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#3418827 - 10/26/11 06:26 AM
10 Most Far Fetched Dystopias
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Interesting list here. I've only seen 2 of the movies on it though; Logan's Run and Equilibrium. http://io9.com/5853166/10-most-far+fetched-future-dystopias
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#3418996 - 10/26/11 10:08 AM
Re: 10 Most Far Fetched Dystopias
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I've only seen two - Logan's Run and Demolition Man.
I actually really liked Demolition Man, some good action combined with some pretty good satire. Plus it had Sandra Bullock.
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#3419091 - 10/26/11 12:46 PM
Re: 10 Most Far Fetched Dystopias
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7) Nigel Neale's The Year of the Sex Olympics This television play from the creator of Quatermass takes place in a terrible future where society is divided into the "low drives" who are basically the working class, and the the "hi-drives" who control the media and society. To keep the "low-drives" pacified, the "hi-drives" give them a constant flow of crappy reality television, culminating with a family stuck on an island with a psycho killer. It's a satire on media culture that feels more prescient today than in the 1960s — And this do's not happen today? I've only seen two - Logan's Run and Demolition Man. Jenny Agutter 
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#3419098 - 10/26/11 12:52 PM
Re: 10 Most Far Fetched Dystopias
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Jenny Agutter  I was about 7 years old when I first saw "Logan's Run" on tv and I fell in love with her as soon as I saw her. 
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#3419139 - 10/26/11 01:55 PM
Re: 10 Most Far Fetched Dystopias
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When I was watching Equilibrium, I thought "Oh, I've read this book, it's "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin".  Besides it, I also only saw "Logan's Run" and "Demolition Man" too.
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#3419147 - 10/26/11 02:04 PM
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I realize it says "most" far fetched, but I don't think Demolition Man was all that far fetched, other than the short time frame for the change, ~30 yrs. You don't go to the three seashells in just 30 years. LOL
Everyone should see Equilibrium, just don't go over analyzing who is and who isn't showing emotion. LOL The role that landed Bale the Batman movies.
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#3419169 - 10/26/11 02:43 PM
Re: 10 Most Far Fetched Dystopias
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I realize it says "most" far fetched, but I don't think Demolition Man was all that far fetched, other than the short time frame for the change, ~30 yrs. You don't go to the three seashells in just 30 years. LOL
Everyone should see Equilibrium, just don't go over analyzing who is and who isn't showing emotion. LOL The role that landed Bale the Batman movies. Equilibrium was a fun movie to watch even though it was highly derivative. To me it was a mish-mash of "1984" and "The Matrix". The martial arts combat we see in the film had to have been inspired by the Matrix since the Matrix had just come out a couple of years beforehand.
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#3419244 - 10/26/11 05:24 PM
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I've only seen two - Logan's Run and Demolition Man.
I actually really liked Demolition Man, some good action combined with some pretty good satire. Plus it had Sandra Bullock. Those are the same two that I have seen. Logan's run had Farrah.  Sandra Bullock was definitely hot in Demolition Man. I also remember it being the first movie I saw with Denis Leary. One of the scenes I remember most from Demolition man is the scene in the under ground where he buys the burger because of the way the audience reacted. I went on opening night and the place was packed. When the scene where Stallone bought the burger was shown there were two separate and distict times when the audience laughed. The first laugh came from the part of the audience who heard the description and understood what the cook told him. A few seconds later the part of the crowd who understood English laughed because Stallone told us that he had just bought a rat burger. The crowd must have been about half and half since the reaction from both sounded about the same. The reason it stuck in my mind was because I knew that if I still lived in the midwest when I saw it the reaction would have only been when Stallone told us what he had just bought. Wheels
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#3419479 - 10/27/11 05:19 AM
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Ditto for me on those two. Haven't seen Logan's Run in decades, literally, but I saw Demo Man within the last 15 years I think.
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#3420664 - 10/28/11 02:03 PM
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7) Nigel Neale's The Year of the Sex Olympics This television play from the creator of Quatermass takes place in a terrible future where society is divided into the "low drives" who are basically the working class, and the the "hi-drives" who control the media and society. To keep the "low-drives" pacified, the "hi-drives" give them a constant flow of crappy reality television, culminating with a family stuck on an island with a psycho killer. It's a satire on media culture that feels more prescient today than in the 1960s — And this do's not happen today? I've only seen two - Logan's Run and Demolition Man. Jenny Agutter Hang on, you can't mention Jenny Agutter with out mentioning An American werewolf in London, she was hot to trot in that film 
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#3420779 - 10/28/11 06:10 PM
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Hang on, you can't mention Jenny Agutter with out mentioning An American werewolf in London, she was hot to trot in that film Smash Yes she was, I saw that film last winter and it still holds up well to me.
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#3420902 - 10/29/11 01:14 AM
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Hang on, you can't mention Jenny Agutter with out mentioning An American werewolf in London, she was hot to trot in that film It's been so long since I had seen it that I completely forgot about her being in that picture. Wheels
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#3422226 - 10/31/11 06:28 AM
Re: 10 Most Far Fetched Dystopias
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LOL, it's the first film I think of when I think of her, before even Logan's Run.
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#3422914 - 11/01/11 01:28 AM
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LOL, it's the first film I think of when I think of her, before even Logan's Run.
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