10 Movies Smarter Than Anyone Wants To Admit
1. Demolition Man
Easily the poster child for intelligence lying just beneath the surface of a film. But in this case, it's totally understandable why people didn't get it at the time when it came out. This film pretty much perfectly predicted 2010's-onward internet culture, 20 years earlier.
Sure, you could argue that people these days have a lot of stuff to rightly be offended at, and you would be right, no way could this movie predict everything going on right now. But Demolition Man doesn't totally demonize the future it depicts, thankfully. I mean, crime is basically gone, people are happy, for the most part, and it does show that the alternative wasn't all that great either.
Demolition Man parodies a future it didn't even know was coming, without even necessarily saying it's wrong. There is a lot of the past we need to address and re-contextualize, but it does show how it can go too far (Taco Bell is the only fast food place left, really?).
Demolition Man, unlike other sci-fi parodies at the time or since, has only gotten more relevant as time has gone on. And something tells me that it's only going to get more relevant in the future.
Tl;dr if toilet paper companies pull out a new, oddly seashell based replacement fort toilet paper, I told you so.