It’s a portrayal of how normalcy can change, and of people who are uptight because upheaval is still a close enough memory that they have trouble bringing themselves to relax, no matter what the oblivious ’90s action hero in their midst might urge.

Sandra Bullock’s character springing VR sex on an unprepared Stallone is funny, but her subsequent rant about the perils of fluid transfer is filled with real distress - an artifact of AIDS trauma that now feels COVID-applicable. What stands out are the indications that its futuristic society is one still recovering from the shock of its own near-collapse. It’s set, after all, in a near future in which handshakes have been replaced by an absurd no-contact alternative, the only surviving restaurant is Taco Bell, and people use a mysterious trio of seashells instead of toilet paper.ĭemolition Man may have been intended as a goof about restrictions on behavior and language, but it plays differently from a sheltering-in-place 2020 perspective. But the ongoing pandemic has a funny way of creating new resonance for familiar fare, and that’s been especially true for the 27-year-old action comedy. The sci-fi movie, which features Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes shooting and quipping their way through a scandalized, sanitized 2032 Los Angeles, has been a cultural touchpoint ever since it came out in 1993 - particularly for the right, who’ve seized on its restrictive utopia as a metaphor for government overreach. When news of drones urging people to maintain social distancing made the online rounds earlier this month, a certain comparison kept cropping up: This looks like something out of Demolition Man.

Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock give VR sex a go in Demolition Man.

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