Which (sci-fi) film are we most likely to end up like?
Bladerunner
Logan’s Run
Elysium
Planet of the Apes
Star Trek
Idiocracy
Or anything else you can think of.
maybe something like Fantasia, the dinosaurs..
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This....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHoMSRZOS4
It's a movie called "Threads". 1984
I saw this as a teenager and still have night terrors when I think about it.
shareYes, the aftermath scenes were pretty memorable, eh.
Even though the movie was about nuclear war, the film's tagline could have been, "Not With A Bang, But A Whimper."
I posted a thread on the Threads board about a decommissioned nuclear bunker I once visited - very eerie.
shareI bet it was!
I'll go check out your post.
Here’s the link: -
https://moviechat.org/tt0090163/Threads/5a8fe534a8185a0014f3424f/If-you-get-a-chance-check-out-the-decommissioned-nuclear-bunker-in-Essex
Yep, found it, Andy. Very interesting place. I see it's been filmed many times by doco makers and the curious.
sharefor the record, threads was recently added to kanopy, so it's free for all to see. i'm probably going to give it a rewatch later this week.
https://winnipeg.kanopy.com/video/threads
Don’t leave any ice cubes and razor blades lying around.
shareIdiocracy, for sure, but also....
...Minority Report.
I just watched something that said there is already surveillance technology that reads skin temperature, interpreted against a scale of anxiety or tension, and is purported to predict that someone's about to commit a crime based on this and a cross-section of other data on that person facilitated by facial recognition - which is already being employed widely, including in my own city. It was compared to the system in the film Minority Report.
This kind of stuff could be SO abused and misread. They are even beginning to employ this anticipatory stuff at airports - where you've already got people who might give a false positive for "tension" and anxiety not because they're about to commit a terrorist act, but because they fear flying! Or are upset because they're traveling for a funeral of a loved one.
This stuff makes me hate the world we've "progressed" into and feel glad I'm nearer the natural end of my life than the beginning. Seriously this world is so fucked up now for surveillance and data collecting shit. I don't want any part. I'd love to just go live off the grid and die unknown in the middle of a forest, at this point...
Good shout. I’m a little blasé when it comes to data surveillance. My take is that I’m so infinitesimally unimportant, that I can hide in plain sight.
shareWhat I find so sinister is that it's being said that even the infinitesimally unimportant citizens who have no record and have no reason to be surveilled or collected data on, are having just that happen. It's said that a new center in the US is collecting data on everyone regardless of how benign and unimportant; they've been building servers big enough to not just limit this collection to only those who have red-flagged as a threat in any way, or of special interest for some reason.
I find that terrifying even as someone with nothing to hide, because abuse and misinterpretation of supposed data can and does happen.
I've just read an article about an American citizen being targeted with a chilling ordeal of intrusive border control investigation by her own US authorities when she'd only hopped across to visit a sick friend in Mexico. She had done nothing wrong, didn't even have a record, and no drug smuggling showed up even in test after increasingly intrusive test. Her ordeal was prolonged, she was traumatized, and eventually brought a successful lawsuit. The article detailing her experience was chilling and shocking. She was just an ordinary, boring person going about her life when this happened to her at the hands of her own government, for not even any good reason or prior form.
I have no confidence that even the most benign, innocent, right-living, unimportant and uninteresting citizen can't wind up at the wrong end of all this surveillance and data collection, because it already happens.
It’s probably too late to delete my browser history then.
shareI feel like we're already really close to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. People going crazy over some fad and trying to get rich quick. People competing with each other to get the grand prize, even though they've already won it. They're already working on 'copying machines for people' - hence the millions of tiny pieces flying in the air and being transported elsewhere.
So, probably that one.
Some strange space between 1984 and Idiocracy..
But I'd like to see it more like Star Trek.
The Time Machine (George Pal version, not to put too fine a point on it). The Morlockas probably win out over the beautiful Elois: technology vs. nature.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends:
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
- T.S. Elliot, heavily edited by Ezra Pound
The George Pal version is the only version worth mentioning, imo.
I doubt that there will be Eloi. Beautiful blonde white people are becoming rarer even now, it seems. Morlocks will definitely endure and thrive. At least until they've eaten the last surviving Eloi.
You are right. The remake of The Time Machine was a waste of time and talent. I loved Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux in the original. The Morlocks scared the toadstools out of me.
shareBladerunner or Idiocracy. Maybe a bit of both.
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