I was vegging out in front of the TV for a few minutes, flipping through the channels, and stopped to watch the last few minutes of Starship Troopers. Watching the movie, it dawned on me how so many of the very popular sci-fi movies do not anticipate a future with cryonics. If future societies were advanced, you would think that soldiers, jedi-warriors, time lords, whoever, would immediately put into cryo when they are injured, stabbed, dismembered, shot, whatever. You would think that future medics would have portable suspension technology to put people into stasis on the battlefield and then into the deep freeze in the hospital until some point in the future when they could be repaired. Instead, most of these movies (for dramatic purposes, of course) show slow deaths and friends agonizing and future physicians decrying the fact that they cannot save them.
If a few more sci-fi writers were worth their salt, there would be more cryonics technology in the futuristic movies.
Is Demolition Man the best movie for an example of a future world with cryonics?
I suppose Han Solo was preserved in Empire Strikes Back. But oddly, that was the only cryonics reference in the whole series.
Star Trek is oddly devoid of cryonics. They should have been able to cryo-suspend Spock at the end of Wrath of Kahn. Right? of course he lived anyway.
Megatron was frozen in the first Transformers movie, but I don't think that counts because he is robotic. Doh!
I know there are a lot of great books with cryonics as a central theme and some other small time sci-fi movies, but none of the blockbusters.