No.1783
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_Statezizek mentioned this one as being good and i've wanted to watch it ever since
No.1784
>>1782Snowpiercer
THX 1138
Her
A clockwork Orange
Brazil
Total Recall
Silent Running
Gattaca
Twelve Monkeys
Fahrenheit 451 (old one)
Wall-E
Repo Men
You've probably seen some or most of these. It would help if you write which ones you've seen and liked.
>>1783That movie is garbage.
No.1785
>>1784>THX 1138The editing and character development in that movie was so fucking weird, you really didn’t know what was going on.
No.1787
>>1783>>1784I thought it was quite good,
if a bit predictable through Chekhov's guns. The only problem is that ideologically the movie is closer to idealist revolutionaries like Sayyid Qutb / orthodox anarchists (the "hero of the crowd" type ones) than with more materialist socialism.
Also isn't Brazil basically a piece of neoliberal propaganda (muh road to serfdom / muh ebil civil servants coming for our freedums / muh dysfunctional byzantine bureaucracy)?
No.1789
>>1787Brazil is a satirical view on bureaucracy and "authoritarianism" that stems from it. I mean, going to prison for not submitting a form or not doing it properly is not far from our current reality. It's Foucaultian if anything, systems of control and all that. It was also a criticism of consumerist culture. I saw it a long time ago, so I might be wrong.
No.1793
Obviously 1984 with John Hurt
People also like V for Vendetta, though I found it somewhat mediocre. However I did enjoy this meme from it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fldAYNmA6Q No.1794
>>1793>split second of DDR flagTOP JEJ
No.1824
>>1782Children of Men is superb; has one of the realest depictions of a fascist dystopia future I've seen in a movie and there's a really cool subplot of a revolution throughout the movie.
Blade Runner 2049 is also really good; the dystopianism is more of a set-piece than the focus but it portrays the earth essentially dying in a very subtle and impactful way.
>>1783Basically my favorite movie about an insurrection. There are some parts of it that are kinda bad but most of the movie is a really good thriller about an underground resistance. It really captured the feeling of secrecy, paranoia, triumphant planning, being discovered, etc.
>>1784>That movie is garbage.N-no!
No.2072
>>1784>That movie is garbageWhy?
No.2143
>>2139>People trash the earth due to capitalist hyperconsumtion>escape into space and let autonomous robots recover it>Robots have gained sentience but it is ignored>People have become fat consumers who do nothingDoes it have a happy ending? Sure, but the setting is fucking dystopian as hell.
No.2145
>>1832Heard that stuff was made of people.
No.2148
>>2143Dystopian for the robots, for the planet, for the universe.
Not for the humans tho.
No.2156
>>2146Its several decades old, fuck off.
>>2148>living like degenerate consumers with no intelligence and stunted shallow social skills isn't dystopianYou scare me.
No.2158
>>2148Living like an alienated prole under a world where the productive force is more than enough to make everyone live in plenty good? That’s not to mention we only see how shit places like the imperial core would become in cyberpunk without seeing the conditions of the developing nations and regions that is propping up that unholy shitpile in the first place.
>>1832Malthusian trash.
No.2160
>>2158>>2156Welcome to the "West" in the year of 1950-today.
Just saying: Dystopia is the Utopia that isn't good, Utopia is the place you aren't right now but is better than the one you are in right now, therefore you can't live in Dystopia (nor Utopia) currently. But the society in Wall-E is just like ours.
Mind = blown already?
No.2163
>>2158>MalthusianHow is it Malthusian? Isn't the point of the dystopic depiction anti-malthusian?
>>2160>you can't live in DystopiaThat's not how a Dystopia works. Brave New World or 1984 is Dystopian, and both have features we see in modern society. We are currently entering the age of cyberpunk dystopia… except the robots aren't as cool and corporations have shitty names.
No.2167
>>2163>How is it Malthusian?It assumes that the only way we can feed a city of 40 million + people is by canibalism
No.2176
>>2167>It assumes that the only way we can feed a city of 40 million + people is by canibalismI don't think it assumes this, since the point was more that the ruling class was operating a utilitarian dystopia. Malthusianism would be the ruling class just executing or otherwise removing excess people.
No.3156
Reposting:
Rewatching I, Robot (2004) the first time since I was 11, high as balls and it blows me away how in your face and prominent racial oppression and class war were. Noticed absolutely nothing political about it as a dumb apolitical 11 year old and this is a crazy revelation (though it would be obvious as fuck it I watched it for the first time now.)
Thoughts on the standpoint? Liberal, radical, reactionary. I'd say it's a mixture of the first 2 but closer to radical than this essay gives it credit for:
https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/104/Brayton104.htmIt's comically over the top in exactly the same way Bright is, right down to Will Smith being racist against the fantasy/scifi characters while being ~ironically~ a black man in the position more classically held by a white man. Shit, some of the exchanges come straight off /pol/
>Will Smith: Robots aren't like people. Can a robot write a symphony?>Robot: Can you?It's exactly the same shit as MUH EUROPEAN CULTURE used in contrast with nonwhites. /pol/ didn't make Renaissance art, but that never stopped them from using it as evidence why they're the übermensch.
No.3165
>>2165>The new 'sequel' is pretty trash though.How so? I watched it a while ago and it was okay, pretty meh and the aesthetics is nowhere near as good as the first film. Still don’t get the praise it got from liberals tho.
No.3171
>>3165Blade Runner: 2049 is much better than the original, IMO.
The original is literally just a noir in the future; 2049 is about a world in which nature is dead and community has been completely vanquished; people tall about the atmosphere of 2049 because a large part of it is the world at that point, it's soul crushing. While the film doesn't focus on the death of nature much that death holds an all consuming presence throughout; it is a world without hope. 2049, if anything, tops the tone of the original.
Hating new things just to hate them is dumb.
No.3176
>>1782My favorite sci fi film is World on a Wire/ Welt am Draht by Fassbinder.
No.3177
>>3171>The original is literally just a noir in the futureI think you're severely downplaying the questions BRunner raises about artificial intelligence. both the original and the 2049 were good, in my opinion, although I felt a bit less engaged watching 2049.
No.4027
>>3178>much smarter filmIMO I think its more pretentious and too straightforward compared to the original… had a lot more stupid shit in it too.
No.4032
>>4031>original is overrated<Outside of a cultfollowing its almost forgotten
>detective movie>over-glorifiedThis is why I hate modern movies. People have gotten so lazy that movies can't be even slightly subtle yet ironically rarely are straight-forward with their themes. That's why 2049 is garbage in comparison, there is none of the passion or metaphysicality of the original, and the fact that it being a "detective movie" is seen as a negative shows how sad this day and age is.
No.4122
>>4115The book is not dystopian, the film is. I reposted an old explanation in the Fantasy thread on why and how its not "fascist" or "militaristic" and why the society proposed there was organized the way it was.
The movie is straight up a mockery of Nazi and US militarism, and was intended to attack Heinlein's ideology, but ended up creating something completely independent from the book.
No.4884
>>4093Someone did a good Star Trek TNG crossover fic with Planet of the Apes… I'll have to find it sometime.
No.5138
>>4884Found it, written by Relusive Writer, it's called Homo Simian detailing Wesley Crusher ending up millenia in the future due to a shuttle accident, leading to a Planet of the Apes. Its rather well written, capturing the essence of both Star Trek and the original Planet of the Apes.
No.5232
Screamers is a good dystopia with an interesting conflict and a sad ending, starring Peter Weller (RoboCop)
https://film.avclub.com/peter-weller-blasts-robots-in-an-under-appreciated-phil-1798277319A good overreview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ltvU_3wL8A more in depth review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-60rQsK9-wAn interesting out-take:
https://acrossthemargin.com/screamers/Also Screamers 2 had one fucked up scene with the woman impregnated with one.
Screamers 2 review (rus)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV3_7d5B3tw No.5243
>>5232Just watched it. I love how the film changed the Cold War in the Philip K Dick story setting to a far flung planet. The Soviet Union became the working class and labour unions while “the good guys” are just straight up strike breakers working for Earth megacorps.
>sad ending That’s debatable. In the end the Screamers that the Terran imperialists created will spell their doom. An outlook also shared by the short story, although in that one the protagonist at least got a consolation in that the machines has started to fight amongst each other much like their creators.
No.5255
A scathing overview of this rather unknown film
http://archive.is/nQLsmA good coverage by Oliver Harper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA0jWbm4xjsIt's a Cyberpunk flick based on a William Gibson short-story of the same name. Screen-written by Gibson himself, it starred Keanu Reeves & Dina Meyer as the leads while featuring Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano, Denis Akiyama, Dolph Lundgren, and Henry Rollins (the lead singer from Black Flag).
While it's panned by "fans" of Gibson and Cyberpunk in general, I rather enjoyed the movie. Its certainly better than a lot of schlock produced today and the effects are relatively good, if overtly apocalyptic. Some parts like the killer-priest were pointless or went no-where but the over-all story and idea is carried across. Some of Keanu's dialogue was poor and his acting is largely stoic (more likely due to poor direction) however his talent manages to get through his character. Dina is as springy as ever and demonstrates her best efforts in spite of her limits. Ice Tea is a homie… he knows what's good. Dolph Lundgren (psycho priest) clearly was just having fun fucking around in the last movie he would feature in for the next 15 years; His role was caused more by behind-the-scenes production needs than an actual purpose and it is felt. Henry Rollins plays the doctor/flesh-mechanic Spider, while not an actor did his small role well. Takeshi plays the straightman as always and along with Akiyama, filled out the role of "Dominating Japanese corporatism" which was the meme of the world, prior to the market crash, with fears of them taking over economic sphere, something that seems laughable today, but still fun to see.
The scenes of protests in Beijing and other showings of the sheer corporatism are surprisingly prophetic considering the past decade, even predicting the beginning of this mess starting in the 2010s. The demonstration of technological reliance as well as the message of how technology applied mindlessly leads to dire consequences and loss of humanity.
An interesting feature is Jones, the Cybernetic Dolphin/Porpoise (pic 2), which seems an unsubtle reference to cybernetic dolphin projects of the Navy at the time and referencing some fictional works of the time (see
>>5217 ).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film) Regardless of its flaws I enjoyed it.
No.5256
>>5255Also an interesting part in the film is how 300+ Gb overloads Johnny's mind. By today's standards that's not a lot, however I automatically assume that due to the Human mind being complex, it is hard to integrate information into the mind properly and thus the limit to data capacity takes more tech to reach the terabyte range.
No.5352
>>5255>Cyberpunk flick based on a William GibsonSpeaking of the lib-soc writer Gibson he has a lot of works focusing on cyberpunk, written with a fair bit of anti-capitalist themes and warning of the dangers of unregulated transhumanism. He has liberal and anarchist inclinations, however not much of it is aimed at anti-communist rhetoric thankfully, and his works are written fairly well.
The worlds of his novels are typically very bleak future-capitalist dystopia, serving as a backdrop to the main characters' stories who are hackers, mercenaries, or regular people that get caught up in the conflicts between corporations. Despite how shitty the world is, nobody is conscious or daring enough to question it. Everyone simply accepts the way things are because they are essentially powerless. So, you might say that the books are critical of capitalism by showing the absolute worst of it, but it isn't the main focus and no alternative being shown (which isn't necessarily needed given the stories he's telling).
One of his more well-known works is the Neuromancer, followed by Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive; self-contained stories in the same universe, known as The Sprawl Trilogy
A review on the book:
http://archive.is/nz9oX>I just got through reading and listening to the audiobook of William Gibson’s novel “Neuromancer”. The novel was released in 1984 and is widely considered to be one of the founding works of the science fiction subgenre known as “Cyberpunk“. Gibson himself is a bit of a legendary figure, having coined the phrase “Cyberspace”. Gibson is also widely credited with having “predicted” everything from the world wide web, google class, unisex fashion, bay area gentrification, the gig economy, etc…>In similar manner, as someone who grew up watching the ‘Matrix’ trilogy, seeing how much they ripped off Gibson is rather disappointing.They also cribbed aesthetically from Ghost in the Shell (1995) and GitS had taken inspiration from Blade Runner (1982). This stuff wasn't even groundbreaking considering Shockwave Rider (1975)
In Neuromancer you only follow Case's story, but in the others you switch between different plotlines happening at the same that affect each other. I think the characters are a lot more likeable in these two, and the story is easier to follow. At times it was hard for me to understand what was going in Neuromancer.
No.5359
>>5352An interesting if somewhat Americanistic cyberpunk book is "When Gravity Fails", a world where traps are the norm and the west has declined to the point of being comparable to the current Middle East, where the story is set.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/MaridAudran?from=Literature.WhenGravityFailsThere is also Snowcrash which essentially depicts an Ancap's wet dream. Gibson helped popularize cyberpunk, but was never the best cyberpunk writer IMO
No.5380
Some say that the terrorists and UNATCO are both cartoonish version of libertarians and modern US politics and that merging with the AI and crashing the system is libertarianism. On other hand people argue that Full AI merging is communism.
I would argue that neither is true. The companies, as you hack into their emails throughout the game, all represent booming industries (security, medicine, banks) it is revealed that they intentionally keep jobs scarce and people desperate, because working conditions don't matter. They even reference this strategy, then going to politicians and saying "We'd love to hire people, but we can't afford to with all these pesky restrictions like safety, etc". A clearly libertarian approach, but this is not presented as a good thing, except by proxy. For example in Mankind Divided, a poor man who was told in order to get a job they needed to give him cybernetic hands to produce productivity. And the man was so desperate for a job he did it, which resulted in "cool hands" but at a clear loss.
This is clearly an anti-capitalist message. However to those who cannot see past the "ooh its cool cyberpunk" it seems pro-capitalist.
On the other hand we have the merged AI which is supposed to ease the prediction of needs for people. However it also removes all sense of personal privacy and smacks of "the Borg are communists because they're collective" strawman, and is terrifyingly transhumanist. What's the point of living if everything is decided for you?
Also on the topic of conspiracies, Everyone is so skeptical of Illuminati and shit… yet the series reveals ECHELON, years before Snowden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON No.5677
Reposting the kitschy Cyberpunk
I want to ask Leftypol's thoughts on this, just some things rattling around my head
I think we live in a Cyberpunk dystopia; like, I think we're already there, in the very early stages of one
Not just dystopia, specifically a cyberpunk one
We have the start of advanced mind control prosthetic limbs
Mass poverty only getting worse
Ecological collapse
Autonomous weaponry
Drones doing most of the military death squad actions
The bloody internet, its culture, and the parasocial relationships within it
Highly advanced automation
Genetic engineering
World ending superweapons
That's all just off the top of my head
And yet…strangely…things all look almost the same?
They look roughly the same as how I remember the 2000s
Which look roughly the same as the 1990s
And yet things also look nothing like all those 80s cyberpunk dystopias
More and more the mask goes off, the bourgeoisie reveals the naked class struggle, exploitation and death at the core of this society
And yet they won't go all the way
I keep watching these cutesy, kitschy ads
Ads with "sincerity"
That try to connect to our "human sides"
That took about helping one another and caring for each other
I watch porkies being in support of mass protests and unrest, at least PR wise
I don't even know
Just some mind thoughts I guess
But I keep thinking
It's almost like Black Mirror, I feel Black Mirror is the best modern cyberpunk update
Because I think it really captures the true terror of it all
In the past cyberpunk imagined the bourgeois casting aside the mask and making our brutal exploitation open and explicit again as it once was in the Gilded Age
Instead however the horror is still somewhat out of view
It's hidden, back behind the corner of your eye
Something you see just in the periphery, that you notice if you stare hard enough
But it's like it's still always hiding
And little by little you see it, you see autonomous drones monitoring protests, you see constant disinformation wars and blatant war propaganda, you see constant surveillance, eugenics by incompetent bureaucracy (my heart goes to those in the various national and private healthcare systems during the pandemic)
Slowly you see the full horror of it all, the nightmare of our modern existence
Despair, despair that grips an entire generation, the whole world
You see the full horror of a dying planet, and the absurdity of its killers telling you they can save it by accelerating their exploitation of it
The horror of "progressive empires" that claim they are starting wars to finally defeat reactionary governments, which entails bombing houses full of innocent
The horror of ads of smiling foreign peoples in nations where armies of the impoverished work night and day in factories to produce commodities that are killing their own land and further impoverishing them
The horror of a ruling class who has lost all sanity, who laughs and smiles and gives warm assuring phrases as it pushes the entire human race off a cliff
I mentioned cyberpunk, I mentioned Black Mirror
The horror of our cutesy, kitschy dystopia is
This is even worse than Cyberpunk, this is even worse than Black Mirror
The horror of both is the thought of a world ruled by Capital eternally, in this both failed to see the reality of Capital's transience
However there is an even greater horror
In sight of its imminent end, Capital prepares for nothing less than the apocalypse
The ultimate dystopia
And the terror mounts
The terror of nightmarish war, the terror of a dead and baked planet, the terrifying realization that is Socialism or Extinction
What is most frightening to me is the way that those authors of Cyberpunk failed to grasp how, far all their dystopic and apocalyptic predictions, the future would be even worse than they imagined
And the worst part? The aesthetic of the now, rot and decay marking the streets, massive swathes of even the mighty world Empire of America looking like the Third World, and all of it papered over with cutesy ads, warm smiles, and false sincerity
The most disturbing thing of all, is the way the bourgeoisie has struggled to maintain its human face in all this
Like witnessing the Thing starting its violent spasms, trying to hold onto a human mask before shifting into some horrific monstrosity and devouring everything in the room
The most terrifying monster of all, is the one that seeks to convince you of its warmth, friendliness, and safety as it prepares to tear your head off
Our cutesy, kitschy dystopia, what a fucking nightmare
This is our present and if we allow it, our future
https://thenib.com/amazon-troopers-special-delivery/ No.5756
I read this and laughed my ass off while nodding in agreement to all of it. It was like a blast from the past and sort of reminded me of the '90s cyberpunk shit that was going on in this thread
You're a 90's kid if:
You can finish this 'ice ice _"
You remember watching Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Pinky and the Brain, Bobby's World, Felix the cat, The Tick…AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
You just cant resist finishing this . . . "Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ."
You remember TGIF, Step by Step, Family Matters, Dinosaurs, and Boy Meets World.
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
You remember reading "Goosebumps"
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not
If you remember seeing hot tub bubbles make bubbly sounds before every music video on VH1.
when everything was settled by rock paper scissors..or bubble gum bubble gum in a dish…eeny meeny miney mo…and even better daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.
You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.
"Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.
Captain Planet. He's a Hero.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.
You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.
You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.
You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"
You remember watching The Magic School Bus, Wishbone, and Reading Rainbow on PBS.
You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember those Where's Waldo books.
You remember eating Warheads.
You remember watching the 1st Batman, Aladdin, Ninja Turtles, and 3 Ninjas movies.
You remember Ring Pops.
You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.
If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"
When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
Making those little paper cootie-catcher things, and then predicting your life with them.
You played and/or collected "Pogs"
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.
. . . Furbies
You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
And Windows 95 was the best.
You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.
Michael Jordan was a king.
All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out.
You collected those Beanie Babies.
Carebears
Lambchop's song never ended.
The old dollar bills.
Silver dollars, which were cool to have.
You remember a time before the WB.
You collected all the Troll dolls
If you even know what an original walkman is.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
You know the Macarena by heart.
"Talk to the hand" . . . nough said
You always said, "Then why don't you marry it?!"
You remember trying to collect all 150 original pokemon cards but never could and if you did you thought you were all that!
You remember Highlight's magazine.
You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.
You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.
Before the MySpace frenzy . . .
Before the Internet & text messaging . . .
Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .
Before Spongebob . . .
Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When gas was 0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was The new thing.
When we recorded stuff on VCRs.
When gameboy was a brick.
You did MASH to figure out your future
Way back.
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.
Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!
Repost this on social media if you remember these days . . . . or if you smiled at one of these things.
No.6871
Repost comp:
Cyberpunk always seems to be anti-capitalist without necessarily being socialist.
A good example is Cyberpunk 2077 which stays true to its original source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_(role-playing_game)>Style over substance.>Attitude is everything.>Always take it to the Edge.Apparently "Cyberpunk™" as an RPG has always been an aesthetic spectacle. It seems the only 3 factions are Corp, Street Kid, and Nomad and they are all oriented around individualism and buying cool toys. In theory a story with a preset character isn't that bad, and can turn out really strong (like Disco Elysium, or the guy from new Deus Ex games for a more AAA example). However I doubt they will bother to make the character in Cyberpunk to be an integral part, and thus it might end up being just a bland empty spot that might get a unique dialogue option once in a while with differing background. An example of a recent game that allows picking a backstory is Tyranny, but I digress.
The creator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pondsmith seems like an ass and to me tabletop RPGs like this have become about overcharging for artbooks, abusing intellectual property, and marketing to create repeat customers. Cyberpunk to these people is only the same level Steampunk or Mecha Anime, its just a gimmick to sell merchandise.
The worst part is that this will be so many peoples first introduction to cyberpunk that it will reimagine the genre in the public consciousnesses, the same way Anarchism or Punk is seen as chaos and being mad at your parents, which is why those movements have BECOME about that now, instead of spurning totalitarian capitalism.
No.6878
>>1793based. I've read both books.
No.6879
>>5380>Deus ExI've only recently played the first one. It was a real joy to play. I've heard the sequels aren't as good so I've been reluctant to play them.
Ghost in the shell is still my favorite franchise. Cowboy beebop is great as well.
The Matrix trilogy and animatrix are also pretty cool.
Children of Men is great, and I think it's very relevant to our COVID times.
Idiocracy was ok.
No.6947
>>3171 >>3177 >>3178 (checked)
>>3165 >>2165 >>4031 >>4032 (checked)
A good review of both the original blade runner and 2049 was made by Critical Drinker:
Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdLn5MqER_g2049:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSXyPOvH_ws No.6948
>>6947WHO THE FUCK IS CRITICAL DRINKER WHY DO YOU KEEP RECOMMENDING HIM MUH ALGORITHM MUH TISMS MUH RISMS
No.6950
>>6948Just a random youtube reviewer who presented good short analyses of a lot of movies and media which I found intriguing and well balanced, as he tries to keep his personal political opinion out/being objective on the merits & flaws.
>Muh algorithmKek
No.6967
James Cameron's Avatar is a rather unknown dystopic film, mostly because the main story was an alien knock-off of Disney's Pocahontas and the main theme was environmentalist. The scenes of life on Earth (or wherever) prior to the mission, shows the main character living in a tiny shit apartment in dirty neon-colored streets reminiscent of Blade Runner… or the paper-city that is Las Vegas today. The Space Mission and the military? Owned by a massive corporation with no morals. The inclusion of Sigourney Weaver only accentuates the parallels to Weyland-Yutani from the Aliens franchise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_universe_of_Avatar#Human_interestRed Cynic did a good review of the leftist themes and the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTKl5HfQnro For non-russian speakers Drinker also has a decent review, though it lacks the political analysis Red Cynic provides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNeEGBDTnig No.6973
>>6967People overlook the scenes on Earth because most of that was cut from the theatrical version of the movie. IIRC the theatrical cut only includes the 1 scene and a handful of shots where the protagonist is informed his twin died and they need him to pilot the avatar body.
No.7618
>>6973Yeah, I remember how the released film was quite different to the theatrical film. I remember it well cause it was this big thing with all the 3D and special effects for the first time ever. ?
It's oddly nostalgic looking back to it.
No.7701
A rather mundane and oddly deficient dystopia is Ready Player One. Its essentially what was written about in
>>5677 where the dystopia exists but instead of the corporations being called cool names we get ironic shit like Amazon and Microsoft.
Before I go into the actual dystopian features I just want to point out a bunch of random (spoilers)/dumb things in the movie that no review seems to really point out.
- I find it hilarious that a bunch of their gimmicks and part of the plot (virtual rescues, VR super-video-game world etc.) were straight up Spy Kids 3 content.
- The entire movie's gimmick was essentially
"remember how you like references/easter-eggs in your movies? Well now we made a movie about Easter-eggs and put Easter eggs in your Easter-egg movie, dawg."- The tons of Master Chiefs and Tracer's ass are pretty lazy - do you honestly believe that in a society now centered around this insane gaming world will not have nearly every gamer try to customize their characters and skins?
- The mecha fight with Mecha Godzilla was just poorly made. FFS even Pacific Rim: Uprising did better mech-fights than that sad excuse of an exchange.
- The idea that no-one would even accidentally accelerate backwards in the game is also retarded. That's literally the first accident I did in my first racing game, I certainly didn't get any cheats from it.
- The movie unironically pulls the "bad capitalist-good capitalist card" and expects people to think this is right. It was so blatant that I think everyone noticed how shite that was. The funniest part about it was that the cops arrest the big-bad, who for some fucking reason went to kill the protags personally. I mean it certainly breaks the mold of dystopian film climaxes, but not in a good way.
- There weren't any tentacle monsters. Even Force Awakens got that right.
- It's all about vague, idealist moralisms of digital “freedom” that pedos and libertarians (leftist and rightist) love
I Literally watched the movie just for morbid curiosity and the Queen of Cats from the Spess Kat threads
I wanna rail that pussy's pussy.
I missed nothing. All the fun cameos and interesting parts were already in clip form on the net.
On to the dystopia shit (and why its poor).
The internet is so often dived into for an escape that it stops being an escape and becomes where you live, because most of the world lives in corporate induced poverty. It's a reflection of today's go-nowhere existences, except with poverty stacked up and technology of VR and other mundane shit, maxed out. People are owned by corporations they fall into debt to and labor for this 'til they die. It's ironic that this reflects today's reality, yet blatantly attempts to liberalize it into "we just need young good people owning the corporations" which means that the problems created will merely be patched and ignored. In many ways Ready Player One makes me wonder if it isn't a prequel to the Matrix. See the problem is that the idea of
hey get the fuck off the internet and live reality is on I agree with, but when there are no material conditions to allow self-actualization or any actual demonstration of action to improve the outside world, what the fuck is the point? With the Matrix it made sense, the world online wasn't fantastical or able to provide all you ever dreamed, and thus reality is preferable, where those who escaped try and make things better. But here, there is none of that. There is just taking over the OASIS and then nothing.
Also the villain Sorento's avatar is straight up a rip-off of Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear He pilots a giant animal-themed robot mech in the final battle before fighting head to head with the main hero. His eyes even glow. Just replace "nanomachines" with "infinite money", and he basically is invincible as well.
Movie review
Your Movie Sucks review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIQp3KeDmwURed Cynic Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45MKLo79qwList of Easter Eggs:
http://archive.is/eDUaq(The battletoads reference reminded me of the whole Battletoads meme from 4chan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYmVdzgfhCY )
other
http://archive.vn/SZ6iAAs an aside the book is written like absolute shite (pic 2 related). It's like a fanfiction about every 80s movie ever mashed into each other incoherently, like the nerd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQyuNpzp29E No.7784
>>1784>Snowpiercer>>4441 for anyone interested
No.7801
>>7618Remember how everyone was making a big deal about people that would watch the movie constantly and how it was inducing depression in people because everyone wanted to live on Pandora or something. That was weird.
No.7807
>>7801That sounds vaguely familiar. There was this cult or something that rose but then sort of dissipated. The sequel is supposed to come out next year (even though originally the sequel was supposed to come out way earlier).
No.7832
Time Cop is relatively dystopian Peggy Sue movie starring 90s star Van Damme. It is like the poormans combination of BladeRunner and Back to the Future. Where a by-the-book cop uses time travel to go after crime, and specifically a corrupt politician and save his wife in the process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimecopThe trailer was pretty fun, just as I remember back on the VHS tapes LOL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OPLHgw54h4Cyberpunk overview:
https://static.anarchivism.org/cyberpunkreview-archive/www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/1990-1999/timecop/index.htmlOliver Harper's Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNEoMTIv4VEAnd yes the pic about the rich in the white house is real:
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/t/timecop-script-transcript-van-damme.htmlNot really related but here's
A good vaporwave score called (for some reason) Timecop1983:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ci0KgdpgswThe actual score for the movie is pretty good background stuff too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AevA2wbkoqU Tesla Cyberpunk truck breakdown which mentions the film briefly:
http://archive.vn/xGxJy No.7841
>>6871It's been announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will have an anime will be made in the same universe. Breakdown of Cyberpunk or not, this seems rather neat… as long as they actually do make it in 2022 and don't half-ass it. Its supposed to be called Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and it features a lot of the big-guns in the anime business:
Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) will direct the series along with assistant director Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Promare), creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), character designers Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal) and Yuto Kaneko (Little Witch Academia), and the adapted screenplay by Yoshiki Usa (SSSS.GRIDMAN, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare). The original score will be composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).It honestly sounds pretty based according to the summary:
a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk. I'm looking forward to its release.
https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/35512/announcing-an-original-anime-series-cyberpunk-edgerunners No.7842
>>6871>The creator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pondsmith seems like an ass1) He's the creator of Cyberpunk 2020 and more of an advisor and one of the creators of 2077
2) How is he an ass? He's no communist, but that's not a requirement for cyberpunk
People are just trying to shit on the video-game and the company because "muh racist Poles" despite Witcher being a Polish written and Poland based series and Pondsmith being a literal African-American who was writing out races as gangs as he saw them or wanted to depict. It's literally
>You poor minorities! Let me be offended on your behalf!<LOL no
Typical liberal virtue signaling, pics related
To quote:
"McIntosh's tweet (pic 2) overtly misses the point of Cyberpunk. It is supposed to an oversexed dystopian future with guns, drugs, and all sorts of passive advertisements run by corporations taking over everyday lives. It is there as a means to cover the poverty line Night City is infamous for. And nothing covers a shit and depressive life better than sex-appeal, celebrity gossip, and mass shootings."
Also for anyone wanting to read Cyberpunk 2020:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/50354/Cyberpunk-2020-The-Second-Edition-Version-201 No.7878
>>7701>le epic references movieAs a side note, a god film that actually makes appropriate and plentiful references is Galaxy Quest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest#Relation_to_Star_Trek_and_other_science_fiction_works No.7887
>>7841>character is a literal cyberpunkCringe. Sounds like more retarded shonen shit.
No.7893
>>7887>Muhhhh ShonenPretentious pseudo-intellectual blow-hards like you make the Narutard stereotype look mature.
No.9566
cyberpunk died officially in 1995 (when reddit-effect happened)
it was trash before that too (even cyberpunk writers say that, that it is a trash, it is just low-life sci-fi)
No.10289
>>7807>sequelGiven how disappointing and garbage Terminator Dark Fems, Predator (2018) and Alien: Covenant were, I don't hold out much hope on it being good. I'm betting we're getting a BatmanVsSuperman-tier edit where Cameron inserts "Orange Man Bad!!!" into it.
>>6967>>6973>>7618>>7801What
I recall is the (hilarious) whole confusion of Avatar and Avatar: The Last Airbender on the internet. The Na'avi World Tree's similarity to The Foggy Swamp tree from ATLA's episode The Swamp (S2E4), didn't help.
https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Banyan-grove_tree (Also ATLA thread here
>>2562 )
>>7784Nice dubs. Also Orwell thread (since Orwell is a dystopia writer) is located
>>5161 OP didn't make a very good intro, so it drops down the catalog fast.
No.10570
Slavoj Žižek: Elon Musk’s desire to control our minds is dehumanizing and not what is needed in a socially distanced world
>And so, the prospect of Neuralink ideally fits the vision of a new society in which we will be bodily isolated, living in protective bubbles, and simultaneously sharing the same mental space. In our psychic lives, we will be closer to each other than ever before, immersed into the same space.<TFW we're 1 step away from GiTS or Instrumentality
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/499626-slavoj-zizek-elon-musk/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkL0QwLllw>Before Elon Musk says that AI is going to destroy humanity<Now he's trying to connect human brains to the internet
I'm sure that everybody is aware of Elon Musk and his epic narwhal bacon redditor escapades. Recently, he has debuted a device that can both track and apply apply stimuli directly onto the nervous system.
The results of the reveal have been predictable. The comments on the video are filled with an army of the iPhone bonded, normalfag, wealthy lords of the Walmart/Gamestop combo store that inhabit Reddit. The threads are all ogling at how futuristic and useful the device is, with a few comments about it's like le cool cinematic cyberpunk!
The described reactions above detail the process of manufacturing consent:
A malleable and easily manipulated class of professional "intellectuals" guided towards a conclusion by the financial powers that be. Be it through laziness or aligning interests, the managerial class parrots ideas of a very small elite while squawking orders and mimicking the voice of a silent majority. The ideas being reddit memes and metal things that are to be put in your brain, you are forced to accept this narrative for social credit scores; Ex: employer wants a look at your profile before they hire you. It's ironic that Westerners whine about China's social credit score system. It was all here in the West already, just done by corporations. Banks and insurance companies literally create a social score for you based on big data, and then decide your fate based on what's most profitable for them.
But what drove Musk and the market to something as inhuman as inserting an internet chip into a brain?
The stagnation of the internet eras boom and the logistical tracking abilities it had offered.
From the 1970s to the mid 2010s, wireless changed the way the world worked. The US navy employed it, Project Cybersyn happened, Apple and Windows computers ruled, general ease of coordination and tracking was changed. Now, all of that is gone. The US military is back to using radar based boats to fend off guerillas, Cybersyn died with Allende, Apple is stagnant and only kept alive by the federal reserve and Windows 'competition'.
Meanwhile DIY transhumanists have already done this kind of thing with nerve endings outside the brain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0WIgU7LRc The brain is plastic enough that you can adapt to a new signal
Tracking people and goods is more complicated due to demand rising of service levels, encryption has become the rule of thumb for anyone actually working with tech. Even the CIA struggles despite massive NSA networks. The result of this is a direct in-out channel logistics tracking device placed in your skull for efficiency and surveillance (with 10s of thousands of atmosphere cluttering satellites). Great for manipulating people too: chip detects when you are looking at an ad from 'candidate A' and triggers waves of nausea; if you watch a campaign ad from 'candidate B' it triggers a release of serotonin and dopamine. Perfect manufactured consent and electoral manipulation through operant conditioning. The device has some proof-of-concept with animals and mind-control experiments.
Magnets could be used in assault. It probably would make people vulnerable to EMP weapons which can even be home-made. EMPs don't need nukes, there are single use EMP-generators that use regular explosives, it's possible to have 1 produce a pulse to fry the brains of a city. The EM noise from a taser held next to someone's head might lobotomize them.
>Why would an EMP do that, it would just kill the device.It's like a lightning rod wired directly into your brain. You can see 4 long wires connect the wireless adapter behind the ear to the electrode arrays higher up on the skull, enough to induce several thousand volts in the milliamp range, it will fry most of your axons and scar your synapses. Everything with electronics will be susceptible to magnetism otherwise it won't be able to transmit electrical signals. There is no known material that blocks magnetic fields without itself being attracted to the magnetic force. Magnetic fields can only be redirected. To do this, high-permeability shielding alloys are used. The magnetic field lines are strongly attracted into the shielding material.
To fix the design: Replace the electrical wires with a optical fibre with tiny optical-signal to electrical-signal converter, you mau be able to avoid having long conductors, vulnerable to electromagnetic pulses. You can probably put a computer chip into your brain that is powered by a thermal differential, while computationally very simple it would give you perfect math skills and probably considerable amount (a few hundred kilobytes) of very accurate memory for information that can be stored with simple file formats. This would not need any conductors that are long enough for a EMP to induce electrical pulse destructive to either your brain or the chip. It would literally be just a chip with a few exposed electrodes. So small that you could barely see it with the naked eye, and it could probably be injected into your brain via a blood vessel probe, so that you don't need to make a hole into your skull.
And all the troglodyte "progressive" tech-fags are like
>Shut up Slave put the chip in ur skull. Dont want to be """"Reactionary""""" 'le boomer'!<It's just controlled release medication
>anti-depressantsNeeded primarily because of the nightmare capitalism we live in.
>helping workers receive [anti-depressants] when they are under the most stress [read: having the worst time, namely, working].How about making a robot that makes work not be utter hell by eliminating said work, instead of releasing numbing medicine when shit gets though.
>Wirelessly broadcast schedulesby whom? Mr. Steven Pinker, the best friend of Bill Gates and Epstein?
>Human ingenuity is truly boundless!Enthusiasm of making people endure un-endurable situations. Literally keeping the working population subdued and complacent with chemicals.
It is not a neutral technology. If you think anything in psychiatry (and science in general) is "neutral", you haven't been paying enough attention. However it's probably going to be a gigantic improvement for healing blindness and deafness, and give back motor control and touch sense perception for people with spinal injuries. So it COULD BE useful technology should we get rid of the worst parts of society and humanity. Resisting mass surveillance and proprietary, privacy restricting software should be of higher priority for socialist orgs. Not in an anprim sort of way, but more along the lines of what Richard Stallman talks about. Technology in the hands of the bourgeoisie only serves as another tool to suppress opposition, sabotage movements, disseminate propaganda. Another thing to worry about is the pacification of the working class via social media and mass entertainment: bread and circus, except it's super addictive and manipulative.
CIA and other mind control stuff
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01070R000301530003-5.pdf https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html https://nypost.com/2018/12/11/cia-once-secretly-implanted-mind-control-devices-in-dogs-brains/ https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000600340001-4.pdf https://www.newsweek.com/cia-mkultra-documents-files-remote-control-dogs-1250519 https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/article/2018/06/the-world-of-insect-cyborgs/12087 What a Brave New World
http://archive.is/zHEho No.10572
>>10570>be redditor>get me ebin futuristic internet chip in your brain to rewatch your favorite marvel movies 24/7/365 for the rest of your life>click on sketchy link>download ransomware and get paralyzed and forced to send your entire life savings to random bitcoin address>regain faculties>download monero miner>your body uses all of its energy to mime monero to the point where you are borderline catatonic>get cybertruck comes to escort you to a repair hospital>they ssh into your brain and remove the monero miner, and install malwarebytes>all your money has been used to pay for your hospital bills, Sim card licensing fees, and stolen from the ransomware attack earlier>they downgrade you to Avast>random intrusive thoughts prompting you to pay for premium and install updates>constant adverts<Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
The future is bright
No.10573
>16905
And this is why I say FPS games are shit influences
No.10579
>>10570>inb4 muh brain interface incompatabilityRead the naiive insanity of Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society
Novel by José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
https://archive.vn/STCOQ https://archive.vn/ELk0d No.11801
The Iron Heel portrays a failed socialist movement in the 20th century getting crushed by the world oligarchy with commentary by a socialist future historian. And the amazing thing is that somehow it managed to predict the world today better than any other dystopian novel could in 1908 before ww1 and the first socialist state in the world.
>>4115>>4122Effortpost on Starship Troopers
>>2051 >>2054
>>2055 in the Fantasy thread.
https://libcom.org/library/starship-stormtroopers-michael-moorcock No.11912
A very disappointing dystopian film is What Happened to Monday also known as the Secret of 7 Sisters. The reason is because it's an anti-collectivist attempt at "le teen rebellion", that as always, comes off as bratty kids being stupid.
The plot of the movie is essentially population excess and other problems in relation to food scarcity forcing the government to implement planned economic policies, which includes a 1-Child Policy (paralleling China). People with more than 1 child are to have one of them taken and put in cryosleep until better times. The twist is
the government is lying and the 'cryosleep' is all bullshit to cover up them burning their euthanized corpses. The stupid part is how inefficient and illogical it is in regards to both capitalist planned economies and socialist ones, it's another case of shitty retarded attempts at "totalitarian gobbmint" done lazily.
Decent review by Ugly Joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKsh4cHa_W4 Some plotholes (SPOILERS)
- She's buying food for 7 people… using a salary for 1 person, HOW?
- Why not enforce artificial insemination and required contraceptives for sex? If you fertilize one egg, then there will be no multiple pregnancy. And this is clearly cheaper than constantly
burning children or “officially”
keeping them frozen. And in this way it will be possible to gain time to come up with ways to reduce fertility in a natural way (or produce food in more meaningful amounts).
- They may be identical siblings but their mannerisms are different and it would be fairly obvious with discrepancies in memories or other details to anyone who gives a fuck (such as the feds or a stingy boss).
- Each girl would probably want a relationship of their own… so how would you live and do that?
ironically the decision of Monday to do this is the true final twist No.12029
>>10579>>10572>>10570>mind implants make good obedient workersWe're coming down to the horror of GitS and the Borg collective, where people are intelligences that think they are self-aware but cannot confirm if this is true or if it is an illusion.
People love to compare the borg to 'muh evul communism' but frankly it's essentially an overpowered spacefaring example of what cyberpunk capitalism plans to do to humankind.
No.12680
>>11801It’s sad how the book is still accurate to this day. I wish that we in the real world can one day look at this era as a bygone age of barbarism rather than the first signs to the end of human civilization.
No.12715
>>1793>V for VendettaAlan Moore was an idealistic radlib who thinks random violence without any planning after the results will do anything other than continuing the endless struggle. Telling people to choose for themselves when they’ve known nothing about society other than the fascist regime they spent decades under is stupid. The comic is basically a fanfic of early 20th century anarchism, that due to writer biases, have it succeeds rather than pushing people into more organized methods to achieve anything. he whole great man angle is excessively liberal, and it confused me why V only has
one protege instead of as many as possible. It's not a good demonstration of actual revolution or even anarchy specifically, but even understanding the radlib context it's really bizarre for the revolution to hinge on one (wo)man and a student. It makes some sense character-wise for V to be like that but why write the character that way? Especially since V is thematically supposed to represent the resistance that's inherently produced by tyranny. This lends itself to a group dynamic, but that's only referenced in the movie with everyone wearing the masks at the end. The movie actually has a better and realistic depiction of a mass movement against fascism than the comic. Because even libs are still more successful in that than anarchists especially the pre-20th century ones that Moore tried to emulate.
A better representation of his politics you should read Brought to Light. TL;DR: All you need to know about how much of a fake anarchist Moore was at the time is his pitch for DC’s Twilight of the Superheroes. Which can be found here:
https://ia801906.us.archive.org/28/items/TwilightOfTheSuperheroes/TwilightOfTheSuperheroes.pdfHe did the same thing that made Moore hate his biggest fanboy Grant Morrison. He did become a much better person after getting fucked over by corporate but that’s decades later.
No.12968
>>12715>Alan Moore was an idealistic radlib who thinks random violence without any planning after the results will do anything other than continuing the endless struggle.yea i don't think he thought that, and you will notice this if you look into all the flaws with V's character, the flaws with the characters that he's supposed to be saving, and (if you read the actual graphic novel not watch the shitty movie) you will realise that
the only person who is continuing the fight after V's death is Evie as the crowd simply riots around with no aim other than to smash the state, bringing the brutal fascist reign to its obvious conclusion of pointless individual violence with the aftermath unstated on purpose so that people can write in their own idealistic/materialistic outcomes, despite the fact that it can all only turn out one way (return to reaction), which is why Evie doesn't just "retire to enjoy the spoils" and it averts this entire "much wholesome" nonsense trope. the whole angle of the graphic novel was less so the outcome of it than basically a thorough deconstruction of how all of those "perfect" and "polite" politicians (remember he was writing this in a time before the internet when all of these cunts had the ability to carefully curate their public image as long as the msm were compliant) are actually horrible fucking human beings corrupted by power that backstab each other and commit degenerate acts endlessly, in other words they act exactly like the "unwashed masses" that the ruling class has such disdain for thanks to their projection, and in the context of thatcherite britain it was absolutely perfect.
alan moore may not be a revolutionary and he may not even be a particularly good anarchist with his occultist obsessions, but every artistic work he did has its nuances that need to be explored from a particular zeitgeist, v for vendetta included.
No.12969
>>12968>look into all the flaws with V's character, the flaws with the characters that he's supposed to be savingYou assume this was intentional
> the crowd simply riots around with no aim other than to smash the state, bringing the brutal fascist reign to its obvious conclusion of pointless individual violence with the aftermath unstated on purpose so that people can write in their own idealistic/materialistic outcomes Again, this isn't incorrect, but it assumes that he was consciously writing this and not just depicting real life.
I agree that it was a interesting novel
and film but I also believe it is overrated by many, partially because he doesn't really present a solution and it ends up being just like every other depiction of revolution's dirtiness. It becomes tiresome because I'm sick of reading about a novelized satirization of real life, when I live and experience it anyway. Might as well look out the window or watch the news for all the difference it makes.
No.12975
>>12969>You assume this was intentionali do, i read an interview with him where he specifically talked about this being intentional. i need to find it again, but i doubt he just used it to make himself look big brained post factum
>Again, this isn't incorrect, but it assumes that he was consciously writing this and not just depicting real life. he was doing both according to himself. like i said, the zeitgeist of the time absolutely played a part in how this was written out. in the thatcherite years there was hardly a talk of revolutions or uprisings as depressing as that is, the focus on and depression after the trade unions defeat was too great, so his ending in the context of 80s britain was almost inflammatory while also being despondent at the same time due to the knowledge of how all of this was really just the system eating itself and not some indomitable will of the people or even one person. the most V succeeded at in the end was propaganda by the deed, but like each instance of it irl it led to nothing more than an outburst of momentary emotion, and the party members killing each other only confirms that the biggest damage was caused by the party itself, even to itself.
if he wrote v for vendetta in the modern context where the talk of "revolution" (however watered down) is basically a daily occurrence even with libs (either against it or "for" things such as "a diversity revolution" that means more female ceos kek), it would not be as genre defining.
No.12976
>>12975>i doubt he just used it to make himself look big brained post factumWhile one could call Death of Author, I'll take your word on this, since I only bothered to read the book and see the movie.
No.18149
>>7701Speaking of trash films that spam references we're getting a movie about Discord and the internet but instead of what discord actually is, they're just doing VR-chat but in HD quality.
Danny Devito looks like he just wants to die in the trailer.
No.18165
>>3156>https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/104/Brayton104.htm>Although these celebrated events condemn past racism, they potentially acquit the contemporary white subject of racial violence. Quit with the white guilt okay?
Racism is dumb and bad but so is group guilt and ancestral guilt.
egalitarianismEgalitarianism No.18166
>>5255>corporatismDo you mean corporatocracy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CorporatismegalitarianismEgalitarianism No.18167
>>7701>It's all about vague, idealist moralisms of digital “freedom” that pedos and libertarians (leftist and rightist) loveWhat do you have against freedom?
egalitarianismEgalitarianism No.18170
>>18165>White GuiltHow is any of this White Guilt you twit? The link you posted is liberal nitpicky idpol analysis, what does that have anything to do with what was posted? Pointing out simple race/class war aspects in the movie =/= muh white guilt when it's not a 1:1 metaphor for today.
>Racism is dumb and bad but so is group guilt and ancestral guilt No shit, Sherlock.
>>18166I mean wikipedia states "Corporatism" so I think I know what I meant. Corporatocracy = Corporatism
>>18167>What do you have against freedomNothing, I have something against vague ideological platitudes of libertarians who confused liberty with a carte blanche to do anything they want no matter how wrong it is.
No.18171
>>1787>Also isn't Brazil basically a piece of neoliberal propaganda (muh road to serfdom / muh ebil civil servants coming for our freedums / muh dysfunctional byzantine bureaucracy)?probably not considering the director and all
No.18180
>>1782Why is Repo Men so underrated? It’s basically got forgotten overnight. The action is shit but the story is actually pretty damn decent.
No.18696
>>7701>Ready Player Onebased other thread gay
Ready Player One epic
No.18991
>>18180>The action is shitYou've answered your own question - people care more about the visual aspects today
No.18995
Does anyone know if
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner:_Black_Lotus will be good (judging by the 3 short animated movies it is based on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_Black_Out_2022) I love Blade Runner but this the 2049 film felt kinda stupid and I don't want to waste time on that.
No.18998
>>18997It looks alright I guess, but it lacks the necessary texture and grime that something like GiTS had which made is more than average.
No.19136
Embedding error.
Cosmoball is set in a post-global warming Earth where aliens of various act like a galactic UN for the comparably third-world Earth. Rather poorly done dystopia, but good for memes and the concept art was cool.
No.19175
Pretty much all sci-fi movies are dystopian unless they are literal goodies pew-pew the baddies shit made for children, like Star Wars.
Hollywood and the arts in general are inherently technophobic.
No.19186
>>19175>Hollywood and the arts in general are inherently technophobic.There is some truth in that, however stories need protagonists and conflict, and man vs machine is really low hanging fruit. The best scifi is usually hard-scifi, but for that you need a scientifically literate audience, which means it's mostly limited to books, and niche video games.
No.19221
>>19175That's because under capitalism every new technology is abused an used for some dystopian alienating shit. So of course the culture will express this. Just look at Soviet sci-fi movies, none of them was technophobic. Chinese ones aren't either.
No.19222
>>19186>The best scifi is usually hard-scifi, but for that you need a scientifically literate audience, which means it's mostly limited to books, and niche video games.Not really. Interstellar was widely popular amongst normies. As long as there is exposition to explain the outcome of some technical shit, people can follow along. If people can watch Star Trek with 30% of it being technobabble they can watch realistic technobabble as well.
No.19235
>>19221>Chinese ones aren't either.<haven’t read Chinese sci-fi other than Michael Bay baby shit like the moving earth movies The Three Body problem would laugh at your face. Most Chinese science fiction are very somber and cerebral.
Hell the likes of the Strugatsky Brothers and Stanislaw Len would as well. Soviet sci-fi is about pondering your existence within a totally alien universe, what’s it mean for an advanced civilization to tamper with what to them is backwater, and how the existence of interstellar aliens will have their intelligence dwarfing humans to the magnitude of us and an anthill.
This just proves again that Dengoids don’t read.
No.19266
>>19235That's not what fucking "dystopian" means you fucking massive faggot.
>DengoidAutism
No.19274
>>19266The three body problem literally discussed at length the futility of technology within a universe with the dark Forrest hypothesis. Intelligent life kill each other with first strike attacks so much that the universal laws itself changed. The solar system at the end literally turned into a 2D surface with everything dying. Even the society depicted on earth in the book is some strange Cyberpunk type shit where alien infiltration is a thing.
Or what about Roadside Picnic, a world so shit that people have to hunt for artifacts from the zone to live.
No.19279
>>19235The Wandering Earth as a film was very action orientated, but the book was very different and much more sociological, really recommend the book.
No.19907
some Anime series from the 2000s that are dystopian sci-fi
https://archive.ph/oSKvZ No.23022
>>22756You got filtered, the Wachowski were making fun of you.
No.23026
>>230221) Proof?
2) Even if true, I call death of author.
No.23028
>>23026>2) Even if true, I call death of author.I hardly ever call things reddit but… reddit.
No.23055
>>1789>>1787I would say it's anti neoliberalism in particular. The characters have to pay for their own interrogations, and it takes place during a very superficial christmas with "Consumers for Christ" and a little girl asking santa for a credit card, etc.
It's a comedic film overall–a fun romp.
No.23056
>>18180it's a rip off of a musical featuring paris hilton. Repo: The Genetic Opera.
No.23057
it's always funny when I have non-leftist things in common with other leftists, like enjoying sci-fi horror.
No.23071
>>19222Interstellar is not hard science fiction, there is a wormhole people travel trough, a black hole the main protagonist fall into but end up traveling in time forward and backward then being okay because magical higher beings live there so h can find the sorcery scroll for the anti gravity cheat. That ends up fixing their crops problems because now they can make O'Neil cylinders? Not to mention the planets orbiting around a black hole they want to settle, the magical delta v their spaceships have but still using a Saturn fucking V to go in earth orbit etc etc. Cool movie but all over the place.
No.23072
>>23031>the author is making fun of you faggots<no he isnt because uhhhhhh death of authorJust admit you did not get it.
No.23078
>>23071Also the whole bullshit about the power of love to transfer data. Most of interstellar is stupid wanking pretending itself as hard scifi. The blight itself that started the plot makes no sense as well as the proposed “solution”.
No.23082
>>23072>admit you did not get it.<"Hurr I kno de reel truth becuz the voice in my head tell me the thots of de wachowskis!" Cry more PoMoist
No.23295
>30 Pics Show How Dystopic Our Society Already Is https://archive.ph/smpgF Open-eyed, burn the page…
No.23396
>>23078It has some fun visuals tho
No.24809
>>5352Didn't Gibson do one of the scripts for Alien 3 that had a Cold War plot?
No.24874
>>23556I thought Cyberia was a point and click adventure lol
No.25005
Watched Don't Look Up recently. The satire is so close to the current reality that it feels mesmerizingly horrific and depressingly real. I don't want to spoil it so I'm not going into details, I recommend this reflection of the spectacle to be seen is all I'll say.
No.25020
>>24853It's also a comic for dark horse but it's only average. Gibson has never been that much of a friend to the Soviets.
No.25033
>>25020Yeah I read the comic a long time ago, it's alright, not blatantly anti-soviet at least for the standards of the time. The Novelized script had a version that tried to represent the Weyland Yutani Corp. as an allegory for communism but they cut that out later for being too nonsensical.
No.25040
>>25039Kind of funny how it's Britain that wanted to bomb Britain in the case of Soviet invasion
No.25060
>>25039Not really scifi, it's good shit though.
No.25061
>>23082how can you claim "death of author" and then call others "pomos" rofl
No.27762
>>25061Follow the thread chain idiot. The anon claimed that "Wachowski were making fun of you" having no substantial proof. I claimed that this is unlikely but that even if they suddenly retroactively decided this 2 decades later, this doesn't change the original meaning already in place and demonstrated. But I didn't actually claim Death of Author, I said in the case that the Wachowski's had indeed made the claim of making fun of people in THAT case I call Death of Author, but the other anon did not provide proof and simply made the claim that the authors intended a Post-Modernist style of film that in the end meant little more than to mock the audience, and that has no proof, ergo PoMoism.
No.27763
>>10289>>>5161 Board moving back during the split fucked it all up here's the link now
>>13032 No.27765
>>7842>nothing covers a shit and depressive life better than sex-appeal, celebrity gossip, and mass shootingsSo basically the past 3 decades of America?
No.27767
>>25039not sci-fi nor dystopian
No.27768
>>2167>>2176>>1832 Speaking of Soylent Green and cannibalism:
>Lab-grown human meat could be used to create cubes of celebrity meathttps://archive.ph/odDtN>New York Times had an article of cannibalism apologia be responded to with disgust by even twitter https://archive.ph/JyjTR Eating Vitro meat is totally ethical guyz, don't eat de bugz, eat human meat!
https://archive.ph/DLpWu Thankfully at least a large proportion of people are against this (even in studies done by clearly biased scientists) even if the sociopathic scientific community seems overjoyed to condone it and make up some BS studies about it being "healthy" while fringe historians seek to white wash it, fucking hell this is one fucked up reality.
These same liberals are the ones crying accusations and handwringing about China supposedly selling human meat as canned corned beef in Africa.
https://archive.ph/u1wKt
>inb4 the retarded "b-but animals do it"So? Some animals shit in the water they live in or eat their shit or live in shit, should we also? We're distinct from animals in many regards and I don't doubt for a second that Porky would seek to encourage destructive, dehumanizing ideas to the people just to make them stupider, less hesitant to do horrific things and literally eat shit from Porky, making them 'tame'. Additionally many cannibalistic animals are invertebrates or lower forms of vertebrates like fish, amphibians and reptiles, and those that are not like Mammals or birds almost never engage in cannibalism because it is a last resort measure against starvation.
>inb4 other cultures Same applies, some ritualistic consumption likely came from practices that originated during ancient times of famine, that had people consume the flesh of the dead to survive, and to rationalize it, made it into a ritual to respect them. It's just like the Chinese cooking dogs (sometimes alive) as part of a festival - it originates from times of hunger (that China suffered plenty of) - and became tradition that has no reason to exist. The same applies to the cannibal tribes in Africa and New Guinea, that clearly ate human flesh as a surviving method, and rationalized it into a tradition. These examples do not make it right.
No.27777
>>27769causal reductionism
No.27784
>>27768>Eating Vitro meat is totally ethical guyz, don't eat de bugz, eat human meat! retarded rightwinger atavist can't into morality #93738209238
No.27814
>>27784>U-ur rightwing! M-moralism<The scientific establishment that is controlled by porky is totally going to push a narrative that is actually good and useful for people, they're totally not going to be used to manipulate people, like they did in Tuskegee, Stanley, Langley etc. we promise, just shut up and eat your human meat you bigots! Retarded liberal retard can't into logic #33234567898432
Go back ratman
No.29026
>>27777>27777>causal reductionism Checked
No.29661
Saw Avatar again over the weekend and noticed that it takes about six years to travel between Earth and Pandora…
>humans leave pandora at the end of the first movie (2009)>takes 6 years to get to Earth (2015)>Avatar 2 comes out in 2022, and humans are back>they had to leave 6 years earlier to arrive then (2016)>about a year in between to prepareAm I crazy or did James Cameron intentionally put a 13 year gap between these movies IRL as an intentional storytelling device?
>>6967>James Cameron's Avatar is a rather unknown dystopic film,lol yes, the hidden gem which is also the top grossing film of all time.
>Red Cynic did a good review of the leftist themes and the storyNeat.
Chapo Trap House also has done an episode about it and how it's anti-imperialist and specifically not a white savior trope and how it's distinct from movies like Pocahontas or Dances with Wolves.
Avatar 1 rewatch (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7CtTo88QOIAvatar 2 trailer reaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtHDTdrgp0oBut yeah, Avatar is an interesting example of dystopian sci-fi, even cyberpunk, because unlike most examples it
doesn't exclusively show a setting where capital is all-encompassing and has put the world into a terminal decline. That's true on Earth, but because of that humans are driven to plunder resources from elsewhere in the universe. And that's where 99% of the movie happens, on a largely intact ecosystem that is in an early stage of contact with humans. One of the things that makes it stand out from the rest of the milieu is that it's beating you over the head with the point that the dystopia is
unnecessary. It's used as a plot point that Jake says "We don't have anything they want." While that statement is used (by certain characters) at that moment to justify just taking their shit, it's still there to make the point that for all the technological wonders humans have they have nothing to offer the aliens, whose "primitive" society already has everything they need. Later, Jake even explicitly says (to the world tree of Pandora) that "there's no green" on Earth, and that humans "killed their mother" and would do the same on Pandora. The construction of this contrast between the navi and humans is unusual if not unique because while it does point at a cyberpunk dystopia and say "This is our future," it also points at a world where aliens live sustainably with is almost explicitly a bio-engineered ecosystem and say, "…but it
doesn't have to be."
And then after that, it shows that if you
want the other option, not a system that dumbly harvests the world until it's a desert, you have to fight for it. It's mostly a foregone conclusion that the diplomatic solution won't work, to the point that Quaritch immediately recruits Jake to spend his time with the aliens delivering intelligence to him on the (correct) assumption that they can't be convinced to move. It's made clear a couple of times not only that diplomacy will not work in this kind of situation, but that it's fundamentally absurd to even try. Dr. Augustine tries to convince the corporate suit that the biology of the planet is more valuable than the simple mineral they are after (being a naturally occurring internet that can upload and ack up your consciousness). He seems to literally not even understand what she's saying, not that he would care, because he is too absorbed in his corporate job and his deliverables because structurally he can't give a shit about anything else. I think people sleep on this character too much because he's considered too tropey or un-serious, but he is precisely the kind of person you have to put in charge of an operation like this, someone who cannot see the forest for the trees (or for the ore under them).
I remember people joking back in 09 how Parker Selfridge was introduced by practicing his putt on the operations center, because that was a big cliche at the time and how Cameron was being "unoriginal" like the rest of the movie. The "putting in the office" trope was popular because it gives you easy instant characterization of somebody as a shitty corporate manager. This is somebody who:
<is a golfer, meaning they are bourgie and at least "upper middle class"<goofs around in their office, meaning they are detached and can do their work with minimal focus, which at one point was used to indicate that administrative work is not hard and maybe not necessary, but eventually came to illustrate that an administrator was "high functioning" and "too smart" for even upper management, so needs to entertain themselves just to occupy their big brains<plays a game that requires a significant amount of open space, meaning they have a nice big (private) office, which is used to visually communicate their power<the putting is also shot with a low-angle "worm's eye view" to make the character appear to tower above the viewer, again emphasizing their power<while playing the game, they tend to be either alone, talking to their secretary (who is in another room), or bringing people in for 1-on-1 meetings, which shows how alienated and separated from the organization this character is, isolated socially and physically by this powerful position. Often used to portray them as an "emperor sitting on his throne" but with a twist of being restless and fidgety.<Typically are putting into a coffee mug, which both shows their excessive trinkets (usually some novelty mug) and the trivialization of an important tool to the regular worker peons (caffeeine as a necessary stimulant to enable you to do your job).But what's interesting about this scene is that even though it's very brief is that it's actively subverting the entire trope (but probably not being noticed because it's such a small piece of the first act and it doesn't draw attention to itself). The overall contour of this short scene is to show how the position of the corporate manager has degenerated over time, reduced from bribing you with a cool office and amenities to being an almost vestigial cog in a much larger machine. This is suggested throughout the scene, with Quaritch making more of the actual decisions, and outright confirmed in a deleted scene where Quaritch actually supersedes his authority under implicit threats of violence.
<Parker cannot actually golf on Pandora because of course there are no courses. This little game for him actually functions like a little piece of home, since people get stationed out here for several year stints. It's escapism from his overall situation, not bringing an active hobby to the office.<Parker is goofing around, because his job is easy, but this is because his role is truly perfunctory and he doesn't really serve much purpose.<Unlike the usual use of the trope, Parker does not golf in his office (which we shortly see is actually quite small), but instead has to putt right in the middle of the command bridge, which is both visually distracting and physically in the way of the operation. He is a very literal obstructive bureaucrat who just gets in the way of the military operation while people are working.<Parker is shown from a low angle, but it's to set up Dr. Augustine standing above him in the scene (upright with righteous indignation while he is hunched over and complaining about "moral hygienists."), and then the low shot is used to show her kicking the mug away and ruining his putt, also subverting the power symbolism.<While Parker in the scene is not physically alone in an office, he is socially alone since everyone in the command center is busy working and he brags about his putt to an underling who he himself points out does not give a shit and is focused on work. He is like a child playing around the feet of the adults, not some high power manager flexing on peons.<The coffee mug he putts into is branded with the company's logo, just some standard issue thing which may not even be his. When they go into his actual office, we can see he does have a mug on his (cluttered) desk, within easy reach as if he had been drinking it recently, and appears to be another standard-issue company mug. Implying he does drink coffee and is occupied with some kind of tasks that he's actually shirking to putt in everyone's way.And on top of the subversion of the trope itself, his putting turf the SINGLE PIECE of
artificial green in the film. Parker comes from a world where all the natural green is gone, but on a lush jungle world he diverts his attention with a little strip of astroturf. He could literally just
look up, out one of the windows, and see more vegetation with his own eyes than exists on the entire Earth. But he's so narrowminded he focuses on his lame little portable putting green.
Despite the brevity of the scene, it emphasizes early on and pretty straightforwardly how much the corporate superstructure has become subordinated to the military side of things. Parker is also notably the only corporate bureaucrat among dozens of military personnel. All of this is in line with the degeneration of "late stage" capitalism morphing into fascism or something like it, where naked force rules because the struggle over resources to extract becomes the dominant conflict.
Here's the scene btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ievs9hasNX4tl;dr on seeing the movie again a decade later I noticed a lot more depth to the storytelling and themes, and in some ways it's a lot more obviously relevant now.
>>7801I remember getting a sense of ennui after seeing it the first time, but it wasn't like depression. It was more like the feeling of immersion you get from VR, and then that going away.
>>10289>Given how disappointing and garbage Terminator Dark Fems, Predator (2018) and Alien: Covenant were, I don't hold out much hope on it being good.Those were all studio-driven films. T2 was good, so was Aliens. James Cameron makes what he wants to make, and he's been obsessed with the Avatar story since the 90s when he first wrote them. These films are driven by a single person with a specific creative vision that he's been working on for decades.
No.29662
>>27814hold on, why eating vitro human meat would be bad tho ?, it does not come from slaughtering any human being, there is no moral problem from consuming it other than the drama of it being made from humans.
No.29663
>>29662>>27814Cannibalism leads to prion diseases.
No.29667
>>29663>>29662 The ethics of consuming human flesh is complicated, but that'll derail the thread. Its simply unnecessary and a fad for rich people.
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There are some moral/economic problems involved as well even if you're okay with eating people killed by accident: how could one be sure, at a deli, that one's long pork is "ethically sourced"? I think the long-term risk of prion diseases are not only a very good practical reason for not eating human flesh, but (along with the increased social stability associated with having a lower risk of being hunted down for food by neighbors) probably one of the historical drivers for the abandonment of human-flesh eating in those societies where the recovering of nutrients was not a dominant concern."
No.29668
>>29661>Those were all studio-driven films Except James Cameron approved the last Terminator (and he shilled prior bad ones like Genysis). Moreover Ridley Scott directed and had authorial control on Prometheus and Covenant and his project essentially lead to Fox killing off the much more interesting Alien film that Niel Blomkamp had been proposing.
Predator 2018 had poor direction and it doesn't excuse the shitty production. Prey sucked too and people praising it are just blinded by the different approach it took, nevermind the inane story. Avatar also isn't that great a film. It's got some interesting elements and concepts I liked, having a fairly decent story, but functionally is little different to Pocohontas crossed with some other films. It's a decent film, but modern trends do not encourage my hopes for the sequel.
T2 and Aliens are great films but also an 80s/90s culture that doesn't exist today anymore, that's the same reason Prometheus and Covenant had super-modern tech and shiny modern aesthetic, despite the original Alien franchise consistently holding to the more grungy cyberpunk visual that Ridley Scott had in Bladerunner. That's part of the reason Bladerunner 2049 feels so disconnected to me - the aesthetics changed immensely (as did the story telling method and characterizations/acting).
>he's been obsessed with the Avatar story since the 90s when he first wrote them And back in the 90s I'd expect it do be much different, Cameron's lost his touch in my opinion, in part due to being absorbed into Hollywood rather than being the independent director that simply made films there. And decades of work =/= automatically mean good, if anything that indicates bloated work. It'd be different if this had been a series of books, but they're not.
No.29672
>>29668>Ridley ScottWhat does that have to do with Cameron lol.
They are different people with very different track records. Cameron's success absolutely dwarfs Scott's for one, meaning he has more leeway with studio money, and he has enough money of his own that he can fund his projects with more autonomy.
>Avatar also isn't that great a film.That doesn't really matter from a business perspective, just that it sells tickets. Germane to storytelling though, it's actually pretty economical regarding what it presents and given the plans for 5 movies total it seems like it's meant to set things up before the real story begins.
>modern trends do not encourage my hopes for the sequel.Sure, I have doubts about that, particularly regarding the financial situation of theaters, but the first Avatar literally created the entire 3D trend and really push a lot of changes forward like more ubiquitous CGI and long-form use of performance capture (not just for movies but for video games too). Cameron has a long career of innovating technology and film techniques that has consistently scaled upward. As long as the business side holds I don't see any reason he wouldn't continue here.
>the aesthetics changed immensely (as did the story telling method and characterizations/acting)Avatar 1 is from 2009 though. Not much has changed since then in terms of film visuals, and from the trailer it seems the look is consistent.
>Cameron's lost his touch in my opinion,What makes you say that?
> And decades of work =/= automatically mean goodIt worked for Avatar 1.
But we'll see.
No.29681
>>29672>have to do with Cameron Because I mentioned movies that Cameron did not take part in (Predator 2018 and Covenant).
>Cameron's success absolutely dwarfs Scott'sBut his more recent ones haven't been that great
>meaning he has more leeway with studio money, and he has enough money of his own that he can fund his projects with more autonomyLike Avatar and it's not that great. It's not about the money ̶S̶p̶i̶d̶e̶r̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶
>doesn't really matter from a business perspectiveI meant that the sequel films I mentioned a priori aren't good films themselves, not that they make money or not.
>the first Avatar literally created the entire 3D trendTrue, but that 3D trend has lost itself into mediocrity. Sure Cameron is innovative, but as Terminator: DF demonstrated CGI far inferior to T2 or other older films.
>Avatar is from 2009Well… actually it's been that long?! Damn… anyway my point is that Avatar 2 doesn't feel like its going to do the things Cameron used to do - expanding on the original. Maybe Cameron can make a comeback, but I'm not holding out hope.
>What makes you say that The mediocre Terminator sequels and other films that he signed off on are far beneath the standards he set in his older films.
No.29682
>>29681>Like Avatar and it's not that great. It's not about the money ̶S̶p̶i̶d̶e̶r̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶ Counterpoint: he aims for a truly mass audience with the movie and succeeds. It's not intended to have the kind of success that Terminator or Aliens had. It's trying to have the kind of success Titanic had, and to introduce a very large number of people to the themes and messages (which he openly says regarding his views about the environment).
>True, but that 3D trend has lost itself into mediocrity.Nobody has actually tried to make it work though, and it shows. I'm personally not a big fan of 3D but it worked very well for Avatar 1 and has worked ok for some animated films.
>Sure Cameron is innovative, but as Terminator: DF demonstrated CGI far inferior to T2 or other older films.>The mediocre Terminator sequels and other films that he signed off on are far beneath the standards he set in his older films.He hasn't been involved in the production of Terminator since T2 lol. All he has done was recommend Sam Worthington as an actor to the people making Salvation and then to do "script work" for Dark Fate, which apparently didn't amount to much more than handing the producers a list of random ideas he'd had and tell them to see if they could find anything useful. They are not his movies in any meaningful sense.
>Avatar 2 doesn't feel like its going to do the things Cameron used to do - expanding on the original.It's introducing new characters and locations at least, and apparently a new alien language. There's not much else to do with the material from A1. It seems to take place somewhere very different, and the same amount of time has passed in-universe so now Jake and Neytiri have a bunch of children.
No.30995
>>29682>He hasn't been involved in the production of Terminator since T2 Uhhh no, its specifically mentioned in the interviews that he and Tim Miller both had influence on scenes and direction. Hell the initial scene of the Terminator killing off John Conner in the first scene of the movie had been his idea.
> which apparently didn't amount to much more than handing the producers a list of random ideas he'd had and tell them to see if they could find anything usefulActually no, both he and Miller stated in exaggerated tones about the struggle and arguments about implementing ideas into the film… not that it did any good.
No.31003
>>31000It's a show, but still good dystopian sci-fi
No.31281
In a new interview, James Cameron states outright that he made the first Avatar movie for the purposes of climate activism, and he went back to make sequels after various indigenous leaders contacted him to say the first movie spoke to their experiences and that he thought he could amplify their stories of struggle for a global audience. He literally took a decade to plan out a multi-film saga that advocates for anti-imperialism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIEbpGdctygtimestamp: 18:15
Chapo was right about what he's doing. Whether they're right about him succeeding remains to be seen.
>>30995Source for this? It contradicts what I've heard/read.
No.31282
Since you people talk about Terminator and Avatar I feel compelled to daily remind you of this piece on accelerationism by Mark Fischer
https://markfisherreblog.tumblr.com/post/32522465887/terminator-vs-avatar-notes-on-accelerationism No.31294
>>31281>Source for this James Cameron is listed as one of the 5 writing credits for Dark Fate and as Producer. It was LITERALLY Cameron's idea to kill John Connor off in the first scene.
Furthermore Tim Miller stated that he doesn't want to work with Cameron anymore because of control issues. Part of the attempted hype for Dark Fate is the fact that the IP rights returned to Cameron as overseer. Hell Cameron had anticipating kicking off a trilogy, demonstrating he had overhanging influence.
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https://collider.com/terminator-dark-fate-new-trilogy/ -
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/why-terminator-dark-fate-director-wont-work-james-cameron-again-1257322/ -
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/11/02/terminator-dark-fate-john-connor-death-dead-scene The sheer irony of Cameron writing this after he bitched about Alien3 doing the same thing is amazing.
>He literally took a decade to plan out a multi-film saga that advocates for anti-imperialism. If that's honestly the case I'm tentatively hopeful, but frankly I'm not going have high hopes, the trailer for Way of Water has done little to reassure me. Cameron talks a big game, but he's been doing that for a good decade and its coming off as empty talk.
No.34163
Not a movie per se but applicable to the OP topic
Been replaying TiTs recently until I got sick of it again. Honestly most of the fun isn't the porn ironically but the little nuances in the game text; memes, references, social commentary, etc.
A lot of it is just what is expected - a literal Fucking Space Adventure parody, however over the course of the Myrmidon campaign I've noticed that the creators (Fenoxo and Co) put a lot of comprehensive effort into creating nuanced socio-political situations amidst all the fucking, exploring and fighting.
The Red Myr Federation and their idea of citizenship is a spot on depiction of Heinlein's society in Starship Troopers (no, not "muh fashisum" that the movie purports); a rather strict militant meritocracy with firm equality but no sets of distinct classes outside of the military command heirarchy. The contrast is the decadent, feudal Monarchy of the Gold Myr and their hedonistic society, which is declining. The War Queen from Federation Quest is also a contrast of a warrior king (queen) idea and the Merchant Queen is also an interesting depiction of the inevitable descent into capitalism in feudal societies. Then with the Gold/Red Myr conflict (and the Orange Myr resolution) we see the idea of racial tensions when realistically speaking they are one people. The Trench Wives also reflects the realities of war, wherein soldiers, even married ones may take up war-time love-lives (even with enemy people) as part of dealing with stress like PTSD.
And in between that you have the Anatae's socialist utopia and the Black Market manipulations of Orryx, and the struggles of a trans person with Embry as well as overhanging problems of corrupt slave trades, drug-abuse/addiction, tribal people living under more developed societies (literally). There is even a part during Fazian's search, where talking about him with Gene gives a part where the latter reveals that he and Fazian have peaceful debates on the merits of his society and capitalist ones. It's all done very skillfully without any dumb, hamfisted "hurr muh commies/nazis/libruls/conservacucks" garbage.
So yeah, I really enjoyed that.
No.34166
>>34163TiT gave me many good faps to breast expansion and fatties
No.34171
>>31294>Cameron talks a big game, but he's been doing that for a good decade and its coming off as empty talk.Just the fact that he's making movies in that scale with global broad appeal instead if just US appeal is something imo, maybe enough
No.34172
The most realistic dystopian thing I've seen is a black and white graphic novel, with kind of scribbling art, about a group of women surviving long term in an early mad mad max hellscape. I can try and find the name if anyone wants
No.34174
>>34172sure sounds interesting
No.34220
>>34218Thanks anon, that's the one. I must have been pretty dazed recommending it in a dystopia thread because it's pure post apocalyptic. Some of the moments in it stayed with me but I never read or watched Walking Dead so ymmv
No.34251
>>34220>>34218Know where I can get a DL?
No.34284
>>34251my brother in christ you don't know about libgen.gs use the advanced search to get comics only
No.34721
>>5243>In the end the Screamers that the Terran imperialists created will spell their doom. And that of humanity in general. Also
A) The hinted romantic interest of the protagonist is in fact a Screamer herself, so advanced that she's essentially human and sacrifices herself to save him
Only for
B) The Teddy Bear held by the child screamer is apparently a screamer too and the implication of that in a space pod… is death so, generally a highly depressing movie, though thoroughly enjoyable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgzI1EfVMSA No.34725
>>18167They never specify "for who?"
No.34734
>>7701 Free Guy ft. Ryan Reynolds gives me the same vibes as Ready Player One. Free Guy isn't better per se, but Reynolds has better acting and charisma and the concept of an NPC that becomes aware is pretty interesting, although him being a wise-ass even as a regular NPC undermines the story of him developing as a personality. Similarly to RPO, it utilizes reference bait* (especially in the finale) to well known intellectual properties (although far more limited by comparison, more because of copyright issues than anything else). Because Shawn Levy is a fairly decent director, with a healthy understanding of proper VFX utilization, he manages to make the film visually entertaining and dynamic, but that's about it. The VFX/CGI department did an excellent job at maintaining the aesthetics as best they could. (link rel is an interesting aside:
https://archive.ph/aSSmj )
The way "Guy" gets his awakening is pretty half-assed, since generally NPC programming doesn't really make enough allowances for his change (I know that his AI is supposed to be a remnant of a special character designed in the game used as the basis for the one in the movie, but its trigger is BS). Alien Isolation had a MASSIVE separate AI with complicated behavioral branches just so it could imitate a living creature that learned and reacted to game stimuli, but the AI wasn't actually a real, learning-intelligence capable of emulating a real mind, it was just following existing paths in reaction to player actions (such as getting hit with a flamethrower blast, or a pipe-bomb etc.) Obviously Free Guy's setting is a massive futuristic VR game but I don't think video-game NPC AI is going to be given such free reign in a game. More importantly the OTHER NPCs aren't like "Guy", they don't have the same pathing so them suddenly abandoning their jobs/roles to listen to Guy is ridiculous, especially since they don't have the motivations like Guy does to begin with, even if you ignore the lack of build they get.
The ending for the film is pretty weak and clearly action oriented, even more so than RPO, which at least managed to attempt an epic finale. I will admit Dude was a pretty funny, if only because of the meta humor of him being incomplete. A lot of the Deadpool-tier humor was kinda out of place - like the pec-groping scene - although surprisingly no real Deadpool references are made. Of course they had the Marvel and Star Wars references, which were admittedly well placed (Chris Evans' cameo made me laugh, even if was cheap Easter Egg bait). Most of the other characters are bland and quite literally NPC like, the (admittedly accurate) gamer cringe was drawn out too much and frankly the setting has way too much current-era content that means it will be heavily dated in the future. Other than Ryan Reynolds only Taika Waititi's character stood out, only because his role is annoying as hell; way too obnoxious and childish to be the corporate asshole he's supposed to be representing, an aspect that Ready Player did surprisingly better, if not by much.
The main dystopian/cyberpunk influences as a plot here are clearly taken from the Truman Show (as many critics noted) and also They Live, what with the glasses that let you see the 'truth'. The setting is essentially just GTA with mods, throwing in a meagre attempt at Matrix-ish mind-fuckery. Overall a flashy typical 2020s American action comedy that should have been shorter and less over-dramatic. The problem is making it a comedy-focus, it prevents the stakes from being real, because you KNOW the hero is going to win in the end, and the how isn't all that well-done to be worth the predictability.
Some good articles analyzing the film:
https://archive.ph/aiQ6X https://archive.is/nOVvG *refs
https://archive.ph/Bzxow No.34955
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adam_Project?useskin=vector This is a film involving time-travel from a dystopian 2050 future to basically change/save the world. It's also an Action-Comedy
This meshes about as well as it sounds, poorly. It's supposed to imitate old 80s sci-fi films such as Flight of the Navigator (even the poster for it is similar) but frankly it just fails on so many levels. Much of the plot is inane, most of the actors are poor or not trying, etc.
No.34957
>>34955Netflix can't make anything good.
No.34958
>>34955>>34957Netflix has somebody really dumb calling the shots for what to make and how to do it. Like they're planning to go ahead and make a 4th Witcher season after the main star (and only appeal) left the show and before the 3rd season is even released.
No.34959
>>34958Cavil was fucking awful as Geralt anyways, he's a pretty lanky, agile scrappy kinda guy and they cast him as fucking superman with an iceberg chin. Ridiculous.
No.34961
>>34957No it can, it just makes so much schlock that the good stuff kinda goes unnoticed. The Sea Beast was excellent.
>>34958>>34959 Cavill didn't fit the role to be honest but honestly the real problem was that the plot, characterizations and other moments are either poorly choreographed, poorly acted, poorly written or outright went against the original lore.
No.34962
>>34957>>34958Not like other services like Amazon Prime do better, you only have to take a look at 2021 film The Tomorrow War and it's utter terribleness. The only good part is the White Spike's design being very alien and scary. Even then, the White Spike strategy and to an extent the design is not original at all.
- D.R.A.G.M.A. from Godzilla the series
- Aliens from Independence Day
- Mimics from Edge of Tomorrow
- Tao Tei from 2016's The Great Wall
- Rev-7 from Terminator: Dark Fate
Just off the top of my head are the same rough concept of monster/alien.
https://geekoutpost.com/the-tomorrow-war-review/ No.34963
>>34962Displacer beast from D&D lol.
No.34964
stalker
No.35699
Not a movie but a video-game; Atomic Heart. For those not in the know it's sort of a Soviet-Punk Bioshock Infinite. It's got some interesting aspects and dystopian elements. Basically it's a Soviet Union after a robot apocalypse, which happened because the USSR's population was heavily lowered by the Nazis unleashing the Brown Plague on Europe as a last measure resort because the USSR was defeating it in WW-2, which started in 1939 instead of 1941. Without spoiling, the basic endgame is either a madman that seeks to control the world through his mind-program which would remove free will from humanity through chips in their head. The alternative is for a former scientist madman turned AI seeking to eradicate inefficient humanity and instead supplant it with his own robotic world which he would control absolutely. The main character is trying to find out and stop the reason for the Robots going out of control and killing people, and finds this out over the games passage. There's a lot more nuances but that's the gist of it. It's aesthetically quite pleasing in terms of Sovietesque design and ideas, but it also has plenty of modern stupid crap, including the dialogue. Frankly it's just worth the retro-futuristic vibes, even if a lot of things are… 'off'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Heart?useskin=vector Reviews I recommend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK973wayhLs&ab_channel=Taganay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7QHehPLrBY&ab_channel=ГолыйВуд https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onGMJdH9qnU&ab_channel=Politsturm No.35807
>>35798The Avatar thread is newer than those posts.
No.35813
>>35699I was told the mad scientist wanting to control human minds was made up by the former scientist madman turned AI to fool the main character into helping him
No.35839
>>35807 Yes I know, considering one of them is my post from way back when. I was just linking the thread, since some anons are allergic to using Catalog search.
>>35813 Not entirely made-up, just some aspects were falsified, such as the red rage psychedelic moments, where the character goes through a playable acid trip and wakes up at the scene of a massacre, this was caused by themad-scientist-turned-Glove-AI but the AI instead claims it was caused by the guy seeking to mind control humanity. The guy still wants to do the mind-control thing, but it's not that simple in essence. Honestly the endings are pretty grimdark and lame.
No.36148
>>35699>>35839I'm honestly surprised that they didn't utilize the dog-head mech experiments of the USSR to create literal cyborg guard dogs.
Its real, there are videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhzEMJHQt2Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBY25Owxm1o No.36895
>>27768>cubes of celebrity meatI'm not even surprised.
No.36896
>>27768"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people."
No.37563
>>27768>>27814Reposting a set of old effort posts of mine in relation to these.
Stop consuming bourgeois food. Junk food, sodas (COKEacola), etc. are a bourgeois invention of the capitalist epoch made for addiction and profit that your body doesn't need. You must eat organic food, drink water and more natural alternatives. You can produce whole foods at industrial scale. It's just cheaper to separate the parts and recombine them synthetically because porky likes profits and doesn't care about proles (if anything sick proles feed Big Pharma so it would be in their mutual interests).
The "MEME" of organic food was not a common thing, but the actual concept existed. Organic producers rely on natural substances and physical, mechanical, or biologically based farming methods to the fullest extent possible. The USSR did just that. They didn't have cow pens where they would be raised in a 3x6 cage with shit running down their legs, or chickens that were kept in rigid boxes with their beaks set to a constant supply of food. Cage-free, free-range eggs are "organic", compare their contents to that of a GMO chicken. The latter gets pumped with so many hormones and live in such squalor that the egg products are in and of themselves tainted by this. Meat wasn't *'Pink Slime' but the real deal, which is why, after Gorbachev fucked it up, there were jokes about Sausage meat replaced by toilet paper.
Communist countries didn't call their food industries "organic" - in non-profit driven states, there is no incentive to have cheap harmful food and expensively modified, slightly better versions of the same. all food was "organic" and affordable to everyone. just to give one example, dairy products weren't stuffed with preservatives to the point where a yogurt bottle can stay on shelves half a year or so, but were refreshed each 24-48h. Pesticides used were often tobacco based or otherwise natural and therefore far less harmful than the frog-mutating crap used in California or other places.
For more detail see the food section of
https://www.quora.com/Did-the-Soviet-economy-work-at-all/answer/Chuck-Garen
>muh GMO is just conspiracyMonsanto is a massive monopoly that exerts massive pressure on the scientific community and economy to push its products through. This is capitalist self-interest for it to push that shit onto us. Organic food is more expensive so only the middle class and bourgeois can only eat like this everyday. If you think they wouldn't do that, then read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, about how they canned rat corpses, rat shit and rat poison along with the meat being sold to ordinary people.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/monsanto-agrees-plead-guilty-illegally-using-pesticide-corn-growing-fields-hawaii-and -
https://pikabu.ru/story/10_faktov_o_vrede_gmo_3371739 -
https://archive.org/details/jungle01sincgoog/page/n9/mode/2up- *
https://www.quora.com/topic/Pink-Slime
>Scientists: Unregulated and poorly managed food production and industry is creating massive climate impacts>Porky: time to eat le bugs peasants Bug eating and pod living is the ultimate neolib wet dream, the definitive version of worker alienation.
>but muh farms!These are experimental farms producing very expensive, boutique products for niche markets. A cricket burger would cost you like $50. It's not a cheap filler. Insects are a heck of a lot harder to cultivate cleanly, I certainly don't think the crickets sold in Petco are very hygienic and there aren't very many options to cultivating them. You need a plague's worth of locusts to equate the food needs provided by a single cow and managing the hygiene of that number of individuals is much harder than handling a couple bovines.
Bugs are often dirty and have many diseases and parasites specifically made to transfer through consumption of an invertebrate host, and it can be fatal. There's a reason humans largely evolved to not eat most insects and even tribes usually cook them in some manner before consuming them. And yes, I'm sure SOME bugs can be made safe to eat. But I'd rather not, and people shouldn't be forced to. INB4 climate change, Medieval societies in Europe had meat, fruit & grain to eat pre-industrial revolution so obvious it is possible to have that without destroying the climate, and Soviet Agriculture also proved itself.
https://leftypedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Plan_for_the_Transformation_of_Nature (now
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/The_Great_Plan_for_the_Transformation_of_Nature)
It's a bit like the overweight thinking it's easier to convince everyone that fat can be sexy, instead of just losing weight themselves if they're that uncomfortable with it. It's easier to continue with the decimation of the planet's ecosystem and have us all live on mashed up cockroaches (of course, they will still get their fill of steaks no matter how rare and expensive it becomes), than to just stop destroying the planet for profit.
If you needed more proof, the current lab-cultivated meat is a demonstration of this:
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jun/17/lab-grown-meat-no-kill-food>In Singapore, the US company Eat Just gained approval to sell its nuggets of lab-grown chicken to consumers in December 2020. Under the brand name “Good Meat”, Eat Just rolled out its first products at an exclusive social club. Diners sample a bao with sesame chicken and pickled cucumber and a maple waffle served with chicken nuggets.>In April, Eat Just partnered with another restaurant to begin introducing its chicken to a wider public via a delivery service. As well as the Asian chicken salad, the Cantonese restaurant is also selling their novel meat in the form of chicken dumpling and chicken fried rice. Demand has already been high – just a few minutes after appearing online, the eight servings for the day were sold out.>Cultured meat has made strides in the last few years, but production remains small. Although the science of tissue culture has been around for more than half a century, growing sufficient flesh to make an edible product at a competitive price has been the major challenge. Good Meat’s meals are priced at 23 Singapore dollars (about US$17) – certainly not a cheap portion.Also note that many people do not feel like consuming insects.
https://thebeet.com/new-survey-finds-consumers-who-want-save-the-planet-would-rather-eat-plants-than-bugs/>The European Consumer Organisation, BEUC, surveyed consumers from 11 European countries (Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Netherlands, Slovakia and Slovenia) to find out people's attitudes towards sustainable foods and alternative protein sources>Two-thirds of consumers would change their diet for the environment and would rather eat plant-based burgers (without GMOs) and sustainable proteins like legumes rather than nibble on insects, even though bugs have the same amount of protein as poultry and beef. Only 10% of consumers would prefer insects over plant-based proteins. This isn't to say that Modern Bourg Agriculture is good or seeking alternatives to it is bad, but that porky is clearly being exploitative. I think everyone recalls the Cockroach slabs in Snowpiercer and the class-warfare narrative. That said, modern bourg production systems are terrible. Besides the ethically terrible treatment of animals, it's also extremely harmful. Cattle production is the most carbon-intensive form of animal protein and is the top agricultural source of greenhouse gases worldwide, estimated to amount to 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. If you've ever been to the Texas Panhandle, there are massive feedlot operations dotting the landscape with thousands of cattle in a single lot literally burping and farting out enormous amounts of ammonia 24/7 and it's so pervasive it can burn your nose and eyes, and in the evening when the winds blow in, this combination of ammonia and airborne fecal matter drift into nearby Amarillo and you can smell it everywhere you go. People there call it "shust" (shit dust) and "shog" (shit smog).
As for Lab Meat, having eaten some, I have to say that it's not that tasty, lacking fat and the influences of the environment and food on the flesh that a real, living cow has. It's still a good supplement and alternative to Pink Slime Burgers, but I wouldn't call it a replacement. Currently its best use could be niche; supplementing real meat supplies for countries lacking food and providing opportunities for faithful Muslims and Jews to taste haram food without being punished.
>Abdul Qahir Qamar of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy said that cultured meat "will not be considered meat from live animals, but will be cultured meat." For cells derived from pigs, dogs, and other haram animals, the meat would be considered vegetative and "similar to yogurt and fermented pickles. No.37894
>>1782>>3171>>3165>>2165Yeah I agree the sequel was trash. All the literally me gosling movies are trash, Drive. I might try and give 2049 a rewatch but I doubt I'd like it any better. Haven't seen it since the theaters.
No.37896
Anyone here read Flow My Tears The Policemen Said? I thought it kind of sucked especially the ending. Didn't seem like PKD went into the story with any real point in mind. I'll probably read Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep next.
I really liked Man In The High Castle, I think that counts as dystopian. Maze of Death was also really good, pretty dustopian elements as well.
No.37897
>>37895Thanks, will do.
>>37896I've honestly heard of none of these other than Electric Sheep, thanks for the accidental reccs.
No.37902
Reality 2024
No.37927
>>37563>It's just cheaper to separate the parts and recombine them synthetically because porky likes profitsIt's not even about cheapness really. To the degree that processing food is about that, it's to extend shelf life and make managing the supply chain easier (whole food being heterogeneous will spoil at the rate of the fastest-spoiling component). The main reason there's a million ingredients in everything has more to do with each part of the process being "value added" on the commodity. Capitalism does this all the time, adding useless bullshit that costs money so that the industry that makes that additive can exist. That's why so many foods have some dumb gimmick attached to them, like cookies starting to add palm oil to make them "chewy" (even though you can do that by changing how you cook them and the ratio of the existing ingredients).
No.38053
For the past few days I've been playing a porny Fall-out parody being made by a guy going by Zem who'd previously made a game called Paccsu. The parody, called A.I.D.A is an old school dungeon crawler with fights, quests, mobs, bosses, level-ups, equipment upgrades etc. It's still in progress, the current version being 0.389. I found it rather enjoyable even as a game, the artstyle is pretty good and the plot is okay too. Dystopia wise its a typical post-nuclear war situation, and the main character you play as is the creation of a horny scientist, the titular character Aida - parodying ADA the Assaultron, with a Haydee skin too.
Nothing deep about it, but it's fun, so I thought I'd share. If anyone wants the game's latest version, I can post a Zip, and if you feel like supporting the author, it's 5$ for the latest version on itch.io. The free version usually available is 0.311
No.38805
Found an interesting dystopian Visual Novel game (pic 1 rel) called Hardcoded. I haven't had a chance to play it so I don't know much more than some demo stuff I've looked up and their page for it, but it looks strange and cyberpunk so I thought I'd mention it ITT.
https://yoplatz.itch.io/hardcodeddemo Also another interesting game is something mentioned in
>>>/anime/21056 called My Dystopian Robot GF (pic 2) wherein the main character who is a depressed NEET finds a damaged, illegal gynoid. The game is a bit slow and drag a bit, and if you're not optimal in your choices you'll end up dying, but it was still an interesting depiction of a perverse version of a Robocop-like world.
https://incontinentcell.itch.io/factorial-omegaBoth are relatively primitive and sex-oriented games (as to be expected) but they do have interesting satire of a dystopian cyberpunk world.
No.39181
>>38958I usually cringe when people complain about movies being underrated, but this movie is actually underrated. Although I wouldn't call it dystopian.
No.39350
>>7701I knew ready player one was based
fuck you twitter and the shit 12 year old that made fun of this masterpiece without reading the book
No.39615
>>39614Anon that looks like shit
No.39619
>>39615…do you remember Borderlands skins and shit? It's always been full of these Tank-Girl-ripoff designs.
No.39620
>>39619I mean yeah I'm pretty much not a fan of borderlands anymore because the writing was just so bad and the games aren't that fun. But that pic you posted just looks lame, I can't be bothered to look up anything else
No.39621
>>39619>>39620You know what I'm sorry for being an ass, I can't sleep and I'm in a bad mood, and the people next door are making too much fucking noise at 3.39am
Hopefully it turns out to be alright and you enjoy it
No.39623
>>39621I feel you comr8, try taking Melatonin, might knock you out enough to sleep. And thanks, I'm not expecting much, just cheesy action fun.
No.39624
>>39623Thanks. I'm on holiday so can't really do that much, I have sleeping pills but they wipe me out the next day so don't really see the point in taking them. Honestly you can't really hear them from the bed anyway but it's annoying me sitting here in the living room
I just don't wanna be super tired tomorrow and ruin our holiday more than I already did today by napping for like 5 hours
No.40728
>>40710Thankfully none of us are Elon or vocal about our opinions. We'd survive less than he did, lol.
But Zizek being the owner of SpaceX and Xitter would be kinda fun… Now I unironically want Zizek to replace Elon.
No.40757
>>40746I for one welcome our new conquerors. We do not deserve to live as a species.
No.40777
>>2165>>3165>>37894You are all objectively wrong. Villenueve made a film that is not just a sequel but an expansion. I say it is better than the original.
No.40778
>>40777It's more just a different sort of film. Either works by itself really, but they also add to each other. The sequel isn't supposed to be a continuation of the same story or a retread but something else in the same world at a different time.
No.41151
>>31294>>34171 As I reiterated in
>>>/alt_archive/5937 Cameron's recent ventures have given me little faith in him. The same applies to Ridley Scott with his abysmal Alien Covenant and how he essentially killed Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 attempt by basically pressuring the studio to prioritize his shoddy Prometheus trilogy, dooming a promising sequel that offered an alternate Alien 3 scenario. I bring this up because Alien Romulus is coming out soon and while the teaser doesn't tell me enough about it's quality, the fact that BOTH Ridley Scott and James Cameron not only publicly supported the film (giving me Terminator Genysis/Dark Fate vibes) but also gave input/criticism/advice (i.e. pressure a la Dark Fate) to Director Fede Álvarez, who stated:
>"It’s also fascinating because [Cameron and Scott’s] notes and comments are completely different. (Laughs.) They wouldn’t repeat a note. Whatever Ridley said, Cameron said something different." Although innocuous in a vaccuum considering the similarities to behind-the-scenes regarding the Alien and Terminator franchises, it makes me wary.
However it's not all doom and gloom. The trailer's atmosphere reminded me of the recent Dark Descent video-game which really embraced the grimdark aspect of xenomorphs. I only hope they don't do shitty, dark lighting, as often happens nowadays, a la AvP: Requiem . Álvarez seems to be genuine about his appreciation for the franchise, though simply saying such things isn't much with how often that claim is used.
The cast has potential although they're a little too young IMO, but we'll see, maybe they're just the survivors while the adults die, or some adult characters may feature as secondary roles.
Isabela Merced is a wonderful actress, playing one of the leading roles, so I have hopes for her. Amara Namani wasn't great in her break-out film Pacific Rim: Uprising, but she wasn't terrible either, I think it was just bad directing that undercut her, so I think she might pull it off, especially with that Ripley visual reference in the trailer. Tommy Collins is also a pretty good actor, being quite real in the roles I've seen.
The plot summary so far is promising, reminiscent of the Alien: Isolation game and makes sense, while also tearing out of the rut of relying on actors and characters from the prior main films, while still paying homage to them.
>Set between the events of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), the story concerns a group of young space colonists who, while scavenging a derelict space station, come face to face with a terrifying alien. Interview with Alvarez:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/alien-romulus-trailer-ridley-scott-1235856321/ No.41221
>>41151Just saw the teaser, not hopeful. CGI face huggers chasing people around, and it looks basically like a remake of the original. I love that film, and other works that use the Alien license, but I don't reckon this will stand out from any other monster-in-space film. Why do we need it? It's like that The Thing prequel that nobody remembers.
No.41223
>>41221>it looks basically like a remake of the original. I don't think so, it's just a similar aesthetic, which makes sense given what its about.
>CGI facefuggers Yeah that is pretty lame NGL.
>I don't reckon this will stand out from any other monster-in-space film… Why do we need it?Alien and Aliens is a pretty damn high bar tbh, I'd just appreciate a good movie in the same verse. The older films and media are fun, but something new (that isn't schlock like Prey or Covenant) would be nice.
>It's like that The Thing prequel that nobody remembers I 'member… it wasn[t that great but I thought the prequel was pretty decent for something made essentially by fans with a budget. Although if you're looking for a similar movie to The Thing, try Harbinger Down (2015).
Honestly I'm just sad we'll never see Blomkamp's ideas realized
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