Posted on 02/11/2014 3:21:29 PM PST by Usagi_yo
You’re good, really good.
"But there weren't any N----s in it....I said, "White people ain't planning for us to be here." - Richard Pryor.
I figured. My statement stands.
CLOSE THE DOOR!
Logan’s Run is for the win.
1.5 for 3:
Soylent Green...check!
Rollerball...not so much.
On The Beach...check, if you didn’t read the book; only 1/2 check because I had read it.
Probably Malevil ... French book about post nuclear survival which emphasized the anti-church aspect. Movie didn’t match the book at all.
This Island Earth
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Late show: Amazon Women On The Moon
The funny thing is that liberals love that movie too. They think, “Look what those conservative religious nuts want to do to people.”
I like the movie, but then I get it in a way Ethan Hawke never will.
And in the same vein - “The Philadelphia Experiment: (1984)
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Thanks - when I saw the title I must have ‘cornfused it with the ‘other’ Philadelphia story’ (Hanks?? not of fan of his anyway).
Netflix has it...
On the Beach was written to scare and depress, not exactly to inform. Shute either didn’t take radioactivity decay/half-life into account or didn’t find it convenient to his plot.
The bedford incident. And I can’t believe they haven’t made Alas Babylon into a movie yet!
it was so sad to find out who was tapping Morse code
That was the first movie I saw alone. I was about 12 (it was another era), and I saw it in one of the old school Cinema movie houses on a HUUUUUGE screen.
Needless to say, it left quite an impression.
You don’t get it do you? The premise of Alas Babylon was that there are survivors of a nuclearwar. That goes against the prevailing lib theory that all life on the planet will be wiped out by a nuclear exchange.......
It will never be made into a movie in today’s Hollywierd.
I always wish somebody would make a rollerball league. You can tell it’s an awesome sport because the stunties would play it on the set on days off (only injury during the movie was during one of their games). I know Jewison is horribly offended that people think it would be a great sport since the movie was in part a diatribe against the increasing violence in sports (specifically hockey and the rise of The Broadstreet Bullies), but too bad for Norm.
It’s not just a lib theory.
How many Mount St Helen’s you think the world could survive?
Humanity survived Toba ~60000 years ago, barely.
It will be harder to kill off life on this planet than most folks think.
2001, like 1984 and Brave New World, are only growing in importance as time passes.
As for the latter two, they are more science prophesy than science fiction.
Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C Clarke is another one that was stunning in the prophetic sense.
Harrison Bergeron, by Vonnegut, is another in that genre. He also wrote Cat’s Cradle, where if you consider the modern computer virus, could be considered prophetic.
Simply equate money with water in that book and you are there. Ice-9 froze all the water. A virus might do the same to the money. Target would probably agree with this notion.
Reminds me of dinosaur’ running around with their pants down their wast and fashion underware exposed doing the Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder walk “We bad ... we bad .... yea we bad ...”
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