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01-31-2008, 05:21 AM
Vast outpouring of opinions and suggestions in re films. I suppose I will have to power up my old VHS machine and traipse down to Captain Video Rentals and see if he has any of these weird films.
Actually I have seen a number of them and they would have been on my list -- Blade Runner, Fifth Element, Gattaca, Children of Men, Minority Report (though almost nobody mentioned the extraordinary and underrated, though for good reasons, AI).
Brazil, set "somewhere in the 20th Century", isn't really the future; like some of the Superman and Batman movies it's set in a some alternative sorta-retro past or alternative present or generalized urban somewhen. I haven;t seen Dark City but so many people voted for it it's my next Netflix pick. I think it's interesting that the rise of these generalized and often hauntingly beautiful cityscapes of dream have nearly supplanted the city-of-the-future of Things to COme or Buck Rogers or a thousand others. Of course what they do is to incorporate OLD cities-of-the-future into their vision. SF futures are becoming visions of the past, including past futures. What does the future look like? A lot like what 1947 thought the future would look like -- or a lot like 1947 tout suite.
See? Enough yabba-yabba for a panel discussion right there.
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Actually I have seen a number of them and they would have been on my list -- Blade Runner, Fifth Element, Gattaca, Children of Men, Minority Report (though almost nobody mentioned the extraordinary and underrated, though for good reasons, AI).
Brazil, set "somewhere in the 20th Century", isn't really the future; like some of the Superman and Batman movies it's set in a some alternative sorta-retro past or alternative present or generalized urban somewhen. I haven;t seen Dark City but so many people voted for it it's my next Netflix pick. I think it's interesting that the rise of these generalized and often hauntingly beautiful cityscapes of dream have nearly supplanted the city-of-the-future of Things to COme or Buck Rogers or a thousand others. Of course what they do is to incorporate OLD cities-of-the-future into their vision. SF futures are becoming visions of the past, including past futures. What does the future look like? A lot like what 1947 thought the future would look like -- or a lot like 1947 tout suite.
See? Enough yabba-yabba for a panel discussion right there.
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