Line #41 Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS8E8


1	'''Release:''' April 14, 2015
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3	'''Film:''' ''Film/DemolitionMan''
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5	'''Tagline:''' Brilliant commentary or dumb Dick Flick?
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7	!!This review provides examples of:
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10	* AchievementsInIgnorance: ''Somehow'', Malcolm's theory about the three seashells' purpose (to be processed into toilet paper) ''achieves world peace''... yeah, even he is dumbstruck.
11	* BaitAndSwitch: In order to demonstrate that "dick flicks" can have a more meaningful message than [[RatedMForManly the concept]] [[TestosteronePoisoning would make you think]], Devil Boner exposes [[Franchise/{{Robocop}} a man's battle for his humanity]], [[Film/TotalRecall1990 a man's struggle to define what is reality]] and this film, which talks about PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil.
12	* BrickJoke: The Critic asks Malcolm and Tamara to research the purpose of the seashells and he asks their results at the end of the review.
13	* CallBack:
14	** The Critic attributes San Angeles' crime-free record to ''Film/ThePurge'' [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS7E15 being enabled]].
15	--->'''Critic:''' "Hey, don't question it! [[RunningGag It just works!]]"
16	* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: The Critic threatens to place Malcolm and Tamara in a ''spinal cord removal machine'' if they fail their seashell research.
17	* FridgeLogic: {{Invoked\|Trope}} on three occasions:
18	** The Critic wonders why Cocteau programmed Phoenix to have all sorts of martial arts and hacking skills, but not the police.
19	** He also pointed out that the SAPD car's security systems disregard it being shot repeatedly, bumping into things at high speed and ''having a door ripped off'' long before activating the safety foam that allows Spartan to survive the crash into the SAPD HQ's fountain.
20	** He also brings up the many ways Huxley could have helped Spartan in his final battle against Phoenix had the former not zapped her unconscious beforehand (or as The Critic prefers to call it, "a little game called 'What Huxley ''Could'' Have Done While Stallone ''Gets His Ass Kicked''!'").
21	* HamToHamCombat: The museum battle (the "battle for the lamest 90's action come-back"), complete with scoreboard and play commentary by The Critic.
22	* HilariousInHindsight: The Critic's InUniverse opinion of the film, describing it as being more appropriate for the mid-2010s than it was back in 1993.
23	* HypocriticalHumor: The Critic calls Lenina Huxley a loser for being nostalgic for the 20th century.
24	* LameComeback: The Critic considers Spartan saying "Not" to one of Phoenix's one-liners in the final fight this and says that Huxley could have said something better had she come along.
25	* MondegreenGag: The Critic points out that Stallone yelling "PHOENIX!" really sounds like "PENIS!"
26	* MyGodYouAreSerious: Malcolm's reaction to being ordered to research the meaning of the three seashells under pain of ''spine removal''.
27	* RatedMForManly: The Critic's view on action movies from TheEighties and TheNineties and the concept of the "dick flick" in general.
28	* RiddleForTheAges: How are seashells used in lieu of toilet paper? Then, later in the film, it's revealed that Taco Bell won the [[CorporateWarfare Franchise Wars]], making them the only fast food chain left in existence, a notion so outlandish that it makes Critic dismiss the seashell riddle.
29	* RightHandCat: The Critic uses his WesternAnimation/{{A\|vatarTheLastAirbender}}ppa plushie as one while ordering Malcolm and Tamara to search for the meaning of the three seashells.
30	* RunningGag:
31	** The above-mentioned "[[SayMyName PHOENIX!]][=/=][[ThatCameOutWrong PENIS!]]" joke.
32	** [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS7E16 Devil Boner]] returns to help preface the Critic's introductory essay on the [[RatedMForManly overly masculine nature]] of 90s films.
33	** On pointing out how [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Spartan managed to survive the explosion of Phoenix's stronghold at the beginning of the movie offscreen]], he sarcastically suggests that [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS4E16 there was probably a Coke machine]] [[Film/DoubleTeam in there someplace]].
34	** [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS2E40 Bringing back the]] "I WAS FROZEN TODAY!" snip from ''Film/SuburbanCommando'' moments before the Spartan's cryogenic prison is fully shut.
35	** Wondering if the advertisement jingle radio station broadcasts the [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS7E22 "don't you put it in your mouth" ad from his "Commercials" specials]].
36	* ShoutOut:
37	** The Critic suggests that Simon Phoenix looks like what happens if [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald McDonald]] and Film/{{Beetlejuice}} sponsored a human Happy Meal toy.
38	** [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Leia's "I love you" scene]] is slipped into that of Spartan's freezing.
39	** During the scene where the warden briefs the defrosted Simon for his parole hearing, the Critic splices this line:
40	--->'''Critic!Warden:''' You ''will'' steal me an [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Ever-Lasting Gob-Stopper]]...
41	** Calling Phoenix's outfit after escaping Cryo-Prison a disguise of "Dennis Rodman [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS The Menace]]".
42	** Before sending off Malcolm and Tamara to find the meaning of the three seashells, the Critic bids them "[[Film/TheHungerGames May the odds ever be in your favor]]" (complete with Effie's accent).
43	** Calling Cocteau's museum outfit a "White Castle Pope".
44	** After mentioning that Phoenix is programmed to kill Edgar Friendly (and not Cocteau):
45	-->'''Cocteau''': Isn't there a thought repeating in that barbaric brain of yours? The name "Friendly"? Edgar Friendly? Don't you have someone to kill?\
46	'''Critic''': [[VideoGame/BioShock But he didn't say, "would you kindly"?]]
47	** The Critic takes censure on Phoenix's [[ImperialStormTrooperMarksmanshipAcademy poor aiming skills]], claiming even ComicStrip/MrMagoo could do better.
48	* TakeThat:
49	** The Critic takes the time to deal multiple potshots at Taco Bell, starting with pointing out that it had a [[ShortRunInPeru bad run in Mexico]] and escalating from there (even pointing out that the rat-burgers on the underground ''have got'' to be better than the futuristic tacos).
50	** The Critic claims that Creator/MichaelBay "wishes he could be as fucked up" as the audiences during the early 90s, when action movies were all about senseless violence.
51	** While describing the many male actors ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] Creator/SigourneyWeaver) who made a lot of RatedMForManly films, the Critic counts out Creator/StevenSeagal.
52	** The CrapsaccharineWorld of San Angeles is compared to Website/{{Tumblr}} social justice blogs (or was at least run by either MSNBC or Tea Partiers), and underground Los Angeles in turn to Website/FourChan.
53	** The Critic wonders why is Rob Schneider's very presence an exception among the many restrictions of San Angeles.
54	** On the subject of the post-apocalyptic 1996 Los Angeles the film starts in, the Critic quips:
55	--->"Yup! [[SarcasmMode I remember when 1996 looked like that!]] California was on fire, [[WretchedHive crime was everywhere]], [[DuelingStarsMovie celebrities were fighting each other]] [[RummageSaleReject while dressed like jackasses]]... [[BaitAndSwitch actually, what am I talking about]]? [[RealLife This]] '''was''' LA in 1996!"
56	** During the scene where SAPD officers confront Simon for the first time and say their orders very nervously, the Critic snarks that this is what every minority ''wishes'' the LAPD, notorious for cases of real-life PoliceBrutality, was like.
57	** Huxley reveals to Spartan that his wife died during the "big one" (most likely an earthquake) in 2010. The Critic then nervously points out to ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' as that "big one".
58	** When the Critic sees the scene where a thug played by Wrestling/JesseVentura kills Cocteau, the Critic claims this was how he got his ''other'' political job.
59	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:[[invoked]] The idea of the "[[CorporateWarfare franchise wars]]" (of which Taco Bell was the last fast-food company standing) is deemed as an interesting prequel idea by The Critic (although he imagines [[CoolVsAwesome Burger King using Spartan Cows and KFC using mutated octopus-chickens]]).
60	* ThatCameOutWrong: After describing the movie's future version of sex as "Virtual Boy sex", the Critic says "That came out much worse than I intended... as did ''that''."
61	* TheUnintelligible: The Critic's Stallone impression (for extra funny, the fact that he cannot be understood by the judge is ''why'' he was sentenced to Cryo-Prison on the sketch).
62	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: How the AchievementsInIgnorance trope is presented at the end.
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