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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:13 PM
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Which Sci-fi film/series do you think the US is starting to resemble most?
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 01:15 PM by YOY
Rollerball? Robocop? Idiocracy (still Sci-fi...but comedic)? William Gibson's cyberpunk novels? Minority Report? Handmaid's Tale?

Something tells me the job of Science Fiction to push the possible futures have become dark prophetizing...

Your thoughts?
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:15 PM
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1. I'm a little worried it's starting to resemble Soylent Green.
But you could make a case for RoboCop, Idiocracy or Handmaid's Tale.
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:15 PM
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2. THX-1138
en route to Soylent Green considering the corporate influence and the willful destruction of the environment.
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:18 PM
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3. How about "The Matrix"
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 01:19 PM by fascisthunter
I see a parrallel concept wise. The free-market fanatics create a monster that latter takes control of the very people that created it. Corporate Personhood made this possible.
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Rapanui1 Donating Member (62 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:19 PM
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4. Stargate---Rethuglicans = Goa'uld like parasites
Stargate---Rethuglicans = Goa'uld like parasites. Heck most of thugs even sound like the Goa'uld
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:19 PM
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5.  Idiocracy
Most definitely.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:34 PM
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38. Idiocracy gets my vote as well.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:20 PM
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6. Babylon A.D.
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LooseWilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:21 PM
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7. Gibson-esque "Johnny Mnemonic"-ward feels about right.
Not so much with the cyborg parts, but the corporate super-comfort vs. the evolving "Low Techs"...

(With the overturn of campaign finance... based upon the "constitutional rights" of corporate persons... how long until corporations manage to overturn minimum wage laws, as a violation of their right to set their own rates of pay... and in order to "make the US competitive in a global workplace"?... Voila: Low Techs.)
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Last Stand Donating Member (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:21 PM
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8. Running Man. Rent it and you'll be entertained and scared.
And it's an Arnold film. Go figger.
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 03:12 PM
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42. The book is even better.
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:23 PM
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9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:25 PM
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10. Mars Attacks
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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:25 PM
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11. Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
At least with regard to the Democratic Party.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:25 PM
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12. Star Trek, The Trouble With Tribbles episode
No matter how hard we try, the corporate political whores keep reproducing.
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area51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:37 PM
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19. I'd say,
Star Trek mirror universe -- it looked like the bulk of the budget in that universe went into the military, just like our country.


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dorkulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:12 PM
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27. More like TNG: "Conspiracy"
When all the high command have alien bugs in their brains.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:17 PM
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29. I like that!
:thumbsup:
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dorkulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:21 PM
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30. "We seek PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE!!!"
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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:25 PM
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13. Plan 9 from Outer Space.
:thumbsup:
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:30 PM
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34. LOL
Winner!
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:29 PM
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14. The PRISONER series with patrick mcgoohan.
we don't want to be unmutual.
who is the new number two?

be happy in the village, never mind that the ones in charge do not reveal themselves and will torture you into compliance.


as far as the sheer unreality of it all, I vote the prisoner as the best metaphor. Because even though its blatanly fascist, it pretends to be a peaceful village, if only we would all get along.
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RedCappedBandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:31 PM
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15. hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:48 PM
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21. Thanks for all the fish?
:thumbsup:
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blublu Donating Member (65 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:31 PM
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16. Red Dwarf
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:49 PM
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22. I wish, smeghead.
:)
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:32 PM
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17. Blake's 7. n/t
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:33 PM
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18. Well, 1984 was made into a movie.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:46 PM
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20. Since we seem to be eating our own -- Soylent Green
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:51 PM
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23. Things To Come.
"Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?"
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timeforpeace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:54 PM
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24. We are living 1984, not science fiction.
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:55 PM
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25. Bladerunner
soon...
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:09 PM
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26. MST 3000 Definitley
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:17 PM
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28. no doubt . . . idiocracy. eom
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:23 PM
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31. Bambi vs Godzilla - I included the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBkc2jK-6w
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Romulox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:25 PM
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32. "Brave New World"
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 03:15 PM
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45. Shut up and take your soma.
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The Midway Rebel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:27 PM
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33. Logan's Run n/t
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:30 PM
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35. Robocop with some Stranger in a Strange Land thrown in
All capped off with a healthy dash of Idiocracy
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Throd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:30 PM
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36. Sleeper
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:31 PM
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37. Babylon 5
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:40 PM
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39. DUNE
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 02:41 PM by PassingFair
Stocking up on these....



If Cheney isn't a Harkonnen, I don't know
who is.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:41 PM
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40. Surf Nazis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_Nazis_Must_Die

http://www.wikiwak.com/image/Surf+Nazis.jpg
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:49 PM
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41. Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky.

Thanks for a great OP and thread, YOY!
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 04:13 PM
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46. Tarkovsky is so unsung in the West.
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 04:14 PM by YOY
But his last film (that Swedish one) made me want to curl up into a ball and die from boredom. How do you make a film about nuclear armageddon that makes people want to sleep?
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 03:13 PM
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43. Not film, but game: Shadowrun.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 04:14 PM
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47. Who are the elves? and how did the Native Americans take back over?
n/t
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 06:55 PM
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50. We haven't gotten to 2012 yet! Just wait...
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 03:14 PM
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44. They Live
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Karmadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 07:07 PM
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53. No Independent Thought
nt
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 04:22 PM
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48. Brazil n/t
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Libertas1776 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 04:28 PM
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49. I don't know...maybe, "Spaceballs"
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 04:28 PM by Libertas1776
Hail President Skroob!!!
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 06:59 PM
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51. Brazil + Marching Morons
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 07:01 PM
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52. The Day After
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA
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