Demolition Man pitted Sylvester Stallone against Wesley Snipes in a near-future setting. (Images: Warner Bros., Illustration: Yahoo News)“There was a lot of interesting experimentation going on,” says director Marco Brambilla on the making of his 1993 action-satire Demolition Man, which turns 30 this week.“The film was quite commercial at the time but it still had some eccentric elements that I threw in that I may not have been able to do today,” he suggests.“In fact, if I was making it today, you probably couldn’t say the things we said in the context of a big-budget science fiction movie.”As far as predictions go, Demolition Man’s not far off of the mark. On the surface, Brambilla’s explosive sci-fi actioner, fronted by Sly Stallone and Wesley Snipes, looks just like every other ’90s summer tentpole, complete with two of the decade’s biggest stars front and centre.However, underneath its destruction and cheesy quips lies a social satire that remains eerily reminiscent of the sanitised social scene that some believe we find ourselves living in today.Italian-born Canadian film director Marco Brambilla (left) at the LA premiere of Demolition Man in 1993. (Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)In it, Stallone plays the heroically named John Spartan, a hardened cop who’ll do whatever it takes to keep the mean streets of 1996 LA clean. He’s so good at his job he’s earned the nickname ‘The Demolition Man’ thank… Click below to read the full story from Yahoo Movies UK
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