Movies with which to prepare yourself for the coming corporate state

[derby378]

New Rose Hotel - Abel Ferrara's adaptation of a short story by William Gibson dealing with corporate defections

Rollerball - Norman Jewison's film about a novel approach towards solving corporate rivalries in the future

Idiocracy - Mike Judge's take on unchecked idiocy and corporate influence on government

The Corporation - A documentary that teaches you how the Supreme Court reached Thursday's ruling in the first place

[LiberalEsto]

1. The Empire Strikes Back nt

[ShortnFiery]

2. Grr! Excuse the damn *auto fill in.* :-)

Thanks Derby <taking notes>. :hi:

[Lochloosa]

3. Soylent Green

[derby378]

5. GOOD ONE!

I'm ashamed I hadn't thought about that movie.

Here's the trailer. :hi:

[Soylent Brice]

4. Wall Street (1987)

"greed... is good."

[bigwillq]

45. There's a sequel coming out soon

Oliver Stone is back to direct and Michael Douglas is back as Gekko.

[Swede]

6. Blade Runner- dystopian nightmare company the Tyrell Corporation

[KamaAina]

42. Plus it rains in L.A. the whole time

just like in real life. :(

[Swede]

58. You've seen things I wouldn't beleive.

[omega minimo]

63. one of the most magnificent scenes on film EVAH

[ixion]

7. A Handmaids Tale, Gattica

would also be good primer's

[derby378]

9. GATTACA is a good one

The Handmaid's Tale isn't really about corporatism as much as it is a warning against Christian Reconstructionism and other similar fundamentalist movements.

[omega minimo]

64. GATTICA kinda sucks

[peace frog]

60. Oryx and Crake

Not a movie but a chilling futuristic novel by Margaret Atwood.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

8. Network

[Echo In Light]

11. I know, right ... as if it *hasn't* been this way for decades

[HCE SuiGeneris]

25. Wish I had a stream to the movie...

Netflix only has it as a mailer.

[Greyhound]

67. Ask and you shall receive.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=216105531921215883&ei=C7JaS8iYIoOGqQOqqfXmDg&q=network+1976&hl=en#

[HCE SuiGeneris]

68. You know what?

You rock! :headbang:

[wolfgangmo]

51. The US doesn't have news and hasn't for decades.

They have opinion, spectacle and fear mongering.

[slackmaster]

15. Network was the very first thing that popped into my mind

So I'll reply to the OP with my second choice.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

10. "Brazil"................

[newspeak]

yeah, I thought about "Brazil"

What a creepy, depressing movie. The government is the corporation and vice versa--oops a billing mistake, they take this man and kill him for not paying his bill-then his family can't survive--oops sorry, it was a mistake. And terrorism all around--so common, the rich people just ignore it-and on the TV, it's terror, terror 24/7 to keep the plebes in line. Then, you find that the corporate government is the terrorists, to instill fear in the plebes and a net for those who are disgruntled. Spooky movie.

[Javaman]

20. My only hope is that we get more DeNiro type characters. nt

[superduperfarleft]

12. New Rose Hotel was a fantastic movie (and one of my favorite Gibson short stories).

And thank you for mentioning the original Rollerball, and not that piece of crap with Rebecca Romain whats-her-face.

[Cleita]

13. Schindler's List.

How the Nazis allowed industrialists to use concentration camp Jews as slave labor. Who will be our slaves? The undocumented aliens arrested for working here without a permit?

[Richard D]

19. It's already happened

The prison population are the new slaves.

[Cirque du So-What]

14. Robocop

Nuttin' gets done unless it's in OCP's corporate interest. We may never see cyborgs like Murphy, but I can foresee a day when metro police are a virtual arm of corporations and 'serve & protect' becomes a quaint notion from bygone days.

[derby378]

18. One of my favorite movies from the 80s

"I work for Dick Jones! DICK JONES! He's the number-two guy at OCP! OCP runs the cops!"

Peter Weller was great, but Kurtwood Smith practically stole the show.

[Raster]

24. You're not far off...prisons are already being privatized and run as "for profit" enterprises.

Can the police force be far behind?

[proteus_lives]

38. Great movie.

And it might be frighteningly accurate about the future.

[renegade000]

62. sadly, we already have lots of cyborgs like murphy

Robocop is a great movie, though. If only more people thought about the satire it contained!

[montanto]

16. "History . . . Brought to you by Carl's Jr."

Was my first thought yesterday. The Corporation is also a great and terrifying piece.

[slackmaster]

17. THX 1138

George Lucas' 1971 film about a dystopic future in which a young man and woman struggle against a rigidly controlled society.

[derby378]

21. I must give kudos to MrScorpio

Turns out that he beat me to the basic concept already:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7540846

:hi:

[NoFace]

22. I second 'The Corporation' ...great doc. And it's free!

http://www.thecorporation.com/

[nykym]

23. And when we finally start to fight back

Red Dawn

[derby378]

26. Isn't the Second Amendment wonderful?

:hi:

[EFerrari]

27. I'm thinking more "9 to 5".

:)

[anonymous171]

28. Also Shooter.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/

[Political Heretic]

29. 1984. Very excellent movie of the book is out there.

[anonymous171]

30. Nah, 1984 is outdated 20th century stuff.

We are headed for a Brave New World-style consumption state.

[Political Heretic]

31. It's still an excellent movie

[anonymous171]

32. Totally agree. Also, I think that "double speak" is something that everyone needs to know about

in our corporate economy.

(So scratch my last comment about it being irrelevant. :) )

[NoPasaran]

33. Ernest Goes To Forced Labor Camp

[hunter]

34. I don't think the corporate state will last long.

Mother Nature bats last, and she bats hard.

Corporate America is setting itself up for it's own Haitian Scale catastrophe.

We've abolished what are essentially the building codes of finance. The financial sector will fail, and the paper the corporations are embodied by will be rendered worthless.

The megabanks, the insurance giants, the food conglomerates... they'll all be gone, buried in the rubble of our collapsed economy.

[PunkinPi]

35. Visioneers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0833557/

[cascadiance]

36. Some more...

More...

Babylon V
Dune
Syriana
Good Night and Good Luck
Conspiracy Theory
Enemy of the State
All the Presidents' Men
Sneakers
The Take
Seven Days in May
Death of a President
District 9
Avatar
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Erin Brockovich
F.I.S.T.
Falcon and the Snowman
Gangs of New York
Hacking Democracy
The Song Spinner
In the Valley of Elah
Hunting of the President
The International
State of Play
It Happened Here
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Resistance
Max Headroom
Minority Report
Starship Troopers
The Net
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Fahrenheit 451
Total Recall
V for Vendetta

[TheWatcher]

40. FANTASTIC LIST.

Bravo. :thumbsup:

[Touchdown]

37. Alien series.

Weylan Yutani Corporation... wants their bio weapon.

[ibegurpard]

65. yep..."the company"

[TheWatcher]

39. Also....

They Live 1988 John Carpenter

Equilibrium 2002 Kurt Wimmer

Zardoz 1974 John Boorman

Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku

Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg

Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang

Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick

Escape From New York 1981 John Carpenter

Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg

And, for more insight about the people who rule us, and how they like to play.....

Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick

You may think this one is out of place. Most do.

But watch it, watch it again, and research the history of this film, and what Kubrick was REALLY trying to tell you. You'll be frightened by what you find.

[Shandris]

41. Did I miss it? Brave New World.

Johnny Mnemonic.

[mia]

43. The Corporation (full documentary) is on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y&feature=PlayList&p=FA50FBC214A6CE87&index=0&playnext=1

[cascadiance]

44. War, Inc.

Describes perfectly our current military and "intelligence" efforts even if it is a "spoof"...

War, Inc.

[asdjrocky]

46. Rollerball...

Johnathan! Johnathan! Johnathan!

[cascadiance]

47. The Pelican Brief....

[cascadiance]

56. Logan's Run, Strange Days, Death Race 2000, Silent Running, Escape From New York, Akira...

"Pleasantville"
"Firefly" (TV Series) and "Serenity"
Twelve Monkeys
Sleeper
The Matrix
Mad Max
Children of Men
A Clockwork Orange
Metropolis
The Running Man
Westworld
Demolition Man
Stepford Wives
Caligula
The Baader Meinhoff Complex
Amerika (TV Series)
Judge Dread
Jericho (TV Series)

[moondust]

48. The Parallax View (1974)

Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss

[Mixopterus]

49. Let's not forget games!

System Shock: You play as a hacker fighting a rogue AI, Trioptimum corp more or less rules the world

System Shock 2: Turns out Trioptimum had a hand in the crafting of the rogue AI, and when word gets out due to the hacker, several nations who had been itching for a fight form the United National Nominate who then proceeds to wreck the shit out of Trioptimum and reduce them to the status of a mid twentieth century corp. I guess corp mercs don't fight well or something, it's hard to get a paycheck when you are dead.

Oh, and there is an awesome organism called The Many engineered by said rogue AI that you fight against in the game itself, but the situation is pretty nuanced.

Fallout series: United States was a de facto corporate state before the war, the actual nuclear war itself was mostly pursued by a secret cabal of hyper corporatists in the U.S whose grand plan was to have the nuclear war destroy everything and make a clean slate free of communism, using the Vaults to wait out the ensuing chaos. Little did they know the head of the vault project was a mad man: The vaults were never made to save -anyone-

Shadowrun: Blade runner meets Dungeons and Dragons.

G-Police: Corporations take over after the human nations exhaust themselves in the first space war, turns out the corps are very bad at managing their holdings and reqire a government police unit ti enforce law. By the end of the series the corps are on the ropes, and it looks like proper nations will make a come back.

Red faction (minus 2): Mars mining corp runs a brutal corporate dictatorship, oppresses miners and pays for it. Is taken over by the Earth government... who turn out to be a bunch of fascists and in no way different from the mining corp. Mars starts liberation and independence movement to free itself from corporate dictatorships once and for all.

[TheWatcher]

61. You forgot a couple. :)

Deus Ex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex

Half Life

Half Life 2

Crackdown

Shattered Union (About the break-up of the United States, and a Second Civil War)

System Shock 2 was arguably one of the greatest and most chilling games ever made.

[Mixopterus]

70. Jeez

How could I forget Deus Ex, one of the finest games ever made?

I'm not sure about Half-Life, though. Is Black Mesa a corporation or a government facility?

[butterfly77]

50. What about V for Vendetta.

[-..__...]

52. They Live.

Unfortunately, Rowdy Roddy Piper is probably moving a bit slower these days to save us all from this.

[cascadiance]

54. Yup!

[kudzu22]

53. Fortress

Christopher Lambert in corporate-owned prison run by Kurtwood Smith.

[hankthecrank]

55. how about a whole race of people from the movies (Ferengi)

and not to be missed

Rules of Acquisition

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition#Official_Rules

This fits the re pugs

Bottom line only thing that matters is profit!

[omega minimo]

66. except Ferengis had charm. Republicans are repulsive

[Touchdown]

57. Eraser

Yeah, yeah, yeah I know it has Swartzy, but it's about corporate profits, illegal arms sales, and corrupt gov officials.

[TheWatcher]

59. More.....

The Killing Room 2009 Johnathan Liebesman

Cube 1997 Vincenzo Natali

Cube 2: Hypercube 2002 Andrzej Sekula

Cube Zero Ernie Barbarash

The Constant Gardener 2005 Fernando Meirelles

Deep Cover 1992 Bill Duke

The last one blew the lid off the fake "War On Drugs" LONG before that soft, whitewash "Traffic" did.

It's one Jeff Goldblum's finest and most chilling performances, and Lawrence Fishburne is Amazing. You will NEVER forget that movie once you see it. It even mentions Poppy by NAME. THAT movie took BALLS to make considering the time it was released in, and I'm surprised it even got released when you discover what the underlying message was.

[akforme]

69. My list of documentaries.

You should be able to find some of these online.


Maxed Out - How credit cards impose modern slavery on the people

Century of the Self How to control the masses in an age of democracy (4 parts)

Bill Moyers Presents The Secret Government, A Constitution in Crises

Big Bucks Big Pharma

Fast Food Nation

Super Size me

Super High Me

King Corn

American Drug War