#15: Demolition Man (1993)
This week, the dads get cryo-frozen and launched into the dystopian utopia of Demolition Man, the 1993 sci-fi action satire where everything’s clean, polite, and aggressively Taco Bell-branded. Sylvester Stallone is John Spartan — a demolition-prone cop thawed out to stop Wesley Snipes’ neon-haired supervillain Simon Phoenix, who’s turning the future into a cartoon crime spree.
Steve and Nic break down this movie’s wild tone — equal parts shoot-’em-up and send-up — while tackling the big questions: Is Stallone actually funny in this? Was Snipes having too much fun? And seriously, what’s the deal with the three seashells? There’s love for Sandra Bullock’s perky awkwardness, retro-futuristic tech like the “Verbal Morality Statute,” and a lot of appreciation for how Demolition Man predicts (and mocks) the sanitized future we maybe already live in.
It’s weird. It’s loud. It’s smarter than it looks. And it’s definitely not a Schwarzenegger Library kind of movie — or is it?
