Mellow greetings. What seems to be your boggle?

[dougo]

I just watched the movie Demolition Man. I remember it being universally panned when it came out in 1993, and then a few years later people started to say it was somewhat underrated. Well, I finally got a chance to see it thanks to having Denis Leary on my TiVo WishList (hey, he was good in Monument Ave and Final). I actually quite enjoyed it, as a campy satirical self-referential sci-fi action movie. The plot was thin and ragged, and the script had some eye-rollers, but a lot of the future language/slang stuff was pretty funny in some subtle ways (e.g. the subject header for this post). The best part was when Stallone, after being jilted by Sandra Bullock the night before, shows up the day after and inexplicably hands her a sweater that he knit for her overnight. Turns out part of the cryo procedure involves determining what career the subject is genetically best suited for and programming the subject's brain to teach him to master that career-- and Stallone's ideal career is knitting and sewing (or as he puts it, "Betsy fucking Ross"). Later in the movie Bullock points out that his shirt is all ripped (after surviving a car crash thanks to secur-o-foam), and he replies, "Don't worry, I can fix it later."

Anyway, the main reason I wanted to mention the movie was that one of the gags is "President Schwarzenegger" (thanks to an amendment allowing naturalized citizens to run). Coincidentally Jesse Ventura has a bit part in the movie.

Oh, and also, it was weird seeing Nigel Hawthorne looking exactly like ahkond's "Yes, Minister" icon. I had seen him recently in The Winslow Boy too but I didn't recognize him.

And one final bit of trivia, thanks to IMDb, is that producer Joel Silver invented Ultimate Frisbee in 1968 in Maplewood, NJ. Huh.

Comments

[chrismwage.livejournal.com]

I always thought that movie was underrated (or overpanned), too. It was cute.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

I actually enjoyed that movie a fair bit, we've watched it more than once, and wrog and I seem to use a number of the from it pretty often ("everything is Taco Bell" comes to mind).

I'd forgotten the part about the knitting. Must rewatch.

[ahkond.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I always enjoyed Demolition Man for its goofiness, and for providing me with one of my favorite movie quotables (about the franchise wars).