[School of Movies 2024]
It's always a risk, setting a sci-fi dystopian movie only a few years from filming. You're going to make predictions about how the world might look and operate, with new technology or sociological and political upheaval within a time period so immediate that it's the difference between the launch of the Sony PlayStation and the PlayStation 2
But we are currently living in a dystopia increasingly left to the devices of the dumbest of AI, and many of us are wondering "How the hell did all this happen between the PS4 and PS5?". Plus, the writer/producer of this one warned us about Skynet before. James Cameron here teams up with director (and occasional wife) Katherine Bigelow to deliver a grimy neo-noir that failed abysmally at the box office when everyone wanted Batman Forever. A disregarded cult favourite with a mysterious and twisted psychopath murdering people in truly stomach-churning ways, the same year Se7en was a massive smash hit.
The tech is effectively Virtual Reality, only it's recorded, first-person real life experiences that go way beyond mere visual immersion. There are riots on the streets of Los Angeles as a terrifyingly militarised police force close in, and as the clock ticks towards midnight on New Year's Eve in the far-flung year of 1999 a young and twitchy Ralph Feinnes and a statuesque goddess, his long-suffering protector played by Angela Basset find themselves caught up in a dangerous world.
This show was commissioned by Greg Downing, and we had a blast delving into it.
Fantasia 2000 + Dinosaur
Wrestlemania XXX
The Orphanage
The Shape of Water
Crimson Peak
Pacific Rim
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Pan's Labyrinth
Hellboy
Blade Trilogy
The Devil's Backbone
The Emerald Forest
Solo
Deadpool 2
The Neverending Story
Fright Night
Avengers: Infinity War
Saga
Godzilla
The Babadook
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