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Post by wildojinx on Dec 19, 2013 23:53:33 GMT -5
I still watch Walking Dead and i loved Zombieland and all, but i'm getting sick of almost every future scenario showing the Earth going to crap. Cant we have a HAPPY future for once? Im not saying i want something along the lines of a live-action Jetsons (though that would be ok actually), but at least show a future where the world isnt a wasteland.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 20, 2013 0:00:58 GMT -5
I've always wanted a show/movie that was leading up to an apocalypse personally. We never see the build up.
Although the upcoming Planet of the Apes looks like it might be that.
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Post by Glitch on Dec 20, 2013 0:15:26 GMT -5
I always wanted to see a post-post-apocalyptic future. Like the transition from no society to building back to a civilization. You saw only a tiny, five minute snippet of this in The Postman.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Dec 20, 2013 0:16:25 GMT -5
Well, the future in the Star Trek future is pretty nice, but the human race does go through some dark times to get there. Let's see... 'nice' future... "Gattaca"? "2001: A Space Odyssey" doesn't have the Earth as a wasteland. "Demolition Man"! Crime had been eliminated by the time Stallone had showed up! That sounds pretty nice, right? In "Dredd", the future just turned louder and brighter and more crowded, but I don't think it was necessarily bad... That's all I can think of. I've always wanted a show/movie that was leading up to an apocalypse personally. We never see the build up. Although the upcoming Planet of the Apes looks like it might be that. The first thing I thought of when I read this was the final episode of "Dinosaurs". |
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 20, 2013 0:16:58 GMT -5
I do like some of the suggestions here. I think there is certainly room for a Glad Max.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 20, 2013 0:23:13 GMT -5
I always wanted to see a post-post-apocalyptic future. Like the transition from no society to building back to a civilization. You saw only a tiny, five minute snippet of this in The Postman. Fallout: New Vegas was like this. Yeah there were still some problems but by that game, the NCR government had was fully organized, businesses were established all over the place and electricity/water was being properly supplied. You felt like civilization was finally rebuilding itself. |
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Post by DSR on Dec 20, 2013 1:46:08 GMT -5
What about a film like GATTACA, where instead of society falling apart, it became too organized and rigid? We only really see one dude's struggles in that flick, everyone else seems okay.
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Post by CM Dazz on Dec 20, 2013 1:51:41 GMT -5
I always wanted to see a post-post-apocalyptic future. Like the transition from no society to building back to a civilization. You saw only a tiny, five minute snippet of this in The Postman. Falling Skies on TNT is what you're looking for. |
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Dec 20, 2013 1:57:28 GMT -5
I always wanted to see a post-post-apocalyptic future. Like the transition from no society to building back to a civilization. You saw only a tiny, five minute snippet of this in The Postman. Futurama kinda did that |
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Post by Glitch on Dec 20, 2013 2:25:20 GMT -5
I always wanted to see a post-post-apocalyptic future. Like the transition from no society to building back to a civilization. You saw only a tiny, five minute snippet of this in The Postman. Falling Skies on TNT is what you're looking for. Not really. Their living situation still involves a lot of scavenging, and a society that's just barely held together. |
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Post by HMARK Center on Dec 20, 2013 2:40:03 GMT -5
It's a Postmodernist expression of skepticism about a future that for a couple of generations was sold to the general public as big, shiny, new, and forever buoyed by a belief that progress is right, moral, and for the benefit of all; the 1980's really saw some of the loudest deconstructions of this concept (Blade Runner, Robocop, etc.), and it still has a hold on the public's imagination.
What it would take to reverse the trend would be a society-wide, in a way subconscious decision to move from deconstruction toward reconstruction, which is a very, very difficult thing to do and still produce a multi-million dollar TV series. I guess one could argue Star Trek pulled it off, but shows like The Next Generation were on twenty years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2013 4:06:32 GMT -5
I've always wanted a show/movie that was leading up to an apocalypse personally. We never see the build up. Although the upcoming Planet of the Apes looks like it might be that. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is pretty much that. Also the Game XCOM Terror from the Deep I always wanted to see a post-post-apocalyptic future. Like the transition from no society to building back to a civilization. You saw only a tiny, five minute snippet of this in The Postman. UFO Aftershock is pretty much that. |
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Post by Dragonfly on Dec 20, 2013 4:36:44 GMT -5
Almost Human is pretty damn optimistic about the future. It's essentially a fun 80s style cop show with robots, technobabble and Karl Urban.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 20, 2013 4:38:56 GMT -5
Culture tends to reflect the surrounding circumstances, and given the whole 2012 thing and the worldwide recession, we are living in a kind of dystopian present, and so dystopian future fiction is bound to be en vogue.
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Post by CM Dazz on Dec 20, 2013 7:34:08 GMT -5
Falling Skies on TNT is what you're looking for. Not really. Their living situation still involves a lot of scavenging, and a society that's just barely held together. True, but they're getting there. They're rebuilding, forming a government, & uhh some other stuff I can't remember right now cuz I'm tired, on only three hours sleep, it's raining, my knee hurts, I'm cold, & they're wolves after me. Oh sorry, I started trailing off there. Basically my point is it's the closest thing I could think of on TV right now. |
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 20, 2013 8:55:46 GMT -5
I suspect there is some generational fear involved too. In the 50's and 60's alien invasion of earth was the dominant sci/horror genre in no small part because it spoke to the social anxieties of the time. The idea of an alien force suddenly invading spoke very loudly to a generation that had lived through the worst wars in human history, during which nations that were supposed to be invincible had were overtaken by foreign occupiers. The rapid advance in communication and transportation technology also took the concept of coming into contact with life beyond Earth from the most distant fantasy to suddenly being far more believable.
On that same note, for a current generation the idea of a complete breakdown of society is a lot more believable since we witnessed the collapse of what was once the largest and most powerful nation on the planet and all the social chaos that brewed in its aftermath. The idea of some sort of plague creating zombies also bespeaks of a generation that has lived through the outbreak of new and unexpected health scares such as SARS of avian flu, and that also lives in perpetual anxiety of the possibility of biological warfare or terrorism-including the first ever terror attack utilizing viral weaponry in Japan.
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Post by CM Dazz on Dec 20, 2013 9:11:14 GMT -5
That brings up a question for me. Was War of the Worlds the first to get into alien invasions, or had it been done before?
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Dec 20, 2013 9:13:31 GMT -5
I always wanted to see a post-post-apocalyptic future. Like the transition from no society to building back to a civilization. You saw only a tiny, five minute snippet of this in The Postman. Not a movie but Philip Reeves "Mortal Engines" and "Fever Crumb" books are like this. Set thousands of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear weapons in the 60 minute war after the post apocalypse scenario when there is some semblance of order in the new world. |
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Dec 20, 2013 9:32:06 GMT -5
I always wanted to see a post-post-apocalyptic future. Like the transition from no society to building back to a civilization. You saw only a tiny, five minute snippet of this in The Postman. Fallout: New Vegas was like this. Yeah there were still some problems but by that game, the NCR government had was fully organized, businesses were established all over the place and electricity/water was being properly supplied. You felt like civilization was finally rebuilding itself. Civilization can only truly be rebuilt by Caesar's Legion. |
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