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Demolition Man (1993)
Rate:
8
Viewed:
1/05, 2/25
2/25:
"Send a maniac to catch a maniac."
In my previous viewing of Demolition Man, I was surprised to see Scott Peterson's name in the list for
parole hearing. The murder happened in California just like the movie, and his name was appearing a lot during
the time. So was the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger went far in politics, only to be stopped at governorship.
After checking out the film again, I'm even more surprised that it predicted a politically correct society,
something I would've never taken seriously in 1993, that has become a reality today.
Most sci-fi pictures tend to have at best three to six novel concepts and then struggle to fill in the rest of
the time to be remotely entertaining. But not this one. There's always something new every few minutes. Some
of the stuff have come true, and the others remain to be seen. Perhaps if I watch the film again in
twenty years, they might just happen.
Yet I don't understand this: why are violent criminals allowed to be cryogenically frozen? It's like being
rewarded with an eternal life for a bad deed while the rest of law-abiding citizens will die off. All they have to
do is be out for a month, murder somebody, get frozen for fifty years, and repeat. At the same time, nobody
has ever questioned the thirty murders that John Spartan was found guilty of?
Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes on the same screen? Great. Perfect. Super fun. But Sandra Bullock?
Noooooooooooooooooooo! She absolutely sucks. Her version of sex...please, get out of here. That's why she is a
lesbian. It may be strange to notice Nigel Hawthorne, but he only did it in order to get
The Madness of King George green-lighted which won him an Oscar
nomination.
All in all, I wonder how the "three seashells" method works, but I don't think I want to know.