Posted on 02/11/2014 3:21:29 PM PST by Usagi_yo
It's a cold day here in the South, snowing, raining and freezing. So it was a good day to curl up with my Basset Hound and watch some old sci-fi movies. They're dated, but still relevant for today's world.
Soylent Green. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
1973 movie set in 2022 with Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson (his last appearance). The world is overpopulated, polluted, suffering from global warming, short on food and many people are homeless. Charlton Heston plays a detective trying to solve a murder case of an "Important" person. Important being code word for rich elite quasi government business man.
Rollerball. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
1975 movie set in 2018 with James Caan and John Houseman. The world has evolved into one big global corporate melange. Large global City/States sponsor Rollerball teams. Rollerball is introduced as an innocent seeming game with about as much violence as today's NFL football. James Caan is a player. A good, perhaps too good of a player. John Houseman plays a go between between the game and the corporation full intent on seeing Johnathan fail as an individual -- the slightly submerged theme of the movie.
On the Beach
1959 movie set in 1963 with Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins. Gregory Peck is a commander of a U.S nuclear submarine who's looking for safe harborage some weeks/months after loosing her nuclear missles in a nuclear conflagration with USSR. They eventually find a safe port in Australia and meet some survivors.
All 3 fine movies to see again if you haven't and to definitely see them if you've never. Just keep the understanding that these movies are dated.
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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