Which Sci-fi film/series do you think the US is starting to resemble most?

[YOY]

Rollerball? Robocop? Idiocracy (still Sci-fi...but comedic)? William Gibson's cyberpunk novels? Minority Report? Handmaid's Tale?

Something tells me the job of Science Fiction to push the possible futures have become dark prophetizing...

Your thoughts?

[phantom power]

1. I'm a little worried it's starting to resemble Soylent Green.

But you could make a case for RoboCop, Idiocracy or Handmaid's Tale.

[TheKentuckian]

2. THX-1138

en route to Soylent Green considering the corporate influence and the willful destruction of the environment.

[fascisthunter]

3. How about "The Matrix"

I see a parrallel concept wise. The free-market fanatics create a monster that latter takes control of the very people that created it. Corporate Personhood made this possible.

[Rapanui1]

4. Stargate---Rethuglicans = Goa'uld like parasites

Stargate---Rethuglicans = Goa'uld like parasites. Heck most of thugs even sound like the Goa'uld

[atreides1]

5. Idiocracy

Most definitely.

[Maru Kitteh]

38. Idiocracy gets my vote as well.

[Skidmore]

6. Babylon A.D.

[LooseWilly]

7. Gibson-esque "Johnny Mnemonic"-ward feels about right.

Not so much with the cyborg parts, but the corporate super-comfort vs. the evolving "Low Techs"...

(With the overturn of campaign finance... based upon the "constitutional rights" of corporate persons... how long until corporations manage to overturn minimum wage laws, as a violation of their right to set their own rates of pay... and in order to "make the US competitive in a global workplace"?... Voila: Low Techs.)

[Last Stand]

8. Running Man. Rent it and you'll be entertained and scared.

And it's an Arnold film. Go figger.

[AlienGirl]

42. The book is even better.

[KT2000]

9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

[Ellipsis]

10. Mars Attacks

[closeupready]

11. Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

At least with regard to the Democratic Party.

[DJ13]

12. Star Trek, The Trouble With Tribbles episode

No matter how hard we try, the corporate political whores keep reproducing.

[area51]

19. I'd say,

Star Trek mirror universe -- it looked like the bulk of the budget in that universe went into the military, just like our country.

[dorkulon]

27. More like TNG: "Conspiracy"

When all the high command have alien bugs in their brains.

[DJ13]

29. I like that!

:thumbsup:

[dorkulon]

30. "We seek PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE!!!"

[Scurrilous]

13. Plan 9 from Outer Space.

:thumbsup:

[PassingFair]

34. LOL

Winner!

[Lerkfish]

14. The PRISONER series with patrick mcgoohan.

we don't want to be unmutual.
who is the new number two?

be happy in the village, never mind that the ones in charge do not reveal themselves and will torture you into compliance.


as far as the sheer unreality of it all, I vote the prisoner as the best metaphor. Because even though its blatanly fascist, it pretends to be a peaceful village, if only we would all get along.

[RedCappedBandit]

15. hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

[DJ13]

21. Thanks for all the fish?

:thumbsup:

[blublu]

16. Red Dwarf

[Forkboy]

22. I wish, smeghead.

:)

[daleo]

17. Blake's 7. n/t

[jgraz]

18. Well, 1984 was made into a movie.

[MineralMan]

20. Since we seem to be eating our own -- Soylent Green

[Forkboy]

23. Things To Come.

"Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?"

[timeforpeace]

24. We are living 1984, not science fiction.

[EC]

25. Bladerunner

soon...

[benld74]

26. MST 3000 Definitley

[ellenfl]

28. no doubt . . . idiocracy. eom

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

31. Bambi vs Godzilla - I included the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBkc2jK-6w

[Romulox]

32. "Brave New World"

[anonymous171]

45. Shut up and take your soma.

[The Midway Rebel]

33. Logan's Run n/t

[Burma Jones]

35. Robocop with some Stranger in a Strange Land thrown in

All capped off with a healthy dash of Idiocracy

[Throd]

36. Sleeper

[rcrush]

37. Babylon 5

[PassingFair]

39. DUNE

Stocking up on these....



If Cheney isn't a Harkonnen, I don't know
who is.

[Fumesucker]

40. Surf Nazis

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

http://www.wikiwak.com/image/Surf+Nazis.jpg

[Octafish]

41. Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky.

Thanks for a great OP and thread, YOY!

[YOY]

46. Tarkovsky is so unsung in the West.

But his last film (that Swedish one) made me want to curl up into a ball and die from boredom. How do you make a film about nuclear armageddon that makes people want to sleep?

[AlienGirl]

43. Not film, but game: Shadowrun.

[YOY]

47. Who are the elves? and how did the Native Americans take back over?

n/t

[AlienGirl]

50. We haven't gotten to 2012 yet! Just wait...

[blindpig]

44. They Live

[Karmadillo]

53. No Independent Thought

nt

[librechik]

48. Brazil n/t

[Libertas1776]

49. I don't know...maybe, "Spaceballs"

Hail President Skroob!!!

[REP]

51. Brazil + Marching Morons

[Echo In Light]

52. The Day After

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA