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18 May 2010, 7:02 pm

Here is the link to a Wikipedia entry on dystopian movies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films

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18 May 2010, 7:09 pm

How about The Handmaids Tale based on a novel by Margaret Attwood? The extreme religious right overthrows the government in a bloody coup. The lower classes of women are divided into "Martha" and "Mary" types and their names reflect the name of their master, like Offred or Ofwilliam. The ruling class women are sterile so the lower class women are used as surrogates. People are publicly executed for crimes like wearing make up.

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18 May 2010, 7:24 pm

Blade Runner
Total Recall
Equilibrium
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19 May 2010, 2:46 am

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I think I mentioned AI... it's the one that is held together by one of the best performances I've seen, the young boy acting the "robot." I'd love to know what he's doing now.

he was struggling with substance abuse for a bit, totally his saturn [car] in a one-car crash a a while back, then got his act [pun intended] back together sufficient to join the cast of the broadway play, American Buffalo.
click this link to find out what haley has been doing so far

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19 May 2010, 2:52 am

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....happy? i thought it had the saddest ending possible.

oh well, i guess one person's "happy" is just another person's "sad" in this world. i thought it was heart-burstingly emotional but not sad, because the protagonist gets his supreme wish fulfilled by compassionate robots, and his last waking moment is a happy and fulfilled one.

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19 May 2010, 5:08 am

I'm sorry to hear the young man's been struggling. It's such a shame that child actors always end up in so much trouble.

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19 May 2010, 7:48 am

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And doctors who have ever performed abortions are publicly hanged.

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19 May 2010, 9:01 am

I wasn't aware that they had ever made a film version of the Handmaid's Tale. It's a truly horrifying book.

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19 May 2010, 2:23 pm

mgran wrote:

I wasn't aware that they had ever made a film version of the Handmaid's Tale. It's a truly horrifying book.

Yeah and it was quite faithful to the book, I liked it a lot.

I would have to say Bladerunner is my favorite.

The TV series Firefly is probably my favorite TV series ever and was quite dystopian.

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19 May 2010, 3:49 pm

mgran wrote:

I wasn't aware that they had ever made a film version of the Handmaid's Tale. It's a truly horrifying book.

I'd like to see 2 other dystopian novels by her put to film.
Oryx and Crake and her latest which is set during the same time of future history (:?) Year of the Flood.
The flood refers to an airborne virus that virtually wipes out the entire human population.

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19 May 2010, 8:20 pm

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Tequila wrote:

Threads. The after-effects of a nuclear war is a pretty dystopian subject.

Very unrealistic. It would take a lot of ICBM's (even with MIRV) to turn the world into a radioactive wasteland.

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IIRC some scholars have claimed that the effects of just ONE salvo (ie. no-one returns fire) would, eventually, poison the whole world. I dont know enough to argue/defend the point though.

other bleak iconic nuclear films;

when the wind blows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbsrJuAoQo

the war game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58NmAzQz ... re=related

(this one is more in a documentary style than threads)

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20 May 2010, 12:04 am

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when the wind blows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbsrJuAoQo

I read the original graphic novel. And I watched the actual nuclear explosion sequence from the film on YouTube thanks to that link. Nightmare fuel, compared to the version in the book, but less than that in Terminator 2.

Okay, so does anyone think that Watchmen would count at all? World on the brink of nuclear war, filled with apathetic or else psychotic superheros? Or did someone else already do that?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXRdlOvLNeo[/youtube]

I mean, the line of dialogue used at the end of the trailer (but really a modified version of a line in both the movie and the original comic) has one of the so-called heroes growling, "The world will look up and shout 'save us!' And I'll whisper 'no'."

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20 May 2010, 2:16 am

mgran wrote:

I'm sorry to hear the young man's been struggling. It's such a shame that child actors always end up in so much trouble.

he seems to be out of the woods now.

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20 May 2010, 6:45 am

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mgran wrote:

I'm sorry to hear the young man's been struggling. It's such a shame that child actors always end up in so much trouble.

he seems to be out of the woods now.

I thought he was pretty good as Sora from Kingdom Hearts II.

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20 May 2010, 7:09 am

Haven't seen that one.

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20 May 2010, 12:55 pm

1984 and Gattaca, because they're accurate predictions.

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