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In hindsight it doesn't seem that bad, overall. (lemmy.world)
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A still from the movie Demolition Man in which some police officers prepare to confront a character played by Wesley Snipes.

Top Text: Demolition Man: A movie which depicts a horrifying dystopia...

Bottom Text:...in which food is too healthy, bidets are common, and cops literally don't know how to assault a black man.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 109 points 2 months ago

Bidets?!

This guy doesn’t know about the three shells!

[-] db2@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Apparently it's canon that you use two like chopsticks to get most of the poo and the third scrapes the rest off.

A bidet would be great compared to that.

[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 months ago

That’s just a fan theory, no where in the movie is that established.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I didn't say it was in the movie.

https://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/30865

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

psh this dude hasn't used the three shells

[-] penguin@lemmy.pixelpassport.studio 8 points 2 months ago

gross to read, thank you

[-] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The idea of demolition man cannon makes me wish for a demolition man extended universe, hopefully with a crossover with Judge Dredd

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

No, that’s what the poop knife is for.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

If the three sea shells discourse isn't a stand-in for 90s Americans' anxiety about bidets then I don't know what is.

[-] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

3 mysterious sea shells... you think 3 dry sea shells (which most people understand logistically would be impossible to clean yourself properly with) was a stand in for bidets?

I was also around when the movie came out and not a single human i interacted with imagined they were a bidet. In fact bidets were so uncommon in the US at the time that most Americans experience with them was from the movie Crocodile Dundee.

Everyone's problem with the sea shells was that you wouldn't be able to clean yourself properly when you imagine physically using them. But people in the future they imagined have extremely small and limited diets, they probably don't produce an huge amount of waste. There's only 1 fat guy in the whole movie, and you wonder how Otho from Beetlejuice got that way on taco bell protein pellets.

IF they had introduced the concept of a bidet system, it would have immediately removed the mystery from the sea shells and made them far less intimidating.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The anxiety about bidets is leaving the bathroom with a wet spot on my ass.

[-] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You still wipe with toilet paper, you just use far less, anyone who has a wet spot on their ass might have turned it in with their pants on. In which case the bidet isn't the problem.

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[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 months ago

The supposed utopia is modeled after the ideal of suburban USA. That's pretty fucking dystopic. Add to that tge prohibition of kissing, sex, Rock music, etc...

I think someone didn't watch or utterly misunderstood the movie.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Comrade, I rented that movie from a locally-owned VHS rental shop that used physical membership cards.

Sure it's a dystopia, but it's a dystopia where they solved too many problems. John Spartan gets into a high speed car crash and his car instantly fills up with safety foam and he's completely unharmed. The police force is ethnically and gender diverse. Guns are museum pieces. The cops don't know HOW to assault somebody.

Sure they've killed a large amount of choice, and the guy in charge of it all seems to be determined to secure even more power for himself because of course he's a sociopath with Mr. Rogers' speech patterns, but all told I'd much rather live in the Demolition Man future than Judge Dredd or Death Race 2000.

[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

but all told I'd much rather live in the Demolition Man future than Judge Dredd or Death Race 2000.

But all the dystopian elements is not necessarily the price for the improvements. The message of the movie (to me) was "don't get fooled by some shiny surface when the core is rotten."
And your choice is not between "bad" and "worse". We can imagine even better futures (Star Trek Federation citizenship seems to be pretty neat (if you're not trying to settle some fringe worlds at the cardassian border) for example), so we can work on these.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the guy in charge of it all seems to be determined to secure even more power for himself because of course he’s a sociopath with Mr. Rogers’ speech patterns

If the right people don't have power do you know what happens? The wrong people get it!

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Holy shit, I had no idea Raymond Cocteau was this before he was Raymond Cocteau. That's total genius casting.

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[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Ngl, digital tantric neural sex link seems pretty fuckin' rad.

I guess they left out the part where it implants Taco Bell ads, mines your subconscious for thought crimes, and sells the data so people can have virtual sex with your likeness. Less rad.

[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 33 points 2 months ago

Well there was that entire underground society.

[-] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

But the underground society seemed to be more about finding their own version of freedom rather than outright exclusion.

In a world with super aids they still wanted to raw dog it.

[-] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Rat burgers

[-] db2@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

With a great food spot too.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Demolition Man is what Europe will look like. USA will look like The Running Man (1987 version, not the remake). It already looks like Idiocracy.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

**EDIT: The movie is 'The Invasion' (2007)

There was a sci-fi movie 20 years ago about an alien intelligence taking over world governments, replicating itself into human hosts via inoculations for a 'virus', and as the movie progresses world peace is achieved, but the protagonists fight against it over fears of losing free will.

And I'm over here like... the aliens are the bad guys?

[-] TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

That's basically the plot of Pluribus

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Just started that one, Carol sucks. Enjoying it so far.

[-] lemonhead2@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

one thing I remember about that movie. walmart grew so big it bought everything else. all stores are now Walmart. and all restaurants are taco bell.

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Taco Bell won the fast food wars.

[-] houndeyes@toast.ooo 12 points 2 months ago

Don't forget that moist virtual action!

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the TTRPG Shadowrun. Sometimes its hard to sell the corporate dystopia when you're describing eating & drinking soy products because meat is prohibitively expensive and they can sell the effect of dubious cash crops like coffee and chocolate with a soy based alternative.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

The shadowrun 5e rulebook actually allows someone to live in a small one bedroom appartment on a part time job, we are so far past what used to be considered dystopia.

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Remember how there's also a giant second city underground that's barely scraping by, and the people running the utopian city are trying to eradicate them? Yeah, not a very bright take on the movie.

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And fuck the movie The Fan starring Wesley Snipes. Demolition Man's the only Snipes movie I like.

-Jon "MC Vagina" Lajoie

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

Blade was alright

[-] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Only the first one.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

I didn't know they made another one

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