A mediocre action film, but a very underrated satire that becomes more and more prophetic with each passing year.

This might be my favorite Sylvester Stallone movie after Rocky's II, III and IV. this movie ust works really well.

Get drunk and watch this movie. It's the best, there's no way they would have survived that blast at the beginning.
Two shots down. Let watch this.

BTW, it's on AMC is it really a classic?

Its probably about 20 years old. I'm sure it isn't the youngest movie they have played.

21 years old, and terrible! 1993.

I vote "guilty pleasure."

I think it is the only Stallone movie I like.

21 years old! Holy shit I'm old...


Love this movie.

According to Wikipedia it only cost 56 million to make made 150 million, I wonder why there was never a sequel.

AMC does not stand for American Movie Classics anymore.

TLC does not stand for The Learning Channel.

A&E doesn't stand for Arts and Entertainment.

KFC does not stand for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

It cost $57 million to produce and made $58 million at the US box office. That's why there was never a sequel.

So 100 million worldwide? That's better than Tomb Raider.

And that was in 1993 dollars.

I have the French Blu-ray import. Saw this in theaters, too. Always enjoyed it. Director Marco Brambilla is the one who had the peculiar directing career. I only remember him doing this and that one with Alicia Silverstone and Benicio del Toro called Excess Baggage, which bombed.

No, it is not. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tombraider.htm

How is that it cost 115million to make and only made 130 million. Whereas, DM was 57 million to make and over 150 million worldwide.

About 90 million is more than 15 million isn't it?

EDIT: NM, I'm only looking at domestic gross.

I love this movie but the one thing that always bugged me was that the whole thing takes place in the utopia of "San Angeles" but that's still presumably in the United States. It would have to be completely isolated from the rest of the world (and for a much longer period of time) for everyone to forget so much about everything, to be shocked by murder, to have no old cars anymore, etc. It's never said the whole country is following Cocteau's plan.

Try not to think too hard on the details. Like Cocteau agrees to let more criminals out to "help" Simon when Cocteau hadn't programmed any of them with an inhibition to harming him like he did with Simon. For such a so called mastermind that was pretty stupid.

Here's a more complete answer to your question comparing Demolition Man and Tomb Raider.

First, Hollywood's perception of the value of foreign box office changed markedly from the 90s to the 2000s. This idea may seem odd because money is money no matter where the dollars come from, but it is true.

Second, a Demolition Man franchise would have been dependent on Stallone's appeal to moviegoers. If you look at the numbers for his films from 93-96 you see a continuous and steady decline in his popularity as an action star. Also a DM sequel would have needed Sandra Bullock to return, and after Speed in 94, she was playing the lead in her own movies.
Tomb Raider was Angelina Jolie's first movie as the singular headliner, and she was still considered a global star on the rise.

Third, despite DM's ability to make money in foreign markets, it's primary appeal is to American audiences and it did not appeal to them so well. Despite the action movie beats, DM is also a commentary on action movie cliches and a satire of politically correct culture.
Tomb Raider is the story of a sexy and buxom woman who travels the world getting into fights, shoot-outs, and car chases. That's a universal movie language that any audience can understand.

Actually no. There is a second nude scene. Play her “sex” scene with her and Stallone in their sex helmets. You will catch a couple nude body shots in with the flashes of bullocks face. She supposedly had a body double.

Nice to hear I'm not the only one that got a soft spot for Demolition Man.

I just bought the blu-ray for $6 from Best Buy.

I was a fan of Stallone and Schwarzenegger films as a kid, but I stopped liking their action films when they became too funny or tongue-in-cheek.
How do you go from Terminator 2: Judgment Day to Last Action Hero?

I initially viewed Demolition Man the same way. But it turned out to be one of the better action films from the 90s and definitely a highlight in Stallone's career.
Wesley Snipes was great as Simon Phoenix. Bullock was adorable. And the visual design of the future was pretty good. Even the title was great, and seemed destined to be a franchise.
Oh well.

I got the latter at the time, but only as an adult did I appreciate the commentary on action movie cliches.

I remember getting a special Demolition Man cup from Taco Bell back in 1993 and thought it was a big deal.

I just did a re watch (on Hulu) after quite a few years had passed since I last saw the film on home video/cable (and I of course saw it in theaters) and it is a much better film than I remembered it to be with a crazy adorable Sandra Bullock and some action set-pieces that are shockingly well put together (the scene in the museum when Simon goes looking for weapons is a great set-piece).

It is great looking in HD, has lots of action, some humor, and a stellar cast...if this got the UHD treatment it would go on my shortlist of catalog titles worth picking up.

Damn, another multi-year thread bump by a newbie with only one post (so far)! What's going on here?! It's an epidemic.

(The thread began in 2004 and got bumped at five-year intervals. The newbie should have waited a year.)

I'm another one with a soft spot for Demolition Man. Had it on DVD, a flipper disc (in a snap case to boot) that suffered from disc rot, the widescreen side wouldn't play right any more, ended up trashing it and buying it on blu-ray. Definitely an entertaining movie!

I love DM and would scoff at inevitable rebootoot...