Enhance your calm: Demolition Man turns 30

I watched it first on Belgian TV. All restaurants were Pizza Hut.

20 years later I watched the US version. Quite confused when all restaurants were taken over by Taco Bell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpRzusd9Yi8

You can actually see at 0:50 that it originally was Taco Bell and that they 'just' dubbed it.

This movie sits alongside the original 2000 release of Deus Ex for me as being far more prophetic than it has any right to be.

The first time I watched this was at secondary school, I think we would have been about 15. The social studies teacher put this on so we could study "Societies of the Future".

Reading between the lines now I think the teacher might have been a bit hungover and just put it on to shut us up. Either way, a great movie.

> Originally, Steven Seagal was supposed to star, with Jean-Claude Van Damme playing the villain.

Dear God.

In glancingly tangential news,

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester won the first ever Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1953 ... 70 years ago.

How did a character from the 1990s TV series Babylon 5 write a novel 40 years earlier?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demolished_Man

Is this the year I learn Norwegian? https://radio.nrk.no/serie/demolisjon/MKTT81005181

He doesn’t know how to use the three seashells!

Oh, this was written by Sean Carroll's wife. I am a big fan of his work and his podcast, Mindscape. Truly a power couple.

And finally 30 years after the film it is Madzda which offers a driver personalization system based on facial recognition similar to what has been imagined in Demolition Man: https://youtu.be/uCG5UZYEYeE

They called me demolition man when i worked in hospital as a teen..