Dystopian, weird, post-apocalyptic media

Logan wrote: The Road is really powerful -- one of the best and most harrowing novels that I have read. I did get nightmares for some time after reading it. My wife got me to read it after she finished reading it as she thought the father/son relationship would make it all the more poignant to me. I read it one sitting too.

interesting topic.. there has been one movie  that really set me back a loop.  Made me go WTF and I literally spent days, weeks with this movie at the forefront of my consciousness.  Coincidently the only modern movie I put in my top 10 alltime favs.

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Logan wrote: I'd love to find some more films of the Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and Brazil ilk.

I don't know how similar one might say it is, but the 1997 flick CUBE does offer a rather unreal experience in a highly unusual escape from the prison scenario.






Eden Log also seems promising in that unreal kind of feeling way





Edited by Windhawk - June 11 2013 at 18:30

^ I might if it's a Nineteen-Eighty Whore[ish] story.

And thanks to people for the recs so far.  Much to look for.  Right now I'm in the mood for black comedyish/ really quirky dystopian[ish], or not so dystopian, works.

One of my favourite recent films I've seen that  I really liked was Branded (has a bad rating at imdb).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5p7l1hNuQ

It's a bit of The how to Get Ahead in Advertising kind of thing.

Another fairly recent favourite of mine was One Point Zero:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw3V_VnRoaA

I'd love to find some more films of the Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and Brazil ilk.

Oh, and here's another book that is actually well worth reading, despite the later weirdness of at least one of the authors.

I agree on the Gene Wolfe - I rarely, if ever, put down a fantasy novel but that "Shadow of the Torturor" was just mind-numbingly...uninteresting. One of the very few I never bothered to finish.

A very good one.....this was well written and strange.

edit: I double derped the post....oops


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aginor wrote: Thats a good movie , try king of the Devil idland, very cool and BLEAK

Will look for it, thanks.

ExittheLemming wrote: Themroc from 1973, a French film made on a low budget with no intelligible dialog, It tells the story of a blue collar worker who rebels against modernity by regressing into an urban troglodyte who demolishes his urban apartment into an improvised cave. The movie's scenes of incest and cannibalism earned it's adults-only ratings. I loved it, but then I'm openly weirdo....

That's one I've been wanting to watch for quite a while.  I had found it on youtube (but lacking English subtitles the unintelligible dialogue seemed even more unintelligible, -- not that they would bother with subtitling gibberish anyway). ;)

dr wu23 wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/best-dystopian-science-fiction-books.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopian_novel#Dystopian_fiction Sounds like you have a good handle on the genre but I really liked the Gene Wolfe; Shadow of the Torturer series, Books Of The New Sun....set far in the future. While not 'dystopian' per se the 'Culture' series by Ian Banks is superbly crafted literate sci-fi about a group of AI's  that control the known universe and many of the stories are set in what could be called dystopian planets.

Think I've been through all those lists before.  I will definitely look for those books.  I once borrowed one of those Gene Wolfe's, but didn't get down to it.

Triceratopsoil wrote: Every read Farnham's Freehold by Heinlein?

It's actually one of the books I borrowed from the library a week ago, and is what I'm reading now.  Its dialogue-heavy style didn't immediately appeal, so I read a couple of others I had taken out first -- including a, I thought good, though a little too prediactable at times and a little too dated, James Blish novel that was somewhat reminiscent to me of a favourite Heinlein book of mine, Stranger in a Strange Land and of A Canticle for Leibowitz due to its religious themes.  The book was A Case of Conscience, but though I liked the writing of A Case..., the story didn't quite work for me, but I digress.

A Person wrote: If you're okay with watching anime, Texhnolyze is a great series with dystopian/cyber punk/post-apocalyptic themes and is very dark and surreal.

I love anime, and have seen a number of great ones that would fit this topic.  I will look for the series; sounds excellent.

Windhawk wrote: ... Couldn't find the regular trailer, so this one with latin subtitles have to do.

I plan to watch Dredd at some time.  I saw the Stallone version when it came out in the movie theatre; I'm sure this one is better.

Evangelion2014 wrote: A Person wrote: If you're okay with watching anime, Texhnolyze is a great series with dystopian/cyber punk/post-apocalyptic themes and is very dark and surreal. Seconding this. One of the few shows on myanimelist that I have rated as 10/10. The entire series is told in a minimalist tone set in a decaying city that looks like it belongs in the 50's but has bits of advanced technology lying around. Threads is definitely something you should watch, though only part of it is about post apocalyptic, the rest is how the apocolypse happens. Basically, it was the british version of 'the day after' with all the hollywood touches and any rays of hope scrubbed clean. It looks at the effects of a nuclear bomb on a small english town in the middle of a cold war WWIII. At times a documentary like narrator will describe part of the story. It's up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg

Texhnolyze really does sound excellent.  I know about Threads, and started on it at one time, but perhaps was feeling too depressed at the time to watch it.  It's high on my list for some time.

Couldn't find the regular trailer, so this one with latin subtitles have to do.