{"id":1190082,"date":"2023-10-08T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T18:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190082"},"modified":"2023-10-08T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T18:35:57","slug":"enhance-your-calm-demolition-man-turns-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190082","title":{"rendered":"Enhance your calm: Demolition Man turns 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Sylvester Stallone starred as LAPD Sergeant John Spartan in the 1993 action comedy Demolition Man<\/em>. (credit: Warner Bros.)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Thirty years ago today, Demolition Man<\/em><\/a> first hit theaters, pitting Sylvester Stallone against Wesley Snipes in a crime-free but killjoy future where even minor vices have been declared illegal. The passage of time hasn’t quite elevated this sci-fi action comedy\u00a0to the legendary status of Die Hard<\/em> or Lethal Weapon<\/em>, but it’s still an under-appreciated gem of ’90s action movies, precisely because it unapologetically leans into the massive explosions and campy humor with wild abandon.<\/p>\n

(Spoilers below, because it’s been 30 years.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Demolition Man<\/em> started out as a spec script by Peter Lenkov, then a recent college grad eager to break into Hollywood. (Lenkov went on to create his own shared fictional TV universe<\/a> with the interconnected reboot series Hawaii 5-0, MacGuyver<\/em>, and Magnum P.I.<\/em>) Lenkov was a Lethal Weapon<\/em> fan and envisioned an action movie about a cryogenically frozen “super cop” who wakes up decades in the future in a world largely free of crime, where he must battle his criminal arch-nemesis. As for the title, Lenkov had been listening to Sting’s “Demolition Man<\/a>” constantly because the cassette player in his car was broken. Inspiration strikes in nonlinear ways.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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