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I'm going to be honest if I woke up from cryosleep in a society like this I probably couldn't take it I do believe in law and order things like that but I swear to God if you try micromanaging what I say to what I do to my very existence I'm going to go absolutely ballistic and they would probably take great pleasure taking this government down piece by Piece by any means necessary it probably wouldn't be too hard since even the thought Police are basically everything correctness and or about is a violently capable as a marshmallow I find it absolutely hilarious that everytime Sylvester Stallone says one of his pretty amusing insults one of the Machines pops out of fine ticket and since everyone else is too scared to even and so each other he has to fill in the Void resulting in that one scene where he spouting insults almost non-stop he has to correct the universal off balance of a lack of 80s action movie one-liners
Best line of Demolition Man: Reporter "How do you justify destroying a $7 million mini mall to rescue a girl whose ransom was only $25,000?" Little Girl "Fuck You, lady!"
1.- An intrusive, overbearing government invites rebellion. 3:09 2.- San Angeles is extremely vulnerable to collapse; its citizens suffer from low resilience, and state enforcers are unprepared for even minor threats. 10:11 3.- Cocteau dooms the way of life he created, proving himself to be one of the most overconfidence, shortsighted villains of all time. 14:07
Also the whole fast food wars/cola wars were a thing in the 1990s. It was a lame PR stunt where various chain restaurants would try to one up each other with cheesy deals, including Taco Bell and McDonald's and Burger King and Carl's' Jr./Hardees. The director thought it would be funny if the most meek player, Taco Bell, was the one who won the fast food wars. Ha. That's the story behind the gag. Now in 2021, it looks like Starbucks would have won the wars (by not being McDonald's)..
@@Mobysimo i guess to say that if someone breaks the laws and gets pregers that they wont force her or let her kill the child so then can then take the child upon birth then punish the mother though san angels is so stupid said mothers punishment could be anything from being frozen to being banished into the scraps to being givin mandtory thearpy session
One of the stupidest mistakes was having voice controls in their prisoner restraint systems. If they just used keys and physical locks instead of an electronic lock, with the password "teddy bear", Simon Phoenix wouldn't have been able to escape so easily.
New Zealand Governance Group Decrees the morality code unpleasant. The word 'fined' has been banned. "Taxed for inappropriate conduct" is the acceptable replacement.
China automatically deducts a fine from your account for j walking via facial recognition. Google is already listening to your conversation. - closer than you think -
Lol that really happened but much worse! Apparently in the late 90s in Europe an old guy was walking through a museum and went into a panic and pulled the fire alarm, yelling “bomb bomb bomb” and when he was arrested he explained to the police that the museum had a live bomb on display! They put a massive explosive shell on display with a live blasting cap in place. I guess no one at the museum knew how it worked and assumed it was already decommissioned but the old guy worked with those exact shells in the war, and he’s decommissioned a ton of them as well.. they’re always drilled out and a fake blasting cap is welded to the top as well as a few small holes drilled in the casing to prevent anyone from potentially trying to load or use it. They let him show the museum staff what to do and had the cap removed safely before having the shell picked up and replaced by the military. So yeah… we’ve put live munitions in museums before! What if there was an earthquake or someone knocked it over… idk that’s scary as hell to think one incident could’ve destroyed half the museum and everyone in it!
Demolition Man is a lot like that time on SG-1 When Thor showed up at SGC and asked the Tau'ri to help them defeat replicators, because they made Shotguns, which are fucking awesome.
The Asgard have tried to stop them. You have demonstrated their weakness may be found from a less sophisticated approach. We are no longer capable of such thinking.
I believe that was the point. It's one of the smartest action movies ever made in a lot of ways. It has practically predicted a lot of modern political agendas under the guise of satire... Demolition Man might as well be called "The Cancel Culture Future"
It is meant to be just that. Denis Leary’s rant at the end summarizes the whole thing. “You live up there? You live it his way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants.”
Late, but additional comment: That's one thing I love about Utopian concepts is that they're only utopian from a certain perspective. If you shift that perspective, even a little, it becomes a dystopia.
Voyager suffered from having too many cooks in the kitchen. Some episodes were fascinating and intelligent. Others were downright insane. One of my favourites revolved around a holographic town that a large amount of the crew were using to roleplay and generally just take a load off by pretending that their lives were smaller and simpler. Janeway all but drowns in the escapism and also has to make a choice on getting out of the space issue of the day or saving the escapism. She of course makes the right choice, then finds that one of the last bits of the sim is the part she was so dedicated in. She says her goodbye to it, and then bans herself from making any more modifications.
@@MagicalMasterI loved the concept of that episode but the fact that it revolved around a stereotypical, old, Irish village made me cringe. Gave me Darby o'gill and the little people vibes 😖. For context I'm Irish. American TV never portrays what we're actually like very well.
@@MrGorillafist Fair enough, and as you said, the concept was great. I'd probably cringe if it was based around a 'sweet lil Canadian community' and soaked in the stereotypes too.
@@MagicalMaster You have to wonder, wouldn't a settlement with fictional characters from the current time make more sense? It would have felt like home and focused the crew on returning home while relaxing from the stress if programmed right. Though we all know the reason they didn't do that. The always present budget limit.
San Angeles as portrayed literally could not exist without an effective law enforcement agency. The two basics must haves for a government is the ability to accrue revenue and coercive power. Which doesn't exist here. The laws themselves might as well not exist without enforcement power. In other words the society depicted could literally never exist.
I think the implication, is that they had a very effective law enforcement agency when FIRST implementing their archaic and overbearing laws, but as things died down as acheiving their goals, the police forces as a result got weaker as it lost it's purpose
Well since 80% of prisoners come from single mother homes, simply policing reproduction should end crime.🤔🤨🤓🧐. Like marriage to reproduce mandatory at minium and certified and liscened to be parents at max. On basic stats alone our present society is dystopia where laws and legislation are arbitrarly created and lack coming from a place of basic common sense. 20 kids murdered in school shooting. Lets keep pretending guns is a neccesary right. There is not a single brain cell in law makers. 600000 people died from tobacco, keep cannabis illegal though its death toll is zero. Make it make any sense.
one of my favorite elements of Stargate: Atlantis was the main villain, the Wraith, using stunning rifles and pistols. They had a great range and near 0 lethalities. I'm often surprised that futuristic ips lack something like them and even have dramatically violent police.
Yeah. You’d think some hyper advanced civilization would have been able to create a non-lethal weapon for law enforcement. It would be so much safer and a hell of a lot more efficient.
For any future non-Stargate viewers: Said Wraith consider humans food, and feed on human life force. Thus, they absolutely do need to take everyone they can alive, so they can suck their life out later. A little better example from Stargate is the Zet. Its also used by villains originally. Its a pure stun weapon on first shot, and its meant to cause non-lethal damage. Now, for the second and third shots... less so.
The LEP in the Artemis Fowl series have highly effective nonlethal energy weapons. If the fairies decide lethal force IS needed, they use what are essentially heart attack bombs.
I prefer the phrase " too stupid to survive. " The way shits going alot of the fictional dystopian societies actually look very believable , survive that's another point.
People refusing to follow basic guidelines for public safety, spreading misinformation about a pandemic, throwing a riot because they didn’t win an election legally so they try to illegally win, just general stupidity of the internet. It’s kinda hard to miss
I know Cocteau in this movie was a moron, but I just realised his line of thinking does make sense. He thinks he's all important to the society as its founder and leader, and that it will collapse without him. Therefore he concludes mister Friendly fills the same role and that without him, the rebellion would fall apart as well.
I think it's interesting too, how he thinks Mister Friendly is actually a threat to his society. Think about it: an entire group of cops can't handle one unarmed belligerent, let alone an armed one. If Mister Friendly wanted to, he could march his people to the surface, walk into Cocteau's house, and cave his skull in, and quite literally nothing could stop him. Mister Friendly's "rebellion" must be doing sweet fuck all other than just existing underground and occasionally stealing garbage. It shows how paranoid and delusional Cocteau really is, that he thinks he needs to take someone down who's not even potentially a threat, just because that person does things he doesn't like.
Nope you need to see the movie there is barely any suicide rate since therapy and help are almost found everywhere are down don't worry there are machines almost everywhere to tell you how nice and people care about you it's litteraly just Utopia but with dystopia people who live there like it because they're lives are good and fulfilling but risk of rebellion from the scraps is gigantic and the police force blackout after seeing the minimum violence they don't even know how to proceed in case of someone disobeying a police order
@@KikogamerJ2 no amount of therapy is equal to human contact not including sex. While everyone is in PC hell there no sense of community or even self-identity movies,music, and art are so censored that I'm pretty sure free will is almost outlawed. If computer saying such things was effective then why with has it the suicide rate hasn't dropped. It makes me wonder if families exist or they are raised by the state so there could be more controlled.
@@dusktiger112 I don't think you understand the people there like the life there even when they're leader dies they all become sad not knowing what will happen to their way of life also sex isn't fully outlawed you can have sex it's just somewhat different and more like porn if you see the movie you will see how the people there are super pacifist and happy with the life they have
That sounds like my life story right there. I still look back at the insanity that has been my life and wonder how things got so breathtakingly fucked.
So I have a theory about the Taco Bell/Pizza Hut franchise war. I don't think that all Taco Bell restaurants are as fancy as the one we see. I just think that all restaurants are named Taco Bell. So everything from fast food, coffee joints, casual dining, and high-end dining are called Taco Bell, regardless of what they serve, remembering of course all the things that are banned.
@@GeorgeMonet You'd be surprised actually. A lot of reactors actually end up thinking the same thing as John Spartan, even after they see the cuisine and attire at the restaurant.
I just have to say that it’s funny that it was only localized to Los Angeles because in theory, I could probably see Los Angeles trying to do something similar to this type of society in real life, but in reality, I don’t think it will happen, but in theory with the way things are going in the world I can definitely see Los Angeles trying to do something like this with the city and that’s hilarious
@@jerff5411 Two of them are used to pull the larger poop out of your butt, and the third is used to scrape off the rest. To reuse a seashell is unsanitary.
My theory about the three shells: It's possible that they only work because future food is chemically engineered in such a way that human excrement takes the form of a sandy or rock-like substance that leaves no mess.
I've watched this many times, because it's awesome. I just realized when he says hellhole, you can hear that alarm go off when someone swears. The verbal statute thing.
I'm worried RUclips is going to be like Pornhub or Instagram and suddenly delete 80% of their content overnight over something retarded. One of these days they might just say "we dont want to deal with this 'fair use' BS any more. From now on you cant use anything (clips, gameplay footage, etc) from companies" and then just delete anything with a movie clip, review, or gameplay footage.
The movie is indeed flawed, but also ahead of it's time in many ways. One thing I would have liked to see, that was skipped, was the introduction to a younger version of Cocteau at the beginning of the movie. Given his age, Cocteau would have been young enough to might have played a role in Spartans arrest.
The part that kills me is that there would still be old-young adults that would remember how things work. I feel 40 years is just not long enough to essentially pacify hundreds of millions of people.
@@xdonthave1xx it does seem like society has gotten stupider in the last 20-30 years. I think the baby boomer generation gaining a dominant position in major companies and politics despite being increasingly aging has alot to do with it, there are a ton of major politicians and CEO's in their 70s even though your average 70-80 year old can barely take care of themselves let alone figure out complicated geopolitical issues. Hell, my grandparents when they were in their 70s were both college educated (engineer and RN and were leaders in their field at a local level) but couldnt name half the countries on a map, could barely use a computer, had difficulty with flip or smart phones, and had difficulty doing things like shopping without writing a list or directions first yet our world leaders are getting increasingly older. Washington was president starting at age 57, Clinton was 46, Bush was 54, and Obama 47, but Trump started at age 70 and Biden at age 78. At this rate our ruling class will all be senile by the time they assume power and that cant help our collective intelligence.
One idea: Princess Ardala and the Draconians from Buck Rogers. Two idea: The vampire clans in Blade. They had great strategy but piss poor execution. Three idea: Skynet. Lotta screws loose there. Four idea: The aliens in Attack the Block Five idea: Megacity One in Dredd/JudgeDredd Six idea: Libria from Equilibrium. Sense Offenders!!! Seven idea: Jabba and the Huts Eight idea: Marleya of Attack on Titan (I had no idea that injecting people with titan juice and sending titans to an island would have consequences!) Nine idea: Cerberus from Mass Effect. Did they really think they could win? You could throw a few characters/civilizations in there as well.
I always loved the fact that Wesley snipes characters even thinks cocteau is an evil piece of shit. Because even his character believes I'm freedom and choice. His one stipulation when he took over the part of Los Angeles he did was that no one was to enter but if they did he'd kill them. Essentially you can come into this area if you want but it's not advised.
Yes, it is stupid, and that is the entire point. Most people miss the fact that Demolition Man is an Action-Comedy, mocking the the ridiculous political correctness going on in the 90s, which really only came back around in the new Woke era. These things tend to go in cycles.
How dare places allow their citizens to, you know, exist? As opposed to the rampant curtailing of civil freedoms by certain political figures such as DeSantis.
I looked up what the 3 seashells even are, and here's some results: * Daniel Waters, screenwriter, says he asked another writer friend who told Waters that his bathroom had seashell decor * Stallone says it's "use two like chopsticks to wipe with the third" * Bullock says "several processes--#1, #2, and clean-up" and turned the question back on her interviewer
The 3 Sea Shells were explained to work in an interview like so. Using 2 of the Shells you utilize them like chopsticks to essentially pluck the poo out, and the use the 3rd for a scraping clean up.
@@seekingabsolution1907 yep, funny thing, despite Pepsi being some massive Nestle level corporate overlord, Coca Cola stock (only beverages) rivals it. As it should be
You want to know what the future is, I've seen the future, it's a 47-year-old virgin, sitting poolside, drinking a broccoli banana shake, singing I'm an Oscar Meyer Weiner...👍🏻😅
Is there any way to change my future, dear spirit? Is there any way for me to change my ways and avert this terrible fate? Preferablly while still keeping the pool and being able to sing the Oscar Meyer Wiener song?
@@paulmajano you're one of the many uniformed that confuse liberalism with neo liberalism. I suggest you educate yourself. Liberals believe in free speech and free love. Neo liberals believe in corporate oligarchy and controlled messaging. Happy reading and take care 😘
Okay to be fair, if Taco Bell went full vegetarian, the three shells would become more practical, since you can bet nothing's gonna be coming out of you unassisted.
I love Demolition Man, plot hole so big that even the Hulk couldn't jump over them. I'm sure it was supposed to be a comedy, or at least a joke but I still love it.
Dennis Leary always plays himself, he's always a mildly psychotic, high strung, Irish-American. Sort of like how Gary Busey always plays a fully psychotic madman in every role
No fucking toys, toys! Those things that we have mountains of evidence to indicate are a major boon to the creative thinking, problem solving and social skill development of kids everywhere. This fucking society's very few children probably all turn out to be pathetic and barely capable of doing anything for themselves OR could easily be emotionally and mentally stunted individuals likely to commit criminal activity.
San Angeles is almost what California is turning into. Kinda funny that salt and anything spicy is illegal considering those two things are required by taco bell
The "futuristic" police hq in the film is an office building right off the 405 freewy in Irvine, CA. One night my father was two hrs late getting home because they were obviously shooting shooting scenes and people driving on the southbound side of the freeway were all hitting the breaks to try to see what was going on. Caused a huge traffic jam.
the movie shows a scene where theres a museum for Old Los Angeles it shows the city before the Super Earthquake , the big one destroyed it the earthquake comes by the 2030s , is it possible that the Big one is coming this year in 2022? is Los Angeles getting ready to be destroyed by a earthquake ?
people who make comments like this dont really understand the state of the world in either movie or the issues with the things they attempt to say or portray. but hey, you got to be totally unoriginal and do what amounts to copypasta - so there is that.
how? no really - how is that government anything like any thing in real life? you dont like some other sides pc stuff, but you are fine with your side pc stuff - the movie uses the pc tropes of the 90's - nothing you think its new or worse today is really any different, you are just ignorante of the past.
@@xBINARYGODx yeah this movie represents what people think of when they are calling others snowflakes. It's obviously nowhere near today's world, despite the comment section always claiming a bunch of countries are now police states
When Teslas fill their cabins with impact foam as you fly through the air screaming "You Mickey Mouse piece of shiiiiiiiiii..." then the world of Demolition Man will have come completely true.
I see Daddy D-Bag behind Simon as the guy who pretty much socio-economically reformed San Angeles in a post-world-disaster way who thinks he should be Big Daddy within its walls. I also see the world outside of San Angeles as so horrible, protected against by Daddy D-Bag's automated war machines, that nobody would willingly leave San Angeles. I can also see San Angeles existing with the Judge Dredd world as one of the "unknown pockets of civilizations" outside of Judge Dredd's home city.
This is what happens if neoliberalism gets to its farthest extreme, All the systemic issues remain but its illegal to talk about it and everyone pretends nothing is wrong. The progressive ideas are given lip service to but the things they were created to solve remain. Corporate monopolies are enforced by state power and the labour movement is either co-opted or non-existent.
@@Mrbananasgfan I wouldn't know, I am not american but from what I've seen of your politics from the past 4 years I don't doubt it. Although it might be a bit optimistic to think that your Democratic party will ever be this concerned for peoples health.
@@seekingabsolution1907 Our Democratic party is a collection of politically correct, "socially aware" corporate hacks; the Progressive movement has been coopted by dogmatic woke loonies that constantly yell at the far opposite side about their dogmatic loonies, while insulting the people in the middle for not being on their side enough. I even stopped calling myself a Progressive for a while, because I'm of George Carlin's line of thinking when it comes to political correctness - it's fascism disguised as good manners. Meanwhile, the Republican party has been infiltrated by conspiracy obsessed nutters, Christian dominionists, and white nationalists to the point that they're forced to either pay lip service to the crazies, or face censure and/or lose all hope for reelection. American politics is fucked for the foreseeable future.
No, I agree. Taco Bell would NEVER survive against the big boys. (And by that, I don't mean Big Boys. I mean McDonalds and the like.) In the future, a homogenized worldwide eating establishment in our weirdly bland dystopian world would be more like Denny's.
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Spy Kids! Floops palace
I hope you do version of this for like the imperium of man, there's a lot of meat on that one
we need Wakanda Forever
When will you make a video about equlibrium?
I'm going to be honest if I woke up from cryosleep in a society like this I probably couldn't take it I do believe in law and order things like that but I swear to God if you try micromanaging what I say to what I do to my very existence I'm going to go absolutely ballistic and they would probably take great pleasure taking this government down piece by Piece by any means necessary it probably wouldn't be too hard since even the thought Police are basically everything correctness and or about is a violently capable as a marshmallow
I find it absolutely hilarious that everytime Sylvester Stallone says one of his pretty amusing insults one of the Machines pops out of fine ticket and since everyone else is too scared to even and so each other he has to fill in the Void resulting in that one scene where he spouting insults almost non-stop he has to correct the universal off balance of a lack of 80s action movie one-liners
Best line of Demolition Man:
Reporter "How do you justify destroying a $7 million mini mall to rescue a girl whose ransom was only $25,000?"
Little Girl "Fuck You, lady!"
I love that part.
I like it, but it is not a line. “I’ll be back” is a line. Maybe call it best part?
@@Ferdinand208
John Spartan: "Heads up."
Phoniex's frozen head then gets kicked off.
That is awesome.
I still remember that one. It was brilliant, lol!
@@Ferdinand208 Maybe he's referring to "Fuck You, Lady!" ?
Wesley Snipes was a joy joy to watch in this film. He should've been a Batman villain after this gem.
The Tax Avoider.
@@anubusx this honestly broke me 🤣
@@illwill6080
👍
@@anubusx did you claim that $20 you took from Peter Parker on your income statement?
@@anubusx you made me laugh WAY too hard
1.- An intrusive, overbearing government invites rebellion. 3:09
2.- San Angeles is extremely vulnerable to collapse; its citizens suffer from low resilience, and state enforcers are unprepared for even minor threats. 10:11
3.- Cocteau dooms the way of life he created, proving himself to be one of the most overconfidence, shortsighted villains of all time. 14:07
Uh huhhhh...thank goodness art never imitates life!! *innocent whistling😂😂😐🫣
New Zealand: Not Australia
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Also the whole fast food wars/cola wars were a thing in the 1990s. It was a lame PR stunt where various chain restaurants would try to one up each other with cheesy deals, including Taco Bell and McDonald's and Burger King and Carl's' Jr./Hardees. The director thought it would be funny if the most meek player, Taco Bell, was the one who won the fast food wars. Ha. That's the story behind the gag. Now in 2021, it looks like Starbucks would have won the wars (by not being McDonald's)..
in the 2005 movie Idocracy -
Carl's Jr won the Fast food wars.
Brawndo won the Energy drink wars
and Gatorade lost these corporate wars.
The franchise wars are now fought on Twitter.
"Now every restaurant is taco bell"
Win
"Abortion is also illegal, but so is pregnancy if you don't have a liscense."
Oh God.
What a contradiction.
@@redstarlegion7009 Indeed.
Why even bring up abortion then?
@@Mobysimo i guess to say that if someone breaks the laws and gets pregers that they wont force her or let her kill the child so then can then take the child upon birth then punish the mother though san angels is so stupid said mothers punishment could be anything from being frozen to being banished into the scraps to being givin mandtory thearpy session
I mean.... Some people should not get pregnant
My worst nightmare. Rob Schneider is both in San Angeles and Megacity 1, and he's just as useful in both of them
Lol ohmygod- he survived the apocalypse?!! You'd think he'd be gone in the first wave...him and Andy Dick...this truly is a dystopian future😂😂😳😭😂
I don't understand why those guys keep copyrighting these videos about old films of all things.
Because they know they can not compete with the past with their inferior products.
Especially on a video that would literally drive consumers to their product. It's idiocy, actually it's probably just a bot.
@@Naptosis I literally picked up a used copy on DVD after watching MZ's video.
It's like Tohei screwing people over that talk about Kamen Rider. It's free publicity, you idiots!
@@mikecarlson3575
Used copy doesn't make them money.
They want to drive people to streaming services.
One of the stupidest mistakes was having voice controls in their prisoner restraint systems. If they just used keys and physical locks instead of an electronic lock, with the password "teddy bear", Simon Phoenix wouldn't have been able to escape so easily.
*BRR*, Media Zealot you have been fined ten credits for violating the verbal morality code.
New Zealand Governance Group Decrees the morality code unpleasant.
The word 'fined' has been banned.
"Taxed for inappropriate conduct" is the acceptable replacement.
reminds me of church.
China automatically deducts a fine from your account for j walking via facial recognition.
Google is already listening to your conversation.
- closer than you think -
Facebook and youtube be like
@@CHMichaelWHAAAAAAA oh hell naw
Any society that puts their museum guns on display fully loaded is most definitely too stupid to exist
Probably thought the same as Shaun of the dead, "It's deactivated!" 😂😂😂
@@sabir1208 But dogs _can_ look up!
Lol that really happened but much worse!
Apparently in the late 90s in Europe an old guy was walking through a museum and went into a panic and pulled the fire alarm, yelling “bomb bomb bomb” and when he was arrested he explained to the police that the museum had a live bomb on display! They put a massive explosive shell on display with a live blasting cap in place. I guess no one at the museum knew how it worked and assumed it was already decommissioned but the old guy worked with those exact shells in the war, and he’s decommissioned a ton of them as well.. they’re always drilled out and a fake blasting cap is welded to the top as well as a few small holes drilled in the casing to prevent anyone from potentially trying to load or use it. They let him show the museum staff what to do and had the cap removed safely before having the shell picked up and replaced by the military.
So yeah… we’ve put live munitions in museums before! What if there was an earthquake or someone knocked it over… idk that’s scary as hell to think one incident could’ve destroyed half the museum and everyone in it!
@@DanteYewToob That's absolutely terrifying.
"Alyx! Up here! You're going to need a gun! Don't worry, it's unloaded.
*Pow*
It's unloaded now!"
Demolition Man is a lot like that time on SG-1 When Thor showed up at SGC and asked the Tau'ri to help them defeat replicators, because they made Shotguns, which are fucking awesome.
@Chris George yes but the asgard were aware of their faults at least to a degree
@in desperate need of a scotch his food looks like foam shape toys
You mean the Asgard needed someone dumber than they were?
The Asgard have tried to stop them. You have demonstrated their weakness may be found from a less sophisticated approach. We are no longer capable of such thinking.
When I saw the movie Demolition Man, I had to admit, this advanced civilization really isn't a utopia. It's more like a dystopia!
I believe that was the point. It's one of the smartest action movies ever made in a lot of ways. It has practically predicted a lot of modern political agendas under the guise of satire... Demolition Man might as well be called "The Cancel Culture Future"
“It’s not left wing.” Cope.
Think that was the point
It is meant to be just that.
Denis Leary’s rant at the end summarizes the whole thing.
“You live up there? You live it his way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants.”
Late, but additional comment:
That's one thing I love about Utopian concepts is that they're only utopian from a certain perspective. If you shift that perspective, even a little, it becomes a dystopia.
Screwed over by an inept coroner is an amazing detail that's overlooked for this movie.
The number of fitting Tuvok quotes in this series is amazing. I still don't like Voyagwr, but my respect for that Vulcan has increased dramatically.
Voyager suffered from having too many cooks in the kitchen. Some episodes were fascinating and intelligent. Others were downright insane.
One of my favourites revolved around a holographic town that a large amount of the crew were using to roleplay and generally just take a load off by pretending that their lives were smaller and simpler. Janeway all but drowns in the escapism and also has to make a choice on getting out of the space issue of the day or saving the escapism. She of course makes the right choice, then finds that one of the last bits of the sim is the part she was so dedicated in. She says her goodbye to it, and then bans herself from making any more modifications.
@@MagicalMasterI loved the concept of that episode but the fact that it revolved around a stereotypical, old, Irish village made me cringe. Gave me Darby o'gill and the little people vibes 😖. For context I'm Irish. American TV never portrays what we're actually like very well.
@@MrGorillafist Fair enough, and as you said, the concept was great. I'd probably cringe if it was based around a 'sweet lil Canadian community' and soaked in the stereotypes too.
@@MagicalMaster You have to wonder, wouldn't a settlement with fictional characters from the current time make more sense? It would have felt like home and focused the crew on returning home while relaxing from the stress if programmed right.
Though we all know the reason they didn't do that. The always present budget limit.
San Angeles as portrayed literally could not exist without an effective law enforcement agency. The two basics must haves for a government is the ability to accrue revenue and coercive power. Which doesn't exist here. The laws themselves might as well not exist without enforcement power. In other words the society depicted could literally never exist.
@CK Lim where do you read that?
I think the implication, is that they had a very effective law enforcement agency when FIRST implementing their archaic and overbearing laws, but as things died down as acheiving their goals, the police forces as a result got weaker as it lost it's purpose
Well since 80% of prisoners come from single mother homes, simply policing reproduction should end crime.🤔🤨🤓🧐. Like marriage to reproduce mandatory at minium and certified and liscened to be parents at max. On basic stats alone our present society is dystopia where laws and legislation are arbitrarly created and lack coming from a place of basic common sense. 20 kids murdered in school shooting. Lets keep pretending guns is a neccesary right. There is not a single brain cell in law makers. 600000 people died from tobacco, keep cannabis illegal though its death toll is zero. Make it make any sense.
@@thienbaongo7997 the fearmongering about the those below would stop that from happening - but of course, this film is taking the piss, so who cares
So glad I got to see the original with clips.
Same. Like this is still good but the original had more flair... But what can ya do
Same
Me too, feels good to be on time. Damn shame I haven't thought about downloading it at the time
Same
I miss the clips
one of my favorite elements of Stargate: Atlantis was the main villain, the Wraith, using stunning rifles and pistols. They had a great range and near 0 lethalities. I'm often surprised that futuristic ips lack something like them and even have dramatically violent police.
Yeah. You’d think some hyper advanced civilization would have been able to create a non-lethal weapon for law enforcement. It would be so much safer and a hell of a lot more efficient.
For any future non-Stargate viewers: Said Wraith consider humans food, and feed on human life force. Thus, they absolutely do need to take everyone they can alive, so they can suck their life out later.
A little better example from Stargate is the Zet. Its also used by villains originally. Its a pure stun weapon on first shot, and its meant to cause non-lethal damage. Now, for the second and third shots... less so.
The violence is the point.
The LEP in the Artemis Fowl series have highly effective nonlethal energy weapons. If the fairies decide lethal force IS needed, they use what are essentially heart attack bombs.
im guessing the reupload must be from a copyright claim on the footage used
more likely the deeper truth is the harshness of the crituqe. (F*king SJWs)... Or both!
Yea i watched this before the upload and there were clips of demolition man instead of just pictures of scenes.
@@maxwelljohnson6185 Damn copyrights, this was fair use.
@@Radnugget totally agree. Nothing diffrent then his usual stuff.
@@dragonmaster613 so why would the video be reuploaded with only visual changes
After seeing what has happened to the real world in 2020, I don't think any advanced civilization can be "too stupid to really exist"
I prefer the phrase " too stupid to survive. " The way shits going alot of the fictional dystopian societies actually look very believable , survive that's another point.
It's gotten so much worse :((((
Where did u see this happen
People refusing to follow basic guidelines for public safety, spreading misinformation about a pandemic, throwing a riot because they didn’t win an election legally so they try to illegally win, just general stupidity of the internet. It’s kinda hard to miss
I presume you were referring to the stupidity, ignorance and selfishness of of anti-maskers.
Not gonna lie, the alarm from the morality detectors is my favorite thing about the film.
It’s just like the current U.K.
I guess they didn’t see the movie.
Demo Man is still one of my all time favorites
Guilty pleasures
Growing up watching yes minister and seeing sir Humphrey here makes a lot of sense, in my head canon this is a sequel
I was confused as to why I was notified for this again.
The original got band for using clips
@@dylanthomas385 damn. hope we get that version back. maybe on a new site.
But not Voyager. Typical.
I know Cocteau in this movie was a moron, but I just realised his line of thinking does make sense. He thinks he's all important to the society as its founder and leader, and that it will collapse without him. Therefore he concludes mister Friendly fills the same role and that without him, the rebellion would fall apart as well.
I think it's interesting too, how he thinks Mister Friendly is actually a threat to his society. Think about it: an entire group of cops can't handle one unarmed belligerent, let alone an armed one. If Mister Friendly wanted to, he could march his people to the surface, walk into Cocteau's house, and cave his skull in, and quite literally nothing could stop him. Mister Friendly's "rebellion" must be doing sweet fuck all other than just existing underground and occasionally stealing garbage. It shows how paranoid and delusional Cocteau really is, that he thinks he needs to take someone down who's not even potentially a threat, just because that person does things he doesn't like.
He's not wrong. The rebels absolutely would fall apart without him.
I pretty sure while murder is down, suicide is way higher than ever.
Nope you need to see the movie there is barely any suicide rate since therapy and help are almost found everywhere are down don't worry there are machines almost everywhere to tell you how nice and people care about you it's litteraly just Utopia but with dystopia people who live there like it because they're lives are good and fulfilling but risk of rebellion from the scraps is gigantic and the police force blackout after seeing the minimum violence they don't even know how to proceed in case of someone disobeying a police order
@@KikogamerJ2 no amount of therapy is equal to human contact not including sex. While everyone is in PC hell there no sense of community or even self-identity movies,music, and art are so censored that I'm pretty sure free will is almost outlawed. If computer saying such things was effective then why with has it the suicide rate hasn't dropped. It makes me wonder if families exist or they are raised by the state so there could be more controlled.
@@dusktiger112 I don't think you understand the people there like the life there even when they're leader dies they all become sad not knowing what will happen to their way of life also sex isn't fully outlawed you can have sex it's just somewhat different and more like porn if you see the movie you will see how the people there are super pacifist and happy with the life they have
The scary thing about reality is that often things seem fictional when they happen.
That sounds like my life story right there. I still look back at the insanity that has been my life and wonder how things got so breathtakingly fucked.
As the game Viscera Cleanup Detail teaches us, John Spartan NEVER learns what the sea shells are for.
"For" isn't the issue....it's the "How". 💩
So I have a theory about the Taco Bell/Pizza Hut franchise war. I don't think that all Taco Bell restaurants are as fancy as the one we see. I just think that all restaurants are named Taco Bell. So everything from fast food, coffee joints, casual dining, and high-end dining are called Taco Bell, regardless of what they serve, remembering of course all the things that are banned.
I mean I thought the movie made that obvious.
@@GeorgeMonet You'd be surprised actually. A lot of reactors actually end up thinking the same thing as John Spartan, even after they see the cuisine and attire at the restaurant.
"An intrusive, overbearing government invites rebellion."
It does indeed.
I just have to say that it’s funny that it was only localized to Los Angeles because in theory, I could probably see Los Angeles trying to do something similar to this type of society in real life, but in reality, I don’t think it will happen, but in theory with the way things are going in the world I can definitely see Los Angeles trying to do something like this with the city and that’s hilarious
People like sex and drugs too much.
Stallone mentioned how the seashells worked in an interview. To put it politely, spread, pull, then scrape.
but why do you need 3 of them?
@@jerff5411 Two of them are used to pull the larger poop out of your butt, and the third is used to scrape off the rest. To reuse a seashell is unsanitary.
Minute of silence for those people of San Ageles who suffer from diarrhea.
I imagine it would be excruciating with hemorrhoids
@@jerff5411 Two pull apart, the third scrapes.
Dennis Leary's rant when Stallone questions him on why he's down there is so on point. One of the most Libertarian/Voluntarist rants in a movie
My theory about the three shells: It's possible that they only work because future food is chemically engineered in such a way that human excrement takes the form of a sandy or rock-like substance that leaves no mess.
I've watched this many times, because it's awesome. I just realized when he says hellhole, you can hear that alarm go off when someone swears. The verbal statute thing.
Damn it. Do I have to start downloading youtube clips out of fear that YT will copyright strike them?
You need to download manually on your computer as an MP4. Don't use RUclips's download service.
@@Macebigi they do but you have to pay for it and it sucks more then the free ones online.
I'm worried RUclips is going to be like Pornhub or Instagram and suddenly delete 80% of their content overnight over something retarded. One of these days they might just say "we dont want to deal with this 'fair use' BS any more. From now on you cant use anything (clips, gameplay footage, etc) from companies" and then just delete anything with a movie clip, review, or gameplay footage.
@@richardarriaga6271 fuck RUclips and RUclips premium. they aren't getting shit from me.
The movie is indeed flawed, but also ahead of it's time in many ways. One thing I would have liked to see, that was skipped, was the introduction to a younger version of Cocteau at the beginning of the movie. Given his age, Cocteau would have been young enough to might have played a role in Spartans arrest.
That may work as a book.
"but also ahead of it's time in many ways." how?
The part that kills me is that there would still be old-young adults that would remember how things work. I feel 40 years is just not long enough to essentially pacify hundreds of millions of people.
I mean we're getting there in past years with words equal violence. And hurt feelings is enough to arrest people.
Compare the modern woke world to pre-2015 and that was less than ten years.
I feel like this is a bit of a easy one to do because the entire point of the movie was how dumb the civilization and its leaders where
Coming to this after Cocteau m-d-k’d the fair use doctrine and still just watched it twice in a row. Hat’s off to you, sir; you’ve done it again.
You should do the humans from idiocrasy one day.
or the prequel, reality...
I would agree to that, but at the rate we’re going, that part about being “too stupid to exist” would become “too smart”.
@@xdonthave1xx it does seem like society has gotten stupider in the last 20-30 years. I think the baby boomer generation gaining a dominant position in major companies and politics despite being increasingly aging has alot to do with it, there are a ton of major politicians and CEO's in their 70s even though your average 70-80 year old can barely take care of themselves let alone figure out complicated geopolitical issues. Hell, my grandparents when they were in their 70s were both college educated (engineer and RN and were leaders in their field at a local level) but couldnt name half the countries on a map, could barely use a computer, had difficulty with flip or smart phones, and had difficulty doing things like shopping without writing a list or directions first yet our world leaders are getting increasingly older. Washington was president starting at age 57, Clinton was 46, Bush was 54, and Obama 47, but Trump started at age 70 and Biden at age 78. At this rate our ruling class will all be senile by the time they assume power and that cant help our collective intelligence.
The society of Idiocracy being too stupid to exist is actually a plot point.
@@dwavenminer theres a prequel
I bet they made Gordon Ramsey illegal.
The profanity alarm made me laugh so much, glad you know the references of the film
14:04 Hey! That's a Heckler and Koch G11 K2 assault rifle! Those things barely exist, but sure are cool. I mean the gun on his back, if anyone asks.
Oh god you activated a deep and well hidden memory of me watching the movie. I never thought of it again
One idea: Princess Ardala and the Draconians from Buck Rogers.
Two idea: The vampire clans in Blade. They had great strategy but piss poor execution.
Three idea: Skynet. Lotta screws loose there.
Four idea: The aliens in Attack the Block
Five idea: Megacity One in Dredd/JudgeDredd
Six idea: Libria from Equilibrium. Sense Offenders!!!
Seven idea: Jabba and the Huts
Eight idea: Marleya of Attack on Titan (I had no idea that injecting people with titan juice and sending titans to an island would have consequences!)
Nine idea: Cerberus from Mass Effect. Did they really think they could win? You could throw a few characters/civilizations in there as well.
The video is still good, although the clips were better. Damn Hollywood.
yea i was thinking thats what was different
Idea for a future episode: Mega City One, from either the Judge Dredd comics or the DREDD movie.
im starting to thing WE are too stupid to exist.
think*
By the end of the decade am AI will finish the series with a video about Humanity...after hacking this channel
@@kevincastillomorales4858 lol!
Somewhere in space, there's a group of aliens studying us and are about to finish their social media video about civilsations too stupid to exist.
Yoo my hav sum fing der.
I always loved the fact that Wesley snipes characters even thinks cocteau is an evil piece of shit. Because even his character believes I'm freedom and choice. His one stipulation when he took over the part of Los Angeles he did was that no one was to enter but if they did he'd kill them. Essentially you can come into this area if you want but it's not advised.
An Evil Mr. Rogers!
For the next advanced sci-fi civilization too stupid to exist: RUclips itself
Yes, it is stupid, and that is the entire point. Most people miss the fact that Demolition Man is an Action-Comedy, mocking the the ridiculous political correctness going on in the 90s, which really only came back around in the new Woke era. These things tend to go in cycles.
The result we all feared.
A still picture video!
Back to 2011
7:52 "You'd be tempted to kick off a revolution out of sheer boredom alone." LOL.
Ah, the fact that this is genuinely starting to be more and more true in some places by the day is so funny.
how? never mind, your answer is likely really stupid and relies on mixes of incredible bias and tons of ignorance.
How dare places allow their citizens to, you know, exist?
As opposed to the rampant curtailing of civil freedoms by certain political figures such as DeSantis.
this is why Copyright needs reform or M/D/K (this movie ref)
I looked up what the 3 seashells even are, and here's some results:
* Daniel Waters, screenwriter, says he asked another writer friend who told Waters that his bathroom had seashell decor
* Stallone says it's "use two like chopsticks to wipe with the third"
* Bullock says "several processes--#1, #2, and clean-up" and turned the question back on her interviewer
I'm an Aussie and to us you Kiwis are our slightly invisible little brother.
Here to give the re-upload another view & like! Love the channel.
Not even gonna lie, this movie portrayed many things that we see in our modern world.
But instead of the government, it's Twitter brigades enforcing right think.
@@damienk7311 the government as well with their critical race theory.
"We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this level of violence!" Is one of my favourite quotes
@@coitusergosum2447 one of the best quotes from Demolition Man!
Facts
The 3 Sea Shells were explained to work in an interview like so.
Using 2 of the Shells you utilize them like chopsticks to essentially pluck the poo out, and the use the 3rd for a scraping clean up.
This film is so underrated
The company that owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver, and KFC is called Yum!, which is in turn owned by Pepsi
Great so now I can blame pepsi for bringing taco bell to Britain.
@@seekingabsolution1907 yep, funny thing, despite Pepsi being some massive Nestle level corporate overlord, Coca Cola stock (only beverages) rivals it. As it should be
@@dark_fire_ice oh, I know, I have been boycotting nestle and coca cola for most of my live out of objection to the environmental damage they do.
@@seekingabsolution1907 glass houses mate
@@dark_fire_ice I dont own a business. I have no house to be made of glass.
I bet Spartan was like , " ey, you can send me back right?" We dont have time machines...."wha?! But this is the future right?"
You want to know what the future is, I've seen the future, it's a 47-year-old virgin, sitting poolside, drinking a broccoli banana shake, singing I'm an Oscar Meyer Weiner...👍🏻😅
Is there any way to change my future, dear spirit? Is there any way for me to change my ways and avert this terrible fate? Preferablly while still keeping the pool and being able to sing the Oscar Meyer Wiener song?
That’s how I see SJW and liberals 🤣
@@paulmajano you're one of the many uniformed that confuse liberalism with neo liberalism. I suggest you educate yourself. Liberals believe in free speech and free love. Neo liberals believe in corporate oligarchy and controlled messaging. Happy reading and take care 😘
Nooooooooooooooooooo...
@@fangal12 Well the liberals that you talk about are extinct and replaced with libertarians
Okay to be fair, if Taco Bell went full vegetarian, the three shells would become more practical, since you can bet nothing's gonna be coming out of you unassisted.
I love Demolition Man, plot hole so big that even the Hulk couldn't jump over them. I'm sure it was supposed to be a comedy, or at least a joke but I still love it.
It's more along the lines of a hideo Kojima game.
@@habijjj lol
Imagine waking up with a 36 year nicotine addiction.
I’ve been quarantined for a few days, and besides this series being very good, I really just want to rewatch Voyager.
Those morality detectors are "sorry it's the algorhytm that banned you not us" in a nutshell
Funniest thing ever Denis Leary playing himself. So true
Dennis Leary always plays himself, he's always a mildly psychotic, high strung, Irish-American. Sort of like how Gary Busey always plays a fully psychotic madman in every role
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!
DID YA SEE THAT SHINJI!?!
If I remember correctly, didn't they have the ability to reprogram people to prevent certain behaviors?
No meat...
No caffeine...
No chance of hot snoo-snoo with Peak Sandra Bullock...
This place gotta go...
No fucking toys, toys! Those things that we have mountains of evidence to indicate are a major boon to the creative thinking, problem solving and social skill development of kids everywhere. This fucking society's very few children probably all turn out to be pathetic and barely capable of doing anything for themselves OR could easily be emotionally and mentally stunted individuals likely to commit criminal activity.
Cocktoe has gotta be the best name for a stupid villain ever 😂
San Angeles is almost what California is turning into. Kinda funny that salt and anything spicy is illegal considering those two things are required by taco bell
You're implying that Taco Bell products actually have any taste. LOL
Yeah but Taco Bell won the fast food wars. =P
The "futuristic" police hq in the film is an office building right off the 405 freewy in Irvine, CA. One night my father was two hrs late getting home because they were obviously shooting shooting scenes and people driving on the southbound side of the freeway were all hitting the breaks to try to see what was going on. Caused a huge traffic jam.
This has got to be one of the most accurate vision of the future coming from an action film. Like it's shockingly close.
Got the feeling that we're actually slidding into a mix between demolition man and Idiocracy... 😔
I feel the same way. We are fucked.
its the year 2022 right now
Can you guys tell me the next predictions ?
the movie shows a scene where theres a museum for Old Los Angeles
it shows the city before the Super Earthquake , the big one destroyed it
the earthquake comes by the 2030s , is it possible that the Big one is coming
this year in 2022? is Los Angeles getting ready to be destroyed by a earthquake ?
people who make comments like this dont really understand the state of the world in either movie or the issues with the things they attempt to say or portray.
but hey, you got to be totally unoriginal and do what amounts to copypasta - so there is that.
Admit it. We all watched this movie because it had Sylvester Stallone in it
I admit it. Just 90s action movie goodness back then.
I watched it cause it came on while channel surfing and it was the ending where wesley snipes gets his comeuppance
I watched it after I watched blade, so I was there for Wesley Snipes.
Westly snipes for me
and Wesley Snipes.
Ah the movie that was meant to be a satire yet it became too close to reality.
Yeahs
how? no really - how is that government anything like any thing in real life? you dont like some other sides pc stuff, but you are fine with your side pc stuff - the movie uses the pc tropes of the 90's - nothing you think its new or worse today is really any different, you are just ignorante of the past.
@@xBINARYGODx Riiight, ignorant of the past, yet you are the one unironically saying nothing changed whn it clearly did.
@@xBINARYGODx yeah this movie represents what people think of when they are calling others snowflakes. It's obviously nowhere near today's world, despite the comment section always claiming a bunch of countries are now police states
@@xBINARYGODx he's probably talking about vaccines lmao or trans people
When Teslas fill their cabins with impact foam as you fly through the air screaming "You Mickey Mouse piece of shiiiiiiiiii..." then the world of Demolition Man will have come completely true.
Lotta Halo vibes throughout this movie...The names, The Fonts, The Cryo, The Uniforms.
America, 'Splain to me!
Watching the way the world is going, this is very accurate on how our future will look like
Well, I said it before you had to reupload, so I'll say it again: the thing I like most about this movie is how it predicted modern internet culture.
I see Daddy D-Bag behind Simon as the guy who pretty much socio-economically reformed San Angeles in a post-world-disaster way who thinks he should be Big Daddy within its walls. I also see the world outside of San Angeles as so horrible, protected against by Daddy D-Bag's automated war machines, that nobody would willingly leave San Angeles. I can also see San Angeles existing with the Judge Dredd world as one of the "unknown pockets of civilizations" outside of Judge Dredd's home city.
"A society whose citizens have the resolve of lost little children."
Yep
I commented on the previous upload, so I comment on this upload too in fairness. Forgot what I said though.
I just watch the original the other day! So I was confused as well seeing the re-upload. I'll just give it love again
I don't remember if I commented, but I'll comment on your comment to appease the algorithm.
This is what happens if neoliberalism gets to its farthest extreme, All the systemic issues remain but its illegal to talk about it and everyone pretends nothing is wrong. The progressive ideas are given lip service to but the things they were created to solve remain. Corporate monopolies are enforced by state power and the labour movement is either co-opted or non-existent.
Lol, this movie is what republicans actually believe will happen if democrats win elections.
@@Mrbananasgfan I wouldn't know, I am not american but from what I've seen of your politics from the past 4 years I don't doubt it. Although it might be a bit optimistic to think that your Democratic party will ever be this concerned for peoples health.
@@Mrbananasgfan this is more like European Union when they achive their goals
@@seekingabsolution1907 Our Democratic party is a collection of politically correct, "socially aware" corporate hacks; the Progressive movement has been coopted by dogmatic woke loonies that constantly yell at the far opposite side about their dogmatic loonies, while insulting the people in the middle for not being on their side enough. I even stopped calling myself a Progressive for a while, because I'm of George Carlin's line of thinking when it comes to political correctness - it's fascism disguised as good manners.
Meanwhile, the Republican party has been infiltrated by conspiracy obsessed nutters, Christian dominionists, and white nationalists to the point that they're forced to either pay lip service to the crazies, or face censure and/or lose all hope for reelection.
American politics is fucked for the foreseeable future.
You understand "Neoliberalism" is just a fancy term for centrist, right?
I guess not since you miss the apparent satire and parody of this film.
Another mistery in this movie is why the fashion is now heavily inspired on traditional japanese clothes.
Many Joy- Joy Feelings to You All !!!!
I wanna see the sequel where John Spartan goes crazy from all the rules and takes over America
I can honestly say I'd be one of the people living in the sewers, I couldn't deal with all the nonsense on the surface.
Rewatching these gives me joy-joy.
Okay, so it's Cyberpunk 2077. Gotcha.
Actually no... Cyberpunk 2077 but not violent and also the dream of Karen.
The use of Gordon Ramsey in this video was perfect :)
No, I agree. Taco Bell would NEVER survive against the big boys. (And by that, I don't mean Big Boys. I mean McDonalds and the like.) In the future, a homogenized worldwide eating establishment in our weirdly bland dystopian world would be more like Denny's.
The cutaway to Ramsay saying, "He's on Santa Boulevard, looking for a fucking bus" was gold.