Wednesday, August 06, 2003 :::
It's been a long time since I saw the movie Demolition Man (1993). It wasn't a great movie, though it was better than the critics said it was. The story begins when a cop, played by Sylvester Stallone, is cryogenically frozen (in the near future, i.e., the late '90s) as a punishment for using excessive force. One of the criminals whom he had previously put away (played by Wesley Snipes) manages to escape from the cryogenic prison in 2032, so the authorities unfreeze Stallone to help catch him.
Shortly after the cop is unfrozen, Sandra Bullock is showing him around, and says something nonchalantly about "President Schwarzenegger". Noticing his expression of surprise, she goes on to explain that, yes, he was born outside the country, but that he had been so popular that the states had ratified the sixty-first amendment to the constitution.
As you might guess, I'm bringing this up in light of the news that Schwarzenegger is running for Governor of California. If this goes any further, just remember that it was foretold.
(Incidentally, the biggest critical complaint about the movie was that it was too unrealistic -- and it certainly was an exaggerated world. But I thought the most unrealistic component was that we were up to constitutional amendment 61 only four decades after the 27th had been ratified.)
::: posted by Steven at 10:15 PM
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