I watch Demolition Man for the first time the other night. I always heard people say it predicts our current time and I definitely see that. The fines for profanity were funny, but hate speech laws are worse than that. Also the banning of meat and and salt
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That film REALLY called out the future (our present) and also how vulnerable the west is to a hostile actor. If the west didn't have nukes or hostile elements were able to infiltrate to strike from within, it would collapse quick.
Also did anyone figure out the whole 3 shells bit?
What? Hey, this guy doesn't know how to use the three seashells!
'Fuck, cocksucker, bitch, shit, faggot'
Takes tickets
'Screw your 3 shells'
Even action movies can be a teaching tool. This is how I learned that sotto voce is Latin for that fake whisper people do to actually draw more attention to what they are saying.
That whisper thing that Biden does has a name?
learns u/SoctaticMethod1 is 6'5 & very muscular
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Huh, I'd rather just use a bidet if toilet paper is out
Which the film also predicted. The great toilet paper shortage of 2020.
Got a bidet, never looked back.
Anyone who cleans their own toilet should have a bidet. The heated seat is the bee's knees and makes it attractive to squat to pee.
I'm not a fancy lad, no heated seats for me, I have the sub $30 turn and squirt. Only thing I can bitch about is the water temp, it's not... pleasant during the winter. But I'm not trusting my browneye to one that shoots warm water, what if it malfunctions?
Typical failure I have experienced is that the heater burns out. I'm in FL so I have lived with this for almost a year and not felt compelled to replace it.
I yea I didn’t get that either. Rat burger scene was funny.
I also like the fact that because the main villain is called Phoenix and Stallone's speech pattern, it sounds like he's playing the penis game whenever he's shouting his name.
Don't worry if you didn't get it, it wasn't supposed to make sense. There's a video on YT explaining it. Basically, they were brainstorming, and the guy or someone he knew had 3 seashells on his desk (or something) and they decided to go with that. I'm paraphrasing, so I could be wrong on some of the details, but that's basically it.
EDIT: Full explanation and timestamped: https://youtu.be/QXvXNiOSPPM?t=240
Also from KnowYourMeme:
Yeah, the whole idea is to highlight just how different things are in the future to where even the most rudimentary activities like toiletries are completely alien.
It also shows that Hollywood was a very different place as recently as the 90s.
The whole politically correct, not allowed to swear, sexless soy people thing was accurate, but the mythological noble poor is straight out of the leftist playbook. Also, depicts a future where there is no crime and everything is clean. In reality, crime is rising, infrastructure is crumbling, and we are overrun with third world dirtversity.
Back in the 90s there was still a cultural residue left behind by Star Trek, this idea that the future would be a time of unlimited progress and that a technological utopia was on the way. That had largely dissipated by the 2000s, that's when all science fiction became gritty and grimdark.
That’s a great point because I can’t think of the last thing set in the future that was positive
The Orville. I can't think of anything else since Star Trek: Enterprise.
And even ST:ENT was all like "Hey, we're shiny-eyed youngsters going out into the big ol' world for the first time, absolutely certain we'll make friends everywhere, because we're super-nice! The Vulcans said something about not everyone is like them, but hey, it's us!" .... [several episodes later] "Why does everyone shoot at us?"
They started out with bugger all for weapons, and had to argue for better weapons and shielding .... right up until the Xindi cut a nice trench in North America.
True. That show feels more like Trek than actual current trek.
I love the Orville, but Jesus that most recent season was bland
Orville 2nd season as good but 3 pushed way too hard into feminism and troonery.
That's certainly a big part of it. Declining IQ is another big part.
That is true. I’ve known some good hearted poor people or people down on their luck but you are right. That is a nauseating trope that every poor person is poor due to no fault of their own.
Same reason(s) Greta and Hogg were appointed as notable; strategically promoting feelings over facts. When the root cause of a calamity also benefits your cohort, you better have a shield to distract the dutiful citizenry. Those who are bad at negotiating and general social awareness are both essential for many peoples' fortunes, and the root cause of preventable collective misery. Pull some strings, make it taboo to insult the poors (but only the non-threatening kind, fuck dem rednecks) , while your at it, paint some inconvenient policies and virtues as anti-poor; divide-and-conquer.
So do your part, and blame some victims today!
Yes!!! But no meat
Very close to modern-day Taco Bell.
Demolition Man, 1984, Brave New World, and evangelicals were all correct in their predictions but wrong in they didn't realize how bad it would get. Probably the only one who got it right was that Civil War era Confederate (I forgot his name) who predicted progress would lead to transgenderism.
Few years ago on a polish subreddit users had a argument about dystopian books (which was locked of course, because one guy as an example of doublethink mentioned how everyone knows a guy in a dress is a guy but can't say it out loud).
I had an argument with a mod about Brave New World and provided few examples about how people today are slaves to dopamine and lack any kind of self-restraint. Of course I was downvoted to oblivion, but what made me angry was not the dislikes and overall rudeness of NPCs towards me, but the idiotic take from the moderator:
"Brave New World is a book about everyone being happy and one idiot having a problem with it"
I fucking hate those people
Never heard of that movie. I heard of the movie CSA which basically is a documentary in a world where the south won.
That movie was hilarious. It was meant to mock southern, conservatives, and Christians but ended up showing them as pretty based. Much like the starship troopers film
"I've seen the future, do you know what it is? It's a redditor"
Ha! Pretty accurate
Denis Leery playing himself for 50 seconds.
She was definitely hot.
Sandra Bullock is a transfaggot, moron.
What?
I love that movie. Snipes just running roughshod over everyone and Stallone just disgusted with it all. This was a perfectly cast movie.
Yep. And some pretty accurate predictions.
The only thing that movie got wrong was the attitude towards sex. In that movie sex was considered harmful and they restricted it. Today, we expose small children to sex acts in the form of drag shows. That was the ONE thing they got wrong.
One of my favs that still holds up really well.
I just have one question. What's your take on the three seashells?
I had no idea outside of scraping your anus clean
Honestly being the big reader that I am I was thinking while watching that I’d love to read some books or comics that expanded on that world. Interesting theory. I need to look some up because that would make some sense
Have you read any philip k dick? That guy was a prophet
He is my second favorite sci-fi author after Heinlein. Love his work. Last one I read of his was A Scanner Darkly. You have a favorite? I like Do Androids Dream and Scanner Darkly the most but enjoy everything I’ve read by him.
Honestly. For dick what I really love is his exegesis. Its wild. For his novels. Probably the Penultimate truth or the novella the adjustment team. My wife prefers android I think.
My favorite heinlein is The moon is a harsh mistress followed by The man who sold the moon
In his exegesis he finally learns to flesh out characters. This was his only real flaw as a writer, 3D plots with 1D characters.
Interesting way of describing it. Reminds me of when someone told me Skyrim was as wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle
I have Exegesis but need to read. It. I don’t think I have Penultimate Truth unless it’s in one of the collections of his short stories I have. What did you think of the end of A Scanner Darkly? I love how the movie included Dick’s tribute from the book and it was very interesting how the govt was producing the drug it was fighting. Endless cycle.
I’d love a proper film or TV adaptation of Moon is a Harsh Mistress but not with modern Hollywood. So many others as well. Orphans in the Sky or Farnham’s Freehold. I’ve always wanted a more book accurate Starship Troopers.
Modern Hollywood would fucking love this.
True but I enjoyed it. I don’t see why it’s racist. It’s not racist to have black ppl be the villains. Wesley Snipes did a great job in Demolition Man and Denzel in training day. But I’m sure Hollywood would totally change up the book
I enjoyed the book. It's one I recommend to people. I havent seen the movie though. It's crazy how so many of his stories have been turned into films
I know but I wish they went with the long book titles. I saw A Scanner Darkly before I got into his books. It made me like it more because the ending is very close to the books.
Philosophically, Ubik is his masterpiece.
I have that in my “to read” pile
And they're my two favorites in the same order too