      @bluelagoon1980 Před 3 lety

      I had to stop and come back to this a little later because my three year old needed me, but I've watched it now. Your reactions to the dialogue especially are priceless. It was great to see you throwing your head back with laughter again and again. If I had the spare money, I'd have hit your Patreon up immediately upon finding your channel. Maybe one day if my fortunes change. Thank you so much for sharing your reactions to these movies with us!

  • @jeffthompson9622
    @jeffthompson9622 Před 3 lety +10

    This brought Wesley Snipes broad attention before his hero roles in Passenger 57, Blade, and others.

  • @markbartoszek8585
    @markbartoszek8585 Před 3 lety +1

    I always loved the line, "C'mon Hal, where the God damn guns?!" Nice reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey. This film is full of little details like that.

  • @elizabeths50
    @elizabeths50 Před 3 lety +14

    Weirdly, with all that is going on, I reference this movie all the time. It is like the writers and director read the Bible and made the events secular.

  • @1nelsondj
    @1nelsondj Před 3 lety +2

    Sandra Bullock steals every scene, she's both hilarious and adorable. If you haven't seen it watch the 1975 "Death Race 2000" (the original) for an early role by Stallone. It had an interesting take on the future of the U.S. In 1989 he made a buddy cop picture with Kurt Russell called "Tango & Cash".
    This was an imperfect utopia with lack of violence and a lot of restrictions. Another such film is "Equilibrium" starring Christian Bale in which all stimulus to violence has been outlawed. Well worth seeing.

  • @winter1235
    @winter1235 Před 3 lety +1

    The explosion in the beginning was used in the marketing of the movie, where they claimed it was the biggest on-set explosion in movie history. I think the just barely edged out Lethal Weapon 3. So yes, that is a full scale building collapsing. For a while back there, it seemed as if every time building was scheduled to be demolished, they contacted movie companies to see if anyone needed an explosion. Not really recycling, but at least repurposing.

  • @jimtatro6550
    @jimtatro6550 Před 3 lety +43

    This is one of those movies that I always found to be a turn off your brain and have fun flick. It’s scary how much of the funny stuff became kind of true in today’s society.

    • @obdiane
      @obdiane Před 3 lety +8

      I totally agree. This society is increasingly getting comfortable with the government, taking away and control every aspect of their lives, based on fear.

    • @carlhartwell7978
      @carlhartwell7978 Před 3 lety +5

      It can be a turn 'your brain off' movie, but it can also be a very insightful 'turn your brain to full' kind of movie.

    • @erikjohnson3859
      @erikjohnson3859 Před 3 lety

      @@obdiane Do you have a single example or?

    • @SierraSierraFoxtrot
      @SierraSierraFoxtrot Před 3 lety +6

      @@erikjohnson3859 Twitter is overflowing with people who want to remove free speech so they can punish people for wrongthink.

    • @obdiane
      @obdiane Před 3 lety +6

      @@erikjohnson3859 taking away your right to be an "asshole" (cancel culture). NO weapons (people in government trying to take away your 2nd amendment right to bear arms). No sex or kissing (social distancing). "Insecure men used to bond that way"( canceling toxic masculinity). All these things were pushed in the movie because of people's fear of death, something that is going on now.

  • @RatelRegalement
    @RatelRegalement Před 3 lety +1

    22:28 yes exactly "I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached" I think was the line in 'present day' :D

  • @Ringking-ws7bz
    @Ringking-ws7bz Před 3 lety +3

    I Really recommend Cliffhanger probably Stallones Best Movie after The Rocky Movies, Demolition Man is his best sci fi film. And Snipes is a great villain.

  • @MrChainrule
    @MrChainrule Před 3 lety +9

    Have you seen Idiocracy yet? It also has some spooky accurate predictions for the future.

    • @erikjohnson3859
      @erikjohnson3859 Před 3 lety

      Basically predicted the rise of the moronic Trumpish right-wing. The people in this thread prove it.

    • @realisticthought1781
      @realisticthought1781 Před 3 lety +2

      @@erikjohnson3859 do you even watch anything other than cnn dude? It’s the intolerant left in this country constantly calling for censorship and pushing an overly sexed culture. Get your head out of msm and college professor bs

    • @erikjohnson3859
      @erikjohnson3859 Před 3 lety

      @@realisticthought1781 Calling for censorship *and* overly sexed culture at the same time?
      Is this like those Fascist Antifa(scists) I keep hearing about?
      Yeah, god forbid you listen to teachers. Morons.

  • @ProjectAchieva
    @ProjectAchieva Před 3 lety

    When Spartan is asked about the hostages at the beginning, he says he did a thermal scan. It only showed Phoenix's goons. To him it meant the hostages weren't there. In reality they where, but already dead, hence no heat reading. Very well written movie. One of my favorites! Thanks for reacting to it!

  • @randallshuck2976
    @randallshuck2976 Před 3 lety +8

    The writers thought they were writing fiction. Maybe not so much.

  • @FrethKindheart
    @FrethKindheart Před 3 lety +1

    I saw this in the theater back in the day. The dialogue is like Velveeta. I think this is one of my favorite performances by Sandra Bullock.

  • @deano2506
    @deano2506 Před 3 lety +2

    I used to love this film as a kid.

  • @xavvi
    @xavvi Před 3 lety +1

    They really blew that god damn building up. As I remember it, it was slated for demolition (heh) so the filmcrew was able to procure it, use it for an on-set location and then blow it up themselves. There really is nothing quite like a real practical explosion, I understand the practicality and cost and safety of a CG explosion now but nothing will ever look quite as good - even if they just blow up miniatures (I think of Independence Day) it still just looks so much better than CG explosions.
    I love this movie - it's completely and totally aware of what it is and is very tongue-in-cheek but it's just crazy how much of the technology (and even a few exaggerated parts of social development) have come true - I live in an area where you can order a self-driving uber ride and see them driving all over and it's just second nature now. iPads, AI assistants, VR, so on and so forth. So cool.
    I believe this was originally envisioned to be a movie starring Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme, with Van Damme playing Simon Phoenix, but Van Damme wanted to be the hero and it ended up just not working. Also Fred Dekker (who directed awesome teen-horror movies Monster Squad and Night of the Creeps) did some script rewrites on this one - I think he was the one that decided to open in 1996 as opposed to opening in the future. I also think there were about a million changes with other writers and a ton of edits demanded by the studio to make it more family friendly and less violent, go figure. At one point I think the intention was to make Huxley the daughter of John Spartan, but then that was scrapped, and then it was going to be one of the girls in Edgar Friendly's crew, and then they just dropped it altogether.
    Somewhere out there between the various scripts and the various cut footage lies some sort of sad and tragic post-apocalyptic Brave New World-esque "utopia that really isnt" where John Spartan is a fully tragic character who mimics John The Savage from the book (and I have to believe that was the original intention considering the name of Sandra Bullock's character), but I'm still pretty happy with what we got.
    In a weird way I think this movie is kind of a mirror for Waterworld - both futuristic movies in worlds with some sort of cataclysm, both starting as darker action vehicles that due to studio interference change the tone completely - the difference is somehow Demolition Man ends up working anyway, whereas Waterworld suffered for it all.
    Good stuff Shan.

    • @ShanWatchesMovies
      @ShanWatchesMovies  Před 3 lety +1

      Hey X you're back! Again a wonderful read so thank you and holy shit I can't believe they actually blew that building up!

  • @courtneyb7205
    @courtneyb7205 Před 3 lety +4

    What Dreams May Come... beautiful Robin Williams movie you should check out

  • @Avenger85438
    @Avenger85438 Před 3 lety +4

    This film is great in showing the downsides of two extremes while also being quite fun. Like Spartan say's at the end, total chaos and total control are not any sane mans ideal, you have to be willing to find the right balance between them and accept the nuances of a situation.
    Ironically some anti-PC types love referencing this film for it's social commentary but ignore that bit. Typical, really but thats a whole other argument.

  • @porkfrog2785
    @porkfrog2785 Před 3 lety +9

    3:35 Shan's love of explosions reaches a channel crescendo

  • @davidr1050
    @davidr1050 Před 3 lety +1

    10:55 --- I always envisioned the "seashells" as buttons.. First is wash, then dry, then flush...

  • @nooneofimportance2110
    @nooneofimportance2110 Před 3 lety

    The building destroyed at the beginning was an actual condemned building that was scheduled for demolition, the producers contacted the city and essentially said "let US do it for you."

  • @cantecleer
    @cantecleer Před 3 lety +1

    great 90's popcorn movie. Was a lot of fun to see it in the theater back then. Audiences were into it and it was a perfect cheesy action movie from the time period.

  • @x3mslayer
    @x3mslayer Před 3 lety +3

    I love Wesley Snipes, this villain character he played was memorable, but I love him from other roles like in Undefeated I believe. He is so convincing with his fighting, I love it!

  • @jean-paulaudette9246
    @jean-paulaudette9246 Před 3 lety

    "I want you to do everything in your power to snare this agent of destruction"
    You read between the lines, Shan! That is exactly what a higher-up says, when they want to escape personal responsibility, and create a scapegoat.

  • @courtneyvaldez7903
    @courtneyvaldez7903 Před 3 lety +1

    I think the cheesy dialogue works so well because the world is depicted as cheesy, so it all feels so grounded and appropriate. And the film as a whole doesn't take itself too seriously even if it gestures toward what would otherwise be serious concepts. Still love this movie after twenty plus years.

  • @handsomestik
    @handsomestik Před 3 lety +16

    the movie that predicted PC Culture . Stallone got this by luck I feel. Snipes is awesome and there is a cut of this where all the food franchises are Pizza Hut because Europe has no Taco Bell

    • @erikjohnson3859
      @erikjohnson3859 Před 3 lety

      Wtf is PC Culture? Is this the same thing that white supremacist Tucker Carlson whines about? Way to out yourself like that.
      God forbid you suffer consequences for saying deplorable things, huh?

    • @ryanskalman7725
      @ryanskalman7725 Před 3 lety +1

      @@erikjohnson3859 Its something a low iq person like you embraces, and how is Tucker Carlson a White Supremacists? Please explain........

  • @minnidrake8516
    @minnidrake8516 Před 3 lety +1

    Loved the reaction Sandra bullock was a last minute replacement for Lori petty and was my favorite performance in the film

  • @Aluzard
    @Aluzard Před 3 lety +2

    now this is a reaction I been waiting for! I use Simon's comment in todays world when I talk to PK people etc, You can't take away peoples right to be asholes. I think this line is kinda deep in a way. Like when people get offended in todays world. And im afraid we will go toward a world like this and its not good.

  • @RM-306
    @RM-306 Před 3 lety

    So glad you reviewed this one! Thank you Shan!

  • @paulhewes7333
    @paulhewes7333 Před 3 lety +2

    This was among the great action movies of the 90s. It was Sandra Bullocks coming out party, and elevated Wesley Snipe's status. Denis Leary had used his "borrowed" comedic act to get the role as Edgar Friendly.

  • @JohnRodriguesPhotographer

    How they work was once revealed by Stallone in a 2006 interview, explaining that a writer told him '...you hold two seashells like chopsticks, pull gently and scrape what’s left with the third.' It's hard to say if such a technique would actually work in reality, which is to say nothing of how the shells themselves would be cleaned after usage. On reflection, it's easy to see why Demolition Man didn't explain how they work - or even worse, showed how they function.

  • @IcedEarth426
    @IcedEarth426 Před 3 lety

    I'm so glad you did this underrated classic. It's one of my favorite movies. Snipes is fucking amazing as a bad guy.

  • @puterbac
    @puterbac Před 3 lety +2

    Chief is the warden in Shawshank.

  • @johnkennethwiseman682
    @johnkennethwiseman682 Před 3 lety

    Finally! Delighted you are watching this film. Its just so funny. One of my guilty pleasures

  • @Guccithelittlecat
    @Guccithelittlecat Před 3 lety

    Great video man !!! congrats from , São Paulo, Brazil !

  • @davidmenchaca1063
    @davidmenchaca1063 Před 3 lety

    The building that explodes in the beginning was an actual building the film was allowed to demolish. That’s why it looks so great, and that’s as practical of a film explosion as you can get.🤘🏼

  • @ccdecc6650
    @ccdecc6650 Před 3 lety

    Good on you for picking this one up. A culty little favorite of mine. I remember the snooty critics with their nose in the air always going on and on about how Stallone couldn't do comedy, but this movie wasn't only funny, it was a little prescient.

  • @GuillaumeG-oz3hz
    @GuillaumeG-oz3hz Před 3 lety

    Glad you reacted to demolition man, for me it's one of the classics of the 90' science fiction. So many movies were able to mix nice action with smart questions about society and the future, this one is a good exemple that has aged very well, definitly better than others.

  • @sadmachine7486
    @sadmachine7486 Před 3 lety +1

    I saw this in the cinema when it first came out. I and a few school mates had decided to go to the cinema but we ddn't decide what to watch until we got there. We flipped a coin to choose. It was this or Honey I Married An Axe Murderer. Lucky escape.

  • @NominePatris
    @NominePatris Před 3 lety +6

    This was a surprise! I loved Demolition man back in the day :) Knowing that you liked it I'd like to suggest Soldier, with Kurt Russel. Not because it's a classic, but I really want to hear your opinion on the story. Btw, this film made me fall in love with Sandra Bullock!

  • @thomasmcintosh390
    @thomasmcintosh390 Před 3 lety +4

    Great popcorn move! I've seen it numerous times. Sandy is great as a guide to the new future. Love the black uniform. Weirdly accurate about many things. Political satire as well. Numerous allusions to Aldus Huxley's Brave New World.

  • @folkblues4u
    @folkblues4u Před 3 lety

    Oh boy! Can't wait to see his reaction to the "seashell thing"! 😄

  • @allencouch683
    @allencouch683 Před 3 lety +2

    I'm a huge fan of your channel, keep up the good work Shan.

  • @coojw777
    @coojw777 Před 3 lety

    To this day, people still talk about the 3 sea shells. In one of my friends bathrooms, they have 3 seashells on the toilet tank as a joke. Most people never get it, but a few do.

  • @scorp77snake
    @scorp77snake Před 3 lety +15

    In the US release Taco Bell won the restaurant war but in the UK it was changed to Pizza Hut.
    Not sure if you noticed but both Spartan and Phoenix mentioned that they dreamed during cryo.

    • @the98themperoroftheholybri33
      @the98themperoroftheholybri33 Před 3 lety +1

      Taco Bell wasn't in the UK until very recently, thats why

    • @scorp77snake
      @scorp77snake Před 3 lety +2

      @@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Was it cause I didn't put fun fact at the start make you think I wasn't aware of this ?

    • @3DJapan
      @3DJapan Před 3 lety

      @@the98themperoroftheholybri33 That's right, I remember a recent UK CZcamsr trying Taco Bell for the first time.

    • @fahooga
      @fahooga Před 3 lety +1

      Both are owned by PepsiCo

    • @PV1230
      @PV1230 Před 3 lety +1

      @@fahooga It's Yum! Brands in the U.S

  • @greenmachine949
    @greenmachine949 Před 3 lety +1

    Woah, weird. I just watched this last night. Hadn't seen it in quite a while.
    The predictions in this were pretty on point considering it was made almost 30 years ago.
    Loved your reaction for it too. Very genuine and you seemed as giddy as I was the first time I saw it in theaters.

  • @caciquenica2482
    @caciquenica2482 Před 3 lety +10

    Please keep reacting to Rocky series and Rambo series also other Stallone movies like: The specialist, assassins, Tango and Cash, Cliffhanger, Over the top, what else??

    • @shanefourtwenty
      @shanefourtwenty Před 3 lety +3

      Cobra

    • @kittylynnlpn
      @kittylynnlpn Před 3 lety

      Has anyone seen Rhinestone? Lol! I have to say that is one of the cheesiest but one of my guilty pleasure movies. Lol! You haven't lived life until you see Sylvester Stallone singing country music at a honky tonk

    • @timwhelan4347
      @timwhelan4347 Před 3 lety

      Yeah definitely react to Tango and Cash. Its a similar level of cheesyness. But very enjoyable.

    • @Saalome84Blue
      @Saalome84Blue Před 3 lety

      ...Lock Up (1989) - Stallone in jail...

  • @electronicgrandpa7974
    @electronicgrandpa7974 Před 3 lety

    Looking good Shan! Keep it up

  • @terryv2006
    @terryv2006 Před 3 lety +1

    There’s another, really really fun, time travel, fish out of water movie called Time Rider: The Adventure Of Lyle Swann. It stars Fred Ward and Peter Coyote. It’s about a high tech motorcyclist who gets accidentally transported to 1890, in the desert, and even he doesn’t know.

    • @ShanWatchesMovies
      @ShanWatchesMovies  Před 3 lety

      I'll add it to the list Terry! I don't believe I've heard of it before!

  • @okami36
    @okami36 Před 3 lety

    Yes, the building was really blown up. It was in Louisville, KY, just a short trip up the highway from where I lived on Ft Knox at the time. Knowing that, of course I had to see this in the theater.

  • @myTERAexperience
    @myTERAexperience Před 3 lety +2

    This movie is so re-watchable to me, along with Judge Dredd. Idk if it's because Stallone AND Rob Schneider are in both or if that's just a coincidence. 😅

  • @tbone2646
    @tbone2646 Před 3 lety

    How has this dude not seen ANY of these films? I'm super duper sceptical

  • @Rob_Infinity3
    @Rob_Infinity3 Před 3 lety

    18:14/15 - You can see Jack Black when he was in his early 20s standing in between Spartan and Friendly just outside of the circle you are in.
    23:34 - He's credited as one of the "Wasteland Scraps" on the end credits.

  • @alfreddaniel1994
    @alfreddaniel1994 Před 3 lety

    I've been waiting for someone to react to this for awhile. I hope I start to see more people reacting to this.

  • @xraypunch5959
    @xraypunch5959 Před 3 lety

    At one point the director of this film and Joel Silver (the producer) were in talks to adapt 'Akira' into live-action in the 90's.

  • @5thRing
    @5thRing Před 2 lety

    It's another layer of entertainment watching you with Closed Captions on. "Sliced alone"

  • @deiwi
    @deiwi Před 3 lety

    Favorite reactor reacting to my favorite movie. You just made my day much more enjoyable! Great reaction, lot of laughs 😂

  • @promnightdumpsterbaby9553

    Thank you,sir. Love your content. It makes me happy that you also love freedom. Bless you.

  • @dabegmister
    @dabegmister Před 3 lety +1

    So glad that someone is actually reviewing this movie it is one of my favorites an underrated gem

  • @ChocolatierRob
    @ChocolatierRob Před 3 lety

    I forgot to mention but to this day whenever I walk into a room with automatic lights I say "Illuminate" as if I were controlling them vocally (I'll even on occasion say it in Nigel Hawthorn's 'posh but at the end of my tether' voice).