I suddenly realized the most prophetic film of the last 50 years....

[mumon]

was "Planet of the Apes."

Get your paws off my Social Security you damned dirty ape!

http://mumonno.blogspot.com

[burythehatchet]

1. seriously though, the most prophetic I think is Brazil, 1983

I think.

[mordarlar]

32. Oh Brazil i have not thought of that in yrs. That is the one with...

Hitlers clones?

[burythehatchet]

35. Its the one set in the UK in the future, where the govt

controls every aspect of your life because of terrorism. Tragically funny. Robert DeNiro in a cameo.

http://www.filmsite.org/braz.html

[mordarlar]

46. oh, the one i was thinking of is Boys From Brazil. Creepy.

[proud patriot]

2. I think it was The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

w/ (Fearless Leader)Robert Deniro hypnotizes the
American People by buying up all the media ...

[beam me up scottie]

3. Ah, c'mon, you know the apes were much more intelligent.

:evilgrin:

[lectrobyte]

4. So many good possibilities...

A Face in the Crowd certainly seems to foreshadow the whole rise of RW media

Handmaid's Tale -- complete control women's reproductive rights and an American theocracy

Blade Runner -- corporatism and militarism

[CBGLuthier]

5. A FAce in The Crowd

Magnificent film. Now if we can just get Patricia Neal do what she did in that movie to some of our real Lonesome Rhoades

I was going to put exactly what she did but I don't want to spoil an excellent film. :-)

[Ian David]

7. No, I'd say we're headed toward the world of Solyent Green

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

Tagline: It's the year 2022... People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need SOYLENT GREEN.

Plot Outline: In an overpopulated future Earth, a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff has an horrific origin.
(more)
http://www.imdb.com/rg/title-tease/plotsummary/title/tt0070723/plotsummary


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366724/

[glitch]

11. This is the sci-fi film I most want remade. nt

[ikri]

36. Remake?????

no matter how much I dislike chucky, I couldn't stand for this film to be remade.

Its already a masterpiece, Edward G Robinson is brilliant in it. Hollywood needs to start making original films and quit ruining classics.

Is Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes better than the original? Is the latest mockery that is Assault on Precinct 13 better?

Leave good films alone. They do not need to be remade.

[glitch]

43. We disagree. This one would be a fantastic remake in capable hands.

The story is classic and deserves serious treatment.

[BeHereNow]

26. LOVE that movie!

Loaned it to a friend and he wrote a song
called "Face in the Crowd."
Roy, is that you?
LOL-
BHn

[dddem]

12. The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood was a GREAT book. But the movie kind of sucked.
I think the book should be required reading.

[mandyky]

45. The movie was scarey enough! LOL

I think Enemy of the State and Pelican Brief also spoke to the corruptability of our political system.

[stanwyck]

6. "Network"

newsmedia overtaken by sensationalism, hokey celebrity newscasters, and staged events.

[PassingFair]

25. I had a nightmare once, that I was pulled into a room...

and I got slammed with the Ned Beatty speech, just like poor Howard Beal did. That dream SUCKED!

[Lautremont]

8. Logan's Run,

what with everyone living in a mall and whatnot. There's the plastic surgery angle, the worshipping of youth, and, most importantly, the anti-intellectualism and obliviousness to history.

Plus, they all live in a mall.

[Cleita]

15. Yeah, and they all have to die when they are thirty.

No problems with Social Security and Medicare there.

[wicket]

9. OT - love your blog mumon!

:D

[JackRiddler]

10. Unfortunately...

it was "Blade Runner," and the form of government or leadership in that film were very much in the background...

[sweetheart]

13. soylent green and the original Rollerball

the arisocracy and the gross poverty, "scoopers" and all that
freedom of speech in soylent green.

In rollerball, the system of fascist government, that was against any
individualism that threatened corporate power.

[Hugin]

14. Dune!

Really... and if you get what I'm saying read the second book
Dune: Messiah.

;)

[Lautremont]

37. And after all, we already live on a planet

ruled by giant dicks.

[leftynyc]

16. Inherit the Wind

As timely now as it was then - which makes me want to weep.

[Strelnikov_]

17. Bob Roberts, Robocop For Predicting Politics And Society Today

The Postman or Soylent Green if the current decline in competency of our leadership continues.

From Robocop:

Newscast - "Give us 30 seconds, and we'll give you the world."

Cars - "Something with reclining leather seats, that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!"

It's back! Big is back, because bigger is better than ever! 6000 SUX: An American Tradition! (8.7 MPG)

TV Shows - "I'll buy that for a dollar"

Corportacracy - Omni Consumer Products

MI Complex - "I had a guaranteed military sale with ED209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not!"

[deutsey]

40. Bob Roberts is almost a documentary of Bush's rise to power

[Journeyman]

18. Let us hope it is not Marcel Ophüls, "The Sorrow and the Pity". . .

for we must avoid at all cost society's acquiescence and collaboration with the evil amongst us. There's no one outside to help us out.

[TalkingDog]

19. They LIVE

but yeah, most of these are pretty good suggestions.

Shrub is in no way smarter than your average chimp...maybe a subnormal chimp.

[lectrobyte]

22. oh yeah, can't forget that movie, either... inspires great avatars

and for the last year or so, I've been using a sharpie on those new style $20, they look less like monopoly money after you write something like "this is the republican god" on them.

[shadowknows69]

30. They Live minus the aliens...maybe.

I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick some ass and I'm all out of bubblegum. We need you Rowdy Roddy!!!

[carolinayellowdog]

20. Being There; the Manchurian Candidate

1-- a total idiot is nationally accepted as a folksy purveyor of wisdom

2-- the people hollering the loudest about the enemy (Communism then, Islamic terrorism now) are secretly in cahoots with same

[maxsolomon]

21. Starship Troopers

MAN that movie gave me a headache.

all the 'americans' (in the future, the whole planet is america) were happy when they invaded the bug planet, captured the big mama bug & divined that it was AFRAID. instilling fear in a created enemy made all the horrible, pointless death worthwhile.

keep supporting those troops!

[gatorboy]

27. Would you like to learn more??

EOM

[CrownPrinceBandar]

23. "On the Beach"

[Martin Eden]

24. 1984

We think of Orwell's prophetic book, but it was also made into a fairly faithful movie starring John Hurt and Richard Burton.

The Bush administration is, if nothing else, Orwellian.

[ilovenicepeople]

28. The Oracle told me,

that Bill and Ted's Awesome Adventure held all the answers.(sorry, I just can't stop taking these red pills)

[JoshK]

29. It was "Lord of the Flies."

The tale of the shipwrecked kids that reverted to barbarism on the island, when given a choice between the leadership of either the nice, decent kid; or the more primitive "hunter" clique...

[NAO]

31. Wag the Dog - fake war based on fake WMD brings victory to incumbent

an unpopular incumbent president makes up a fake war, based on fake charges that "they have the bomb, that's why we have to go in".

The incumbent wins the election, based on his "war president" status and the jingoistic wave of nationalisim...

The use of PR - Marketing - Psychological Warfare techniques in this film as campaing tools was very presicent.

Starring Robert DiNero as Karl Rove and Anne Heche as Karen Hughes. With Craig T. Nelson as Senator John Kerry.

[TOOLZ]

42. Not only for those reasons...

I could've sworn I heard them paraphrasing "Courage Mom" as a spin to the 31 Marines shot down last week.

[prairierose]

33. The Running Man..not because of ahnold but ...

because Stephen King really got the media control thing of sensationalizing any story. And facts don't matter, we can just edit the film and make the facts tell the story we want it to. Oh and don't forget it was supposed to be "reality television".

The media is the largest corporation in the world and they tell the government what to do. Only slightly different tan what is going on now.
Sounds a lot like a corportacracy to me, of course the more common name is fascism.

[CJCRANE]

50. Bill Clinton once said off the record -

"The media IS the government".

[6000eliot]

34. Network

It was supposed to be a wild-eyed media satire. It seems tame next to what has actually happened.

[stanwyck]

44. agree

we've gone way beyond what "Network" prophesized as outrageous.

[Stop_the_War]

38. Titanic!!!

We've hit the iceberg folks!! And there's not enough lifeboats people, only the rich elite will be able to escape the impending doom while they let the rest of us suffer!!!!!!

[RandomKoolzip]

39. Weekend at Bernie's 2.

Okay okay....I'll get back to the lounge.....sorry....

[jayfish]

41. Minority Report.

Not overall my favorite flick but the whole pre-crime thing is starting to run rampant.

Jay

[tom_paine]

47. Network and Bob Roberts

Between them both, they perfectly articulate at least one facet of Modern Imperial Amerika.

[Hissyspit]

48. "Rollerball," also "Network"

Corporations are in charge. Sports used as "Bread and Circuses" control of masses.

If you mixed the two together, that would have really been a prophetic movie. (Not sure how you could have done that, though!)

[Vinca]

49. Don't demean the monkey . . . sheesh!

[julialnyc]

51. more

Inherent the Wind
Network
Pleasantville

[julialnyc]

52. more

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

[julialnyc]

53. even more

All The King's Men (which is being remade with people like Jude Law and Kate Winslet)
Citizen Ruth
Being There
Election
The Pelican Brief