![]() ![]() ![]() Except for the grungy Scraps, rebels who live underground, citizens are little more than walking happy faces, content to say things like “all is serene” and “mellow greetings” to each other and live by Cocteau’s squeaky-clean rules. Raymond Cocteau (Nigel Hawthorne), the principality of San Angeles has recovered from both disease and earthquake devastation and become a land of peace, love and understanding. Only one man can possibly stop him: the also cryogenically frozen John Spartan.In place of battles, “Demolition Man” unaccountably offers a goofball piece of science-fiction parody, a played-for-laughs version of life in the year 2036 that presents a society so harmonious, its people seem next door to brain dead. Obsessive San Angeles mayor Dr Raymond Cocteau thaws out history's most dangerous cryogenically frozen super-criminal and brainwashes him into hunting the charismatic leader of an underground group of outlawed nonconformists. We then try to improve upon the villain’s diabolical plan for the honour of choosing next week’s film and hosting the pod.ĭirected by Marco Brambilla and starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock and Sir Nigel Hawthorne (!), they certainly don’t make them like this anymore. The panel of peril have convened once again to discuss the dystopian sci fi, action film Demolition Man (1993). “I’m wearing more kimonos now than I was in 1993”
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