The Weekly Planet - Demolition Man - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

Stallone, always on the hunt for the next action blockbuster, took a shot at sci-fi in 1993 with the release of Demolition Man. Set in the future of 1996 and then the future of 2032 it pits him again...st Wesley Snipes' Simon Phoenix having the absolute time of his life. And that's the whole movie real, just an absolute blast from the get go with somewhat accurate depictions of the future mixed in with absolute insanity like the three sea shells situation. Thanks for coming along with us on our 1990s sci-fi retrospective and watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravana Garbage, where we're taking a look at some classic 90s sci-fi. You better believe it. All of these movies we're looking at are A-plus, except this one. It's good. I like it. It's a lot of fun. Is it an A-plus movie?
Starting point is 00:00:13 Folks, you've had your fill of, now it's time for, which is the thinking man's, because it's Sylvester Sloan, demolition man. It depends what movie he's in, because sometimes he's, uh, it's in a stupid or bad movie. Correct, yes.
Starting point is 00:00:28 Like whatever movie he's made. in the last two years. I mean, this is a stupid movie. Undeniably, it's a stupid movie. Yeah, but they put money into it. They did. They put money and Rob Schneider into it. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:00:38 This is their first of two collaborations. Right? The Stallone Schneider joins. You think that's a double pack? You think that's a DVD double pack? You get at Walmart? These two would have to double pack, right? Just these movies in themselves.
Starting point is 00:00:52 Anyways, please leave it like for 1993's Demolition Man. Where actually, it's the year 1996. and L.A. is the home of fire and explosions and not much else. Their economy is no longer wholly weird, it's fireworks factories. This was like the Predator 2 gang violence in L.A. That's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's this era, right? And you know what?
Starting point is 00:01:15 There's nothing worse than that, is there? Except maybe soy boys. What's interesting to me is that this movie has not had a resurgence in recent years. Because ultimately it's about, oh, the world's gone all soft and you know what you need. a man who swears and has a gun and goes, it doesn't know how to wipe his ass properly. It's exactly right. Because that's what society would want from you.
Starting point is 00:01:37 It's to know how to do that and do it willingly. So yeah, everything's chaos in 1996, but luckily there's one man, a demolition man. That's right. And his name is John Sparta. Great name, terrific. He's on the... Couldn't have a name like this these days, could you?
Starting point is 00:01:51 No, he'd be called John pronoun. No, he'd be called non-binary pronoun. Nice. Which I think is good. Yeah. John binary pronoun? Yes. Because that sounds futurey as well, doesn't it?
Starting point is 00:02:02 It does. Anyways, he's after Simon Phoenix, who's the worst of the worst. Great name also. Stallone's always looking at Wesley Snipes and he's going, Phoenix, you shouldn't. You should be like, Simon. Yeah. You know, that had knocked him down a peg or two.
Starting point is 00:02:16 Hey, Simon. Yeah, this has also the kind of action opening sequence where Stallone just knows where everybody is. Absolutely. You know where they're going to be as you're falling out of the sky and turning a corner, know who's behind you at any point. You know where and when it is safe and not safe to do a fancy forward role, for example.
Starting point is 00:02:34 Here's a few. That's a nice, aren't they? Pretty good. So Sylvester Stallone is also on record as being pleased with this movie, calling it a great action film ahead of its time. Is it ahead of its time? How do you mean? Well, it's kind of...
Starting point is 00:02:50 Again, it's about the world that's gone soft and... Yeah, yeah, yeah. ...full of soy boys and we need a big tough man. I don't think that's necessarily a new thing. Yeah, I think that's been around... Since at least the Western, like the John Wayne Western. Oh, that's probably true. But now there's also AI chatbots that tell you how special you are.
Starting point is 00:03:06 You know, just on the street, you can just be like... How special am I? Very. Thanks. You're my A.A. Chatbot. Just a guy. Oh, okay. He bigs me up, but also tears me down.
Starting point is 00:03:16 Sometimes. But I'm proud of you, you idiot. Anyway, Stallone is Stallone in this and that's fine. I think he's doing a very serviceable, fine, fun job in the role. But really, Wesley Snipes. He's Bugs Bunny. He is Bugs Bunny. He's fantastic. He's so good. We're implying, you know, the implication there is Bugs Bunny is fantastic.
Starting point is 00:03:34 That's his default setting. Sure, absolutely. Stallone wanted Jackie Chan for this, but Jackie Chan was like, no, because the thing with Asian audiences, they don't like it when one of their action stars or even Hollywood stars, they do an evil role. They're like, we don't see them like this. That was the perception. That's interesting because there's also a Jackie Chan reference in this.
Starting point is 00:03:51 Yes. There's a few, this movie is very meta. Maybe that's what Stallone meant when he went, said it was ahead of its time. Simon Phoenix mentions Rambo. is a Rambo reference. We get a mention of President Schwarzenegger. That very nearly happened, not really. No, he couldn't. He wasn't born in America.
Starting point is 00:04:06 And good. Yeah. Yeah. Other things. iPads and whatever. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, the return of FaceTiming really up close is happening in this movie. That's right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:16 My goodness. Anyways, if you don't know the premise of this movie, two criminals. Well, one's not really a criminal. Yeah, Simon Phoenix. Well, sure. Simon Phoenix, he gets, he does all these crimes over many. is, there's a list of them. And then he blows up a building, which has a bunch
Starting point is 00:04:32 of people in it, but Stallone gets that pinned on him. And so he, and Simon Fedix get, I'm explaining this so, it's not that complicated. Why am I struggling? James, you're doing a great job, you idiot. They're both convicted and they're both sentenced to cryoprism. Yeah. Decades and decades,
Starting point is 00:04:50 they cryogenically freeze them, and then they put special radio waves or something into their brains to correct their behavior. But then, suddenly Simon Phoenix in the year 232 he's released somehow in 2032 Simon Phoenix gets thought out for a parole hearing
Starting point is 00:05:07 The far future of 2032 Oh boy What will it even be like like this probably Absolutely God I cannot wait I'm pre-ordering my big flowie robes and everything My big Japanese pants And my little tight Japanese shirt Ooh
Starting point is 00:05:20 Yeah But anyway he gets thought out But then he escapes Yeah somehow he's got all the skills How'd he do it Was Nigel Hawthorne from Yes Minister. It was yes minister. And yes Prime Minister. He did both. That's right. It was yes minister. It was yes minister all along. No, he wasn't the Prime Minister. We know that. He's
Starting point is 00:05:38 yes minister. Yeah, man. Watch the show for once in your goddamn life. Pay attention. You pack of yes minister casuals. Media literacy is dead. Anyway, the freezing process is wild. So you get in a little tub and then they fill it with oil right to the brim. I'll stop you there. You get in the tub nude. You get in the tub nude. Sorry. Stallone did initially have a nude scene in this. There are photos of it. You can see him hog out if you wanted to. All right then. It's not his first time hog out. That's true. Yeah. I mean, I guess as an action, yeah, he did some like, he did some, he did some softcore porno like before Rocky. Uh-huh. But this is, this is post that. It was called very Rocky.
Starting point is 00:06:16 What does that mean? I don't know, man. So yeah, they drown you in oil. Yes. And as you're drowning, they then shoot an electricity into you and then they drop a little, they drop a little blue egg in there. Yeah. And maybe over the year, You've been online and you've seen some... It's the rubber stalone, is what you're talking about? The rubber stalone, like mannequins showing up... On an auction site, for example. For perverts.
Starting point is 00:06:38 And it's also like there's way more than you'd think. Because they were made for Planet Hollywoods, is that right? That's exactly right. So this was also the era where a bunch of Hollywood cool bigwigs were like, well, what if you went to a special Hollywood restaurant where you could see Arnold's jacket? I'll stop you there. First of all, a bunch of Hollywood bigwigs,
Starting point is 00:06:57 put on their big leather jackets. And then they said that thing that you said. You're right, you're right, you're right, yeah. They put on baseball caps and big sunglasses and probably like a Tasmanian devil t-shirt or something. Oh, yeah. Yeah, hell yeah. And they went, what if you saw Bruce Willis's boxing glove from Pulpiction or a replica of? That's right. What if you saw that?
Starting point is 00:07:17 Or just a boxing glove. Yeah. Pretty cool, right? So it's not a Hollywood boxing glove? Oh, no. Anyway, so they made a bunch of them for that. Yeah. So they could hang him from the seal?
Starting point is 00:07:27 Hog out. Hog out. Yeah. Hog out as you enjoy your curly fries. But anyway, Simon Phoenix has escaped into the far-fong future of 2032. Oh, what's that going to be like? Soy boys. Soy boys day and night.
Starting point is 00:07:40 You know, they're all like, ooh, we don't know anything. Oh, we're all peace and love. Ooh, we're all, oh, we don't like bad language. We don't like... We don't like Dennis Leary. We don't like kisses or Dennis Leary. We certainly wouldn't like kissing Dennis Leary. I mean, we couldn't even get to him.
Starting point is 00:07:57 he's always blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah, you're doing your asshole speech, basically, yeah. And the cops are all like, ooh, oh, we don't know what to do. Right, but there's one cop played by a young Sandy Bullock. Yeah. And she's like, you know what we should do. We should thaw out that guy. That guy, that popular guy.
Starting point is 00:08:17 John Spartan or whatever. John Binary Spartan. And he gets to the future and he's not having it, is he? No. You know what's wild? He's something wild. Go on. So when you swear you get a.
Starting point is 00:08:27 fine. Sandy Bullock gets fined half a credit for swearing. Simon Phoenix gets fined a full credit. Racism. Racism. It's racism. I think it's also law, the law being offered leniency.
Starting point is 00:08:39 Oh, interesting. I think it's a number of things going on here, Mason. But doesn't John Spartan get fined one credit? I think they haven't fully thought this system through. I don't think they've thought any of this through. In fact, I would go as far to say is it's not far enough into the future for any of this to be the case. Also, when John Spartan is.
Starting point is 00:08:57 thought out, there's a guy who he knew from the before times who's just still on the police force. Yeah. And he's just like, oh yeah, I guess I'm in this future now where everybody is insane. Everybody's insane and peace loving and doesn't know how to do anything or know anything. And like every song on the radio is just a commercial jingle. Like how does it? Oh, is it that far away?
Starting point is 00:09:19 Oh, there we go. You ever been on bloody TikTok, Mason? No. That might be what it is. I don't go on TikTok. I don't know what's happening. I'm afraid of it. I wouldn't go on it.
Starting point is 00:09:27 It's not far enough, right? If you made it 2100, I'd be like, oh, okay, sure. Yeah. But there'd just be, it'd be literally 50-50, these weird soy boys and girls and others. And just 50% just people. I don't like this. I don't like this. Well, we don't like you.
Starting point is 00:09:45 So. Well, I guess it kind of is because they're all, for the most part, in the sewer. I guess they put them all in the sewer. So there is a resistance. And they're led by Dennis Leary. Correct. And he's in the sewer. And if you go down to the sewer, you can get a rat burger and a sexy car.
Starting point is 00:10:00 That's right. Or whatever else. Oh, that's right. Sexy cars are also illegal. Yeah, you can't have that. Yeah, there's only silly little cars. Which aren't that silly. Also, I think that shooting foam mechanism of safety, that's not a terrible idea.
Starting point is 00:10:14 Yeah, put that in your sexy car. Put that in your sexy car. Fill your car with bubble bar. Fill your car with bubble bar. Crash into a wall. That's right. There's also, also every... Franchise was eaten up in the franchise wars by Taco Bell.
Starting point is 00:10:30 And the initial idea of this was, what's a shit restaurant, what's a worst case scenario? I see. What's a joke place, which would mean that... Big funny joke. But then it actually became a proper product placement, but not everywhere in the world? Because you're familiar with this, right? Because not everybody in the world at the time had Taco Bell. Australia got Taco Bell like two years ago.
Starting point is 00:10:51 Yeah. So... And we don't like it. Australia, I think it was... Fuck off. I think in Australia was Pizza Hut. Yeah, I think it was. Yeah, so basically everywhere, most places outside of America, yeah, it was Pizza Hut.
Starting point is 00:11:03 And I guess if you're going to Taco Bell, that leads us into the three seashell situation. Oh, yes. So, putting aside, the John Spartan comes out of the bathroom for the first time, having not wiped his ass, putting that aside. Sure. You didn't want to even use the sink to splash your bottom with soap and water. You don't know that he went, though. Maybe he just went in and he looked. Maybe he checked first.
Starting point is 00:11:29 I always checked first. I'm a modern man. Nah, man. He was holding that shit for like 30 plus years. You think so? You think they didn't clear him out before? He rushed in there. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Uh-huh. Full hog out. Damn. Anyway, fine. Let's say he didn't do that. Uh-huh. So then he's like, I don't understand these three seashells because that's what everybody uses when they go to the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:11:49 And he goes, well, there's a way around this. If I keep swearing, I will get the thinnest and most, awful receipt paper. Glossy as well. Yeah, and like wipe my ass with that. Yeah, uh-huh. Dude, no. Go to a sink or something.
Starting point is 00:12:03 Yeah, and some water. Exactly. And then he's like, see, everyone, I'm going to take the worst shit imaginable. And then be unwiped for the rest of the movie. It's like Kyle Reese in the first Terminator movie. Absolutely. Just in disgusting pants and no underwear.
Starting point is 00:12:18 Dude, they should have hog tied him back in cryo, straight up. Hogtied him? Yes. By the hog? By the hog? Hog. Hog first. I'm assuming the three seashells is like a bidet system, right? Okay, sure, yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:31 It's something like that soap, water, air, I assume. Okay. I don't actually know. It's never been confirmed, but this is what Stallone said in an interview. He said, look, I don't have any idea how it actually works, but suggested the idea. It could be used like chopsticks, and you clamp them together to pull waste out of your body, and the third was used to scrape away what was left over.
Starting point is 00:12:52 What? That's what he said. Like chopsticks. Yeah. Has he never been to the beach? What does he think a sea show looks like? He's only been to Planet Hollywood. I guess that's true, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:01 And that train track and stairs where he ran around in Rocky or whatever. Oh. And the cabins of Rambo 5, if anybody remembers that movie. Boy, outy. Yeah. And I guess this leads us straight into, because I feel it's adjacent. Sex. Okay, sure.
Starting point is 00:13:17 I feel like this movie thinks it's adjacent. Those are tied together in your mind, interesting. No, not my mind. So yeah, it's a classic 90s action movie. You're going to get a. some nudity and whatever, just, you know, just because that's how it works. And so sex in this universe is a, is an awful VR headset that gives you an epileptic fit where you envision the person strobing and kissing in front of you or something.
Starting point is 00:13:41 So I'm just all whipping in and out of your field of vision. Going, ah, ooh, ooh, I'm going to get you. Yeah, that's what it feels like, I'm going to get you. Or I'm currently getting you. Maybe. So it's, it stimulates what it's supposed to stimulate. It simulates. It does both. Sex, future sex.
Starting point is 00:14:01 And he's like, I'm not having this. Let's do good old-fashioned fluid-to-fluid transfer, baby. Absolutely. Just like, I don't want to do that, not even kissing. And he's like, damn, and I was a good kisser. I don't believe you. I think he probably thinks that. But there is no way that this dude is a good kisser.
Starting point is 00:14:18 He lays one on a right at the end of the movie. Yeah, but it's that... Yeah, yeah. It's the soldier after World War II. Who was a creep, by the way? You know about that guy? I've heard about it. I've heard about it.
Starting point is 00:14:29 It was bad. All right. People are going to be like, uh, actually, shut up. You shouldn't just grab people and kiss people.
Starting point is 00:14:36 Don't do it. What if you've just killed Simon Phoenix, though? What if you, as a duo, you've sort of worked together over a couple of hours to kill a man?
Starting point is 00:14:44 Yeah. I guess you could ask. Yeah, you could ask. You should, I think you should probably still ask. Anyway, the next day he's like,
Starting point is 00:14:51 oh, sorry, I tried to have sex with you and you didn't want to. She's like, that's cool. I guess is cool and whatever. Funny gag, which I enjoyed, I've forgotten about, until the rewatch, Simon Phoenix, Wesley Snipes' characters.
Starting point is 00:15:02 He's been behaviourally engineered while in cryogenic suspension to be really good with weapons and he's super strong and he can like... Technology. Override computers and, you know... Overwales. Exactly. Wearing a suit made of tyres. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:15:17 Whereas Schwarzenegger... Mason. I think you're getting your movies and actors mixed up. My goodness. If you don't mind me saying so. Imagine if this makes the edit. People are going to lose their mind. I'll die.
Starting point is 00:15:31 I'll simply die. Whereas Stallone got the ability to knit. I think that's funny. That is fun. The scene where he's just subconsciously knitting a sweater. Funny bit. Should have done more with it, I think. Agreed.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Also, that's not rehabilitation. Just learning to knit. He's still the same. That's true. He's still awful and unhygetic and unwilling to learn. They should have programmed him with how the seashells worked. Agreed. So Dennis Lurie comes up from the sewer's like a rat
Starting point is 00:16:00 and he goes, this is the asshole era of Dennis Liery. He's a speech about eating an American flag while covered in Greece and run it around, hog out. Yeah, you better believe it. All of that. Real American stuff, real man stuff. Jack Black is there. I don't know if you saw him.
Starting point is 00:16:15 I didn't. He's just there. Wow. Yeah, this was pre that episode of the X-Files he was in. My goodness. With Giovanni Rabisi. Is it like crew cut era jack black? Is it a short air jack black?
Starting point is 00:16:26 I can't picture him. I can just see him in Mars attacks. So does that help? It's before he invented rigagoo, go, go, goo, goo. The riga gooo gooo, goo dish. Isn't that at Planet Hollywood? I think it might be. Anyway, cryo chamber is a great place for a showdown.
Starting point is 00:16:40 Agreed. He puts on his demolition man, Kangle, finally. Absolutely. We're back. Yeah, can we get those on eBay? I hope so. And it's just a really fun kind of knockabout fight. Just throwing and kicking.
Starting point is 00:16:52 I remember this being like a goryer than it was, but it was, this is quite lightweight, I think. Sure, yeah. You know, fun. Fun, yeah, but it's a great villain death, right? Absolutely, yes. And you know, after he, because he freezes him and whatever and it goes, it goes around the room, kicks his head off. And I'm thinking like, oh, this would just freeze the arm that he's hanging on. And it does.
Starting point is 00:17:13 They didn't, they didn't forget. And I appreciate that attention to detail. It's a great death from Simon Phoenix. Agreed. Anyways, at the end, the people who are out of the sewers and the, the nerds, the buttoned down nerds, except for yes minister who was shot. That's right. Also, great performance from Bob Gunton, who's an absolute terrific, Krusty Dean Poindexter
Starting point is 00:17:34 police chief. Oh yeah. The warden from Shawshank. He is, absolutely. It's what he does best. It's a real moment of like, well, both sides. Yeah. What if we wiped our asses, but also eight meat or whatever?
Starting point is 00:17:48 Could eat an American flag? What if I took all the ideas from one side and all the ideas from... on one side and I found a solution that everybody was happy with. Yeah. And then somewhere on a TV, watching TV, a seven-year-old Mr. Beast is like, my great idea. I could do something with this. He could and he will.
Starting point is 00:18:05 You're going to vote for him? Also, Benjamin Brad is in this. Oh, yeah. I like him. I like him too. He was in Doctor Strange. He was in Doctor Strange. Is that relevant to this?
Starting point is 00:18:14 No, no. He's sort of playing against type. Again, there's kind of like a good-natured point-exing guy. Absolutely. And at the end, he's effing and Jeffin with a bit. best of them. He's loving it, isn't he? He's loving being part of that team. He's eating a cheeseburger, sitting on an American flag or whatever you said.
Starting point is 00:18:28 Shoving an American flag up his ass, so big. Oh yeah, don't need those seashells anymore. Don't need them. Anyways, it's time for trivia, man. Love it. This is the trivia section of the show. Sandra Bullock actually replaced Laurie Petty after two days of filming due to creative differences. She was like, I mean Stallone, we're like oil and water. We do not get on together. She was Tank Girl. She was Tank Girl.
Starting point is 00:18:49 So, think about that. Next time you're using the three seashells. method Chopsticks Of contraception What? I don't know man You said they were together
Starting point is 00:18:57 You said they were linked No I said the movie thinks They're linked I don't think they're linked Those things should be separate Okay But I would go on the record Wow
Starting point is 00:19:04 What a prude You would belong in 2032 I probably would Mm-hmm Is everyone on like OZempick Because of the food They're eating
Starting point is 00:19:10 They get that right Do you have the small portions And whatever I think it was just The portions were small Or was that an entree I think that was the whole thing Because that's the joke
Starting point is 00:19:18 That what Because in the future Yeah You're not even even You're not even eating food, are you? Correct. You're eating soybeans and whatever. Yeah, that's right.
Starting point is 00:19:28 And mush. According to Dennis Leary, Wesley Snipes insisted on doing all his own action scenes, and after he finished his scenes, the crew would then go in and then do the stunt. I'll go to stunts again, right? Yeah. He even insisted on being cryogenically frozen in his head being kicked off. I don't think that's true. Yeah, they had to pay to put his head back on and then unfreeze him.
Starting point is 00:19:48 I think if he insisted on doing that, he should pay for that out of his own money. Well, he didn't. It's too late. And he went to jail for tax evasion, probably related to this. Probably trying to do some kind of legal loophole, get his head reattached by the government. Yeah. On the government's dime. On our, from our tax money. That's right.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Bear in mind, everybody, a lot of our money does come from the US, but we do not pay US taxes. Don't tell anybody. Jesse Benchura is one of the unfrozen criminals. Is he? You saw him in there? I did see him, actually. And then they all get machine gunned off screen. I like that workaround of killing yes minister.
Starting point is 00:20:19 I'm like, I can't kill this guy because they're programming not to. You shoot him. Nice. That's good. There was a... You look like you're going to say something. I was just going to say, but I'm yes minister.
Starting point is 00:20:29 You know? You can't kill me, I'm yes minister. You know? Which is what he always said at the end of every episode of yes minister. You can't kill me. I'm yes minister.
Starting point is 00:20:39 There was a cut subplot of what happened to John Spartan's daughter. Yeah, because in the... His wife's dead. His wife's dead. Classic dead wife movie, by the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's also one of those movies where, and it didn't even occur to me the first time I've ever watched it,
Starting point is 00:20:55 but now I'm like, is it just America that's like this? Because yes, Minister is just the head of America. Yeah. Right? Is everybody else looking in? Or is it like California even? Is it this and then in the UK? They're doing V for Vendetta?
Starting point is 00:21:09 They're doing V for Vendetta and 28 years later. And in Australia, they're doing Mad Max. Is that the math? I would love that to be true. Right? Yeah. Anyway, so you were saying subplot about the daughter. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:20 So they did a test screening. None of that really played. So she was going to be part of the underground. She was going to be the burgers. She was going to be the burgers. No, she was part of the... You're reading your daughter, Sylvester Stallone. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:21:32 Pretty good burger. Pretty good burger made out of my daughter. Test audiences didn't like that because it kind of echoed the fact that his daughter was like the same age as Sandra Bullock's character. And then there's a theory that maybe Sandra Bullock is actually his daughter, but the ages don't line up. And also, I don't think that's something that would even subconsciously put in a movie? No, you'd hope?
Starting point is 00:21:55 That'd be weird. That would be weird. But then it is the movie with the three seashells, isn't it? That's true. With all the connotations that you've come up with. None of those connotations are from me. They just come to me in a dream. And who knows where that comes from?
Starting point is 00:22:07 Probably that VR sex headset you put on before you go to sleep. Wessler's nobes. He hated the blonde diatriop that he had. Uh-huh. So as soon as he finished filming his shave, his head. But then after this movie's release, do you remember who picked this hair cut up?
Starting point is 00:22:25 For years? Well, for quite a while at least. Dennis Rodman. Okay. Yeah, right. I don't think it's a terrible look, to be honest. Pretty good. It's pretty cool.
Starting point is 00:22:35 Yeah. Of its time. Of its time. Budget. Box office. Look. Sometimes we cover budget. Not this time.
Starting point is 00:22:46 No, we are. Just box office. Box office. On a budget of 45 million. dollars, which then ballooned to 77 million. So just say $77 million. No, it blew because it's important to know that like Lorry Petty was replaced. What did they cost a bunch of money to not hire someone?
Starting point is 00:23:00 No, because they had to hire another person. Oh, they'd have to hire two people? Yeah, they had to hire two people. And hiring two people cost more than hiring one person? Yeah, other things happen. Interesting. I'm learning every day. Stallone was out. Can you learn in a less obnoxious manner?
Starting point is 00:23:14 No. Or can I learn in a less obnoxious manner? I suppose I could. Stallone was out for nine. days with the shoulder injury. Obviously, it's like, it's hundreds of thousands of dollars whenever you don't,
Starting point is 00:23:23 millions when you don't have your main star. Oh, it's hundreds of millions of dollars if you don't have your main star. Often it can be, yeah. There was rain, one of the sound stages caught on fire.
Starting point is 00:23:32 Oh, rain and fire, are they bad? Rain and fire are bad? The movie, no, rain and fire is a good movie bad. It's got dragons in it. Well, they're Wivens, actually. Fucking idiot.
Starting point is 00:23:41 Oh, come on, man. It made $159 million and became like a big hit on VHS. Yeah. You know, it's a pretty fun and popular. It's very, watchable. It is, isn't it? It's just like, God, you can just really just sink into
Starting point is 00:23:54 this one. No video game adaptation. Yes, there was. Was there? On the Cness and others, I think. Was there? It was probably a game gear adaptation. Oh, game gear? I can look it up right now. Please. Do you get to use the three seashells in a mini game? No, it's just mostly sex 90s VR. Oh, terrific. Awful, right?
Starting point is 00:24:12 I think Stallone was like in it? Really? So it was on the Sega Genesis, Sega Genesis or Mega Drive, I should say. Sega Genesis or Mega Drive, depending where you are, the Sinesse and the Sega CD. Oh, there you go. It feels like a Sega CD game. Sega!
Starting point is 00:24:29 Like a really tiny little window of like full motion video. Oh yeah. Okay, I'm using the three seashells. Yuck! Yuck! Anyways, did somebody say Demolition Man 2? No? I mean, I'm sure somebody has probably said that sentence before.
Starting point is 00:24:47 And I'm sure many people have said those three words. separately in their lives. And? That's good. Good. Yeah. Well, there was talk of it like immediately after and then a bit over the years and it went in and out of like, can we even do this now?
Starting point is 00:24:58 Was this even politically relevant? Well, also, yes, more than ever, obviously. Yeah. But Stallone said on an Instagram Q&A a few years back, he said, I think it's coming. We're working on it right now with Warner Brothers and it's looking fantastic. So that should come out. That's going to happen. I don't know about that.
Starting point is 00:25:14 Also, like, you don't, right? Need to? Yeah, also like, what do you do? you do clone Simon Phoenix and he comes back or something? Yeah. Okay, good. I guess you could. Yeah, I mean, if they reattached his head in real life,
Starting point is 00:25:27 I don't see why they can't work that into a movie, that technology. It's true, yeah. Yeah. They could add the line in the script. Yeah, they reattached my head and unfroze me. Yep. And now I'm back. He could be an AI guy.
Starting point is 00:25:37 AI guy. Virtuosity style. Virtuosity style. Russell Crow eating glass, but it's Wesley Snipes eating glass. That's right. For AI. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:49 Anyways, here's a hint towards next week. It's another classic 90s sci-fi. What is it? I don't know. It's another Starship Troopers movie. Not another. It's the first one. The first one.
Starting point is 00:25:58 It's the first one. It's like four or five. I bet there is, yeah. Oh, there is. If you do want to see that early, you can actually at big sandwich. com or our Patreon, patreon. Patreon.com slash Mr. Sunday movies. Where you might be like, well, that's a great deal getting early videos, but do you have an early podcast that goes there also?
Starting point is 00:26:14 Yes. You do, actually. It's called the weekly planet. It's got its own YouTube channel and everything. I'm proud of you for asking you, you idiot. But it's not the only thing going on there. There's a bunch thousands of hours of bonus content
Starting point is 00:26:24 that exclusively goes there. We do video game let's plays. We do bonus podcasts. We do movie commentaries. Have we done on one on Demolition Man? No, but we have on Cliff Hanger. Cliffanger. Cliffanger.
Starting point is 00:26:36 What did you say? His name was? Cliff H. Anger? Maybe. I say a lot of stupid stuff. Yeah, he does. Doesn't he everybody.
Starting point is 00:26:42 Come on, man. Yeah. We're here to uplift each other. I don't think that's true. No, it's not true. That was a test. And you failed. Good?
Starting point is 00:26:50 Thank you so much to Ben for the edit. Thank you, Ben. Thank you so much to Lawrence for the edit. Thank you, Lawrence. We see on the next one. Grabbed out jam, you guys. We'll see you soon. Next week, no politics.
Starting point is 00:26:58 I hope not. Why would there be? Why even would there be? Don't bring politics. It's just men versus bugs. Good old-fashioned American men who fled to Argentina. To fight bugs. To fight bugs.

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