That's been the line in many sy-fi movies.
No, I didn't know. Will he get a good facelift first?
Well, yeah, I suppose you can say that about future-esque sci-fi films like
Running Man, et al. Although John Carpenter's vision for the future societies isn't quite as welcoming, evidenced by the post-apocalyptic hellscapes he paints in
Escape From New York/L.A.
Still, there's something SO visceral and direct about what's being suggested in
Demolition Man....you can really see it coming to pass. I don't think, the way we're going anyway, that society will evolve into the "happy happy joy joy" robed bullshit we see in Brambilla's film (because we're still punching each other out on airplanes over mask mandates and all that) but I do believe that some of what is depicted there can come to fruition in terms of the market control, surveillance obsession, etc.
With regard to the sequel -- I hope he gets a face lift first, though I don't know exactly where the plot is going to go. Maybe they will explore Spartan's daughter character being that she was brought up multiple times in the original? Is it going to be a direct continuation of the first one or is it going to be set much further into the future than 2032? Or maybe Sly is going to wait until 2032 to launch the sequel so that it's kind of the here-and-now?
