'Demolition Man' was on TV last night.

[kiki]

OK, so I think it's an OK movie. Sue me. And Sandra Bullock was just poured into that uniform.

Anyway, there's a bit I found amusing in which Sandra mentions the 'Schwarzenegger Presidential Library'. She goes on to explain that, although Arnie isn't a US citizen, his popularity led to the 61st amendment, allowing him to run successfully for the office of Prez. Art imitating life? Let's hope not.

There's also a bit where, presented with a future in which everyone has a 'biochip' under their skin allowing people to be located by the government at any time, he says "This fascist crap makes me wanna puke." And this is a fictional totalitarian US that is merely censorial and kind of boring, not one based around war, greed and hatred. Wonder if he's noticed any parallels with today's US, and what he thinks about it if so?

[mattclearing]

1. I find "The Running Man" to be similarly disturbing.

Richard Dawson, trying to book criminals to put into his reality-tv/wrestling hybrid: "Get me the Justice Department, entertainment division!"

[kiki]

2. I shouldn't be surprised, really,

As I've said many times before, I firmly believe that America has been unwittingly transformed into a Paul Verhoeven movie, without any of the humour.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. The pilot program is already on in Iraq

Iraq studying possible abuse in TV confession show

The TV series, called "Terrorism in the Grip of Justice", airs almost nightly on Iraqiya, Iraq's U.S.-funded national network, and shows men sitting before an interrogator, whose face is not show, confessing to crimes in precise detail.

Some defendants have appeared with cuts and bruises on their faces and what looked like bloodstains on their clothes.

They confess to criminal and militant acts including kidnap, rape, the execution of hostages, planting bombs and contract murder, sometimes for as little as $10. Some have said they were acting on the orders of Syrian agents.
...
Many viewers of the programme are not content just to see insurgents confess, they want to see them executed too, he said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK446325.htm

[kiki]

10. Whoa...

Nineteen Eighty-Four anyone?

Do they confess to spreading syphillis among party members and guiding rocket bombs to Airstrip One as well?

[nonconformist]

3. Ha, I know

I'm not a fan of action movies usually, but Demolition Man has always been a guilty pleasure of mine.

That said, I've been referring to that movie since Arnie ran for governor.

[Debaser]

5. funy isn't it

Compared to where we're heading now, in a few years time people might look back on it as a relatively Utopian vision for the future.

[Huckebein the Raven]

6. Can't forget the Fast Food Wars

and Taco Bell is a gourmet restaurant

:rofl:

[thebigidea]

7. on the plus side, at least the career of Dan Cortese fizzled out

who could forget his touching, moving Burger King "I love this place!" commercials... ah, sheer annoyance set to music,

[Huckebein the Raven]

9. that's true

[LostinVA]

8. Hate Stallone, Love that movie

And, when Arnie was elected Gov of California, I remembered that line Sandra Bullock's character said about his Presidential Library. Just PLEASE don't let Taco Bell be the only restaurants left in the future!!! Or actual sex be outlawed!!!

[Johonny]

11. I feel bad

for poor Jeffery Dahmer who died in prison before Wesley could rescue him:(