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Dytopia For the Holidays. Merry F'n X-Mas!!!!!!! This pick shelf consists of four of my favorite dystopian movies. Movies that contain a futuristic vision of a society in which conditions of life are miserable. Y'know. DYSTOPIA!
DON'T GET ME WRONG!!
I love me some Christmas. But one watching of Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life", and I was struck by how far we've come towards a dystopic nightmare. The film's depiction of American small town life is so idyllic. Nowadays, George Bailey would've totally jumped off that bridge! No one would've showed up to save his family and sing. The cops would've come to evict him. Then they would've shot his dog and tased his kids. Merry fucking X-mas. Anyway, these movies are food for thought. Consider for a second the world you'd like to live in!
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THX 1138 (D:George Lucas, 1971)
It's been a long time since I watched this. It really disturbed me, and I haven't been able to stomach another watching in a long time. And it's a stunning and strange movie. I have a special place in my heart for the "Star Wars" flims, but in a lot of ways, this is a finer film. It's not the same kinda sci-fi, that's for sure. George Lucas outdoes himself. The genius of this movie is how it takes elements of society, and takes them to an Orwellian extreme. Robert Duvall is amazing in the lead as THX 1138. He works in a factory that builds robots and it's a very high stress job cuz plant meltdowns may kill your ass. So get this: everyone is highly sedated (the future is now!). But THX decides to go off his meds and as a result, he stirs up a little physical romance with his female roomate. That's not to be tolerated in their sterile society. As he begins to feel for the first time, he realizes that something isn't quite right with the world. And since I despise spoilers, I will stop there. But there is the one part in the film where he's watching future television. It's devolved into straight sex and violence. Like lizard-brained simplicity. And they just STARE. It's horrifying. HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENED.
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(D:John Carpenter, 1988)
I like to call this: THE MOST PROPHETIC MOVIE EVER MADE! So, shit's tough for the poor. The class seperation has gotten extreme. There are no good jobs and homeless camps are everywhere. These poor workin' joes can't get a break, and the cops keep breaking up their camps. One man, the effervescent "Rowdy Roddy Piper", comes drifting through. After the cops destroy these people's shanties, he wonders into a basement full of sunglasses. And they are stylin', but more importantly, they show you that Earth has been conquered by a race of aliens, and they are masquerading as the upper class! This movie has a kitschy B-movie feel. But it's on purpose, and it's really very very bad-ass. Which if you are familiar with the work of John Carpenter, then you know the kind of movie I'm talking about. Think: "Big Trouble in Little China", or "Escape from New York." Cheesy on purpose and so badass it hurts. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!
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(D:Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Ok, this movie is a no-brainer. And you've most probably seen it. If not, I'm very curious about how in the world you ended up on our website reading nerdy movie reviews. (but you are very welcome all the same.) So, I remember when I was a child, this movie would come on HBO very often. It scared THE HOLY FUCK out of me. And it's a very disturbing movie, to be sure. It was so STRANGE and dark, and my kiddie brain couldn't even begin to wrap itself around what was going on. And I stayed terrified of it until I watched it again in 9th grade. Then I loved it so much, I went out and bought a tee-shirt that they had at my local head shop/tee-shirt shop called Freewheelin' Franks in good ole' Memphis Tennessee. I guess in the 90's, they didn't care if you were 15 and going into a headshop. I wore that tee-shirt all the time.
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(D:Mike Judge , 2006)
If you don't smoke Tarleton then Fuck You! This is a pure work of genius by Mike Judge, of "King of the Hill" and "Beavis and Butthead" fame. This is one of the most quotable movies and one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Private Joe Bauers, the most average guy alive, takes part in a government experiment that freezes him. But instead of a short hibernation, he gets forgotten and wakes up in 500 years. And because us humans seem to ignore the "survival of the fittest", the average IQ drops to moronic levels. And so, 20th century Joe Average ends up being the smartest man alive. It takes a low-brow approach at a very high-brow topic. And it SUCCEEDS! This movie is sublime. It captures how intellegent people can often feel alienated in popular culture by taking things to an exteme. And it gets better every time you watch it. Seriously, don't wait another second to watch this. LIKE RIGHT NOW!!!
and because someone requested me to post a picture of myself, and i'm happy to oblige. eat your hearts out, ladies!
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