Imagine a future without violence, without disease, without much in the way of fear or worry.
Now imagine that the future can only exist if people give up almost everything that makes life worth living.
That’s what happened in Marco Brambilla’s 1993 science fiction action flick “Demolition Man,” which stars Sylvester Stallone as John Spartan, a cop they call the Demolition Man because of his penchant for causing serious collateral damage, who ends up in a cryo-prison after an arrest goes horribly wrong.
When Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), a super-criminal from the 20th century, is defrosted and escapes his parole hearing, the future cops thaw Spartan to try and bring him to justice.
Spartan and Phoenix both come from an anarchic, violent time, and neither can fit into the sterile “utopia” they find themselves in. San Angeles, the southern California mega-city that has replaced Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San
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