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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 09:10 PM
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which cinema science fiction dystopia are we closest to?
A. Soylent Green?
B. Logans run?
C. Star Wars?
D. Road Warrior?
E. 1984?
F. Minority Report?
G. Gattaca?
H. Repo Man?
???
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 09:13 PM
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1. oh man...
...tough to choose between 1984 and Minority Report. But I think Karl Rove actually sat down and studied 1984, just as he studied The Prince, before making all this happen. Whereas Minority Report is an example of a true pre-cog ability on the part of the author...
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 09:25 PM
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3. I forgot Rollerball
The world divided between 5 companies is remarkably visionary.

soylent green has the income disparities we're about to see... where the jam is so rare it costs a zillion bucks... in the dirt poverty, the world so polluted, voluntary euthanasia is sold with old movies of long-dead earth ecosystems.

Road warrior could very well be the USA if they keep making war... as eventually it could come back like a breaking rubber band.. "blowback".

I was gonna put brave new world, but realized its not a film.
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Enraged_Ape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 09:23 PM
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2. A miserable, all-to-real mixture of Rollerball and Back to the Future II
We have, from the 1975 Norman Jewison version of Rollerball, the corporate ownership of everything along with the use of ultraviolent sporting events to distract us from economic inequalities. And from Back to the Future II, we have overdeveloped blight and the total sacrifice of our environment to megacorporations.
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 10:41 PM
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4. heck
i was thinking bodysnatchers,
cause POD people(bushies) are just like them.
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 10:59 PM
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5. A Boy and His Dog
The underground culture, "The Sovereign State of Topeka" is the perfect iconic fascist patriarchal state; much like what we're marching toward.

Rollerball was a good call, too...

Except for our tight-assed sexuality, Brave New World gets a lot right with the feelies and soma....
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Samuraimad Donating Member (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 11:02 PM
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6. William Gibson's cyberpunk...
cyberpunk visualized through through his first 3 books.
Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

Corprate elites rule and the masses pacified by techtoys and entertainment.

In movie terms I would say Bladerunner comes pretty close. Except for the whole android bit...
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 11:23 PM
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7. A Really Horrible One...
I HATE this movie but Battlefield Earth is our lot in life...Psychlo in charge George W. Bush bullies stupid earthlings into doing his biding because they're stupid sheeplings...I HATE this movie but then again I HATE this current government so there you go. It's just something you cannot watch without cringing...
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 12:24 AM
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8. A Handmaid's Tale
followed closely by the Pottersville section of "It's a Wonderful Life"
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FireHeart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 03:06 AM
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13. Agreed...in part.
Handmaids Tale--definitely. Not sure about It's a Wonderful Life, though...
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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 12:31 AM
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9. Blade Runner
Laura Bush has got to be an android!
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 12:33 AM
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10. Demolition Man
We Demolish Republicans!
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JackDragna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 01:10 AM
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11. Brazil.
eom
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 03:01 AM
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12. Fahrenheit 451

1984
Brave New World
The Lathe of Heaven
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 03:32 AM
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14. Minority Report
It just reminds me of how the internet has become monitored with such lovely programs like Carnivore and the PATRIOT ACT allowing e-mail to be read without a warrant. Woo!
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scarletlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 08:46 AM
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15. Strangely enough
It reminds me of Max Headroom. Massive and corrupt media running the show (with the exception of Max and Friends). Tremendous amounts of people in poverty and wealthy few at the top.
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:00 PM
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22. oh yeah
heavy on the media influences and cameras everywhere.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 08:50 AM
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16. Hads down Handmaiden's Tale
This really gets to he crux of what is going on today, unmatchable millitary power melding with Evangelical Fervor........

Read the Book,,,,

It's much more chilling than the movie...


I also liked the Max Headroom mention....


Unteresting that none of the Utopian visions of the future, Star Trek, for example, are even mentioned.......

I guess the leadership[ surely dies set the tone of the country....
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:42 AM
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18. Oh Man II
Edited on Sun Aug-03-03 09:43 AM by Crisco
I relocated to a new state just after reading THT. For almost a year, I refused to open a bank account. Don't even talk to me about debit cards.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:44 AM
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19. True, true true, true,...
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:41 AM
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17. I. Brave New World
Edited on Sun Aug-03-03 09:46 AM by Crisco
Designer babies.

Soma.

Visceral art kept hidden from the masses.

Individual thinking discouraged.

Sex is routine, expected, the more partners the better.

A wealthy industrialist who invented the assembly line ("You can paint it any color, so long as it's black") is worshipped.

BNW is a tale of liberalism run amok and co-opted by authority in order to control the masses. DU may not be the most popular place for me to post this choice for the question, but there you have it.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 11:54 AM
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20. Brave New World slipping into 1984
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shimmergal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 03:32 PM
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21. 1984 plus The Handmaid's Tale
On the more positive side, have any of you read the sf book ECOTOPIA? Not a real good story (few utopias are) but something to think about if the Blue/Red division gets even nastier. If we can keep the California recall from putting the state into bad repub. hands...
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Redleg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:23 PM
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23. Brave New World
Don't you think? Of course Bush is trying to get us into 1984.
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