Demolition Man - re:View

[@owiseone1]

In the overseas version of this re:View they're eating pizza hut

[@byz88]

I'm in the UK and I can confirm that they are in fact eating pizza hut.

[@Abdalillahi]

In Denmark we got the Taco Bell one. We dont have Pizza Hut or Taco Bell, or we didnt.

[@swanpride]

In Germany it's Pizza Hut, too. I always assumed that this is because nobody in Germany would have had any idea what Taco Bell is, while Pizza Hut was trying to break into the market around that time.

[@swanpride]

Not of you are European. Because then you have no idea what Taco Bell even is (unless you spend a lot of time studying American pop culture on the internet).

[@swanpride]

Sure, but it also meant to be a joke and if you don't know that Taco Bell is some sort of fast food restaurant you don't get why the character acts so confused about the notion to get invited to taco bell. You get the joke if you replace Taco Bell with Pizza Hut, though. Like, the first time I watched Ant-man I was totally confused by the "I take whatever is hot and fresh" joke because I had no idea what Baskin Robins is.

[@mutantmacrophage6653]

Demolition Man was blatant with the Taco Bell advertising but they could get away with it because it was completely acceptable as part of their comically dystopian worldbuilding.

[@SnakesAndFunerals]

A year later, Wayne's World would show them how to do product placement correctly.

[@SnakesAndFunerals]

I'm not goint to lie, man: the 90's were kind of a blur for me...

[@AlekseyevK]

I let it slide because it was played for laughs and successfully so. Product placement is not inherently bad, it's only bad if it distracts from the film or feels out of place. The Taco Bell thing was not clumsy, it fit perfectly with the future parody tone of the movie

[@lagg1e]

I am european and in the 90s I knew Pizza Hut existed. I found out taco bell was a thing when I started hearing english podcast like material in like 2008. The general public probably still doesn't know Taco Bell exists.

[@SnakesAndFunerals]

lagg1e, count yourself lucky. Taco Bell barely qualifies as food, much less as Mexican food.

[@6x6Majin]

Fun Fact: Demolition Man is the reason why the Taco Bell logo we know today looks the way it does. Taco Bell corporate liked the Taco Bell logo in Demolition Man so much that they redesigned the official logo in a similar style. The more you know!

[@ezekielglenn5009]

You are correct sir ha ha ha.

[@luiginastro8831]

Cool!

[@Biodeamon]

life imitates art

[@crozanegovult4526]

"it feels like the whole world is LA and everything else is gone" that's it, that's the LA mindset

[@-inputoutput]

thats the mindset

[@MajorLucious]

@@-inputoutput you clearly haven't been to LA. I'm here now, and I refuse to believe you exist

[@Belgand]

New York as well. At least San Francisco and Boston acknowledge the outside because we're busy hating LA and NY, respectively.

[@JonSmith-cx7gr]

Almost like being in the head of Joe Rogans comedian buddies..... Discuss:

[@MiguelJimenez-uc3yz]

Well if you lived in LA you'd understand. Lol

[@jrobertlysaght]

And the brilliance of the three sea shells is that they never ruin it by explaining what they do. ever.

[@frankmerker630]

Disney is planning a spinoff detailing the background and origin of the seashells

[@hermanthetosser4219]

It's gotta be some water squirt thing

[@zigzera7757]

3 shells 3 words scrap cleanse rinse

[@cornbredx]

The director explained it. One is for scooping and the other two are for grabbing.

[@XMrxScratchx]

I remember watching a cut of this movie on TV when I was a kid and Sandra Bullock explains the three seashells. The first is for the sides, the second is for the middle, and the last is for scraping up what the first two shells didn't get. The only explanation I can think of this is that I know TV stations make their own edits of films using assembly cuts so they can thematically edit in cuts to commercials.

[@ohfrickitsphil]

Jay's cameo proves that re:View takes place in the same universe as Half in the bag.

[@iamtrentwalker]

"What seems to be your boogle?" LOL. Love it! I'm the actor in "Demolition Man" that said those lines. One of my most favorite gigs! Love this video. You guys are awesome!

[@Tatertot01]

That was a wonderful and memorable scene. Great job!

[@ssjwes]

Dude that shit was great! Thanks

[@KingDonaldFirstofhisname]

How much do you weigh?

[@go_rilla262]

Hank of the Hill: Boggle?

[@voltron37]

dude thats awesome! I love saying that line to people.

[@Pooseman23]

The decapitation was foreshadowed in the very beginning of the film. Phoenix says, "I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached." and they zoomed in on Stallone's face as he says, "I'll keep that in mind" very dramatically.

[@storba3860]

Most of the movie roasts Taco Bell. In a world where flavor is banned, Taco Bell still exists. Think about it.

[@Tenems941]

And you need to clean up taco bell shits with only 3 sea shells

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

I hope you’re right.

[@ChocolateGiddy-Up]

I'm with Jack. If Stallone was anything but a big dumb action man, this movie would have been far different and far worse. Intentional or otherwise, Stallone was EXACTLY what he needed to be here.

[@17golfstar]

The ironic thing is...Stallone is far from dumb. He's incredibly articulate and intelligent. He plays dumb because thats what the roles require at the time.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

I think Rich's point was that it shouldn't have been Stallone at all. But I could be wrong.

[@trtx84]

What I'm hearing is we need a Demolition Man prequel all about the Franchise Wars. Perhaps a trilogy.

[@deusEXmachinaV42]

Taco Bell was supposed to bring balance to the franchises!

[@trtx84]

deusEXmachinaV42​ "YOU WERE THE CHORIZO ONE!"

[@youfoolwarrenisdead6400]

How would they ever finance that??

[@stumbling]

Yes, we need a prequel trilogy to explain the intricate details of the political jostling that created this situation. We could lighten the mood with a wacky character for the kids, but really he's the key to all of this.

[@Avocado11]

+MrKalashnik0va Unless the customer asks that it be changed.

[@yrenekurtz5268]

Calling Simon Phonix as "just one gangster" is a bit of an understatement, the implication is the he *is* the reason why LA was such a criminal hellhole in 1996, if I recall correctly its stated in the intro scene that he united all the gangs into an army and took over part of the city. Him being a ridiculously over-the-top supervillain is what makes the short time span for societal shift to sorta work, as the people would be sick and scared of that much mayhem and accepting of anybody promising to fix society so that it would never happen again.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

That's actually almost plausible. I still think they should have tacked on a couple of more decades of difference at any rate.

[@victorvonmagnum6270]

True, not to mention the fact that while Simon was frozen his brain was fed advanced training in hacking, terrorism and undoubtedly all matters martial, essentially turning him into a specialist in toppling societies and creating mayhem, while Mr. Man was brainwashed into being an avid knitter. Furthermore perhaps the population at large, apart from some individuals who later formed the rebelling faction, also received similar brainwashing to make them more receptive to the society Cocteau built? This movie would definitely have benefited from an extra 10-15 minutes of worldbuilding.

[@thesilliestclown]

1 8 7 M U R D E R D E A T H K I L L

[@DarthVader1977]

Phoenix*

[@jgmaurer31]

I call him the Black Joker. He really feels like he's channeling the Joker at some points.

[@VoeGrevioux]

Just about every other night I ride home from work and get taco bell because I'm too lazy to cook. Every night I get to my pc to check youtube for new vids to watch while I eat. 80 percent of the time I watch a RLM video, it's while I'm eating taco bell. Thanks, RLM, for putting my pathetic life into perspective. You're truly heroes.

[@russianspy5307]

Every other night, fam i'm not a healthy man but you need to lay off the fast food before your heart explodes

[@VoeGrevioux]

Funny enough, I'm actually in shape and I suppose it's due to the fact that I commute on a bicycle literally everywhere. Probably 10 miles a day average. so tired though... fuck.

[@VoeGrevioux]

well, to add insult to injury, I can't actually eat too much fiber. I have ulcerative colitis, so too much fiber and I'll usually just trigger a flare. For some reason, the taco bell doesn't seem to affect my uc all that much or else I would've stopped it ages ago. That or the meds I'm taking is working well. Either case, I definitely need to stop. Fucking expensive for that cheap processed shit. >_>

[@badtexture1062]

Yeah, it used to be Dunkin Donuts, but I'm in a similar position now. Those Taco Bell bastards took them down a few months ago, artillery cannons and drive-thru's are a brutal combo. If you can't beat em...

[@ravenlord4]

The joke's on Rich. It did only take 30 years for us to develop into a society without toilet paper, no-contact social interactions, and where Taco Bell rules the world (or at least rules weekends after midnight.)

[@DeandreSteven]

Goddamn!

[@the_bookof_joel2081]

Genius comment.

[@krenwregget7667]

Bravo

[@k_tess]

New Video title: Fat guy in hat is wrong about everything for 20min.

[@zackerycooper1206]

@@DeandreSteven you are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.

[@keefriff99]

This movie is actually pretty brilliant...it's a great social satire wrapped in a typical early-'90s action/sci-fi wrapper.

[@frankmerker630]

Only in retrospect. Contemporarily it was pretty silly at the time to the point of not to be taken seriously at all

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

have you seen Sargon's review? It's a great analysis, like his Starship Troopers one before it.

[@Aeradom2000]

@@frankmerker630 You know seeing this movie makes me wonder, has there ever been a movie to age this well? I mean, we've seen lots of movies nowadays that have aged poorly but this movie works FAR better today than it would have back on release to you point.

[@geoffkelly262]

It would be tolerable if Sandra Bullock wasn't in it.

[@zonastarwars4397]

@@frankmerker630 Nah it's because americans never get satire and need years to process it. Just look at their initial reaction to Starship Troopers

[@retrovirus61]

I disagree with the Taco Bell advertising criticism in Demolition Man. I thought it was funny at the time, maybe because it was still a novel concept, but I think it's less annoying when they make it so obvious and integrated into the world. It transcends simple brand recognition and becomes a satirical commentary on the watering down of culture and cuisine in this hypothetical future.

[@Axterix13]

It's also less intrusive because of the food the restaurant serves. Had they been serving actual Taco Bell food, it would have been harder to believe. But instead, because it is some fancy stuff, it just becomes one more silly thing (in a good way) in a fun movie.

[@dangerrose9955]

And the whole Franchise War concept that explained the set-up is still intriguing. Demolition Man needs a Prequel

[@noname_whatsoever]

Thread Bomb, I have just rewatched Demolition Man and thought the same thing. It also works well with the bit about jingles being popular retro music. In a way, it is a clever way to draw a comparison between our 'brutish' and their 'pure' reality. The status Taco Bell gained is ironic.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

What's even better is that the execs at Taco Bell loved this movie and thought it was hilarious.

[@infantiltinferno]

Worked in the EU cut as well, it didn't even register as product placement to me as a kid because it was so mocking and irreverent. I also associated the rise of blatant product placement more with Brosnan-era James Bond.

[@SirDupree]

I heard a rumor that Wesley Snipes loves the Joker and always wanted to play him. He realized he would never be the Joker, so he decided to play Simon as if he were playing the Joker.

[@SirDupree]

Simon Phoenix is a better version of the Joker than whatever Jared Leto was trying to accomplish. Keeping it white for white sake would make the next Batman worse if the decision was Snipes vs Leto.

[@SirDupree]

The Joker should only be played by someone who was born an actual clown.

[@CGPig]

and funnily enough, the idea for the new Joker was to make him more gangsta, it seems? at least that's what I can tell from the tattoos and teeth. on another note, it's kind of funny that because now everything on the internet is about "SJW cuckolds" vs "alt-right neo-nazis" the idea of a black person being an option for a clown character has to fall directly into this dumb "war" of "ideas".

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

That makes a lot of sense.

[@GeorgeMonet]

Wow we really missed out on a tremendous Joker!

[@mihkelnoot8465]

Wesley Snipes was amazing in this. A very underrated performance.

[@athenajaxon2397]

@JaX Madison honestly crazier things have happened I totally think he can make a comeback

[@numerical25]

Wesley Snipes screwed up his career with his tax evasion. He spent almost a decade in jail which I find ridiculous. But sadly it made him irrelevant .

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@@numerical25 I'd love to see him try to make a comeback at any rate.

[@EuroRhodes]

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine "Any rate" what's the rate for tax? I couldn't help, I saw your pun and I started cough-laughing.

[@mlgerab]

@@numerical25didn’t he just spend 28 months?

[@AzguardMike]

Stalone was tricked into "stop or my mom will shoot" Him and Arnie were in a rivalry and Arnie "leaked" he was gonna star in it, so Stallone did the film. And he hated Arnie for it

[@cornbredx]

Interesting. Estelle Getty was also tricked into doing that movie because she was not interested in doing an action film. Or maybe rather a film where she has to shoot a gun. I forget exactly. Something like that.

[@virgiljericho664]

Stallone later said that “It is the worst movie in the Solar System including alien movies we haven’t seen yet”

[@newdefsys]

2001 : Space Odyssey has egregious product placement. Pan-Am, IBM, Bell Phone, American Express, Hilton, General Motors & RCA, just to name a few.

[@GelatinousSSnake]

@@CountArtha Nah, it's product placement alright

[@CsykKrit]

@@GelatinousSSnake you really think Kubrick would do that? He would not.

[@shoopoop21]

@@CsykKrit he took the money, and famously regretted it, lol.

[@porsche911sbs]

@@GelatinousSSnake Product placement yes but not bad. It made the world more believable and immersive.

[@choreomaniac]

Same with Bladerunner. I don’t think the Taco Bell was bad product placement. If anything, it made Taco Bell the but of the joke. It was so unlikely for Stallone to go to Taco Bell for a celebration because it has a reputation for crappy did in the 1990s. They are playing off that.

[@CapitalFProductions]

The low point of Stallone'dom was the late 90's, early 2000's, not the early 90's. He still had Cliffhanger and Copland, but later on, it was Detox, Eye See You, and Get Carter

[@westonparker5940]

19:36 I love the backstory behind Stallone doing 'Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot.' Schwarzenegger was expressing interest in doing the movie, so Stallone jumped on to beat him to the punch. But it turns out, Schwarzenegger knew it was going to be shit and just bluffed to get Stallone to do it.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Yes,it shows that Schwarzenegger can be a very smart man.

[@lethalfumes]

Arnold is smart af

[@JoshForeman]

First blatant product placement I know of is Reeses Pieces in ET.

[@StarvingHamster]

Josh Foreman I distinctly remember a giant Marlboro truck in a Superman movie.

[@metalmugen]

James Bond movies

[@ericsilva4472]

Domino's & Pizza Hut in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 & 2

[@KneelB4Bacon]

For me, it was the first Superman movie, where Clark's mom puts a box of Cheerios right in the middle of the screen.

[@bertperkins7]

Coca Cola in Ghostbusters

[@SbsGrinth]

Love how Jay just walks in, "I want this" as if they're not rolling...

[@TheAustinWoolShow]

I love that Rich doesn't even flinch at Jay taking one of his tacos. Rich is an angel 😇

[@Jigsaw407]

Sandra Bullock was never hotter than in her uniform in this movie. But the movie is legendary awesome too!

[@Jigsaw407]

Nah, that was just awkward. Besides... clothed women are hotter than naked ones. It leaves more to the imagination, accentuates the figure in special ways and people look pretty much the same naked anyway. Cool outfits are the way to set themselves apart and to make women look especially hot. ;) Oh, I just realized that I admitted that I find women hot. Please everybody, don't sue me for being sexist and don't call the PC police! Mellow greetings!

[@masteriansun]

check your privilege you sexist misogynist...what's your boggle?

[@flippedoutkyrii]

Seeing Sandra Bullock in that dope outfit at a very young age made me utterly fascinated by women in uniform. Of course, all the satire at the time went over my head, I just loved the action, one liners, and of course, Sandra ;)

[@booates]

you are in violation of the verbal morality statutes

[@Gayestskijumpever]

Haha, looked for it, it was the first comment. Bravo sir

[@mavdj]

My favorite scene is when they are fighting in the museum, and Spartan swings a T.V. at Phoenix yelling, "You're on TV!!!" :v

[@SuperHns]

They also predicted that Arnold was governer of Cali LOL, and salt was forbidden, which is funny because in Mexico they did made salt forbidden in restaurants (sort of)

[@blakew.5736]

The cops listening to old commercial jingles was a Brave New World reference.

[@dalemartin9582]

Hey Rich remember Wesley Snipes character wasn't just some ordinary gangsta. No sir the character Wesley portraid had super gangsta abilities uploaded into him before he was thawed out.

[@Carakav]

I still want to know how those damn sea shells work.

[@streetracervti]

three sea shells its a toilet paper brand.

[@relaxingnature2617]

Scoop & scrape

[@GeorgeMonet]

They use them to scrape their butt. If the seashells were buttons then their use would have been too obvious simply from experimentation. Especially to someone living in LA. The fact that he had to ask what the point of the three seashells was meant that he had recognized that they weren't just decorations on the toilet.

[@fen4554]

The first two are used together to scoop the majority. The last one is used to scrap clean. In the future if your button isn't inflamed, you're doing it wrong.

[@AndrewCottingham-c4g]

Dude they’re public use too! Everyone in there is using the same seashells.

[@enhydralutra]

You know, it would have added an extra distopian element to that world had Stallone been awakened *after* his sentence was up. Way after. With the explanation being that they didn't think those "cavemen" in the prisons could be reintegrated into society because they were too violent, so they just kept them all there.

[@jamesjohnston1297]

That wouldn't be an extra element; that's a completely different movie.

[@mah5191]

the thing about Demolition Man is almost all of the things they throw in for craven commercial reasons actually kind of work in the context of the film, even Denis Leary doing his stand up routine. It's kind of brilliant if you view it from the lens of how 90s culture would imagine a relatively recent future.

[@JBrandonMercer123]

I don't think anybody was bothered by the Taco Bell stuff in Demolition Man.

[@plawson8577]

Nobody is. It’s Perfect. Just Right in its Product Placement.

[@michealkelly9441]

The most accurate science fiction film of the 20th century

[@UberNoodle]

Not really, unless in a facetious strawman kind of way. If this review had come out this year, I'm sure that the comments would be filled to the brim with snide remarks and emotive tirades about "wokism". But that's not what's being depicted in Demolition Man. What's being depicted is an authoritarian means of controlling the minds, thoughts and actions of society. It's not any different in its fundamental reasoning than the doublespeak, double think and Newspeak depicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four. And the motivation behind it has absolutely nothing to do with any current concept of political correctness let alone "wokism". In fact it's much closer to where the term political correctness came from, which was describing how authoritarian regimes, such as in the old USSR, Cultural Revolution China and Red Scare period America would police the citizenry for "thought crimes" against the approved political dogma of the government. Political correctness in the context of Demolition Man is just another way to achieve the same end while also convincing the citizenry that they are not oppressed. It is similar to how Fahrenheit 451 describes the gradual slide of its society into authoritarian oppression. The government preyed upon a citizenry that was anxious, angry, afraid and confused about the constant tension of an informational, intersectional, pluralist and multicultural world. In other words, there was a "culture war" and the government capitalised and leveraged those fears and attitudes to exert control over society to its own ends. In the case of Fahrenheit 451, it was through a similar outcome as Demolition Man, but ultimately it was indistinguishable from typical fascism.

[@keithbranes7890]

13:46 I RECOGNIZED JAY. I CLAPPED WHEN I SAW HIM!

[@averbalin]

He is something I KNOW

[@Fudz4]

IT BROKE NEW GROUUUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mynameismud1201]

VERY Cool!

[@Ink129]

I GOT THIS REFERENCE! THIS COMMENT WAS NOT A REFERENCE!

[@nickgiotis7841]

I know for me, for me personally, personally for me, very very cool. very cool. lol he doesn't know how to use the 3 seashells

[@philthethriller]

13:45 a wild jay appears

[@gwh3013]

You're mistaken, that's a Lesser Spotted Susan

[@stephencarroll4681]

We can only hope to capture some footage of its mating rituals

[@TransparentLabyrinth]

See how it reaches in and grabs a Taco, asserting its dominance. Meanwhile, the other mammals are unnmoved by its assertion of dominance; they stand their ground and continue their movie analysis ritual.

[@gregorio1580]

I was hearing this while drawing XD thanks for showing me that moment

[@LordNavala]

I kinda wish he would have just stood there, ate a taco, waved to the camera, smiled and walked off. Without a word.

[@Trifelivin]

Would love to see a re: Review of "The Last Action Hero"

[@anubusx]

Love that film.

[@ryandempsey4830]

I promise you they were. It was noted and criticized. I was there. I was 3000 years ago...

[@plawson8577]

@@anubusx Hated it.

[@Billchuck007]

I love how Jay just walks in and takes a taco halfway through lol

[@jeremypeterson705]

This is probably my favorite action-comedy. The cast is a perfect mix, the plot is engaging, and the setting is well executed. Love it.

[@TheBibleReloaded]

Are the 3 seashells replacing Re:View?

[@myself2noone]

TheUnremarkableMe Go watch his channel. He's already dead.

[@David_Axelord]

Damn it TBR, keep the formulaic meme comments on your own channel! Can't you see this video is spicy enough as it is?

[@criticalgeek9187]

Harold Penisman confirmed for lead role in Horse Ninja remake.

[@seanbirch]

Streisand effect!

[@petewadesays12]

Just Brad. That brilliant hero of mankind deserves his own RLM cameo appearance.

[@osbely]

If Sylvester Stallone can squeeze out one more Demolition Man, I can die moderately satisfied.

[@thomaswheeler5216]

Big thumbs up for Jack's Shut Up & Sit Down t-shirt!

[@BentDoorFrame]

Thomas Wheeler haha, I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I've been looking for someone else who comment on it. would love to play some analog games with these dudes.

[@AbsolutZer0-1C3]

I was looking for this comment!

[@jimbosphorus]

Searched and found.

[@zinkshecoat448]

The thing is... A lot of their issues with the movie can be summed up as "That's the point." Dennis Leary's character having rants that just sound like his standup, that's the point. Stallone being big bad action man in a future where everyone is a pacifist who don't know how to defend themselves, that's the point.

[@at0micl0bster]

“His stand up” ya mean Bill Hicks?

[@GeorgeMonet]

I was thinking the same thing! They completely missed the point!

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

So...what's your point?

[@XXXXXXXXXX-qy1fv]

That may be the point, but did those variables contribute to the best possible movie......nah.

[@mabusestestament]

@@at0micl0bster Bill Hicks wishes he had his energy! 🍻

[@subidmyman]

Jay coming in quietly and taking the Taco Bell 🌮 is simply hilarious 😂

[@Futuredynamo]

Regarding the Back to the Future / California Raisin thing... I've heard that commentary a few times. Rich doesn't get the story quite right here (I'm not trashing on Rich, just correcting the story). Universal made the deal with the California Raisin Board to feature raisins in the movie, with the promise that them being featured in BTTF would "do for raisins what E.T. did for Reese's Pieces." Both Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis were frustrated with this. Bob Gale is the one telling the story in the commentary. Part of the problem was that it wasn't for a specific brand of raisins (i.e. Sunmaid Raisins)... it was just raisins (think of it like the old "got milk?" commercials, which was never for a specific brand of milk like Deans or something). So it wasn't like they could show a box of raisins since it wasn't a brand specific deal. At one point it was suggested that they have a bowl of raisins next to the punch bowl at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance, but in the commentary, Bob Gale explains that on film "a bowl of raisins is going to look like a bowl of dirt." So when all was said and done, having the general "California Raisins" logo on the park bench was the result of the deal. While I'm sure having the bum laying on the bench didn't help, it really wasn't the bum specifically that upset them... it was the fact that simply having the logo on the bench at the end in no way, shape, or form came even remotely close to the promise of BTTF giving raisins the same level of attention and promotion as E.T. did with Reese's Pieces. It was at that point that the California Raisin Board got upset, wanting their money back and was otherwise ready to sue Universal. When Universal brought up the issue to Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, their response was basically that if they get involved in the dispute, they are going to testify in favor of the Raisin Board because it was a bad, ridiculous deal to begin with that had to realistic chance of giving them the kind of promotion they were looking for. So, the Board got their money back.

[@davhend]

You see, it's stories like this that make the magic of film and filmmaking all the more exciting.

[@MichieHoward]

One of my favorite Stallone flicks of all time.

[@gobisGalaxy_star]

For those of you too young to clearly remember the early 90's, I can tell you that nobody back then thought the hellish city-scape of 1996 as depicted in the film was terribly unrealistic. The Rodney King riots took place in the summer of 1992, probably during the filming of this movie.

[@siegfriedgottz698]

24 years later and not much has changed LOL

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

you say that like southern california has improved since then.

[@theknack101]

Fun fact. One of the earliest examples of product placement was in the 1961 film One, Two, Three. It was about a coke businessman in Berlin before the wall fell. But a bunch of executives on the film who represented Pepsi were unhappy that Coke basically got an entire movie of advertising. So the director threw in one instance of Pepsi in the movie. At the end, the main character is buying his family cokes from a coke machine. When he buys his own, a pepsi comes out and he grimaces at it. Then the movie ends.

[@stvbrsn]

I don’t know which is better. Jay just walking in and grabbing a taco... Or the fact that it goes completely unacknowledged.

[@FallenWolf64]

Definitely the fact that he went unacknowledged.

[@Alioon6]

Wait a second, Demolition Man was released in 1993. What the fuck guys?

[@andrewthorne3570]

Alioon6, You are fined one credit for violation of the verbal morality statute. Yes I scrolled all this way to find someone swearing to make that joke, God I'm bored

[@meangreen8873]

OH NO! +irvingcsaltzburg

[@Jumbleman5]

GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT

[@Alioon6]

In the beggining of the video they say few times that it was a 1991 movie and then later they do say 1993 but they never adress their error. I know it is a nitpick, but still it is weird that they would slip like that.

[@woot000]

Yeah, it's over 20 years old! Too outdated for *this* modern channel.

[@aaronedgerton1843]

It's a retelling of Brave New World. Love it!

[@Mr_Roboto]

Even Sandra Bullock's character is a Brave New World reference. Lenina Huxley: : Lenina (love interest-ish in BNW) and Huxley (Aldous Huxley wrote BNW)

[@philliptivis3082]

I went looking through the comments hoping someone else got the Brave New World reference.

[@rumble1925]

Who would have thought that demolition man would be the sci fi movie that most accurately predicted the 2020's

[@UberNoodle]

The thing is, I don't think it really does "predict the 2020s" in anything but a facetious strawman kind of way. If this review had come out this year, I'm sure that the comments would be filled to the brim with snide remarks and emotive tirades about "wokism". But that's not what's being depicted in Demolition Man. What's being depicted is an authoritarian means of controlling the minds, thoughts and actions of society. It's not any different in its fundamental reasoning than the doublespeak, double think and Newspeak depicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four. And the motivation behind it has absolutely nothing to do with any current concept of political correctness let alone "wokism". In fact it's much closer to where the term political correctness came from, which was describing how authoritarian regimes, such as in the old USSR, Cultural Revolution China and Red Scare period America would police the citizenry for "thought crimes" against the approved political dogma of the government. Political correctness in the context of Demolition Man is just another way to achieve the same end while also convincing the citizenry that they are not oppressed. It is similar to how Fahrenheit 451 describes the gradual slide of its society into authoritarian oppression. The government preyed upon a citizenry that was anxious, angry, afraid and confused about the constant tension of an informational, intersectional, pluralist and multicultural world. In other words, there was a "culture war" and the government capitalised and leveraged those fears and attitudes to exert control over society to its own ends. In the case of Fahrenheit 451, it was through a similar outcome as Demolition Man, but ultimately it was indistinguishable from typical fascism.

[@seid3366]

Very unfortunate

[@sillygoose4472]

The World Economic Forum did lmao

[@gaminginframes2819]

No, it was films like Cliffhanger and Demolition Man that brought Stallone out of his low point.

[@TheWitchfinderGenral]

It's a fair point. I was still regularly doing blackface as late as 2008.

[@Tylerdavasel]

Amazing. I just realized that this video was posted the day before my daughter was born, and THAT NIGHT my last meal before becoming a father was Taco Bell. What a special connection to RLM. I love you guys.

[@rars0n]

Is it just me, or does Demolition Man kinda feel like a Paul Verhoeven movie? At least in its sarcastic tone.

[@arizonaFIREent]

Adam Baldwin I definitely see the similarities

[@anubusx]

Very similar to Judge Dredd.

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

Only missing is a commercial of taco bell

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

i think that's what they were trying to go for.

[@lazyparadox4541]

I always thought this movie was about a world run by corporations, highly sanitized to please everybody and super generic, people listen to advertisements as music, Taco Bell, poor people displaced out of the view of the rich. To me that is what was being satirized a safe world brought to you by Corporations.

[@metalmugen]

I want a Franchise Wars movie

[@zaphael0]

There's a movie called "Foodfight" for that kind of thing, but it's a really awful movie.

[@anubusx]

Me to.

[@metalmugen]

@@zaphael0 fuck that noise

[@metalmugen]

@@anubusx apparently we are getting Demolition Man 2 so maybe the Franchise Wars lore will be explored further.

[@crazynormal2766]

I saw the tacos and instantly caught the refference. New subscriber who has this in the news feed. Love your takes on these movies.

[@philrobichaud3063]

I think the product placement works here because it's part of the story. It's when two characters are just randomly both drinking pepsi, with the logos on the cans perfectly positioned for the camera that gets me...

[@grone1778]

"I am very disappointed this dog is not a cat" - Rich reviewing Demolition Man

[@supermatt87]

100%

[@philipdiaz3010]

13:44 cameo by Jay!

[@LoN3wOlF5tudi0s]

I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!

[@Isendure]

I wish he ate that taco bell in front of the camera. That would release all that built-up sexual tension in the episode.

[@philipdiaz3010]

chipchipersonmdphd shouldn't read comments before you watch a vid, son. That's KZbin 101!

[@ericsilva4472]

I didn't even notice him

[@kurtiswilson6005]

the amount of sexual tension in this re:view is extraordinary

[@eukaryote-prime]

Kurtis Wilson Explains why they never mentioned how hot Sandra Bullock was in this movie...

[@37Kilo2]

Are they going to hunka chunka?

[@sagaswp]

Anyone else get the feeling those are the only tacos these two have ever eaten? And by tacos, I mean p*ssy. EH-YOOOOO!

[@TheRealCresteddrake]

Dexter White beep you are being cited for a verbal offense in the amount of 125.00 dollars :P

[@raul0ca]

I will never be able to watch Rich and Jack innocently swap joysticks again

[@Slappap]

seeing this movie as much as i have i have NEVER realized it was only 30 years i thought it was longer

[@ShadowSumac]

Demolition Man was a prophetic movie.

[@TheHawkeyeful]

@Jack Butler It's already begun

[@NewWorldCT]

Rich, you better watch out! That taco could make your severe diabetes flare up!

[@NewWorldCT]

Tomasz Urbaniak I personally LOVED my trip to the ER because of my low blood sugar!

[@Thorntonian]

Diabetus*

[@BFNgaming2024]

I was under the impression that it was his severe depression

[@Roboshi2007]

funny story, the whole salt thing may not actually be true, there's never been a full study of the effects of too much salt in your diet. We know that you will die if you eat a huge amount in one day but the evidence that too much salt over a continued period is spotty at best. It's one of those weird things where doctors just parrot this as it encourages the eating of fresher meals as salt is often an additive in the less healthy meals.

[@Caitlin_TheGreat]

Actually, Taco Bell tacos have very little sodium compared to almost any other fast food item. Meanwhile, burgers from McD's or BK are practically made of salt with meat flavoring. And because they the tacos are rather low in carbs and actual sugars, they're not so bad for die-a-bee-tees.

[@jdonner3272]

This movie is more relevant now than anyone could've ever guessed

[@xeractus]

Last Action Hero was also released in that year and hits the same action/parody stuff that Demolition Man did. I think it was better myself.

[@cdreyes81]

Last action was another awesome movie that seemed under appreciated but was brilliant

[@plawson8577]

LAH Sucked ass.

[@Madstsone]

The reason it's set only 40 years in the future is that there was a subplot about Stallone finding his daughter - which was deleted from the finished film.

[@R31DLA]

When John Spartan and Simon Phoenix first meet in the film's prologue Phoenix says "I swear, I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached" and Spartan responds "I'll keep that in mind" which of course is a stealth set-up to when he kicks his head off at the end.

[@DriftersDen]

I take issue with calling Simon Phoenix a regular gangster. He is a SUPER GANGSTER!

[@KainTepes]

This is hilarious in hindsight because Wendy's and Arby's has embraced the way of the waifu and the memes. Memes, Jack.

[@SefniVinalonn]

The DNA of the soul

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

KFC too now

[@startupcafedigital1503]

I'm a simple man. I see a new RedLetterMedia video, I press like.

[@semperludens9241]

16:26 The earliest movie that is confirmed to have product placement is Wings (1927). There might be even older movies that have deliberate product placement, but we don't have confirmation for a company paying for product placement earlier than Wings (1927).

[@increasegas2221]

one thing that is under appreciated is wesley's wardrobe, denim overalls and orange shirt, absolute perfection

[@NeilBulk]

Demolition Man opened on October 8, 1993, only a few months after the terrific Stallone film, Cliffhanger (that was May 1993). So the movie starts three years after it was released, not five. As for product placement, that was going on way before BTTF. Remember the box of Cheerios in Superman - The Movie? The Bond films also have lots of product placement in them. There was a random AMC car dealership in 1974's The Man With The Golden Gun.

[@frequencydecline5250]

Cliffhanger ...terrific...that might be the first time that has been said...

[@zephc]

BTTF movies had some pretty egregious product placement: Pepsi, Nike, Mattel, Pizza Hut, Black & Decker, The Weather Channel, Texaco, 7-Eleven, AT&T, etc

[@KasumiKenshirou]

And Superman II had someone get thrown into a giant Coca-Cola sign.

[@NeilBulk]

WalterLiddy I was responding to Rich's comment that he didn't remember product placement before Back to the Future (1985). I've been pointing out that there was product placement before that movie, and far more prominent.

[@kevinsmith8321]

First that came to my mind was Reece's pieces in E.T.

[@mrmusickhimself]

If real meat is illegal, then that explains why Taco Bell is THE restaurant in the future.

[@danliles4239]

FUN FACT: In the UK all Taco Bell moments were replaced with Pizza Hut branding. This is because Taco Bell had no presense in England until around 2013. EU hygene and nutrition laws prohibited Taco Bell from operating in Europe until recently.

[@danliles4239]

And now Rich just mentioned that, what timing.

[@russianspy5307]

I'm glad you watched the video before commenting

[@danliles4239]

You got me. But I did add aditional info.

[@neilland8209]

It was Taco Bell on UK VHS.

[@DanielAvelan]

Is commenting replacing watching the fucking video?

[@nessunamore]

At 2:52 Jack's argument made sense four years ago. I'm not so sure his premise holds up anymore.

[@essmene]

2:35 "when one gangmember enters the world ,they are unable to handle it" Later in the movie we find out that he also get extensive training about the world he was entering. It is more a highly trained psychopath enters the world.

[@MoeGravey]

watching this in 2023, this movie explains alot.

[@owiseone1]

Don't forget stallones 1991 movie Oscar when discussing his low point and the Pepsi free gag in back to the future in regards to earliest memorable product placements.

[@jasoncase9481]

Yes it's unbelievable Taco Bell became a fancy restaurant same as TGI Fridays, Olive Garden, Old Chicago, Applebees, Pizza Hut, and other restaurants that aren't fast food restaurants. McDonald's and Burger King it would have been believable if either of those 2 powerhouse fast food restaurants won the Franchise wars.

[@pepperdiao37]

Demolition Man is actually a Police song by Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland recorded in 1981.

[@WVUCE]

Now it's 2 AM, were in the middle of a fucking quarantine, and all I want is Taco Bell. Damn you Rich Evans

[@plumfun6750]

GREAT movie, and HIGHLY under rated! It was the first movie I saw where Wesley Snipes and I didn't think of him as "Wesley Snipes playing [insert character name]". In every other movie...he's Wesley Snipes playing a role. In this one, he was "Simon Phoenix, played by Wesley Snipes". Probably Wesley's BEST acting roll and performance *ever*.

[@HerrKlugscheisser]

More Jack and RIch please! Thanks!

[@oneopinion6806]

Good job guys! I can remember going to see Demoltion man in the theater with my mom, she wanted to see Stallone's ass. Can you believe the movie was rated R? I a couple of swear words in an otherwise almost bloodless action movie (with frozen head of course.) I could have sworn in my pre-teen mind I saw more of Sandra Bullock in the "sex" scene than I have seen in subsequent viewings as an adult. I have to say, the Taco Bell in Demolition man doesn't seem like much of an endorsement. The bemusement of Stallone at the fact that Taco Bell won, the odd haute cuisine? The movie seemed to push ratburgers, best damn burger Stallone had had in years. In addition, the sea shell conceit was the best! I love that they thought up a system for something so basic and made it just flat out as incomprehensible to the audience as it was to the main character. I also liked Stallone's solution!

[@jwbartle]

In the PAL release, they DID digitally edit all the Taco Bell signs into Pizza Hut ones. They even got the actors back in to re-record audio to dub over the original video.

[@jarret-phillipmarcel6520]

This movie is so spot on. People in the future singing short commericals reminds me of short 30 sec pieces of sped up music in TikTok vidz. They nailed it

[@ashlee6675]

people today act like the 90s dont exist

[@Wolfshifter]

Considering what has happened in only the last 5 years, I no longer agree with the sentiment that "such a change would need 200 years minimum."

[@dreamsof3dspace555]

I was pretty much gonna post the same thing. They seemed to have already gotten rid of things like due process (inherently individualistic concept) even in 1996 to have frozen John Spartan in the first place and I'm guessing it was already going downhill ideologically before the technocracy was installed so it's not such a big leap. I see us moving towards a similar kinda technocracy although at the same time it's getting a lot more chaotic like the movie depicts 1996, isn't it.

[@Wolfshifter]

@@dreamsof3dspace555 Glad to see others on the same wavelength and disheartened that it's so few. It is kind of right in our faces, isn't it?

[@dreamsof3dspace555]

@@Wolfshifter Yeah, I'm not gonna lie I'm kinda terrified. The Korean war was in the 1950's and they're in a way more extreme situation than San Angeles. 200 years is overshooting by miles. It can go Brave New World or 1984 and it can happen in increments or violent revolution but it's naïve to think it takes that long or even that it's impossible for us. That naivety is what allows it to happen and it seems to be the standard right now.

[@Wolfshifter]

@@dreamsof3dspace555 I’ve been in a weird zen state for the last month or so. All these things must come to pass and all that. The rubber band effect is real and the Fourth Turning book correctly correlates the patterns of the timeline for four generations to go through this cycle. I have hope. Like my dad pointed out to me. On 9/11, CNN posted a poll asking how many people would give up some freedoms for security. 10% said NO. A month later, they ran the same poll and 30% said NO. He said “This shows that in a crisis, only 1 in 10 people can keep their wits about them when those orchestrating a crisis seek to take advantage of them. A month later, only 2 join them. 10 years later, 2 more will join. 20 years and hopefully more than half will catch on.” I’ll carry that lesson forever and pass it on.

[@killerbee2562]

Jack and Rich are eating pizza hut in the European version of this review.

[@DijonStockpile]

I think Taco Bell being the last chain restaurant is more realistic than someone ever drinking a pepsi

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

but Taco Bell has exclusivity with Pepsi. they go hand in hand.

[@KindaGrump]

I like the Re:Views where you get the pairings that aren't seen very often. Jack and Rich, Josh and Jay, etc

[@artacusrex7461]

I want more Jack and Rich eating tacos videos.

[@millennialretcon8307]

Artacus Rex I was hoping for 21 minutes of taco eating without a single word about any movie.

[@Boreas74]

They post those over on Pornhub

[@FirstLast-ip9xy]

"Wendy's has got nothin'" Except objectively the best PR

[@Gorbgorbenson]

And the best (of the main fast food places) chicken

[@bepkororoti8019]

The timeline was probably chosen because Bullok's character was at one point meant to be Spartan's daughter... can you imagine the kind of awkward regarding the vr scene? 😂

[@randallbesch2424]

I think the isolation of the city-state of San Angles (Los Angeles, San Diego & Santa Barbara) and is cut off from National and International broadcasts by Dr. Cocteau.

[@markgrygielewicz8047]

Giant Logic Hole #1 isn't a hole, the term bend the knee can be applied to this, that people will change their behaviour to fit in through coming societal changes, this happens to many individuals that are in lower management positions...

[@MrBaliSongArt]

Most of the "Plot holes" they pointed out was basically them being unable to understand how world actually works and how close we actually are to this so called "Utopia".