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This movie has, very unfortunately, aged like fine wine. Congrats to the person that time traveled back to the 1990s and pitched this idea to Hollywood

Watch Demolition Man in 1993: "This movie is goofy AF."
Watch Demolition Man in 2019: "Holy shit, this movie is actually incredibly relevant."

2012: "If only you knew how bad things really are"
2019: "If only you knew how worse things will become"

"You can't take away people's rights to be assholes." Simon Phoenix

"Demolition Man" was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

That awkward moment that a cheap action flick from the 90's had more thought put into its backstory than most films of the 2010s did.

"Accordig to Cocteau i'm the enemy because i like to think..." - Enough said.

September 2025 UK here.

Oh. My. God.
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"We worked for a living. This fascist crap makes me wanna puke." - John Spartan. Smartest man in Demolition Man.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."  -Benjamin Franklin

They weren't that far off.


Now all movies are Disney movies.

53:42 I love that the amount to pay is £800. A subtle nod to Count Dankula's fine.

"They do not shake hands or high five, they do not kiss"
- me sitting in 2020 SMH

"How can Safety be oppressive?"
that question takes on a whole new level of life in the COVID age.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised  for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies" -CS Lewis. Dang man....

“How can safety be oppressive?”
looks back at 2020 and shudders

Since around 2011, I was saying that the world is becoming more and more like Demolition Man. My brother especially said I was just paranoid. Now HE says it (and claims I never did and he totally just thought of it himself.. lol).

Rewatching this movie last year, I thought: Yesterday's satire is today's reality.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”   -- C.S. Lewis