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mr brightside

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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:26 pm Post subject: Dystopian future movies |
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I thought it might be fun to have a list of reliably accurate dystopian future movies to enjoy. Disaster movies don't count. Some of my favourites are:
Book of Eli- Eocene style climate, nuclear fallout, cat eating
Mad Max- obviously!
Hunger Games
Any others to add? _________________ Persistence of habitat, is the fundamental basis of persistence of a species. |
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Little John

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adam2 Site Admin

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The Postman. _________________ "Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more" |
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vtsnowedin
Joined: 07 Jan 2011 Posts: 4601 Location: New England ,Chelsea Vermont
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:33 pm Post subject: Re: Dystopian future movies |
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mr brightside wrote: | I thought it might be fun to have a list of reliably accurate dystopian future movies to enjoy. Disaster movies don't count. Some of my favourites are:
Book of Eli- Eocene style climate, nuclear fallout, cat eating
Mad Max- obviously!
Hunger Games
Any others to add? |
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Lurkalot
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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"Reliably accurate" to me means a scenerio I could see happening rather than one that couldn't which pretty much rules out zombie apocalypse films. That lead me along such lines as 1984 , Metropolis , and Gattaca but just in case I had a quick check and there are a few that hadn't sprung to mind and thinking back they were pretty good , the likes of Brazil and No blade of grass.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films |
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careful_eugene

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12 Monkeys _________________ Never mind, it's all anarchy isn't it? |
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fuzzy
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Dr Strangelove
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mr brightside

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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps 'City of Ember'? _________________ Persistence of habitat, is the fundamental basis of persistence of a species. |
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mr brightside

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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Lurkalot wrote: | "Reliably accurate" to me means a scenerio I could see happening rather than one that couldn't which pretty much rules out zombie apocalypse films. |
Pretty much i reckon. However 'I am Legend' has some very good depictions of how nature might reclaim a city after a die-off. _________________ Persistence of habitat, is the fundamental basis of persistence of a species. |
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BritDownUnder

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Setting aside disaster movies and a quick collapse think the Handmaid's Tale is a good idea of how society will operate.
On TV I like the treatment of a world with less or damaged technology shown in Revolution (no electricity) and Jericho (EMP and fossil fuel shortages) though these are both sudden but selective collapses.
In print I go no further than Kunstler's World Made by Hand but there is a whole genre out there. _________________ G'Day cobber! |
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nexus

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Children of Men is very powerful, and hopefully not prophetic. _________________ Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass |
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RenewableCandy

Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 12550 Location: York
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Wot no Handmaid's Tale yet??
Lads... _________________ Soyez réaliste. Demandez l'impossible.
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PS_RalphW

Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 5347 Location: Cambridge
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I remember there was a film of handmaid's tale back in the 90s. It showed at one cinema in London and by the time I got there the screening was cancelled |
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RenewableCandy

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There's an American TV series. It's on Channel 4 at 9 pm on Sundays.
I daren't watch it. _________________ Soyez réaliste. Demandez l'impossible.
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BobbyFields
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Blade Runner is always first on my list. |
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