THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Ecrofirt on October 24, 2007, 06:06:00 PM
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A friend of mine is writing some paper for his senior seminar class that has to do with sci-fi movies that have, as I mentioned above, 'hopelessness and despair'.
So fellow borians, what are some good titles?
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Well, I certainly FELT a strong sense of hopelessness and despair watching the SW prequels in theaters.
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CUBE
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Well, I certainly FELT a strong sense of hopelessness and despair watching the SW prequels in theaters.
oddly episode III would meet his criteria, the bad guys win.
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Dark City is the first one that comes to mind. Maybe 2001, Sunshine, Event Horizon and all those shitty disaster sci fi flicks (Armageddon etc).
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Does Brazil qualify?
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Pitch Black? Chronicles of Riddick made me feel hopelessness and despair.
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Outland, Alien, the first two Planet of the Apes movies, and Silent Running are the ones that immediately spring to mind. I think I'm the first person in the thread to give legitimate answers, lol
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Children of Men
Brazil
Dark City
Blade Runner
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12 Monkeys. Or even La Jetee if your friend wants to win some art cigarillo points.
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Ice Spiders filled me with both hopelessness and dispair.
http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=13739.0
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Ice Spiders filled me with both hopelessness and dispair.
http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=13739.0
you're a masochist
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I honestly didnt think it'd be nearly as bad as it was.
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I honestly didnt think it'd be nearly as bad as it was.
(http://tvmedia.ign.com/tv/image/article/795/795395/icespiders_1181351920.jpg)
if you saw this picture before you saw the movie and watched it anyways, you have no excuses lol
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Highlander 4. Conor :'(
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Matrix 2 & 3
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8 Legged freaks
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"The End of Evangelion"?
I enjoyed the first two Star Wars prequels and would probably have enjoyed the third one had I seen it.
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i didn't want to be the first person to bring up animu, but since re has gone there, my first thought was 'jin roh'
sci fi is an optimistic genre. even the bleak movies tend to work their way to some kind of uplift
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Code 46
Series 7
Battle Royale (it's kind of SF--moreso the book)
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Soylent Green
The Omega Man
also agree with the first two Planet of the Apes movies
Chuck Heston was a bleak motherfucker in the early 70s.
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sci fi is an optimistic genre. even the bleak movies tend to work their way to some kind of uplift
EOE does too kinda. but I think even if parts of the movie have uplift, if the rest of the movie is hopeless & desparate than the movie does meet the topic-starters criterion of containing a sense of h&d, though it may not be h&d overall.
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Alien
The Terminator qualifies too. The entire movie is pretty dark, knowing that the protagonists are being chased by something from a future where humanity is conquered by their own creations. One of the reasons I think the first Terminator film is criminally underappreciated.
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2001 ?
But that's too obvious.
[errr not a movie]
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How about Superman Returns? All the powers in the world couldn't stop Superman from losing his woman.
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solaris (the original russian version)
sunshine
i dug sunshine the mostest but the science doesn't make a lot of sense. my boyfriend about died from choking on his own vomit at the theater. so ymmv. same director/writer as 28 days later so semi-similar tense-ness but not quite as extreme. more contemplative.
solaris is really wonderful and fucked up. the first hour is kind of very boring! it's well worth it to sit through it, though. cerebral and emotional at the same time.
i didn't think much of the clooney remake but i didn't wait long enough between them before watching it, so it might have seemed better if i had.
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Alien
The Terminator qualifies too. The entire movie is pretty dark, knowing that the protagonists are being chased by something from a future where humanity is conquered by their own creations. One of the reasons I think the first Terminator film is criminally underappreciated.
I actually believe that The Terminator was a stand-alone film with no scheduled sequel. This is probably a fact anyway. Just like The Matrix, sequels were made because there was still some future in it (lolol pun) and they could add a lot more to the story. They pulled it off with T2, but we all know how the Matrix sequels went.
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solaris is really wonderful and fucked up. the first hour is kind of very boring! it's well worth it to sit through it, though. cerebral and emotional at the same time.
it's also Tetsuya Takahashi's (Xenogears/saga) favorite movie ever
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Does Brazil qualify?
If you're talking about the original cut, then yes, that ending was a downer.
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The Blob
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You guys are fucking distinguished mentally-challenged if you think 2001 is a downer. I hated the movie and even I know that he evolved into the star child thingy.
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The Original Twilight Zone TV shows would be an awesome resource for this.
I came in here to say Event Horizon and Dark City. But people have beaten me to the punch.
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Star Wars Episode 1-3 gave me a sense of hopelessness.