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It makes me very sad that this only has 3k views, while the latest cat video is over 1 mil. A voice in the wilderness, a voice that is needed, a voice that is appreciated.. thank you !
@@dy031101 Huh, You know that's interesting, I didn't see the parallel between that aspect of Starship Troopers and him until you said that. Thank you.
Redoubt funny you mention Manson, I've long said that the leftist's ideas seem disgustingly close to Manson's idea of Helter Skelter. Basically white leftist elitists generate hate and violence between races, until blacks kill off all the non-elite whites, and if course the minorities aren't smart enough to run things afterwards so the white saviors of the leftist elite will need to step in and run their lives for them.
Karl yeah, I've seen it a few times and loved it, and now I'll be watching it again tomorrow (i just had my 4th back surgery last week, so I've been looking for things to watch.)
@@pofruin Like everything, it depends on how far you take it. There should be some safety - you wouldn't want to get on a plane that's not airworthy or go to a doctor who isn't properly qualified. Taking unnecessary risks is daft. But it's a question of degree. Unfortunately, we've swung an 180 degree turn, and now ANY risk is considered too much. You cannot exist without some risks; life wouldn't be worth living unless there was some degree of risk. This film was so visionary. It drew on things that were happening at the time and took them to their logical conclusion. How do we eliminate all risk in society? By tightly regulating people's behaviour, by not allowing them to make mistakes. So we're all wrapped up in cotton wool and bubble wrap and we can't possibly hurt ourselves. But we can't live, either.
@Justin Beaird The seat belt law came in 1983 and I was at school. I wrote an essay on it, saying how it was an infringement on personal freedoms. It annoyed me that the government was acting like my parents.
Where I live there are no BLM, Antifa or SJW's in public. What is here? Geo engineering, a few thousand new apartments in downtown in two years. Maybe an area gets a taste but not the full gambit? What one lacks is later exported to the other. Gets a footprint started without one area overwhelmed by the entire gambit.
One of my favorite scenes from Demolition Man. An archived news video shows officer John Spartan carrying a little girl just recently rescued from a hostage crisis. Wreckage of what used to be a mini-mall is everywhere. Lady reporter runs up to John Spartan, shoving a mic in his face. lady reporter: How can you justify destroying a 7 million dollar mini-mall to rescue a girl whose ransom was only 25,000 dollars? little girl: Fuck you, lady! some guy: Good answer!
I have literally (and I mean that in the most literal sense) used the line "why don't you just shove a leash up my ass" at work within the last month since now there is an app we are supposed to use that tracks our movement and location through our smartphones. Luckily I am a dinosaur and still use a smartphone whose ios cannot be upgraded enough to use this app.
So much to say and listen to.. but yes. I always loved this even as a dumb kid, never quite knew why though, wasn't just the action clearly. Like Starship Troopers and all other good scifi or even fantasy work.
@@rseeker1 Fauci "b-but, I don't see it as restricting freedoms, but I also won't give you what metric even decides if the virus is in safe levels or not"
Brave new world was the inspiration of Demolition man. Demolition man actually references Brave New World on a number of points but is sort of a synthesis of the 2, as Brave new world maintains order by making peoples lives entirely frivolous to the point that no one cares what is going on around them and they dont bother to fight the system that grants them unending pleasure. But people also like to reference the classics. give it 70 years and scholars may reference Demolition man.
You do realize that 1984 and Brave New was written by Orwell a leftist as a warning against right wing and centrist authoritarian movements your statement sort points out one of the huge problems in today's society that people conflate centrist liberal movements like S.J.W.'s with the left wing politics.
Don't forget Equilibrium in that list. I'd consider it mostly action, but the inhibition of feelings on a society wide level via drugs and an inquisition enforcing this goes into the same territory as BNW. Instead of Soma Equilibrium has Librium, and instead of "only happy feelings" it has "no feelings at all".
This movie has, very unfortunately, aged like fine wine. Congrats to the person that time traveled back to the 1990s and pitched this idea to Hollywood
no one went back in time, this was their plan for years, the ones in Hollywood had inside knowledge and either tried to warn us or they were programing us. the elites must tell you what their plans are or they have to deal with karmic retribution, by telling you in a movie they avoid negative karma. they have had these technologies for over 60 years and slowly trickle down the technology to society. just the iphone changed 2007 onward about the internet.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies" -CS Lewis. Dang man....
@@AllWillBeRevealed957 Only time will tell if people are willing to bloody their hands. But with no children, no family, and no hope of either in the future, why should they?
@@combativeThinker if you think the solution is to give a man a wife and children first, you have the order backwards. Fight first, reward second. The trick is to fight for someone that you trust. Men won't fight for a leader if they don't believe that leader has the will and the means for civilization to continue.
@@kejiri3593 Hatred for the wealthy? ✔ Disdain for free speech? ✔ Manipulation of the social classes? ✔ An old delusional idiot hell-bent on absolute power? ✔ And the ousting of and starvation of anyone who dares to resist the status quo? ✔ Yeah it all checks out, sounds like socialism to me.
@@yaboiportch You shouldnt sensibly be able to tax emotional content, but hell... The IRS figured out ways to do so. Snipes merely got too big for his britches and forgot that you cant kung fu your way out of book-keeping.
Building sites. 50 year old craftsmen having a little management university wanker stomp up and order the craftsman to don gloves, safety specs, helmet, boots, hi viz vest, turn radoi off, no food on site, no drinks apart from water..... personal responsibility dismissed by scum. This leads to conformist wankers who tow the line. This leads to the importation of conformists, in Britain the trades were flooded by Eastern Europeans who tow these lines, work for less money, and obey any order.
An estimated spending of $165M (in today's money, adjusted for inflation) doesn't really make it cheap... (the initial budget was estimated at 57-77M in 1993, but apparently the extra production delays and marketing ran it close to 97M in the end, according to a 1993 LA Times article about the movie)
That mindblowing moment when you realize a political party watched a cheap action flick and decided to run their platform based off the antagonists in it.
The hamburger is simply a Hamburg Steak between two pieces of bread. To ban it or anything like it, they would have to ban the act of putting meat between buns...
One missed theme is the benevolent leader Cocteau, in order to sustain his utopia and further improve it (i.e. a perfect world without violence, without the scraps), has to make a "deal with the devil" with Phoenix in order to get him to use violence to achieve the utopian goal of eliminating the scraps (the ol' "the ends justifies the means" scenario), all the while Cocteau expects and thinks he can control Pheonix, who ends up overrunning him, taking over, and killing the weak leader anyway. Sort of like what a certain Peterson fellow talked about regarding communist utopias created by those who mean well, but who ultimately get overthrown by those not afraid to use violence to take power by any means necessary.
The Critical Drinker goes over that briefly in his review of the movie. While Sargon goes in depth in this video, Drinker just gives us the basic ins and outs, but he does recommend seeing the movie, especially if you haven't seen it in a long time
Wherever there is a power vacuum...the corrupt will always flood in to seize control. It cannot be avoided, which is why we've never seen an actual working example of "real" communism or "pure" socialism. They simply are not compatible with human nature. Such movements are always, inevitably corrupted by power mongers who understand how easy such a society is to control with absolute authority. That is how you end up with regimes like North Korea and the USSR.
@@razorfett147 yeah I'll typically give commies a break when it come to China, nothing communists about it, there's too much weakness in humans to resist the sheer concentration of power in socialism to relinquish it to "the people". The terrible thing about idealism is that we live in reality instead
This movie is extremely prophetic. To say that it was ahead of its time is a huge understatement . Please remember , this movie was made in 1993!! And it’s all coming true. Covid elbow bumps, anyone??!
No… no elbow bumps… Full on high five and a handshake… I am, and always shall remain, a Neanderthal in this post modernist society that becomes more and more a live action reenactment of 1984 and Demolition Man.
Watching demolition man. 1993: Shit man funny movie but there’s no way shit like that would fly. Flip to beavis and butthead. 2020: God Damnit..........
this movie is a perfect example for innocent childhood and cruel reality of adulthood. as a kid, i watched this as a fun action movie where snipes slurs alot. as an adult, this movie reflects reality to a point where it is hard for me to watch.....because the escapism isnt taking effect anymore, it became a prophecy. same goes for the movie "idiocracy"
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24:30, the look on Phenix's face as Cocteau described his plan to create the perfect society is priceless. The man is a ruthless sadistic drug-lord and even him finds Cocteau repulsively oppressive.
"When we are first introduced to him, he is explaining why the murders and explosions caused by Simon Phoenix are not the city's real problems. The real problem lies with the ideological enemy, Edgar Friendly." I would say this is rather relevant.
yep two violent erroist groups burning down cities for months and injurying thousands and killing dozens there perfectly fine with that but JAN 6 PROTESTERS LOCK EM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Looters and burning a couple of years ago , and now the insecurity all over . But they wanna remove Washington statues, impose T lectures and sex books in elementary,etc.
@Eric Larsen If you think everything stopped at Hillary, you're sadly missing the mark. What about leftist globalist $hills like Feinstein? Who openly talks of disarming the public.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” -- C.S. Lewis
And all true believers in a Utopian vision, even the well meaning ones, are forced by their failure to achieve their impossible dream into ever more desperate attempts. Inevitably leading to tyranny and mass murder if they are not stopped.
Watching this the latter half of 2023 just pushes the point home harder. Imagine that Carl made this video pre Covid and climate crisis. The safety and fairness bureaucrats have moved harder and faster in the past few years than anyone could have imagined.
Sadly there are many people who would cream their pants to live in the world of Demolition man. I first saw this movie when i was around 12-13 and even though I didn't understand stuff like fascism etc there was something wrong about San Angeles that I couldn't put my finger on. Despite this, the first time I saw Cocteau I knew the guy was an asshole and the real villain. Seeing police unable to "police" was ridiculous, but we're seeing it start to happen nowadays. I still watch this movie every couple months, one of my favorite Sly movies.
"Nobody would really ENTER the lair of a heavily armed drug gang alone...by helicopter...would they?" - Sargon, you've been to America. You know better than to ask that question. ;)
When I started noticing the SJW movement years ago this was the first movie that came to mind. Then I started searching for CZcams reviews such as this one. Thanks Sargon!
@@user-zu1ix3yq2wGood point funny how things change. Today there is a diff context to avoiding physical contact due to the virus. Difference is, disaster is transitory, cultural changes are long term.
Since around 2011, I was saying that the world is becoming more and more like Demolition Man. My brother especially said I was just paranoid. Now HE says it (and claims I never did and he totally just thought of it himself.. lol).
I remember watching this movie as a kid with my dad in like 97 or 98 and he said it's basically a comedy. When I graduated high school in 2006 I watched this at a friends house and I said there is no way you can legislate people to be nice to each other, at that time Political Correctness was still a punchline. Since 2010 this movie has gotten so many things right about American society it's scary.
except.... the writer is a leftist, and so was likely portraying a capitalist dystopia. It's kind of like all the people who think that Orwell was some great right wing thinker, not realizing that he was a far-leftist, and fought with the communists in the spanish civil war. Now, it's entirely possible that 30 years ago, he had different views, because unlike what people on the left and right both think, people can change and their views can evolve over time. But I think people see what they want to see out of something. for example, if you're a leftist, you're going to see this as some capitalist dystopia, where a single corporation has taken over this massive megapolis and that the language policing and spying is a result of inspiration of various fascist regimes over the last century, he did write this coming out of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. If you're a right-winger, you're going to see things as you explained, and tie certain social phenomonon that have really become a big thing, like cancel culture and political correctness and tie it to that. (Though similar things happen in far right wing societies like Russia, as much as it did in far left wing societies like the USSR. Authoritarianism, is always bad, no matter what political bent they have.) Certain things like abortion and sex being illegal, you have this all reigning corporation overlord, the capitalist method of making paying for things easier. Things like sex drugs and rock and roll being outlawed I think is pretty heavy handed. But I can also see things that one would peg on liberals as well.
@@theodorerooseveltsantlers270 sure, it has elements of authoritarianism that can be found in both right-wing and left-wing society. Authoritarnaism is bad. :P
Demolition Man was a brilliant bit of social commentary. It also used an inversion on Stallone's common character as he transitions from his normal 'blow them up' (ie: Demolition Man) role to being the level headed interlocutor who tells the upper dwellers to get a little more anarchistic - but at the same time, tells the Scraps that they need to get less anarchistic. Side note: Your clip shows the restaurant as 'Pizza Hut' which means it's a European copy of the movie. In North America, the Franchise Wars were won by 'Taco Bell'. Both of owned by the same parent company. :)
@@violenceislife1987 They edited the movie for EU because taco bell didnt exist there, even had actors come back to record "pizza hut" to edit out all the taco bell lines. It is pretty noticeable in some of the scenes, always thought that was interesting.
My husband's grandfather (mom's side) wants a society like this. My husband's father is a rugged individualist entrepreneur. Guess what I'm requesting for the movie of choice next family gathering...
Great idea. Once your family has seen Demolition Man, tell us how it went and what discussions that movie induced. Well at least I hope it starts some deeper thought instead of being dismissive of the quality of the movie just to avoid arguing the underlying political plot and how it relates to their ideology.
The crux of non-violence is that it only works until someone figures that they have more to gain by taking your stuff by force, instead of buying or producing it for themself.
I'm not sure if which is better - Demolition Man or Starship Troopers. But I enjoyed both your videos on this. Thanks Sargon. And Merry Christmas, you glorious-bearded bastard.
Shit, this was actually really interesting. I wish he did more of these. I really like his content when it's about concepts and breakdowns. He's surprisingly good at video essays.
This movie also gained traction in 1993 because we had a wave of busy body political correction police sprout up here in the states. Late 80s into early 90s culture wars. This movie touched on that open nerve, which ended up with a Tipper Gore type political climate. Anyway, cheers. Happy holidays
Ahh the good old "satanic panic", i remember avoiding people that listened to heavy metal (as a kid) since i had this crazy idea that they would kidnap people and drag them to a basement and sacrifice them to satan in a blood ritual since the subject was popular in talkshows/news back in 1997
A good study of the phrase: "Good times create weak men; Weak men create hard times; hard times create strong men; strong men create good times," is the Aiel from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books.
@@dharmaqueen7877 I believe that, as the narrator in the video said, finding meaning is key. It's a good first step towards not being ''weak''. It can apply to women as well. Because if you have a meaning and a purpose in your life, you're probably going to have to fight for it.
"How can safety be oppressive?" Really, that should be the mantra of our time. It's remarkable that a film made 27 years ago presaged our society so exactly. And yet it's based on an old idea; it's a near rendition of "Brave New World" of 1932 into film, (oc, Huxley is named after its author). I smoke menthol cigarettes, and they've just been banned in my country. I'll be ill; I know because I've tried to give up before. But this time I'm being forced. The purists have turned their attention to anything, from alcohol and unhealthy foods to Firework Night. The young of today have no idea of what they're missing, because they've had no experience of it. Taking responsibility for yourself - in everything you do - is in the past. With freedom comes some risk. Now Government orders you how to lead your life; not only your actions, but your thoughts and the way you're supposed to feel. It's not a nanny-state, it's a bully-state. We may be safer, but we're definitely a lot less free.
"You guys [San Angeles Prissy people] need to get a little bit dirtier, and you guys [Friendly's sewer people] need to get a whole lot cleaner. Somewhere in the middle, I don't know, you'll figure it out." ~ John Spartan. This is the lesson of the movie. That there needs to be BALANCE between safety and freedom, not pure anarchy or total control, but balance.
Sarcasm, levity, and satire are quickly becoming concepts the younger generations don't seem to "get", in my experiences. They are my favorite forms of humor, but everything is literal today. I'm glad I'm old.
It’s not even young people who are having problems with sarcasm/satire. Gad Saad’s video to Sam Harris about Gulag-13 went straight over Sam Harris’s head. He commented that he didn’t know whether Gad was being serious or not to which Gad replied that he was being “very serious”. Lol TDS and the woke ideology have infected the minds of people and rendered them unable to understand humor. Once I realized that Trump was just mad trolling people, I laughed at the things he was saying while others were getting butthurt. People on the left have lost all sense of humor which is why they can’t seem to understand how to make memes. They try and fail miserably. It is truly the American dark ages from the cultural left. Thankfully the right has a much more fun sense of humor.
Younger generations? Maybe it's just the politically correct SJWs in those younger generations that doesn't understand sarcasm. I'm of the current young generation that uses sarcasm a lot and so did the rest peers in high school. Depends on where you live I guess.
Not gonna lie, I'm a bit disappointed that Sargon didn't remark on Huxley obviously being named after Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. Maybe it was just really low-hanging fruit, but it seems like somewhat of a major oversight.
@@red-stapler574 Not only that, but her full name is Lenina Huxley. Lenina is the name of the girl in the Brave New World. Stallone's character also has a lot of similarities with the "Savage", who is brought to the sterile "Brave New World", but cannot adapt to life within it.
Just watched the film. A crucial line from Cocteau - “The dead are dead and cannot affect the living” (something like that) This could allude to the placement of all society’s faith in science and an abandonment of the past. Also incredible how Huxley actually mentions that the spread of disease has resulted in major changes in human behavior. Mind blowing in the age of Covid. Thanks for the thought provoking content
Me and my dad watched Demolition Man after we watched this on bitchute, the movie itself is on hulu. It's scary how similar the movie is to our world today. Awesome video Sargon.
I was thrilled to see this video. I am 59 and saw the movie when it first came out. I have watched countless times since. It is amazing. My sister LOVED Wesley Snipes as Simon Phoenix. She would laugh whenever she was reminded of him.’
Leary was a hack, he was friends with Bill Hicks but ripped off a shit-ton of his bits- even as Hicks was succumbing to cancer. I enjoyed his rants a bit too- until I saw the one that got cut out of Natural Born Killers... and then recently I watched a few side by sides of material he released on comedy specials shortly after Hicks, anyway... you can tell a lot of his ideas and even his delivery came second hand.
I guess now when I cannot convince "security and tolerance" totalitarians on the internet I can always cut off with "OK Dr Cocteau", leaving them wondering what that comment even meant. Thanks for reminding me of Demolition Man. I almost forgot that movie somehow.
I literally rewatched this 3 weeks ago. It's a reminder of what they want and I get pissed at certain parts of the film. The violence is the only thing that I don't rage against.
Demolition man was truly a satire if you paid close attention (or we're educated in the purpose of a satire itself.) This movie, especially the scene where Phoenix is approached by "Protect and Serve", exposes the stupidity of where society is heading. In that one scene the extreme liberal and socialist values led to a police force with no power to combat societies harsh offenders. With no system of checks and balanced in place (a police force) one violent offender man took out an entire pacifist police force on his own. Strength in numbers is not enough; you have to have resources to equally combat those whom look to take advantage of society. This whole movie keys in on a very important reality. Resources must be committed to upholding a higher moral standard. If not the lowest common denominator can destroy everything of the whole and ruin it for everyone in the process. Sometimes you have to fight power with power.
When I watched this movie it was well understood that Cocteau was the bad guy. I never thought I'd become an Edgar Friendly sympathizer to this degree though.
Cocteau's biggest mistake was that he was relying on a human to solve his problems instead of using all that technology to create a swarm of semi-autonomous drones with stun guns to patrol the tunnels and use against scraps.
Guessing in his mind that wouldn't send a message to anyone who would defy him. He wants to crush the scaps to fully establish his new world order and I'm guessing he felt like a machine wouldn't cut it.
that plan sounds like how you create a rouge servitor civilization from stellaris basically a indulgent civilzation creates machines to catter to there every whim retrating more and more from society till the point they willingly hand all control over to the machines which united into one networked being whos only purpose is to cater to every whim of organic life gaing the idea that this is the one true way to utopia and that orgaincs cant be trusted to lead themselves as it only leads to suffering so they take to the stars to bring all organic life under there care. of course there two diffrent paths if that is a actual utopia or a terryfing dystopia it all depends if the machines are smart enough to qualify social interaction and mental health as"needs" if not its a painting a smile on your soul heck on earth
@@wilmagregg3131 yeah it also depends on catering to all citizens needs. like a utopia that has great food, beautiful women, fun parties and all that, would be the darkest hell to an opiate addict if there were no drugs to abuse. Add in the morphine and it would be a paradise to that person too. Another guy might just want farmland and to be left alone.
A future I can't decide for myself is a future I don't want to live in. I want a future where we actually have self reliance rather than rely on a big brother government. the right to defend myself by owning a gun. the right to say whatever I want without consequence the right to choose my own fate. This is what aspiring socialists hate the individual who thinks for himself
this is actually scary, think how movies like this set in the future things from them have come true. Arnie being governor, who the fu** predicted that!
Arnold always had an interest in politics. He talks about it in his autobiography. Him and Stallone were friends so Stallone probably knew about this interest. Plus Arnold had married a Kennedy.
@@porpoisepork well currently theres riots across the usa tearing down every statue in site people are demanding the police be abolished and there automus zones arising across the country and its all being done in the name of a idealogy nearly the same as cocktos social justice so yeah it kinda is just its not the whole world collapsing like it did in demolition man
The film actually isn't very good. The ideas are fantastic, but the execution is lazy. The dialogue is absolutely cringe at times and at others it just doesn't make any sense. The film could have been a lot better, but it wasn't directed by someone with much experience at all, clearly. Still, it's utility is tangeable. Sargon's critiques are not on its film techniques or its execution, but rather it's politics. Unfortunately, films can't always ride on their ideas.
Fuck that. This movie was fantastic. Loved the whole thing when I first watched it and I've watched it hundreds of times. The action sequences were peak for it's time, and the technological ideas were on par for star trek level forward thinking.
@@Wilantonjakov yes the lines are a bit cheesy I admit that but that's its charm and I'm perfectly believe the critics were 100% dead wrong about the movie instead of focusing on the philosophy of the movie they focused more on the explosions so stupid
@@redseagaming7832 have you seen Gattaca? It doesn't hinge itself on the politics so much but the scriptwriting, acting and directing are superb. If Demolition Man had Gattaca's sense of quality, I would love it. Quite similar settingsz those two films, just very different execution.
I loved this movie as a kid in the 90s. I never dreamed this could one day come close to being a reality. The movie was cartoonish in the 90s bc nobody conceived that this kind of world was possible. Now in 2022 this type of control seems like it is just around the corner if not already arrived in some places.
To bad millions upon millions of people would rather live meaningless lives as weak, pathetic drones, too scared to risk being an individual for fear of potential failure.
@@dash4800 I wouldn't be sad about this, if, through the scourge of democracy, they wouldn't impose their bee hive rules on those few of us with actual minds of our own. They want to live like cattle. Everything provided for them, all exactly alike, no unexpected risks ever, sitting shackled in their little boxes, fed and milked by their owners. The Bernie Sanders vision.
“When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise the original rights of self defense - to fight the government.” - Thomas Jefferson "Civilization is naught but the domestication of man. Better for him to be a wild beast such is the Lion, than any that dwelleth upon the farm." - Anonymous
Hey Sargon ive enjoyed your content for years.I think this is your best video and the format suits you well. Great writing and narration and loved the Cyberpunk style animation gfx and cool synthwave music
I need to send a copy of this movie to my uni aged daughter... Id forgotten completely about it, and now it is oh so spot on relevant. Even better than Idiocracy! Thanks for the great analysis, Dude.
At least they know who is the founder of it. We don't. It seems to be coming from every angle with nobody to stop it. I bet uncle Klaus is only a patsy for us to focus on.
When a movie critic disapproves of a movie, I typically can't wait to see it. Over the course of 40 years, I've learned that movie critics are so disconnected from their own human nature, through a process I can not yet fathom, that they're incapable of forming opinions of movies that can relate to the enjoyment of the average person. The profession, you see, through a process I don't understand, has become a complete paradox. Their reviews are supposed to be a guidepost for moviegoers to determine what will be enjoyable films. However they have become the exact opposite. It is only the most conformist, unthinking individuals who are deceived by this. Typically, it is the case of such viewers to assume that if the critics like it, but they do not, it is because the critic knows best.
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HELL YEAH, reported the video to youtube for incorrect use of a copyright strike, hope it helped!
So how did it get reinstated?
Yay! Its back!
It makes me very sad that this only has 3k views, while the latest cat video is over 1 mil. A voice in the wilderness, a voice that is needed, a voice that is appreciated.. thank you !
Sargon of Akkad this was a fantastic watch Carl, thank you, and merry Christmas to you and your family.
The one dislike is from Dr. Raymond Cocteau.
His "Revolt of the Scientists" buddies might follow soon enough.
@@dy031101 Huh, You know that's interesting, I didn't see the parallel between that aspect of Starship Troopers and him until you said that. Thank you.
I only disliked because of YT censorship. Though my Bitchute account says otherwise!
Still 1 4 hours later
@@DwayneThompson22 that's what I was thinking. Either that or having your frozen head kicked off would maybe cause some angst.
Watch Demolition Man in 1993: "This movie is goofy AF."
Watch Demolition Man in 2019: "Holy shit, this movie is actually incredibly relevant."
Its honest to god, actually ahead of its time.
My thoughts exactly. Now I think I’ll need to rewatch.
Redoubt funny you mention Manson, I've long said that the leftist's ideas seem disgustingly close to Manson's idea of Helter Skelter. Basically white leftist elitists generate hate and violence between races, until blacks kill off all the non-elite whites, and if course the minorities aren't smart enough to run things afterwards so the white saviors of the leftist elite will need to step in and run their lives for them.
Karl yeah, I've seen it a few times and loved it, and now I'll be watching it again tomorrow (i just had my 4th back surgery last week, so I've been looking for things to watch.)
This... exactly this. Man I never would've never thought of this back in the day!
"We're police officers. We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!"
- UK police.
Only trained to handle tweets as violence
This is true for Germany, too. 😅
Well, UK Police does have a tactical response, but they probably end up being to late to stop the major threats in their most violent moments.
"You insulted my pride, life sentence for you!"
-Britian's collective nobility.
@@XSilver_WaterX uh oh this is me and I'm going to have an investigation put on me by the British thought police Department
"How can Safety be oppressive?"
that question takes on a whole new level of life in the COVID age.
You bought to mind a sane person in a straight jacket in a padded cell.
Any person who would give up any amount of freedom in exchange for any amount of safety deserves neither, nor will they have them.
That is certain
What do you mean "How?". Safety IS oppressive. Always was, always will be. It's active act of controling enviroment and behaviour to mitigate risks.
@@pofruin Like everything, it depends on how far you take it. There should be some safety - you wouldn't want to get on a plane that's not airworthy or go to a doctor who isn't properly qualified. Taking unnecessary risks is daft. But it's a question of degree. Unfortunately, we've swung an 180 degree turn, and now ANY risk is considered too much. You cannot exist without some risks; life wouldn't be worth living unless there was some degree of risk. This film was so visionary. It drew on things that were happening at the time and took them to their logical conclusion. How do we eliminate all risk in society? By tightly regulating people's behaviour, by not allowing them to make mistakes. So we're all wrapped up in cotton wool and bubble wrap and we can't possibly hurt ourselves. But we can't live, either.
@Justin Beaird The seat belt law came in 1983 and I was at school. I wrote an essay on it, saying how it was an infringement on personal freedoms. It annoyed me that the government was acting like my parents.
"Demolition Man" was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them.
The "Demolition" of Man
It was supposed to be a mindless action film! It became a warning!
Kurtlane TRUE
Where I live there are no BLM, Antifa or SJW's in public. What is here? Geo engineering, a few thousand new apartments in downtown in two years. Maybe an area gets a taste but not the full gambit? What one lacks is later exported to the other. Gets a footprint started without one area overwhelmed by the entire gambit.
"We worked for a living. This fascist crap makes me wanna puke." - John Spartan. Smartest man in Demolition Man.
One of my favorite scenes from Demolition Man.
An archived news video shows officer John Spartan carrying a little girl just recently rescued from a hostage crisis. Wreckage of what used to be a mini-mall is everywhere. Lady reporter runs up to John Spartan, shoving a mic in his face.
lady reporter: How can you justify destroying a 7 million dollar mini-mall to rescue a girl whose ransom was only 25,000 dollars?
little girl: Fuck you, lady!
some guy: Good answer!
I have literally (and I mean that in the most literal sense) used the line "why don't you just shove a leash up my ass" at work within the last month since now there is an app we are supposed to use that tracks our movement and location through our smartphones. Luckily I am a dinosaur and still use a smartphone whose ios cannot be upgraded enough to use this app.
@@ClickToPreviewMan, I feel for ya.
@@ClickToPreview Corporate just keeps getting dumber and dumber.
@@JamesCrimson43 it's not that they just have alot more zealots and true believers than they did before.
This is so relevant to now its unreal
So much to say and listen to.. but yes. I always loved this even as a dumb kid, never quite knew why though, wasn't just the action clearly. Like Starship Troopers and all other good scifi or even fantasy work.
"How can safety be oppressive?" Five months later...
@@rseeker1 Fauci "b-but, I don't see it as restricting freedoms, but I also won't give you what metric even decides if the virus is in safe levels or not"
I said the same thing
Indeed.
Democrats in the US and similar in the EU wants to make people into automatons.
"They do not shake hands or high five, they do not kiss"
- me sitting in 2020 SMH
Did you kiss anyone or shake their hand yet?
Im watching this in 2021
And Alexa WAITIN on you to cuss
Hahahah
Just wait until you experience a full year of it with no end in sight.
People talk about 1984 and Brave New World but leave out Demolition Man. This movie was spot on with what leftists want to create.
I just posted pretty much the same thing
People don't reference demolition man because it is an adaption of brave new world
Brave new world was the inspiration of Demolition man. Demolition man actually references Brave New World on a number of points but is sort of a synthesis of the 2, as Brave new world maintains order by making peoples lives entirely frivolous to the point that no one cares what is going on around them and they dont bother to fight the system that grants them unending pleasure.
But people also like to reference the classics. give it 70 years and scholars may reference Demolition man.
You do realize that 1984 and Brave New was written by Orwell a leftist as a warning against right wing and centrist authoritarian movements your statement sort points out one of the huge problems in today's society that people conflate centrist liberal movements like S.J.W.'s with the left wing politics.
Don't forget Equilibrium in that list. I'd consider it mostly action, but the inhibition of feelings on a society wide level via drugs and an inquisition enforcing this goes into the same territory as BNW.
Instead of Soma Equilibrium has Librium, and instead of "only happy feelings" it has "no feelings at all".
This movie has, very unfortunately, aged like fine wine. Congrats to the person that time traveled back to the 1990s and pitched this idea to Hollywood
They just read a bit of Huxley.
watch "back to the future predicted 9/11" and it will give you a clue as to whats really going on.
@@ash0787 we are living in a true matrix and there's a shortage of blue pills, due to demand.
You people fail to see that the film industry literally throws/tells us what's in store or what our "leaders" strive to create a world for.
no one went back in time, this was their plan for years, the ones in Hollywood had inside knowledge and either tried to warn us or they were programing us.
the elites must tell you what their plans are or they have to deal with karmic retribution, by telling you in a movie they avoid negative karma.
they have had these technologies for over 60 years and slowly trickle down the technology to society. just the iphone changed 2007 onward about the internet.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies" -CS Lewis. Dang man....
For the robber barons cruelty may subside with boredom
The busybody’s will never stop
@@helwrecht1637 so there's one way to get rid of them
@@AllWillBeRevealed957
Only time will tell if people are willing to bloody their hands. But with no children, no family, and no hope of either in the future, why should they?
@@combativeThinker if you think the solution is to give a man a wife and children first, you have the order backwards. Fight first, reward second.
The trick is to fight for someone that you trust. Men won't fight for a leader if they don't believe that leader has the will and the means for civilization to continue.
Sargon's "Politics Of" videos are amazing. We need a "Politics Of Robocop" next.
I'd buy that for a dollar
"Accordig to Cocteau i'm the enemy because i like to think..." - Enough said.
Pretty much.
Cocteauism didn't work because it was not properly implemented.
We hear this a lot these day, with socialism.
true
@@Daniela-pr7rz Or "That wasnt real socialism XD"
@@kejiri3593 Hatred for the wealthy? ✔
Disdain for free speech? ✔
Manipulation of the social classes? ✔
An old delusional idiot hell-bent on absolute power? ✔
And the ousting of and starvation of anyone who dares to resist the status quo? ✔
Yeah it all checks out, sounds like socialism to me.
Snipes should have been arrested after this film. He stole every scene he was in ...
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.
It must have been those overalls that he wore and the massive ego
He only rivals the Kirgon for sheer joy in his character.
@@yaboiportch
You shouldnt sensibly be able to tax emotional content, but hell... The IRS figured out ways to do so.
Snipes merely got too big for his britches and forgot that you cant kung fu your way out of book-keeping.
@@somercet1
Good call. 👍🏾
Wesley Snipes should retroactively be awarded an Oscar.
“How can safety be oppressive?”
*looks back at 2020 and shudders*
*looks back at 2021 and cringes*
Building sites. 50 year old craftsmen having a little management university wanker stomp up and order the craftsman to don gloves, safety specs, helmet, boots, hi viz vest, turn radoi off, no food on site, no drinks apart from water..... personal responsibility dismissed by scum. This leads to conformist wankers who tow the line. This leads to the importation of conformists, in Britain the trades were flooded by Eastern Europeans who tow these lines, work for less money, and obey any order.
Sure can be overprotectiveness be oppressive...
*Looks back at 2022 and wails uncontrollably.*
*looks back at the entirety of history and understands that safety is oppressive and that's ok*
The lack of human contact begins to now be eerily familiar...
Y'all already know the next steps.
That awkward moment that a cheap action flick from the 90's had more thought put into its backstory than most films of the 2010s did.
An estimated spending of $165M (in today's money, adjusted for inflation) doesn't really make it cheap...
(the initial budget was estimated at 57-77M in 1993, but apparently the extra production delays and marketing ran it close to 97M in the end, according to a 1993 LA Times article about the movie)
@@TheUltimateBlooper said in a nasally voice, as you push your glasses up.
Back when they had limited budgets, they had to be more creative.
@@SlappyGomez Leave him alone....he's 47.
That mindblowing moment when you realize a political party watched a cheap action flick and decided to run their platform based off the antagonists in it.
And the Democrats are currently talking about banning hamburgers
Its crazy how much of this movie ties into the current political environment
Do you think the patriot act would qualify for totalitarianism? People like you are gullible. There is no left/right. It's a tool used to control us.
@@blairrobert3438 only those who are in on the 'game', and those who aren't.
@@blairrobert3438 I can see what you would be getting at except OP is literally just stating a fact
The hamburger is simply a Hamburg Steak between two pieces of bread. To ban it or anything like it, they would have to ban the act of putting meat between buns...
One missed theme is the benevolent leader Cocteau, in order to sustain his utopia and further improve it (i.e. a perfect world without violence, without the scraps), has to make a "deal with the devil" with Phoenix in order to get him to use violence to achieve the utopian goal of eliminating the scraps (the ol' "the ends justifies the means" scenario), all the while Cocteau expects and thinks he can control Pheonix, who ends up overrunning him, taking over, and killing the weak leader anyway. Sort of like what a certain Peterson fellow talked about regarding communist utopias created by those who mean well, but who ultimately get overthrown by those not afraid to use violence to take power by any means necessary.
The Critical Drinker goes over that briefly in his review of the movie. While Sargon goes in depth in this video, Drinker just gives us the basic ins and outs, but he does recommend seeing the movie, especially if you haven't seen it in a long time
Wherever there is a power vacuum...the corrupt will always flood in to seize control. It cannot be avoided, which is why we've never seen an actual working example of "real" communism or "pure" socialism. They simply are not compatible with human nature. Such movements are always, inevitably corrupted by power mongers who understand how easy such a society is to control with absolute authority. That is how you end up with regimes like North Korea and the USSR.
@@razorfett147 yeah I'll typically give commies a break when it come to China, nothing communists about it, there's too much weakness in humans to resist the sheer concentration of power in socialism to relinquish it to "the people". The terrible thing about idealism is that we live in reality instead
@@UmbraPsi yeah ccp is just a totalitarian government. Ever watch china uncensored 's videos?
Afraid they might do this with Biden, now that he's in.
This movie is extremely prophetic. To say that it was ahead of its time is a huge understatement . Please remember , this movie was made in 1993!! And it’s all coming true. Covid elbow bumps, anyone??!
No… no elbow bumps…
Full on high five and a handshake…
I am, and always shall remain, a Neanderthal in this post modernist society that becomes more and more a live action reenactment of 1984 and Demolition Man.
Enforced Rainbow flags in schools.
also no meat and implanted chips under the skin, speech law , and the no room for dialogue
Block removed. Nice one.
I kept it in my watch later playlist, just in case. Good to see.
I'm watching it perfectly fine.
Thank you from Oregon.
I watched it on Bitchute.
Well, it IS good advertisement for a probably underrated film. I guess Warner figured that out.
sandra bullock is super hot in demolition man
GamingTranceSeer indeed she was
To this day I still don't understand how Jesse James could have cheated on her.
Dat ass
This is the best trivia I’ve learned yet
For some reason I’ve never really found her attractive, but she looks pretty hot in this one.
Watching demolition man.
1993: Shit man funny movie but there’s no way shit like that would fly. Flip to beavis and butthead.
2020: God Damnit..........
Beavis and butt-head return 2021
@@hermanthetosser4219 Beavis and Butt Head today would be woke soy boys who watch Only Fans instead of awkwardly talking to girls.
This film is ahead of its time, it predicted our present time!!!!
Just wait til you realize it’s just as bad in 2024…
this movie is a perfect example for innocent childhood and cruel reality of adulthood.
as a kid, i watched this as a fun action movie where snipes slurs alot.
as an adult, this movie reflects reality to a point where it is hard for me to watch.....because the escapism isnt taking effect anymore, it became a prophecy.
same goes for the movie "idiocracy"
Exactly !
2012: "If only you knew how bad things really are"
2019: "If only you knew how worse things will become"
We should’ve listen to Farhan Khan and Rik Clay
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2020: well time for the reset button Kim!
2020 here. Sheeeet
2020: “you two are sooo cute”
2021: "It's our new reality"
They weren't that far off.
Now all movies are Disney movies.
24:30, the look on Phenix's face as Cocteau described his plan to create the perfect society is priceless. The man is a ruthless sadistic drug-lord and even him finds Cocteau repulsively oppressive.
Because even evil has standards.
"When we are first introduced to him, he is explaining why the murders and explosions caused by Simon Phoenix are not the city's real problems. The real problem lies with the ideological enemy, Edgar Friendly." I would say this is rather relevant.
yep two violent erroist groups burning down cities for months and injurying thousands and killing dozens there perfectly fine with that but JAN 6 PROTESTERS LOCK EM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@wilmagregg3131 yeah the iNsUrReCtIoN that being compared to 9/11. The trespassing horn guy was a threat to democracy!
Mostly peaceful murders and explosions
Sad thing is in 2023 Sargon and other tubers would probably mumble vaguely and spout off about muh both sides. They've decayed hard.
Looters and burning a couple of years ago , and now the insecurity all over . But they wanna remove Washington statues, impose T lectures and sex books in elementary,etc.
Demolition Man is not a movie, it is a prophecy.
What does that make Orwell's 1984?
Was about to type that.
a warning, else it sounds very inevitable
Based on BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
@Eric Larsen If you think everything stopped at Hillary, you're sadly missing the mark. What about leftist globalist $hills like Feinstein? Who openly talks of disarming the public.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” -- C.S. Lewis
And all true believers in a Utopian vision, even the well meaning ones, are forced by their failure to achieve their impossible dream into ever more desperate attempts. Inevitably leading to tyranny and mass murder if they are not stopped.
BrooksKingdomHeart 👌🏻
Woah. You watched the video too??? :O
This hits SUPER different as a high functioning autistic no seriously jesus fuck
Damn... this is an amazing quote! Thank you!
Indeed I have been thinking that we are in the American dark ages right now.
"You can't take away people's rights to be assholes." Simon Phoenix
Watching this the latter half of 2023 just pushes the point home harder. Imagine that Carl made this video pre Covid and climate crisis. The safety and fairness bureaucrats have moved harder and faster in the past few years than anyone could have imagined.
Jup, and things are still getting worse until society snaps and finds a new balance
I suppose we all feel like we have more time than we really do :/
I knew the dystopia was coming, just felt like I had more time.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116nah, at some point about 15 years ago I realized "oh, it's going to be my generation that finally ruins everything"
Sadly there are many people who would cream their pants to live in the world of Demolition man. I first saw this movie when i was around 12-13 and even though I didn't understand stuff like fascism etc there was something wrong about San Angeles that I couldn't put my finger on. Despite this, the first time I saw Cocteau I knew the guy was an asshole and the real villain. Seeing police unable to "police" was ridiculous, but we're seeing it start to happen nowadays. I still watch this movie every couple months, one of my favorite Sly movies.
Which is strange because after five minutes of having that described I felt the urge to start punching babies.
Have you heard of a channel by the name of PoliceActivity? Law enforcement is having no trouble asserting itself
It's not so much a fascist state as a communist one.
Mr. Friendly was my hero as a child....
Idk what that says about me.....
@@burdmann24.7 you need Beer and Steak.
"Nobody would really ENTER the lair of a heavily armed drug gang alone...by helicopter...would they?"
- Sargon, you've been to America. You know better than to ask that question. ;)
PHOENIX!!!!!!!!
@@codyraugh6599 PENIS!!!
@@davee7352 *in incredibly mumbled words* your going to have to give it to me hard...PHOENIX!!!!!
wargriffin5 set yo azz on fyyah
A few would go just to audition into the gang.
The Drinker recommended me this deep movie. Sargon made it even deeper.
the drawing of cocteau is actually really unsettling
Sargon decided to piss off not only progressives/SJWs but also anarcho-capitalists :-)
Sargon, Enemy of GLORIOUS NATION OF ANCAPISTAN!
facing reality has that effect on both
🤣🤣🤣 anarcho capitalists are just as extreme as sjws.
just reminds us that he is not very intelligent
@NuclearHobo42 honestly, give me the totalitarian dystopia. I value order more then freedom, personally, but recognize the importance of balance.
Documentaries of the year 2020: Demolition Man & Idiocracy
Office Space
2020 as in this year is going to be a big sh*t show!
_The Sargonian Effect_
Throw in PCU as well. That movie predicted the higher learning institutes devolving into garbage degrees, and campus outrage mobs 3 decades ago.
Tim Cornish and this gattaca is movie that Will save us all
When I started noticing the SJW movement years ago this was the first movie that came to mind. Then I started searching for CZcams reviews such as this one. Thanks Sargon!
"THAT'S what you remind me of! An Evil Mr. Rogers!"
And now I think instantly that Fauci could serve as a perfect double for Cocteau.
They both kind of look similar to one another now that I’m thinking about it lol
Notice how Karl Schwab wore a Cocteau outfit and already looks a lot like him?
Rewatching this movie last year, I thought: Yesterday's satire is today's reality.
Hope you've practiced the handshake.
@@user-zu1ix3yq2wGood point funny how things change. Today there is a diff context to avoiding physical contact due to the virus.
Difference is, disaster is transitory, cultural changes are long term.
i recommend idiocracy it was a fun move back in the days....but its shocking nowadays
@@t4rv0r60 Thanks.
And there are people in the world who are fighting against them.
Since around 2011, I was saying that the world is becoming more and more like Demolition Man. My brother especially said I was just paranoid. Now HE says it (and claims I never did and he totally just thought of it himself.. lol).
I think it was around 2008 for me. :p. But good job being aware and also yeah, that’s just what older siblings do (fellow younger brother here)
ok dude
Wait, Sargon is your brother?
looool
@Chris_Wooden_Eye . are these brothers older?
"No plan survives contact with the enemy, which is, in this case, reality." - Carlsarg Benjakkad
I remember watching this movie as a kid with my dad in like 97 or 98 and he said it's basically a comedy. When I graduated high school in 2006 I watched this at a friends house and I said there is no way you can legislate people to be nice to each other, at that time Political Correctness was still a punchline. Since 2010 this movie has gotten so many things right about American society it's scary.
except.... the writer is a leftist, and so was likely portraying a capitalist dystopia. It's kind of like all the people who think that Orwell was some great right wing thinker, not realizing that he was a far-leftist, and fought with the communists in the spanish civil war.
Now, it's entirely possible that 30 years ago, he had different views, because unlike what people on the left and right both think, people can change and their views can evolve over time. But I think people see what they want to see out of something. for example, if you're a leftist, you're going to see this as some capitalist dystopia, where a single corporation has taken over this massive megapolis and that the language policing and spying is a result of inspiration of various fascist regimes over the last century, he did write this coming out of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr.
If you're a right-winger, you're going to see things as you explained, and tie certain social phenomonon that have really become a big thing, like cancel culture and political correctness and tie it to that. (Though similar things happen in far right wing societies like Russia, as much as it did in far left wing societies like the USSR. Authoritarianism, is always bad, no matter what political bent they have.)
Certain things like abortion and sex being illegal, you have this all reigning corporation overlord, the capitalist method of making paying for things easier. Things like sex drugs and rock and roll being outlawed I think is pretty heavy handed. But I can also see things that one would peg on liberals as well.
@@ExarchGaming Can you send me the abridged version?
@@theodorerooseveltsantlers270 sure, it has elements of authoritarianism that can be found in both right-wing and left-wing society. Authoritarnaism is bad.
:P
Pride flags were torn down in a US school this week.
@@martinsmith6049good
Demolition Man was a brilliant bit of social commentary. It also used an inversion on Stallone's common character as he transitions from his normal 'blow them up' (ie: Demolition Man) role to being the level headed interlocutor who tells the upper dwellers to get a little more anarchistic - but at the same time, tells the Scraps that they need to get less anarchistic.
Side note: Your clip shows the restaurant as 'Pizza Hut' which means it's a European copy of the movie. In North America, the Franchise Wars were won by 'Taco Bell'. Both of owned by the same parent company. :)
Yeah I noticed that too. Really cool how the movie could take the simplistic 80s action movie hero persona and put it up against social issues.
I think he addresses that in the middle(?) of this video essay with the split screen.
Taco Bell in the UK, which has just arrived here as well, and it is shit.
oh wow! different versions of which restaurant won, taco bell & pizza hut.
interesting...
@@violenceislife1987 They edited the movie for EU because taco bell didnt exist there, even had actors come back to record "pizza hut" to edit out all the taco bell lines. It is pretty noticeable in some of the scenes, always thought that was interesting.
My husband's grandfather (mom's side) wants a society like this. My husband's father is a rugged individualist entrepreneur.
Guess what I'm requesting for the movie of choice next family gathering...
Great idea. Once your family has seen Demolition Man, tell us how it went and what discussions that movie induced. Well at least I hope it starts some deeper thought instead of being dismissive of the quality of the movie just to avoid arguing the underlying political plot and how it relates to their ideology.
Man with a love of explosions like that no wonder you love Demolition Man.
How did it go? Hehe
No surprise. Women tend to choose security over freedom
Leon Robinson The husband's grandfather, not grandmother
The crux of non-violence is that it only works until someone figures that they have more to gain by taking your stuff by force, instead of buying or producing it for themself.
JESUS! Since lockdown this is even more relevant.
I'm not sure if which is better - Demolition Man or Starship Troopers. But I enjoyed both your videos on this. Thanks Sargon.
And Merry Christmas, you glorious-bearded bastard.
Both of them are great movies but completely different in genre if not in themes. Difficult to compare the two beyond superficial traits.
More of these please. Hunger games maybe?
For a second I thought this was a comment on a Kruggsmash Video because he always says you bearded bastards.
Hansel Demolition man.
Starship troopers is still a parody.
Demolition man is far too real.
Do gooding halfwits living in a bubble.
Be well.
I am sure you could do something with They Live.
Sargon at his best again.
I'm glad I am not the only one who see's demolition man becoming real life lol
Shit, this was actually really interesting. I wish he did more of these. I really like his content when it's about concepts and breakdowns. He's surprisingly good at video essays.
Los Angeles was still almost tolerable in 1996, meanwhile in 2019, Typhus.
Don't forget to tuberculosis and bubonic plague 😘
And the druggies and tent citites.
How's it now then? 😅😭
Oh hey, Angelinos from a year and change ago talking about the plague, you want some bad news?
This movie also gained traction in 1993 because we had a wave of busy body political correction police sprout up here in the states. Late 80s into early 90s culture wars. This movie touched on that open nerve, which ended up with a Tipper Gore type political climate. Anyway, cheers. Happy holidays
Ahh the good old "satanic panic", i remember avoiding people that listened to heavy metal (as a kid) since i had this crazy idea that they would kidnap people and drag them to a basement and sacrifice them to satan in a blood ritual since the subject was popular in talkshows/news back in 1997
@@soldierorsomething Those blood rituals happened, and are still happening in Hollywood.
A good study of the phrase: "Good times create weak men; Weak men create hard times; hard times create strong men; strong men create good times," is the Aiel from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books.
Its actually a roman saying
Finished it this week. What a ride!
@@dharmaqueen7877 I believe that, as the narrator in the video said, finding meaning is key. It's a good first step towards not being ''weak''. It can apply to women as well. Because if you have a meaning and a purpose in your life, you're probably going to have to fight for it.
It's not an Aiel saying but it's definitely something that they would say.
T'shar Manetheren.
"How can safety be oppressive?" Really, that should be the mantra of our time. It's remarkable that a film made 27 years ago presaged our society so exactly. And yet it's based on an old idea; it's a near rendition of "Brave New World" of 1932 into film, (oc, Huxley is named after its author). I smoke menthol cigarettes, and they've just been banned in my country. I'll be ill; I know because I've tried to give up before. But this time I'm being forced. The purists have turned their attention to anything, from alcohol and unhealthy foods to Firework Night. The young of today have no idea of what they're missing, because they've had no experience of it. Taking responsibility for yourself - in everything you do - is in the past. With freedom comes some risk. Now Government orders you how to lead your life; not only your actions, but your thoughts and the way you're supposed to feel. It's not a nanny-state, it's a bully-state. We may be safer, but we're definitely a lot less free.
1990s: *Entertaining Sci-Fi dystopian Action Movie!*
2010s: *DOCUMENTARY//MOCUMENTARY*
I miss the '90s
My childhood
smh
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin
Those who would give up safety, to purchase a little libery, are anarchist and therefore can be easily dismissed.
@@StrazdasLT I'll take being an anarchist to be a slave kept docile with bread and circus.
amen brother
@@StrazdasLT well, you can try........
They deserve neither. And will lose both.
"You guys [San Angeles Prissy people] need to get a little bit dirtier, and you guys [Friendly's sewer people] need to get a whole lot cleaner. Somewhere in the middle, I don't know, you'll figure it out." ~ John Spartan. This is the lesson of the movie. That there needs to be BALANCE between safety and freedom, not pure anarchy or total control, but balance.
A balance between chaos and order
Sarcasm, levity, and satire are quickly becoming concepts the younger generations don't seem to "get", in my experiences. They are my favorite forms of humor, but everything is literal today. I'm glad I'm old.
It’s not even young people who are having problems with sarcasm/satire.
Gad Saad’s video to Sam Harris about Gulag-13 went straight over Sam Harris’s head. He commented that he didn’t know whether Gad was being serious or not to which Gad replied that he was being “very serious”. Lol
TDS and the woke ideology have infected the minds of people and rendered them unable to understand humor. Once I realized that Trump was just mad trolling people, I laughed at the things he was saying while others were getting butthurt.
People on the left have lost all sense of humor which is why they can’t seem to understand how to make memes. They try and fail miserably. It is truly the American dark ages from the cultural left. Thankfully the right has a much more fun sense of humor.
Younger generations? Maybe it's just the politically correct SJWs in those younger generations that doesn't understand sarcasm. I'm of the current young generation that uses sarcasm a lot and so did the rest peers in high school. Depends on where you live I guess.
@@jaspermcminnis5538 Sure, you get sarcasm, rriiiggghhhhttt.
This film is ahead of its time, it predicted our present time!!
Roses are red, it's hot as hell
Maze bean
Not gonna lie, I'm a bit disappointed that Sargon didn't remark on Huxley obviously being named after Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. Maybe it was just really low-hanging fruit, but it seems like somewhat of a major oversight.
The most direct reference being Sandra Bullock's character, lieutenant Huxley.
@@red-stapler574 Not only that, but her full name is Lenina Huxley. Lenina is the name of the girl in the Brave New World. Stallone's character also has a lot of similarities with the "Savage", who is brought to the sterile "Brave New World", but cannot adapt to life within it.
@@TiminTende Whoa, I don't think I ever even realized that that was her first name! Great.
They reference it in the commentary track on the dvd
The police chief wears the Heinrich Himmler glasses
Kinda favor him to lol
I too was frozen in the 90s and am uncomfortable with the changes that have taken place.
Just watched the film. A crucial line from Cocteau - “The dead are dead and cannot affect the living” (something like that) This could allude to the placement of all society’s faith in science and an abandonment of the past. Also incredible how Huxley actually mentions that the spread of disease has resulted in major changes in human behavior. Mind blowing in the age of Covid. Thanks for the thought provoking content
Me and my dad watched Demolition Man after we watched this on bitchute, the movie itself is on hulu. It's scary how similar the movie is to our world today. Awesome video Sargon.
I got 20 minutes into Sargon's bitchute vid, and went straight to Hulu to watch it the movie...
...I just couldn't help myself
Your dad's cool man
Btw, Merry Christmas!
I was thrilled to see this video. I am 59 and saw the movie when it first came out. I have watched countless times since. It is amazing. My sister LOVED Wesley Snipes as Simon Phoenix. She would laugh whenever she was reminded of him.’
My dad and I.
I miss Dennis Leary’s rants about indulgence. They were downright poetic.
Leary was a hack, he was friends with Bill Hicks but ripped off a shit-ton of his bits- even as Hicks was succumbing to cancer. I enjoyed his rants a bit too- until I saw the one that got cut out of Natural Born Killers... and then recently I watched a few side by sides of material he released on comedy specials shortly after Hicks, anyway... you can tell a lot of his ideas and even his delivery came second hand.
Bill Hicks did it first and better.
@@missl9623 really? his rants lead me to think the other way
@@DisKorruptd He supported Hillary during the 2016 election
@@UltraGalaxyify didn't know that, interesting, doesn't change my opinion of him as a comedian though
Definetly Sargon's Second best work. Right after "The Politics of Starship Troopers"
JPG he should do gattaca aka the end of sjw
Hits too close to home with our current situation.
I guess now when I cannot convince "security and tolerance" totalitarians on the internet I can always cut off with "OK Dr Cocteau", leaving them wondering what that comment even meant.
Thanks for reminding me of Demolition Man. I almost forgot that movie somehow.
Nice! I will adopt that terminology! Thanks!
I literally rewatched this 3 weeks ago. It's a reminder of what they want and I get pissed at certain parts of the film. The violence is the only thing that I don't rage against.
Ah Another copyright victory for Sargon the Conqueror
Demolition man was truly a satire if you paid close attention (or we're educated in the purpose of a satire itself.) This movie, especially the scene where Phoenix is approached by "Protect and Serve", exposes the stupidity of where society is heading. In that one scene the extreme liberal and socialist values led to a police force with no power to combat societies harsh offenders. With no system of checks and balanced in place (a police force) one violent offender man took out an entire pacifist police force on his own. Strength in numbers is not enough; you have to have resources to equally combat those whom look to take advantage of society. This whole movie keys in on a very important reality. Resources must be committed to upholding a higher moral standard. If not the lowest common denominator can destroy everything of the whole and ruin it for everyone in the process. Sometimes you have to fight power with power.
Be nice until it's time to not be nice-Dalton Roadhouse
They were completely unaware of the knowledge and skills Phoenix was given in the cryo prison. They thought they were facing a ordinary citizen.
Just found this...wow, this is scary true..
"True Cocteauism has never existed." Lol
Lmboooo
It is now Schwabism
I literally scrolled to this comment for the first time just as Sargon said it. 🧐
I love it.
When I watched this movie it was well understood that Cocteau was the bad guy. I never thought I'd become an Edgar Friendly sympathizer to this degree though.
This video is criminally underrated. Awesome job.
2020: Sounds like a mix of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos
2021: the triumvirate of Twitter, Bezos, and Biden.
Cocteau's biggest mistake was that he was relying on a human to solve his problems instead of using all that technology to create a swarm of semi-autonomous drones with stun guns to patrol the tunnels and use against scraps.
Guessing in his mind that wouldn't send a message to anyone who would defy him. He wants to crush the scaps to fully establish his new world order and I'm guessing he felt like a machine wouldn't cut it.
that plan sounds like how you create a rouge servitor civilization from stellaris basically a indulgent civilzation creates machines to catter to there every whim retrating more and more from society till the point they willingly hand all control over to the machines which united into one networked being whos only purpose is to cater to every whim of organic life gaing the idea that this is the one true way to utopia and that orgaincs cant be trusted to lead themselves as it only leads to suffering so they take to the stars to bring all organic life under there care. of course there two diffrent paths if that is a actual utopia or a terryfing dystopia it all depends if the machines are smart enough to qualify social interaction and mental health as"needs" if not its a painting a smile on your soul heck on earth
@@wilmagregg3131 yeah it also depends on catering to all citizens needs. like a utopia that has great food, beautiful women, fun parties and all that, would be the darkest hell to an opiate addict if there were no drugs to abuse. Add in the morphine and it would be a paradise to that person too. Another guy might just want farmland and to be left alone.
To quote Mike Tyson - Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
You mean mouff
@@FUKNOOB What did you say?, i have trouble hearing since someone bite it off
A future I can't decide for myself is a future I don't want to live in. I want a future where we actually have self reliance rather than rely on a big brother government. the right to defend myself by owning a gun. the right to say whatever I want without consequence the right to choose my own fate. This is what aspiring socialists hate the individual who thinks for himself
@Thats Illogical Hard man on a keyboard, wouldn't say that to Mike's face. Little bitch.
@@Euphoriasmotion2011 Too true.
This feels really relevant at the moment. This is how I see the Post-Covid world after The Great Reset
this is actually scary, think how movies like this set in the future things from them have come true.
Arnie being governor, who the fu** predicted that!
Arnold always had an interest in politics. He talks about it in his autobiography. Him and Stallone were friends so Stallone probably knew about this interest. Plus Arnold had married a Kennedy.
They're educated guesses and assumptions due to trends
And now "Caitlyn" Jenner wants to be governor...
@richard
And there are "Rightists" who are amenable to it.
What a boring society, I'd join Edgar Friendly in the sewers anytime.
Same here.
@Paulie’s Walnutz Ratburger for the win!
I wanted to live in the sewer ever since I saw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Give me a ratburger with plenty of cheese
I like society too much, so I think I'll stay above ground. But if you guys need a collaborator ....
Chilling how this film is becoming more and more of a reality...
No it hasn't...
@@porpoisepork well currently theres riots across the usa tearing down every statue in site people are demanding the police be abolished and there automus zones arising across the country and its all being done in the name of a idealogy nearly the same as cocktos social justice so yeah it kinda is just its not the whole world collapsing like it did in demolition man
@@porpoisepork this is surely to god sarcasm
@@porpoisepork where the hell have you been?
@@porpoisepork Yes it is. i.e. Fauci has already opt for prohibition of indoor-eating and theaters.
Funny how demolition man in 1993 predicted what its like living in EU at 2024
My thoughts:
After comming back to this video a second time, it’s more relevant than ever, MOAR MOVIE SYNOPSISES
Great review. The critics disliked this film because they identify with Cocteau and the dystopia he created
The film actually isn't very good. The ideas are fantastic, but the execution is lazy. The dialogue is absolutely cringe at times and at others it just doesn't make any sense. The film could have been a lot better, but it wasn't directed by someone with much experience at all, clearly. Still, it's utility is tangeable.
Sargon's critiques are not on its film techniques or its execution, but rather it's politics. Unfortunately, films can't always ride on their ideas.
Fuck that. This movie was fantastic. Loved the whole thing when I first watched it and I've watched it hundreds of times. The action sequences were peak for it's time, and the technological ideas were on par for star trek level forward thinking.
@@Wilantonjakov yes the lines are a bit cheesy I admit that but that's its charm and I'm perfectly believe the critics were 100% dead wrong about the movie instead of focusing on the philosophy of the movie they focused more on the explosions so stupid
@@redseagaming7832 have you seen Gattaca? It doesn't hinge itself on the politics so much but the scriptwriting, acting and directing are superb. If Demolition Man had Gattaca's sense of quality, I would love it. Quite similar settingsz those two films, just very different execution.
@@Wilantonjakov never heard of Gattaca my dad said it sucked
Only thing they got wrong is the continued existence of STRAWS.
And smartphones.
@@matthew8153 True!
One of sargons finest work on yt. The production, music, analysis, relevance is a beautiful fit.
I loved this movie as a kid in the 90s. I never dreamed this could one day come close to being a reality. The movie was cartoonish in the 90s bc nobody conceived that this kind of world was possible. Now in 2022 this type of control seems like it is just around the corner if not already arrived in some places.
Better to die free than live forever in conformity
To bad millions upon millions of people would rather live meaningless lives as weak, pathetic drones, too scared to risk being an individual for fear of potential failure.
@@dash4800 its part of being human to fail and get up stronger or wiser. To fear failure is normal but must be overcome to grow as a human.
@SoMuchFacepalm They're both equally stupid.
@SoMuchFacepalm Considering libertarianism adheres to the non-aggression principle; your comment is a strawman of the flimsiest kind.
@@dash4800 I wouldn't be sad about this, if, through the scourge of democracy, they wouldn't impose their bee hive rules on those few of us with actual minds of our own.
They want to live like cattle. Everything provided for them, all exactly alike, no unexpected risks ever, sitting shackled in their little boxes, fed and milked by their owners. The Bernie Sanders vision.
“When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise the original rights of self defense - to fight the government.” - Thomas Jefferson
"Civilization is naught but the domestication of man. Better for him to be a wild beast such is the Lion, than any that dwelleth upon the farm." - Anonymous
And upon its conclusion throw a party like the White house has not seen since Jefferson
@@GAndreC You mean Jackson.
Still one of the best videos you ever did
This is simply dangerous freedom vs safe slavery. Its a genius representative of it.
Hey Sargon ive enjoyed your content for years.I think this is your best video and the format suits you well. Great writing and narration and loved the Cyberpunk style animation gfx and cool synthwave music
magnetic productions Thanks for the love, Merry Christmas!
Yeah, kudos on the music choice in particular.
SUITS😆
I need to send a copy of this movie to my uni aged daughter... Id forgotten completely about it, and now it is oh so spot on relevant. Even better than Idiocracy!
Thanks for the great analysis, Dude.
Just send her this video
This movie is basically a world ruled by technocracy and fascism. A world we're unironically heading towards.
I call it spreadsheet authoritarianism
At least they know who is the founder of it. We don't. It seems to be coming from every angle with nobody to stop it. I bet uncle Klaus is only a patsy for us to focus on.
5:34 I'm getting SCP horror vibes and I both love and hate it. lol The production in this was top notch, Sargon.
Always loved that Jesse Ventura is the one to kill Cocteau
27:29
I consider that a conspiracy theory. 😏
When a movie critic disapproves of a movie, I typically can't wait to see it.
Over the course of 40 years, I've learned that movie critics are so disconnected from their own human nature, through a process I can not yet fathom, that they're incapable of forming opinions of movies that can relate to the enjoyment of the average person.
The profession, you see, through a process I don't understand, has become a complete paradox. Their reviews are supposed to be a guidepost for moviegoers to determine what will be enjoyable films. However they have become the exact opposite.
It is only the most conformist, unthinking individuals who are deceived by this. Typically, it is the case of such viewers to assume that if the critics like it, but they do not, it is because the critic knows best.
Absolutely. Critics are typically soy boy fascists. They hate themselves and their betters of the middle class.
@@Orson2u Middle class is the enemy, it is under attack in all forms. UBI is going to be the it's final blow.
True and True. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I say the same about most journalists.
What a brilliant commentary. Extremely well presented.