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[@alphabotisreal]

I really like how in their future society cops use chatgpt to train them on-the-spot for whatever situation they arrive at, because they didn't do any prep work and spent the entire ride over listening exclusively to commercial jingles. 10/10 for realism.

[@EdBurke37]

"Demolition Man is thirty years old." Excuse me while I turn to dust.

[@henrikleppa7632]

🌬💨

[@earthgirdler23]

It was now some years ago that a mate pointed out that there is now more time passed between the PS2 and now, than time between the PS2 and the ZX Spectrum. That was my shit I'm old moment.

[@marcmcvey1844]

Would someone be so kind as to bring me my walker?

[@ByronLav]

that actually hurts

[@Kaiveran]

I'M LIKE THE CRYPTKEEPER!!

[@adamgreene187]

One of my favorite tidbits is that Wesley Snipes was SO FAST that they had to make him slow down his punches so they'd register on camera. The man does not get credit

[@NUFAN1313]

Snipes is one of my favorites.

[@chrisdavison2622]

Y'all aren't going to like this but Snipes was a menace on set. He threw a real kick at Stallone and Stallone had to threaten him. Snipes insisted on doing his own stunts and then they waited for him to leave and redid them all with stuntmen.

[@wesshiflet2214]

gotta get those impact frames

[@wesshiflet2214]

@@chrisdavison2622snipes menacing stallone sounds hilarious, why wouldn’t ppl like that

[@V4Now]

Same thing with Phantom Menace last Jedi fight. Too fast, so they slowed it down.

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

I cackled at the "This future is coming, and so are they" bit. Never a bad opportunity for a dad joke followed by the Full House theme instrumental! 🤣

[@absm00thMusic]

Same

[@Andrewism]

Thanks for the shout man!🙌🏽

[@Baddawg_313]

@Andrewism I just subbed to ya. Looking forward to seeing what you are talking about

[@zacharythomas8617]

If you do your own thesis on this movie, I will watch.

[@loverdeadly6128]

Will the Solarpunk future have the three seashells?

[@forivall]

I watched Face/off and Con Air recently, and they also don't have random homophobia. Surprisingly, con air has positive trans representation, which, if you know what trans representation was like in the 90s...

[@clementinedanger]

It's an interesting character! Sally Can't Dance probably refers to Sally Maggio by way of Lou Reed, so it does seem *very* intentionally inclusive. It's been too long since I've seen the movie to remember every character beat but I do remember feeling good about it at the time. And yeah, the times were... Yeah.

[@jackkingsby116]

I guess I have to watch Con Air

[@V4Now]

Trans? I though he was just straight up gay.🤷🏿‍♂️

[@clementinedanger]

@@V4Now Then why would they all refer to her as "she?"

[@GoldenPickaxe]

​@@clementinedangertaking the piss

[@weaselweasel6601]

Does unc know about the seashells?

[@brucel32]

I came to the comments just for this 😂

[@nickkoch6740]

He doesn’t know how to use the shells! 🤭

[@tiffanyhill-rice5126]

crying

[@ittybitty93]

That man walked around with a poopy butt the whole movie until he got brave enough to ask how to use the shells 😭

[@d2dar459]

The damn three seashells... 🐚💩

[@Man2quilla]

What a cool scene i was shown over on Nebula

[@OnYmOuSCommenter999]

Yea its cold over there in nebula. fr

[@clementinedanger]

So glad I decided to hop on Nebula, a chill platform that supports creators and beautiful explosions of 90s violence. What a good and surprisingly affordable treat a gave myself.

[@fernandorosales2789]

Wesley Snipes or his stunt double? I'm sure Snipes was very physically capable but he used a double for all the Blade movies.

[@wandervoltz]

Heck yeah! Hopped right on over to Nebula and wasn't disappointed at all. That scene was amazing.

[@BlackLemmy]

@@clementinedanger as long as they don't talk to much about palestine, that is...

[@tradrudeboy]

I watch Demolition Man and Judge Dredd back to back about once a year. It's like alcohol; I know it's poison, but the intoxication is alluring.

[@danielg.w5733]

Have you read the Judge Dredd comics? They are pretty good satire of fascism and policing

[@shoxx48]

​@@danielg.w5733 - 2000AD was a life saver for over imaginative kids back then

[@iaintjesus9399]

Thank you for reminding me to watch Judge Dredd

[@lowlowseesee]

hahahahaha i need to get JD.

[@kerry-j4m]

@@danielg.w5733 Of course,it's made by Brits. LOL.

[@jarvishollins2327]

Fun fact: Wesley Snipes role as Simon Phoenix was originally intended for Jackie Chan.

[@zeframmann1641]

I can't even fathom Chan as a villain, I've never wanted to peek into an alternate universe so bad.

[@haliphax-]

@@zeframmann1641 He refused to play "bad guys" anyway, so it never would have happened

[@michaelleoanrd194]

Being surprised he knows how to fight IS one of the things Jackie Chan does best.

[@dxsmachina]

I looked up that "Strong man, hard time, weak man" meme thing recently. The people who talked to me about it made it sound like it was ancient philosophy... it's from some apocalyptic book series from 2015. I don't suggest you look up the author, but I was not surprised to find that they were angry tweeting on X.

[@jon-cx7jq]

Seriously?? I thought it was some ancient Roman saying

[@budgetcommander4849]

@@jon-cx7jqAnyone who looks to ancient Rome for guidance knows nothing about it.

[@philskrzyn]

There is a much older quote by Voltaire about empires rising with wooden shoes and descending with silk slippers

[@clementinedanger]

@@philskrzyn Sounds fruity bro

[@bajscast]

@@philskrzyn Maybe, but these guys would hate Voltaire for being pro seperation of church and state, anti slavery, and his anti christian (catholic especially) sentiment. He was still racist tho

[@johnst3296]

One of my favorite lines Stallone has ever said " Huxley, hurting people's not a good thing....well sometimes it is ..but not when it's a bunch of hungry people trying to get some food!"

[@michaelleoanrd194]

Remer kids: if you see somebody stealing food, no you didn't.

[@sigil777music]

Have to say, that does NOT sound very “conservative” to me. Modern conservatives certainly don’t care about hungry or starving people. They only care that they don’t have to pay taxes to help feed any hungry or starving people. “Get a job!”

[@Seahawk210]

Demolition Man is great but Snipes best villain role is as Nino Brown in NJC

[@Mechanicallifts]

Lil’ Bill tryna get ahold of you, he just want to talk..

[@RadicalTrivia]

This is correct. Damn, crack.

[@clementinedanger]

God, they did Snipes so dirty. He deserved a better career and we deserved more movies from him.

[@NoodleMcGee]

​@@clementinedangerThe IRS owes us at least a half dozen movies.

[@clementinedanger]

@@NoodleMcGee I know bringing back old action stars is old itself by now but surely we can make an exception here? Snipes has range! He can act! Better than any of these 80s action grandpas anyway.

[@MassimoConnolli]

“Fuck… he’s a debate bro” I actually lol’d

[@clementinedanger]

I hardly ever laugh out loud, it happens maybe twice a year, and I skronked like a piggie.

[@rubberlover666]

Chris Leary??!!

[@awandererfromys1680]

Total Recall, Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, Johnny Mnemonic, Independence Day, Men in Black, Starship Troopers, etc., the nineties were a golden age of big budget b-movie schlock.

[@hailmuffins6934]

New Judge Dredd is very solid, too!

[@troutfish8590]

I would add Twister to that list. Not action scifi, but still prime 90’s schlock.

[@Based_Proletariat]

Don't forget Virtuosity with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.

[@jqk369]

U legit just listed all my go to movies! Love some 80s and 90s sci fi camp

[@awandererfromys1680]

@@troutfish8590 That's the ultimate nineties disaster movie. Eat your heart out, Emmerich!

[@kalka1l]

The answer is “A Note on Eugenics.” - Aldous Huxley, October 1927. I really enjoyed Brave New World when I was a kid, coming across that certainly reframed BNW for me.

[@melanieg.9092]

Only read a brave new world by him but I'm not surprised at the implications

[@kalka1l]

@@melanieg.9092 yeah the whole ‘nature would have killed the defective but humanitarians allowed them to survive’ was 😡 Orwell was different breed which is why his books get banned but Huxley’s don’t.

[@NickW855]

@@melanieg.9092 The man wrote a story where a regular guy woke up in a future where people just lie around having sex and doing drugs and thought "I'm in hell, better kill myself." He kind of told on himself right there that he hates free sex and dope.

[@uuneya]

@@NickW855 Don't forget the part where he engages in extreme relationship violence right before the latter.

[@MorbidEel]

Oof that is bad but what is worse is that I can easily see people nodding and agreeing with what is written there. Ironically those same nodding people would probably be classified as "inferior" by Huxley.

[@archieg2034]

“Chris Leary” IDK y I laughed harder at this than I should’ve lol

[@weaponxreject]

It fucked me up I had to actually Google it to make sure like naw, Chris?

[@tellumyort]

It’s funny because I knew it was wrong, but couldn’t remember his real first name, so I just assumed FD was right.

[@theUnconventionalGamer]

He said that and I had to stop and Google to make sure I wasn't losing my mind - I used to like Denis Leary's comedy back in my younger cringy days.

[@NUFAN1313]

​@@theUnconventionalGamerOMG, I just thought Dennis had an eerily similar looking brother. 💀

[@NoodleMcGee]

​@@theUnconventionalGamer Don't feel too bad, he was stealing some pretty decent stuff from Hicks back in those days.

[@clementinedanger]

Fun fact about Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot: it's never been definitively confirmed, but apparently Schwarzenegger and Stallone were extremely competitive around that time, constantly battling it out behind the scenes to be top dog of the action genre, trying to snatch up hot scripts, stealing each other's agents, just Hollywood nastiness. The scuttlebutt is that Schwarzenegger put the word out that he was going to do this amazing movie, everyone was buzzing about it, action comedy of the decade, until Stallone basically had no choice but to try and yank it out from under him sight unseen. Stop Or My Mom Will shoot was basically a prank Schwarzenegger pulled on Stallone. And we all know Schwarzenegger as the cuddly former action star now, the kind of Republican you wish Republicans would be if we absolutely have to have them, but if you've seen Pumping Iron (oh my god see Pumping Iron) you know he's just an incredible shithead, so I kind of believe it. Schwarzenegger says it's true anyway.

[@notarabbit1752]

there is some new stuff that's come out about Pumping Iron recently that basically claims almost everything in it was fiction. Including Arnolds behavior. The take is that he was intentionally playing the villain because he understood that it would make a better story.

[@clementinedanger]

@@notarabbit1752 Oh, for real? That's really interesting, and a huge relief if I'm honest. I never stopped feeling bad for poor André. Where's this news coming from? I'd love to know more.

[@notarabbit1752]

@@clementinedanger there have been a bunch of interviews with the guys that were in the film, especially with Lou Ferrigno talking about it. For example, Lou never actually trained with his father before. That was something the filmmakers asked them to do because the father/son team narrative would be good for the movie. A lot of the prank stuff and undermining was all staged for the film. Lou says that Arnold wasn't actually mean to him in reality and so on.

[@clementinedanger]

@@notarabbit1752 Ngl I'm a little bit pissed that I apparently fell for primitive reality TV foolishness but I'm glad to be wrong! (Also why did I say André when I meant Lou?) Producers are the true villains, my peace has been restored.

[@zucchinigreen]

I loved that movie as a 7 year old lol. Estelle Getty was funny af.

[@Anark]

Thanks man! I appreciate the shout out!

[@alisdraws]

There's also a lot of overlap between what pop media portrays as anarchists and like. Libertarians

[@Cdr2002]

@@alisdraws Ron Swanson

[@brianbenavidez2661]

@@Cdr2002 Ron Swanson was always supposed to be a spoof on Libertarians, as far as I'm aware.

[@Cdr2002]

@@brianbenavidez2661 oh I definitely agree but in doing so the overbearing “anti-government to the point of being counterproductive” stance highlights the crossover between what media thinks anarchists are like

[@ashthetic_art]

@@Cdr2002 on the one hand Ron Swanson is an unrealistic depiction of a libertarian because on the surface he's competent when it comes to "real man jobs" (carpentry, etc.). On the other hand Swanson hates the government but still stays at his government job, a character trait that really highlights the hypocritical cognitive dissonance that runs through modern libertarianism. (I might just be overthinking it)

[@Cdr2002]

@@ashthetic_art nah I think you’re hitting the nail on the head

[@matthewroberts6833]

Looking back at that movie I'm trying to figure out whose comedy routine aged worse in the last 30 years: Denis Leary or Chris Rock.

[@akshayde]

Rock is the better comedian and Leary is the better actor

[@whoopsiewalrus]

I liked the act Denis was doing better when it was being done by Bill Hicks, but even at the time people were tiring of the bit. Rock has to be the better choice

[@Hellyardsown]

​@@akshaydefacts

[@CitanulsPumpkin]

Literally every time I see someone make an argument where they use "wealthy" as a catch all term for everyone they don't like who is doing slightly better than them, or someone starts claiming some black actor or rapper is part of the "one percent," I pull up the old Chris Rock bit where he explains the difference between being rich and being wealthy. "Wealth is generational. You can't get rid of that shit. Rich? You can lose that with one weekend in Vegas. Wealth is forever." It's an old bit and Rock hasn't put out anything nearly as insightful in recent years, but it's still one of the more useful analytic tools/arguments when talking about the vast financial gulf between the average pro athlete and actual problems like Bezos and Musk.

[@TonyPesto]

Well Denis Leary was a libertarian a-hole back then and only more think like him now, so....

[@3gles006]

"Fuck he's a debatebro!!" Truly the worst outcome.

[@Cdr2002]

Talking about Stallone and Schwarzenegger with the same tone you talk about rappers is just kinda funny idk

[@DefaultName-du3kr]

Man I remember when Stallone tricked Arnold into taking a flop role because he let out a rumor that he was going to go for it before Arnold, so Arnold jumped on the script without much thought and fucking bombed.

[@Cdr2002]

@@DefaultName-du3kr did that actually happen? And was it Last Action Hero?

[@rikimaru700]

Everything about Stallone and Schwarzenegger is really interesting. Their careers, lives, and Even their documentaries are similar yet different

[@DefaultName-du3kr]

@@Cdr2002 It happened but I'm not sure what movie it was. They were both up for the same roles most of the time.

[@Cdr2002]

@@rikimaru700 I’ll have to do a deep dive one of these days but I see what you mean just based on their movies

[@gingergreek]

'We're hear to analyse and overthink' - This man is speaking my mother tongue! One of my favourite action films. I was a huge Snipes mark (still am) and this is one of his stand out roles (one night stand too as he plays just a normal leading man who has an affair). Just FYI the UK release still had Taco Bell. Seen the film a million times, this is the first I heard of the change.

[@moondog548]

haha.... little thing but.... FD: "I can't remember this white guy's name... uh... 'Chris' probably."

[@McDun07]

Was wondering if I should be *that* white guy (and Australian, at that!) in FD's comments going [nerd voice] "er, actually it's *Dennis* Leary, FD!"

[@TalentedAndHot]

this the first time i hadda pause one of your videos cause i didn’t get the reference, i feel young again 😭 #YoungerMillenial

[@Warder05]

You, of course, have taste. This is just further confirmation.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

But does he know how to use the seashells?

[@timorl]

The problem with "Brave New World" is that it's a representation of what conservatives think the left wants as a utopia. This is both the cause of the weird conservative undertones (e.g. the caricature of sex education) as well as why it seems so plausible - Huxley extrapolated successfully, but like many conservatives he apparently wasn't able/willing to distinguish between liberals and leftists, so the stuff he extrapolated from liberalism rings true, but the anti-left stuff is also there. I feel like I'm repeating some stuff you said about the movie, so I guess it was even more influenced by the book than you thought. :P

[@clementinedanger]

I really like this reading. Probably because after about two decades trying to figure out "what the left wants" (pretending for a second "the left" is some sort of hive mind and not 2000 colorful Warriors factions fighting each other more than the state) I think the best unified answer is "to fuck up on our own terms." Just let us cook. We're not going to create paradise probably but we'd like a shot at it. No harm in it. We tried it your way and look what you've done. Maybe let someone else have a go at this "society" thing.

[@TheAussieBlue]

What? Brave New World was a dystopia where we are killed by what we love. That is the STATED creation of the Author - how the pursuit of happiness destroyed us.

[@LAHFaust]

​@@TheAussieBlueDystopias have a tendency to be misread. Demolition Man is a perfect example of this.

[@anthonyrowland9072]

The movie works on so many levels. People just see it as a "Stallone movie".

[@otto_jk]

Every movie which prominently features Wesley Snipes is a Wesley Snipes movie

[@hieronymushieronymus8768]

Huxley and Orwell actually met up and discussed the possibility of either of their visions becoming real and they agreed a future dystopia would be a combination of a brave new world and 1984 but applied to different parts of the world in different combinations.

[@saramoreira9847]

Also Huxley taught french for a while and Orwell was one of his students, Huxley would later write a preface for Orwell's 1984.

[@MrMillionDub]

I remember hearing somewhere that Demolition Man was a tough guy action flick that managed to somehow break the mold, but still be confined to it. The movie is a fun time, and it's definitely got more nuance than other movies of its genre from its time, but I always felt a lot of its messaging was...incomplete.

[@SonicMTD]

Ah yes Chris Leary... and his amazing standup special "No cure for dancers". Nailed it.

[@deapthog]

Why wasnt Eminem mentioned in this Video

[@fanrosefabrose9457]

According to DR Dre Eminem watched this film and started doing racist Asian accents on unreleased tracks for the Marshal Mathers LP

[@MistaP13]

They put the fail safe in Phoenix’s head like OCP did to RoboCop.

[@yungstevie9]

unc bumping lil tecca

[@Fox-419]

hes taking you to TACO BELL?!

[@usr1095]

Copaganda for breakfast, my favorite 🙂‍↕️

[@PranavanathanYoganathan]

This movie was wild. Remember when movies envisioned late 90s LA as an all out dystopian war zone.

[@M_M_ODonnell]

It was the 90s version of "Antifa has burned all of Portland to the ground."

[@martinl7612]

Predator 2 comes to mind.

[@OchoWins]

Not me realizing that Batman Dark Knight Rises is hella cop-coded

[@kyleflournoy7730]

Every superhero is effectively a cop in some capacity. They enforce the law because it's the right thing to do

[@clementinedanger]

It's a pattern that I couldn't unsee the second I noticed it, and it's everywhere, these antagonists with broadly realistic leftist politics who are completely in the right and extremely based until the script has them eat a kitten so you know you're not allowed to root for them. They're neoliberal morality tales. Hollywood knows how to depict leftist politics to some extent, but only in the anti-hero or villain role, to illustrate the liberal idea that all extremism is *equally* bad. Rightoids are way too racist but leftoids are way too not racist. That's not good! Balance in all things! Bane had the right idea but he did a bad thing that one time so never mind, everything he said is automatically invalid. Scar and his hyenas were completely in the right but they kinda looked like they were goosestepping in that one song so better let them starve and not think about it. Black Panther modernized it a bit by making the antagonist sympathetic, but they still had him do a murder to illustrate he is bad and you shouldn't listen to the bad man. Violence is a tool reserved for the state. The heroes get to do violence on behalf of the status quo, or if not they get to at least have a few scenes being really troubled about it, but if the villain-coded characters do it on behalf of an ideal, it's dangerous extremism. I don't even think it's all intentional, it's just that they get to have their cake and eat it too: the youths are scooting over to the left so they have to make their leftists villains into anti-heroes, but they still have to wag their finger about how all deviation from the status quo is bad. They do this all the damn time and superhero movies especially love that shit. It's 100% propaganda and it drives me up the wall.

[@fanboy50]

@@kyleflournoy7730 I'm sure if you search hard enough there's probably an exception here or there, but the fact that I can't think of any off the top of my head kind of illustrates the trueism. That said, even by the standards of the genre, the Nolan Batman movies are *especially* cop-coded and pro-War On Terror. Batman goes around pulling Extraordinary Rendition on criminals, carries out NSA-style surveillance, and pulls off the good ol' "reliable" Jack Bauer Interrogation technique and actually gets useful intel from it. I still enjoy the Nolan Batman movies but they are insanely pro-jackboot even compared to other superhero movies (I won't say comics because I'm almost positive Frank Miller alone has produced worse in that regard, nevermind more obscure works).

[@OutrageIsNow]

@@kyleflournoy7730but they’re essentially vigilantes. Vigilantes operate outside of the law. Maybe that makes it even worse

[@kyleflournoy7730]

@@OutrageIsNow depends on the character. A bunch the superheros are sanctioned by the government these days. Avengers, Justice League, guardians of the globe, homelander, etc ..

[@vinnyvinson]

Dennis Leary not Chris Leary 9:10 …he was almost famous. stole most of bill hicks stand up material and repackaged it for mtv spring break audience

[@squigeyjoe823]

I remember they asked Bill Hicks why he quit smoking since he was such avid smoker, and he said something along the lines of "I wanted to see if Dennis will copy that too"

[@tranod918]

Denis...

[@vincenzomarsden9259]

Almost famous? Dude is hella famous.

[@vinnyvinson]

@@vincenzomarsden9259 he was

[@workshoptelescope]

The hyper-violence of this movie really is a compelling product of the Robocop-driven moment.

[@EricChoiniere]

Dont worry about not remembering Sandra Bullock, it's a real thing. I knew a guy in college who couldn't distinguish Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts and a 3rd actress

[@clementinedanger]

Oh man, I never forgot about Sandra Bullock. Loved her back then, still love her now. She never exactly fell off I guess but I wish they would cast her more.

[@nutherefurlong]

Geena Davis?

[@mjolden]

I still get Sandra, Julia, and Anne Hathaway mixed up sometimes.

[@clementinedanger]

@@nutherefurlong Another queen tragically slain before her time. I didn't even think Cutthroat Island was that bad.

[@EricChoiniere]

@@mjolden yeah, Anne was the 3rd

[@liquidpaper1349]

Taco Bell being the only remaining restaurant after the "Franchise Wars" is the best part of this movie.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Yo no quiero.

[@BlitzComet12]

15:00 What a transition he got me 😂

[@jasonnrg]

Not even 30 seconds in and I’m like YUP Demolition man is so underrated it’s almost criminal. Simon Phoenix is a generational villain portrayal

[@jameslooker4791]

"Every utopia is hiding a dystopia." Demolition Man was a great example of how story tellers use utopian propositions to highlight the flaws of our ideals. Even Plato's Utopia sounds like a borderline authoritarian hellscape.

[@ridleykemp5789]

I've been calling Snipes' preformance "the best screen version of the Joker" for a decade. Great call! I love this movie so much.

[@RndmAnvgr777]

Snipes is an interesting dude. Love his movies. Anyone remember when (before he got railed by the IRS) he was trying to start a massive, private security firm on the same property in Georgia as the Nuwaubuans? Basically, a Hotep cult that built a big ass prymaid in the middle of rurual GA.

[@Juwellz18]

What!? Lemme go do some homework on this.

[@DrShak2009]

Okay, I’m glad I’m not the only one to make the Joker connection on Snipes’ character. He was fantastic in this, and I loved it.

[@busterfixxitt]

My grandmother hadn't been to a movie in decades, which my mother discovered shortly after my grandfather died. The closest theatre was 2 towns over, & the only moving playing was Demolition Man. (Spoiler ahead!) The story goes that in the final climactic fight scene, when Sly freezes, decapitates, & shatters Wesley Snipes, my 5ft-nothing, dried-apple doll of a grandmother was howling & cackling with laughter b/c of how absurd it was to her. The thought warned my heart.

[@rumpelRAINS]

He doesn't even know how the three seashells work

[@AmarisFrede]

A beautiful classic. And fun, despite the flaws (let's face it, most things have flaws, because we are always progressing).

[@thecatalyst84]

"Chris Leary"

[@OGMacGee]

lmao Bill Hicks smiling in his grave right now

[@thecatalyst84]

@@OGMacGee 💀

[@beecareful69]

Immediately yes. Immediately screaming. God Bless you Unc, I'm about to enjoy washing the dishes more than I ever have 🥰

[@jeremiahchambers6025]

Honey, wake up. New FD sig b side just dropped.

[@kamau506]

The ending was the OG "You've got to do better senator"

[@rileynornes2379]

11:26. Is that the flashback/dream sound effect from Arthur?!?! Memories 🥲

[@wyattlauth1453]

That gave me flashbacks fr

[@michaeltalkstoomuch]

Wesley Snipes as Simon Phoenix is the greatest depiction of THE JOKER ever committed to the silver screen.

[@ghostie487]

This video was fun asf. It would be cool to hear more quick media analysis like this. I gotta catch this movie sometime.

[@antgal9467]

This is one of my favorite black villains. I want more really good black villains.... I can only think of Kilmonger as another one...

[@Eva-uw6uo]

9:08 I hate to be that person, but his name's Denis Leary, not Chris edit: watched further, you do go on to call the actor Denis. my bad.

[@DarthSawyerZock]

Hell yeah, love to see a shoutout for Anark. Fantastic channel

[@nathanpellow4428]

No mention of the sea shells in the bathrooms??? 😂😂😂

[@thefineboy3954]

It's definitely a confusing movie thematically but I think the commentary on the states monopoly on violence is really cool.

[@Oshawatt]

I really enjoy these vids where you sorta ramble about something that interests you

[@betsyduz]

I forgot this film was even a thing! Thank you for this nostalgia kick, bro. When people ask what 90's was like, you could just hit them with a "say less" while reaching for this movie

[@gamemeister27]

This is another tangent inspired by the context of films and your prior work talking about masculinity. Have you seen Unforgiven? Despite it being a Clint Eastwood movie, I remember it doing a great job showing the societal pressure on the young man to engage in harmful masculine activity (being an outlaw, specifically a gunslinging vigilante), and juxtaposing it against a mentor figure who has actually been there and done that, and is clearly worse off for it. It's got a lot of problems, but thinking of it in the context of patriarchy is kinda eye opening, and I wouldn't have thought to do that before finding your content

[@RadicalTrivia]

Chris Leary is great in this. 😆

[@ethnofalcon]

When HBO started running it's new to cable movies on Saturday nights, this was one of the first and it was the first rated R movie I saw. 11 year old me thought this was the best thing ever made. I watched it almost any time I could. When DVDs came out this was in the first 10 I bought. I still love this movie. It's amazing how well it has aged, though. And this analysis is still 100% accurate. I always gave Friendly more credit as a anarchist though, because he came up in this society. And yeah, still best villain death scene ever.

[@fightthepowerman]

In the UK in the 2000s this film was apparently the cheapest to licence for TV because it was always on.

[@moonlightauras1]

The weirdest copaganda is the content that makes real cops look bad cause the fictional cops are better at their jobs.

[@professorskye]

I remember loving this movie but mostly because I was TOTALLY in favor of a world in which Taco Bell is the only restaurant.

[@splatlandss]

what if instead of unfreezing Sylvester Stallone they unfroze eminem

[@Cdr2002]

@@splatlandss you know he would actually open a music video like this. Then the people who unfroze him need to hop on the mic to save the rap game, then it turns out they’re actually OVHoes or something idk

[@IvanMrsicStudio]

I'd watch that.

[@penguintaco9038]

This movie is slowly changing from satire to accurate future prediction.

[@tananario23]

Snipes had a well-known reputation of being a lazy, selfish git on set. He’d get too high to work, then hold everyone up until he was ready. Meanwhile, all the crew hated him because they were just trying to do their jobs and go home. So when he got in trouble doing his hotep nonsense period, the industry kinda shrugged and moved on to other athletic Black men who didn’t have tax evasion charges. The man can be an excellent actor and now that he’s back, hopefully he’ll do some great work.

[@elrandohorse]

Putting The Matrix and Equilibrium in the same ballpark is wild.

[@rorysyers8457]

Another good movie which is also staring Sylvester Stallone where cops are the bad guys is Cop Land.

[@Dukenukem]

"Authoritarien neoliberal dystopia. Everything is perfect and bright and clean at the cost of normal human emotions and personal freedom" - you mean "safespace"

[@natesk1e]

I watched this movie so many times growing 😂 "you can take this job and shovel it" And of course "es un hamburguesa de rata"

[@fka_the_body1542]

😂😂😂😂😂 rata 👏👏👏👏

[@chadalpha7983]

Say what you will, "Demolition Man" is the single greatest Taco Bell ad ever made

[@kalka1l]

Let’s all be grateful this was not cast with Steven Seagal in Stallone’s role. Van Damme in Snipes role would have not hit the same. Honestly much of this movie was just 90s magic it should not have been as good as it is. Bob Ringwood alone.

[@HurricaneDDragon]

“We’re police officers! We’re not trained to handle this kind of violence!” Such a great, quotable movie. As a kid, I wanted to grow up and be Simon Phoenix so bad. 🤣

[@dopey473]

Oh man, I'm gen Z but I grew up with this movie and honestly I like it more now than I did before it's fucking wild. Like I know politically it sucks but it's such a fun movie that I just don't care.

[@cynical_chai8922]

same, I found it randomly and ts just too good

[@hellsapoppin9326]

As a Matrix (franchise) enjoyer, i refuse the characterization that its merely a "schlock action flick".

[@gabisyderas1855]

Many movies (especially "MAN" flicks as it were) do these convoluted schemes to get out of parenting and marriage and i think its very funny how this movie could have said that Stallone's daughter was dead or something because its the future but nah, she's alive and he just doesnt feel like seeing her

[@tomazf]

I heard there was an earlier version of the script where it turns out that Sandra Bullock was his daughter. You can see some parts of the movie that could support that, but then it makes half of the movie hard to watch.

[@benshelley3544]

This was my comfort movie growing up

[@keirhardy6470]

This movies ending feels like the 90s "you have to do better senetor" Also rip nigel hawthorne this movie didnt use him anywhere near enough

[@cestmon8475]

This is my fav copaganda to this day, that three shell system is hardcore 😂

[@antgal9467]

Them Dema-Crips and Re-Blood-icans

[@PranavanathanYoganathan]

There is a great older episode of HDTGM with Wyatt Cenac about this movie, highly recommend it.

[@poshdelux]

A bit off to topic but Blade will forever be my favourite childhood action movie.

[@Twonicus80]

Three seashells!

[@justinponkow2378]

Love the fact that you're focusing on this movie. And you touch on my favorite aspect of this film: it shows a dual dystopian view based on two different views of society from the early 90s. For a "throw away" action film, it has so much to talk about. Great stuff as always FD

[@antgal9467]

No! Dont tell me there's propaganda I missed in this film..... I love this movie.....😢😢😢

[@awbeanzz]

Love your videos man, thanks so much. Once I can afford Nebula, I'll be jumping on board (an I know it's cheap, but.. well you know man) - heaps of creators I love are on Nebula. Till then, I'll keep liking & interacting

[@ryans4877]

Demolition Man was the first R rated movie I saw in the theater Thanks mom, it was a bitchin bday

[@Hawkatana]

You know it's California when even the dystopia is gentrified.

[@CTEagleCeltic]

Yerp!! Classic flick! its up there with Total Recall for me.

[@intoxicatedmasculinity]

I heard that during the production, they kept having to build new scenery because Wesley Snipes kept chewing it all up...

[@themushtube42]

Funny, Stallone has said he was tricked by Arnold into doing Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot. Arnold knew it was a dud, but acted like he really wanted it and Stallone fell for it. Lol

[@habadasheryjones]

Now thats a next level troll. I wonder how far Stallone got into filming before he realized he got duped.