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 mild spoiler )

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.
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