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Sylvester Stallone<\/a> has an unexpected pick for which of his films shouldn’t be sentenced to cryo-prison.<\/p>\n

In a new video interview with GQ<\/a>, the Rocky and Rambo star broke down his most iconic movie roles, and when it came to 1993’s Demolition Man, he declared the sci-fi action flick to be one of his films that’s aged the best.<\/p>\n

“I think it was a great movie. It’s one of the few films that really [holds] up, and it is almost close to happening,” Stallone said, referring to the state of the world as depicted in the movie, which he went on to describe as “the gentle-ization of society, everything’s so meek.”<\/p>\n

In Demolition Man, Stallone plays Det. John Spartan, who is brought out of a suspended-animation prison to help catch an old and very violent nemesis (played by Wesley Snipes) who has escaped his own cryogenic incarceration in a future society that’s nonviolent to a fault.<\/p>\n

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Sylvester Stallone in ‘Demolition Man’<\/p>\n

“I thought it was just very, very contemporary,” Stallone said, adding that he ran into the film’s director, Marco Brambilla\u00a0in New York recently. “I thought it was really well done.”<\/p>\n

Stallone also gave his costar Snipes his flowers for creating a “very memorable” baddie in the film. “Wesley was wild,” he recalled. “He’s a wild man, very energetic, good fighter. When we were doing kicks there were some of these, like a plate here, so he could really lay into me, and I could feel it and it was good.”<\/p>\n

He continued, “But Wesley, he really dug down there and gave a very memorable character. [He did] things with his hair and his voice and he was good. He was at the top of his game then.”<\/p>\n

Stallone also gave kudos to the production design team, who built a practical set for some of the movie’s biggest moments. The actor, no stranger to stunts in his action-heavy career, added that Demolition Man contained the “two most dangerous stunts” he’s “ever done.”<\/p>\n

One involved his character being grabbed by a giant metal claw and flung around. “That giant claw, sometimes the hydraulics would go sideways, and the strength of those metal claws would tear you up,” he recalled.<\/p>\n

The other involved him being cryogenically frozen. “When they froze me originally, they put me in this round tub, thick plexiglass, you couldn’t break it with a sledgehammer,” Stallone explained. “And they started pouring in warm oil, and it’s filling up, filling up to [my mouth]\u2026 If it goes longer than 30 seconds, it’s gonna go to [above my nose], and you can’t get out ’cause the lid was bolted on.”<\/p>\n

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Sylvester Stallone in ‘Demolition Man’<\/p>\n

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He continued, “I had a couple of fellas that were sitting there with sledgehammers and hatchets. And I go, now that the scene was over, ‘Why don’t you try to open it?’ And of course they hit it 20 times, couldn’t crack it. So that was crazy.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the GQ interview, Stallone broke down his roles in Rambo, Rocky, Creed, The Expendables, and more.<\/p>\n

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