But the ongoing pandemic has a funny way of creating new resonance for familiar fare, and that’s been especially true for the 27-year-old action comedy. The sci-fi movie, which features Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes shooting and quipping their way through a scandalized, sanitized 2032 Los Angeles, has been a cultural touchpoint ever since it came out in 1993 - particularly for the right, who’ve seized on its restrictive utopia as a metaphor for government overreach.
When news of drones urging people to maintain social distancing made the online rounds earlier this month, a certain comparison kept cropping up: This looks like something out of Demolition Man. The film starred Stallone and Snipes alongside Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt, Denis Leary and Rob Schneider.Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock give VR sex a go in Demolition Man. RELATED: Did Sylvester Stallone Star in Rocky Due to a Case of Mistaken Identity?ĭespite receiving mixed reviews at the time, Demolition Man has since gained a cult following for its sociopolitical satire, lampooning ideologies of both the American Left and Right. With the police now ill-equipped to subdue violent criminals like Phoenix anymore, Spartan is thawed out to capture his old enemy. However, Phoenix escapes custody in the far future of 2032, a crime-free society whose utopian success has come at the expense of restricting anything deemed offensive, including swearing, drinking and even physical intimacy.
over four films, including Demolition Man.ĭemolition Man starred Stallone as John Spartan, an LAPD officer from 1997 who, following a hostage crisis gone wrong, is cryogenically frozen as punishment alongside the criminal who committed it: Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). This announcement comes almost a year after Stallone settled a profit dispute with Warner Bros.
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