The Case for Remaking Demolition Man

There's a point about this movie that I wasn't aware of until it was pointed out in the comments of my deconstruction of Brave New World. Namely, Demolition Man puts an action-adventure movie into a society that approximates that of Brave New World. That's the quick premise and you can see how that's worth a story. Take an old, action-adventure shoot-em-up and transplant the characters into such a society and look at how they'll both react.

It would... be better if the movie didn't make the same mistake as Huxley, himself.
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