Favorite Dystopian Movies/Stories

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DAYVE

Saturday, June 17, 2006 7:49 PM

a lot of my favorites have already been listed...
a few more movies/novels/stories

The Handmaid's Tale... Margaret Atwood
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Leguin
Animal Farm - Orwell
On the Beach - J.Paxton
The Postman (pretty bad i know)
Omega Man
and
Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

TALYNDERRE

Monday, July 17, 2006 11:41 PM

Barb Wire.

Yes, I know the movie was horrible. Yes, it had Pamela Anderson trying to act. But it was a really great urban-blight dystopia.

Also, does anyone remember the old Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret computer games? THAT was an awesome dystopia, and had some of the most interesting game manuals of any game ever.

Mad Max is good, too.

I'm not sure I'd qualify "Animal Farm" as a dystopia, if only because it was so extreme of an allegory that it was practically satire.

Semper Paratus, mac.

FRANCO

Saturday, July 22, 2006 4:39 AM

In no particular order...

Equilbrium

Brave New World - dystopian? Some might call it twisted Utopian but I guess the wasteland factor qualifies it. Anyway, I don't see it being our fate for the future.

HGW Time Machine - gotta love those eloi and morlocks

Almost any thing by PKD

12 Monkeys for sure

Earth Abides - yuk, very depressing

On The Beach - also very depressing

CRUITHNE3753

Saturday, July 22, 2006 6:49 PM

Trek is a kind of musical dystopia. No-one does any cool music anymore, just string quartets and cheesy cocktail jazz. Why didn't we ever see Geordi gettin' on up to some James Brown, or Alex (Worf's son) getting a guitar and fusing Klingon Opera with Heavy Metal?

J6NGO1977

Saturday, July 29, 2006 7:45 AM

Blade Runner / Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep. For my sins i also quite like Gattaca. Very stark and very believable as todays society is definately heading towards that fate :( Oh I just noticed Dark City there. Awesome movie. Before its time and before Matrix which Matrix must have obviously been influenced by

MISBEHAVEN

Sunday, August 6, 2006 9:14 PM

1. Blade Runner
2. 12 Monkeys
3. V for Vendetta
4. Equilibrium
5. Code 46
6. 1984
7. Dark City
8. Matrix Trilogy
9. Aeon Flux
10. A Scanner Darkly

I went to see "The Descent" this weekend, and I saw a preview for new movie, "Children of Men", which looks promising. It's about the not too distant future in which the human race is no longer able to reproduce; consequently, societies are breaking down as people realize that the humans will be extinct within fifty or so years, and the world descends into anarchy and chaos.

Morbid and creepifying I got no problem with, so long as you do it quiet like.

GRRRARG

Sunday, August 13, 2006 4:30 PM

Well, everyone's hit the biggies -
Bladrunner is my all-time favorite. And I think I've read most of the classics - 1984, Brave New World (you wouldnt want to play with a Gamma....)

There are two forgotten classics of the genre however -

The Running Man - based off of a rather grim novella by Stephen King (writen under an alias), although amusing if you're familiar with the Prudential area of Boston. The movie, of course, was an Ahnold movie - with Ahnold quips. "Look at Sub-Zeroh. Now, just plain Zeroh." but also the only Ahnold movie where anyone had a comeback to The Ahnold Line
Richards - "Ahl be bahk"
Killian - "Only in a rerun"

and

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"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes." -Terry Pratchett "Night Watch"

WHITEFALL

Sunday, August 20, 2006 2:46 AM

Funny you should mention The Handmaid's Tale, Dayve, I just read it. I declared it a patriarchal dystopia, and it's a good book too boot. Was a little disappointed by

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the history lesson ending. They could have just ended and been ambiguous, but noooo, they had to have a moral and suchlike.

And would someone PLEASE explain to me how the starter of this post is... um.... me but not? I did not start this post, but the post at the top of the thread is me in everything (old sig and tagline) except the name. SnakesOnAFirefly, while a good name, is not me. I'm very confused.

"But, these strong women characters?"

"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon

YINYANG

Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:50 AM

Quote:
Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

That movie was so bizarre I had to love it. Plus, I have this weird black-and-white fetish.

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SHINYAPPLE

Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:57 PM

Speaking of not yet mentioned, anybody remember the first film of a budding young director named George Lucas? THX1138?

When I read Brave New World in Jr High School, I was entranced by the concepts it held. When I re-read it a few years ago, I discovered how God-awfully funny and ironic it was.

My favorite responses to somebody doing an Ahnuld imitation of "I'll be Bach" is "I'll be Haydn" or "I'll be out Chopin".

And of course how could one not love the essence and distillate of all dystopias made into a sadistic...hhhrmrrmmmm...FUN RPG like Paranoia.

Yours,
Capn Mark, of the ShinyApple

Quote:
Originally posted by GrrrArg:
Well, everyone's hit the biggies -
Bladrunner is my all-time favorite. And I think I've read most of the classics - 1984, Brave New World (you wouldnt want to play with a Gamma....)

There are two forgotten classics of the genre however -

The Running Man - based off of a rather grim novella by Stephen King (writen under an alias), although amusing if you're familiar with the Prudential area of Boston. The movie, of course, was an Ahnold movie - with Ahnold quips. "Look at Sub-Zeroh. Now, just plain Zeroh." but also the only Ahnold movie where anyone had a comeback to The Ahnold Line
Richards - "Ahl be bahk"
Killian - "Only in a rerun"

Paranoia^*&^$%*THE COMPUTER IS NOT YOUR FRIEND MAN THE COMPUTER IS LYY*&*&$%$$()) Transimission resumed. Please disregard last transmission
HAVE YOU DISREGARDED LAST TRANMISSION, CITIZEN?
Yes! Friend Computer!
ARE YOU SURE, CITIZEN!
Absolutly, Friend Computer! I have disregarded that mutant, trator Commie transmission, Friend Computer!
SOUNDS LIKE YOU STILL REMEMBER IT, CITIZEN. PLEASE PROCEED TO THE NEAREST *NEW FROM THE R&D DEPARTMENT ATOMO-REEDUCATOR BOOTH!*

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes." -Terry Pratchett "Night Watch"

ShinyApple-- a rare treat, but handle with care or I'll blow yer gorram head off!

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