A Look at the Background of Demolition Man

[@comentedonakeyboard]

Stalone being out of step with all the other actors helps Spartan being out of step with all the other characters

[@rwg6357]

It feels kinda natural, Spartan Knows what he's dealing with in Phoenix and everything is Alien to him , so you don't really notice it until its pointed out

[@KamikazKid]

It's insane that this movie came out so coherent & prophetic with so many changes to actors, scripts, and scenes.

[@kevinramsey417]

Correction on Die Hard, while Alan Rickman was English, his character, the villainous Hans Gruber was in fact German.

[@kubrickenigma7977]

"deddinadors"

[@FromMyBrain]

He should be on TV with that accent.

[@OfficialRedTeamReview]

I'm glad the algorithm decided to be kind to me today and alert me of this video. I loved this movie as a kid. Thanks for this!

[@Kindred192]

Same! I haven't seen a SFDebris recommended in a long time. So happy to see this in my recommendations!

[@PsiCorps85]

I also got my first notification of sfdebris' video today for IDK how many years. Had to re-sub though, the site's glorious robot decided to pretend the right to unsub me -- even though I know I subscribed to this channel even before my ex-wife & I started dating back in 2009.

[@myriadmediamusings]

It’s a movie that I think hits harder today, but to me it’ll always be that movie that has Stallone eating at a Taco Bell or Pizza Hutt depending on which version you’re watching.

[@KairuHakubi]

so did they actually edit the signs or whatever in the foreign release? is he sitting there eating tacos behind a pizza hut sign? EDIT: Oh I see the restaurants are all taco bell branded, but they serve different food.

[@Kuikkamies]

They did change 'em.

[@hariman7727]

I think Demolition Man shows a world with more dignity and sanity than modern day... and yet it's still very accurate.

[@KairuHakubi]

@@hariman7727 in the same sense that an island with a single guy on it has extremely low crime.

[@hariman7727]

@@KairuHakubi there's less drag queens dancing with children in the movie.

[@jamesabernethy7896]

Great background video. This was a time when VHS was still in full swing and I owned this, The Specialist, Cliffhanger and Judge Dread. This is the only one that I would consider a classic, but the others are all entertaining.

[@ghjong001]

Thirty years later, and I still don't know how to use the three seashells...

[@Maniac536]

Watch the review and maybe you will…maybe

[@oddish4352]

Based on information from the book, I have a pretty good idea how the seashells probably work.

[@katherinealvarez9216]

​@@oddish4352Really? They explained it or was it mentioned?

[@oddish4352]

@@katherinealvarez9216 Well, given that Cocteau had a whole department dedicated to sanitation, it would have to be touch-free, like handshakes, high fives, and sex. Also, Spartan admitted at the end that it was much better than toilet paper. So, the most likely theory it that the seashells hide buttons, which are pressed in sequence. The first one sprays your business end with warm water, cleaning you up. The second hits you with hot air, like those dryers in public johns. And the third gives you a dose of powder, because you probably sweat a lot in those kimonos.

[@katherinealvarez9216]

@@oddish4352 huh.

[@Maniac536]

This is my favorite Stallone movie. There I said it. I freaking love this movie. Snipes is great, LEARY is great, Sandra B is great! The atmosphere they built has a lot of care and logic put into it, which is a billion times more than I can say about a flick like “The Quiet Place”. This is a great film.

[@-xirx-]

Cobra is great too, but for very different reasons. Scissored pizza anyone? 😂

[@KnightRaymund]

This movie is great. But so is Last Action Hero.

[@john1701q]

As soon as I Heard Stuart Baird, Star Trek Nemeshit popped into my head.

[@CMVBrielman]

5:07 That sounds amazing. I’m assuming from the title that its traveling in a tunnel along the ocean floor (or near enough to it).

[@NickJohnCoop]

In Australia the line was still " Taco Bell! " ,which is bizarre because Australia didn't have TBs at the time but we did have Pizza Huts.

[@Thraim.]

I love this movie unironically. Just good fun.

[@andywood6376]

Great film Chuck.

[@jakobthedragonboy]

I love the idea that Arnold tricked Stalone into "stop or my mom will shot" only to have his self indulgent (but still fun in my opinion) Action comedy movie to be across the board lesser then this movie, especially after the scene with the Stalone terminator joke in "Last Action Hero".

[@kubrickenigma7977]

I have tried the three seashells. It's as distopian as you'd imagine.

[@white-dragon4424]

I like how Hawthorne wasn't taken in by Stallone's star status, that he was just another human to him. As a result, he was honestly critical of the actor's faults.

[@florinivan6907]

The mutual dislike ironically works to the movies benefit. Cocteau seems legitimately annoyed at those 'barbarians' because the real life actor was annoyed.

[@Goatcha_M]

Getting so many movie recommendations from this episode. And hardly any of them are available to stream in Australia, sigh. At least not included in the subscription anyway. Little reflection needed on how I would previously think nothing of renting a a dozen videos for a week, but am not willing to pay extra now as I am already paying for Netflix, Disney, KZbin and Prime.

[@akshaytrayner1960]

Great review

[@DasKame]

I love this movie! Great Background Video like the Highlander Video

[@bradwolf07]

This is one of my favorite 90's films. I didn't know much of the background, so I'm looking forward to this Edit: The Mention of Oscar...I liked that film. I get why it flopped, but it was still a fun one to me

[@Nitero_]

this is so awesome. As always, fantastic.

[@-xirx-]

Finally, something i love and can get my teeth into. Cheers

[@CanuckWolfman]

Every time I hear the title *Last Action Hero,* I do an impression of Charles Dance bellowing about having shot somebody as if I were a salivating dog that just heard a bell.

[@AFMountaineer2000]

Out of everything I expected to learn, HHH being in a movie called The Chaperone was not one of them.

[@PsiCorps85]

21:49 "overtime & over budget", that phrase makes me think of research in Sword of the Stars.

[@kerbal666]

One thing I want to add about the Taco Bell and Pizza Hut thing was when I watched it in the UK VHS it was Taco Bell I had to ask my Dad who had not long been back from a trip to the US what it was. So I never knew about the change until the internet days. To note we had our first Taco Bell (with this films inspired brand symbol in tow) open in my city of Brighton just a few years ago. I do now finally understand all those Taco Bell memes!

[@davido.1233]

Why does the picture for the train cop movie look like it was ripped directly from Timothy Zahn's book "Night Train to Rigel"?

[@hariman7727]

It might have been a deliberate cover spoof.

[@timpaich2074]

It is cut out in Demolition Man when Sylvester Stallone fights Jesse Ventura. There are scenes cut out with CryoCon henchmen killed or incapacitated.

[@Caernath]

I have heard and read about many instances of method acting, which mostly end up with the method actor looking and acting like an asshole. That there's a counterpart of this with the Meisner technique, was however completely new information for me.

[@KnightRaymund]

indeed

[@SuperSaiyanGuyver]

Stallone's playing type MAKES the film like Leslie Nielson's makes Airplane! If he was in on the joke it'd be less funny by way of contrast.

[@KainGerc]

to be fair, as someone who grew up in the 90s in Europe, I wouldn't know what Taco Bell was and probably would have thought it was made up for the movie. Still never tried it, but I do know it exists.

[@TheRezro]

I know sea shell thing was a joke. But it would be safe to assume that those are just buttons activating functions of automatic toilet.

[@ArrozMisto]

Dude, do you have a podcast?

[@adammagoon8942]

What's your boggle?

[@AmIsraelChai4Trump]

Oh man. Here we go.

[@franohmsford7548]

Last Action Hero was ahead of its time, if it had come out just a couple of years later it would have been much bigger. Demolition Man was spot on of its time in that late early 90s terror of what was going on in LA at the time.....Predator 2 was just one more of a whole slew of movies that premised LA being a warzone in the near future. Then you also have the Beverley Hills Cop/Die Hard/Lethal Weapon tri-fecta of LA set Cop movies with leads that take no prisoners. Demolition Man's premise doesn't actually work half as well without that early 90s pessimism about LA's future and the idea that someone like Cocteau could take LA today and turn it into San Angeles within 40 years is ludicrous but didn't feel like it was when Demolition Man released. Demolition Man doesn't work in 97 when Face/Off/Con Air/The Rock/Air Force One are the big Action movies! Last Action Hero would absolutely have worked in 97 but didn't work in 93. - Oh, talking of Stallone wanting to set it 20 years in the future rather than 40 - That was a DUMB idea! Yes Brazil built their new capital in just four years but good grief - Rebuilding the entire Southland after an Earthquake into a Utopian Metropolis is a LONG-TERM project!

[@TheJamieRamone]

25:31 - Bruh, Taco Bell STILL isn't well known outside of the U.S. TODAY.

[@stryke-jn3kv]

I think it's only known outside of the US as a way to mock yanks that their diet is so bad the reason why Taco Bell gives them the shits is because that's the only thing they eat with actual nutrients in it

[@lynngreen7978]

I love Oscar. And Last Action Hero. And I really want the LeVar Burton Star Trek 10.

[@PassiveSmoking]

I'm in the UK, and when I saw this, the winner of the Franchise Wars was Taco Bell, at least that's what I remember it as.

[@DirtyDemon917]

It was directed by vaders stuntman?

[@horatioswrld]

All they had to do is cut from him saying it to a slower pan to the scene while doing the voice over

[@otaking3582]

I suddenly want some Taco Bell...

[@sugarfrosted2005]

Dodged a bullet wrt to Stephen Segal

[@Belzediel]

So, the image you put up to show Hollywood preferring English actors to be villains is of Donald Pleasence, an actor known at least as much for playing good guys as bad, in You Only Live Twice, which is an English movie, not Hollywood. Following that up with four examples, three of which ARE English, but REG is African. Was that a very long day, Chuck?

[@dendostar5436]

Thrill me.

[@Parapon3ra]

Controlled Demolition Man. Truth is stranger than fiction, though not as entertaining.

[@1701EarlGrey]

Ah, Demolition Man - one of the often overlooked 90's classic. Too bad that we now more or less live in Demolition Man's future; dystopian, politically correct word, when things will be censored just to protect feelings of oversensitive people...

[@hariman7727]

...In all fairness, "Stop or my mom will shoot!" IS a pretty funny movie. Stupid, but funny.

[@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm]

I just point out that this is considered the only good non-franchise movie of Stallone. Everything else is mediocre to bad.

[@lexington476]

Or else.