That’s an excellent point. With classic scifi, everybody remembers the twist, but hardly anyone remembers/knows the actual point of the film. Most films of the era have strong social messages that are lost when you reduce it to “lol they are eating people” or “kill the old guy”.

I’m going to fight you on this. I’m going to assume the outer four, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies and Clockwork Orange (book or film, pick one) don’t need defending.

This leaves Soylent Green, Gattaca, Brazil, The Matrix, and Logan’s Run.

Soylent Green and Logan’s Run aren’t particularly well-made films, but their influence both within the SF sphere and in culture at large is way larger than their meagre budgets or box office results would indicate. When they came out, they introduced key pieces into the mix that remain as relevant today as they were in the seventies.

Brazil is an amazing piece of film. A true classic that pops up on “best film” list after 40 years.

GATTACA is the weakest one on this list. There was a brief window were it seemed prescient, but that future quickly receded to give way to the mess we’re in now. I can take it or leave it. If this scheme made sense, I could probably find a better replacement.

The Matrix… well, I’ll come clean with you: I don’t really like the Matrix. If you had been paying attention to SF up until then, the Matrix has zero interesting things to say, paving over its lack of originality with pseudo-philosophical platitudes and action sequences. It wasn’t even the best “the world is not real and the protagonist is the chosen one and is going to save us”-film that came out around that time. It was beaten by a year by Dark City. However, not everyone is a sci-fi snob, and for many people that was their first exposure to a bunch of corner stone concepts. Also, it was pretty cool. So I grudgingly allow it.

This makes very little sense, but these are 12 masterpieces so I’m not too bothered.

They’re a fascist who doesn’t want to be called a fascist.

I see you have met the auth-“left”.

I don’t think Americans really understand what January 6th was. And what the actual failure to hold anyone accountable four years later means.

We spend decades learning about similar events in school, but when they actually happen we just shrug and keep going.

She would be easily dominated by that kid called Exponent.

The mooch was just perfect casting. He’s the guy you expect a person like trump to have as a spokesperson.

Too bad he lasted less than Liz truss.

This. I’m still playing Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.

In general, this is great advice. But have you seen the dreck that comes out of the nyt lately?

OI MATE YEW GOT A LOISENSE TO TAWK ABOUT SIR KEIR?

Even SSTO has the single stage. To orbit.

Yeah, that’s the main problem with matrix. Not that all clients are dumpster fire UX built to scare off normies.

Basically you hemorrhage contributors because fuck this shit and then core components get more and more behind.

Literally dozens of us

Venus is literal lead-melting, acid raining hell.

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he is immune from some of his actions of his job function when acting within the purview of his official function.

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WHAT ACTIONS? WHAT ACTIONS MOTHERFUCKER?

I would take this at face value except for the fact that the president is the commander in chief of the largest, best equipped, most lethal, official killing organization in the planet.

Killing is, and has always been, a possible official act.

Ask your mom. Moms always know ;)

Ugh. I know that feeling. That’s why I’ve blacklisted salt stack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5993959

There’s a particularly toxic combination of ignorance, laziness, NIH and hubris that you need to make a mistake like that, and I want it nowhere near my servers.