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Demolition Man: An Accidental Satirical Warning from 1993

Demolition Man: An Accidental Satirical Warning from 1993

A Sylvester Stallone sci-fi action film dismissed as fluff upon release proves unnervingly prescient, thirty years on

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Oct 18, 2023
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I first saw Demolition Man in my first term at university during the original cinema run in 1993. I went with a group of friends, and we all had a thoroughly good time, thinking it an enjoyably mindless bit of action mayhem liberally sprinkled with jokes at the expense of its imagined future. We laughed because it was so absurd; a…

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