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6:05pm
ultradamno:
Did Brazil stipulate a year that it was set in?
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6:06pm
Folsom:
Didn't Seven Second Delay do this last week?
6:06pm
morphe':
Was just talking about the book = Day of the Triffids [dystopian disasters in our own time[which has a whole petroleum conspiracy aspect not in the original or the remake] ..
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6:06pm
herb.nyc:
Movies! “Let’s go to the pictures, darling…”🎶 sang Wreckless Eric
6:09pm
Listener Robert:
It was "The President's Analyst" that said every phone was bugged.
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6:09pm
Steve Del Sol:
We got Bluetooth because Heddy Lamar or some other actress of that period invented it for signal jumping for radio security during WW2.
6:10pm
yippie:
and now i always forget to charge my headphones
I adore it. I showed it to a top thai chi instructor and he didnt like the fantasy martial arts parts. But i like the human rights aspect and caring for another bits.
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6:16pm
erik:
Can we talk about the stormtrooper decals on people's cars, they realize the Empire is evil right? the Storm troopers are the bad Nazi guys, the Rebels are the good ones.
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6:17pm
Handy Haversack:
Well, Alien is a perfect horror movie, and Aliens is a perfect action movie.
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6:17pm
common:
alien is perfect. better than aliens, i think.
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6:17pm
ultradamno:
Many prefer Aliens, I am not among them.
6:30pm
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Idiocracy - the costumer needed to to buy shoes that people in the future would wear and she found these really ugly shoes for cheap. She asked the producer if she should clear usage with the shoe company and the producer said don't bother, these shoes are so ugly this company won't be around by the time the movie comes out. Those shoes were Crocs.
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6:31pm
ultradamno:
Silver Streak is a vivid movie memory from when I was a kid
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6:32pm
ultradamno:
Wheatley's High Rise is underrated, I don't know if Cronenberg's Crash qualifies but I'd say Videodrome and eXistenZ do...
6:32pm
Matt from OK:
Still need to see Idiocracy. The dystopian tangent for that one goes back to the HG Wells’ Days to Come, and Woody Allen’s 1960s adaptation, Sleeper. One of the greatest dystopian movies.
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6:32pm
ultradamno:
...his son's excellent Infinity Pool also.
6:32pm
Zolenskify:
Snowpeircer is the train movie.
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6:35pm
ultradamno:
There is also a Snowpiercer TV show that concluded recently. Bong's Mickey 17 falls in with the Infinity Pool, Dual and Substance artificial double horror.
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6:35pm
Spikey BXL:
Absolutely loved ep. 4 of the seventh season of Black Mirror.
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6:42pm
PaulRobeson1925:
Look at all the shoot em up movies America shovels out for the rest of the world.
What are the two big ones in every theater overseas right now? The Accountant 2? &…
Laughable(?) this is our current state of film. Guns in movies are so unimaginative. Machine guns in a movie make me want to vomit on the floor
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6:42pm
ultradamno:
The Watchmen TV show is OK...the Snyder movie is terrible, The Boys may have one-upped it.
6:42pm
Listener Robert:
"Watchmen" is about Thatcherite policies??!!!
The Fly does have a great Goldbloom-y monologue in the middle. and of course "Hi kids! This is how a fly eats!"
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6:45pm
ultradamno:
I love eXistenZ's very guts. Underrated. A lot of Myst referencing going on.
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6:45pm
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative:
Thank you for introducing us to Dan Morfitt. (Maybe most Techtonic listeners already knew about him, but I didn't.)
Well, keeping The Sandman going much longer is probably out of the question (though I do hope Selick's Ocean At The End Of The Lane still happens)
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6:50pm
PaulRobeson1925:
Why for example does Ireland not have a film industry and show Irish movies in their theaters? Why is it Accountant 2 and Warfare?
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6:55pm
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative:
Good God. I just had a flash. Some (evil?) genius uploads the entire WFMU archives (playlists, chats, etc.) into an AI agent. Maybe delete this, Mark.
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6:55pm
ultradamno:
Though this will get us into the single best TV show in history: The Twilight Zone
Listener comments!
: Mark! Techtonephiles!
Will thee SG OCNY: Good evening Mark, Dan, and all!!!
newton: Blumineral Distopioids!
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all! Love me some dystopianisms...
Handy Haversack: Mark! Techyons!
chresti: Hi Mark and techtonicians!
newton: dont mind me , Im in a time zone warp for 2?days
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids here gathered.
Handy Haversack: Wait, didn't Ken and Andy just do this show? And use that COVID-era graphic?
Try just replaying that episode and saying that Andy is Dan. The gum makes it sound like an accent!
PaulRobeson1925: HELP
newton: I dont know when they pain meds will kick in, or have they already?
Deano de los Muertos: Mark! Tuning in from the woods in PA, standing amongst the family alpacas and llama 🦙
Listener Robert: How do we read the horizontal axis?
Deano de los Muertos: Hey Dan and the rest
Bas NL: Techtonic: The Movie.
Spikey BXL: Greetings Mark, 🫡 Commander Morfitt, assembled thronglets.
Deano de los Muertos:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:02
Eh…rather unsuccessfullyultradamno: Did Brazil stipulate a year that it was set in?
Folsom: Didn't Seven Second Delay do this last week?
morphe': Was just talking about the book = Day of the Triffids [dystopian disasters in our own time[which has a whole petroleum conspiracy aspect not in the original or the remake] ..
herb.nyc: Movies! “Let’s go to the pictures, darling…”🎶 sang Wreckless Eric
Listener Robert:
↳ ultradamno @6:05
"Somewhere in the 20th Century"DjLorraine: Ultraviolet had electronic payment/surveillence.
Webhamster Henry: There are a few radio shows of both original and adapted SF that are pretty good predictors.
yippie: i liked to watch repo man when i was 3 years old
Deano de los Muertos:
↳ DjLorraine @6:06
I never got around to watching that..good?ultradamno: So definitely at the top of the graphic
morphe':
↳ Song: "Dystopian movies w/Dan Morfitt"
Re-posting from the other day/night:"The dreams our stuff is made of : how science fiction conquered the world"
[full text]
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yippie: i had it on betamax
Listener Robert: It was "The President's Analyst" that said every phone was bugged.
Steve Del Sol: We got Bluetooth because Heddy Lamar or some other actress of that period invented it for signal jumping for radio security during WW2.
yippie: and now i always forget to charge my headphones
listener james from westwood: "The lost seeing-stones are not all accounted for!"
tim: Hey Mark, Dan and crew!
ultradamno: I think Metropolis was 2026
Handy Haversack:
↳ listener james from westwood @6:10
Pedant!Purvis: Let's Visit the World of the Future
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FHx2nLFMAzE
ultradamno: I can't do other than horror films.
Yes. Paper cutter. M3gan 2 is coming
yippie: Ronald Reagan didn't want to name it Star Peace
Ken From Hyde Park: And ... action! 🎬 Hello.
ultradamno: Niece. Not daughter. Her parents die straight away
Folsom:
↳ Steve Del Sol @6:09
Hedley!tim: Small Wonder!!!!!
DjLorraine:
↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:08
I adore it. I showed it to a top thai chi instructor and he didnt like the fantasy martial arts parts. But i like the human rights aspect and caring for another bits.ultradamno: 2.0, yes
Spikey BXL: The first one was al dente
tim: Agree on the dystopian sequels. I think 28 Days and 28 Months works well.
Listener Robert:
↳ yippie @6:13
But he didn't call SDI Star Wars either. That was a derisive name given by its opponents.Bas NL: "I'll be back..." said it all.
ultradamno: Zombies aren't really dystopian though...more catastrophe.
erik: Can we talk about the stormtrooper decals on people's cars, they realize the Empire is evil right? the Storm troopers are the bad Nazi guys, the Rebels are the good ones.
Handy Haversack: Well, Alien is a perfect horror movie, and Aliens is a perfect action movie.
common: alien is perfect. better than aliens, i think.
ultradamno: Many prefer Aliens, I am not among them.
Adi From Sheffield: I didn't mind Alien 3
mdashkin: You might say that Night of the Living Dead was the rare dystopian film that produced a bunch of sequels...
Spikey BXL: Yaphet Kotto RIP
Tom from Stirling: Alien!?
Aliens!?
Yes, please
ultradamno: Sometimes I want to defend Protheus...then I remember Luther playing that squeezebox and singing Love The One You're With.
Handy Haversack:
↳ Spikey BXL @6:17
Always remembered on WFMU!ultradamno: Again. zombies not dystopian. Unless they establish and authoritarian regime.
I HATE Don't Look Up more than any movie that will be named today.
ultradamno: Americathon redux.
Deano de los Muertos: Don’t Look Up was great
erik: how can don't look up have a sequel, they all die?
ultradamno: No.
Tom from Stirling: Alien: Earth !! Coming out this summer.
Deano de los Muertos:
↳ ultradamno @6:18
That one wasn’t bad, imotim: Don't Look Up sounds good. I don't recall when it came out.
Spikey BXL: Escape from New York
ultradamno: There are some really arresting scenes in Prometheus for sure.
bleubombersune: I am probably mistaken, Dan you remind of Michael Moorcock
ultradamno: Alphaville is a good one
Tom from Stirling: Elysian is actually very good.
ultradamno: Also Fassbinder's World On A Wire mini-series
The Butterman: District 13 the 4th sequel to District 9. Love that film. Sharplo Copley should have won an award for that role.
Maarie in Chicago: It's like, let's go live on Mars.... Hi, everybody.
David (in London): Blomkamp actually wrote an intriguing screenplay for a never made Alien sequel.
Deano de los Muertos: Upgrayedd
p_glow: Crocks Shoes debut in Idiocracy as shoes only idiots would wear
ultradamno: Idiocracy makes suggesting The Truth About De-Evolution inevitable
Ken From Hyde Park: Waterworld
David (in London): The Postman.
ultradamno: Chopping Mall! I mean if M3gan and Wall-E count...
DjLorraine: Dark City
Deano de los Muertos: Costco gets more like the movie version every time I clock in
ultradamno:
↳ ultradamno @6:28
www.youtube.com...Purvis: Cyberpunk dystopia
?: Idiocracy - the costumer needed to to buy shoes that people in the future would wear and she found these really ugly shoes for cheap. She asked the producer if she should clear usage with the shoe company and the producer said don't bother, these shoes are so ugly this company won't be around by the time the movie comes out. Those shoes were Crocs.
Webhamster Henry: The Big Bus!
Troy:
↳ DjLorraine @6:28
Good one!ultradamno: Silver Streak is a vivid movie memory from when I was a kid
ultradamno: Wheatley's High Rise is underrated, I don't know if Cronenberg's Crash qualifies but I'd say Videodrome and eXistenZ do...
Matt from OK: Still need to see Idiocracy. The dystopian tangent for that one goes back to the HG Wells’ Days to Come, and Woody Allen’s 1960s adaptation, Sleeper. One of the greatest dystopian movies.
ultradamno: ...his son's excellent Infinity Pool also.
Zolenskify: Snowpeircer is the train movie.
Purvis: Impending dystopia:https://www.local3news.com/local-news/chattanooga-makes-history-as-the-first-city-in-u-s-to-establish-quantum-computing-network/article_7e4868c8-a9ae-49a7-a3d4-bc4ecf3b3027.html
p_glow: They Live
tim: I think Satire is valuable. Might not change anything but it sure ruffles feathers that need to be ruffled.
Tom from Stirling:
↳ ultradamno @6:32
The Shrouds-Cronenberg's new creepy film.Handy Haversack:
↳ ultradamno @6:32
Shivers?ultradamno: There is also a Snowpiercer TV show that concluded recently. Bong's Mickey 17 falls in with the Infinity Pool, Dual and Substance artificial double horror.
Spikey BXL: Absolutely loved ep. 4 of the seventh season of Black Mirror.
Thronglets!
ultradamno:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:34
Not a zombie movie, but within spitting distanceHandy Haversack:
↳ ultradamno @6:36
I'm always shocked that Pontypool isn't discussed more around these parts.Webhamster Henry:
↳ Spikey BXL @6:35
There are plenty of Black Mirror things that are pretty real. Like killer robot dogs, social credit etc.tim: Omega Man!
Handy Haversack: Can one spoil a fifty-year-old movie?
David (in London): The dark satanic mills of the midlands did give us Black Sabbath, though, so it’s swings and roundabouts...
Deano de los Muertos: I hated the Will Smith movie. Read the book.
ultradamno: Pontypool is wonderful! Autopsy of Jane Doe is another that doesn't quite come up enough
ultradamno: A bit of an abstraction, but I think the No End House season of Channel Zero counts
Troy: Hell comes to FrogTown (not a classic but fun).
Deano de los Muertos:
↳ ultradamno @6:35
I’ve started watching that, but very early inultradamno:
↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:37
Last Man On Earth is the way to goTom from Stirling: Dan knows his movies.
Spikey BXL:
↳ Webhamster Henry @6:37
Metalhead, another fave episode of minePurvis: https://archive.org/details/frankenhooker-1990_202406
Mattynotimes: I love you Dan Morfit
Spikey BXL: Also, the comic Transmetropolitan deserves a mention
David (in London): The version of Dredd with Karl Urban is rather good, if little known.
Deano de los Muertos:
↳ ultradamno @6:39
I’ve seen it! Much more like the bookJohnny Walsh: "Johnny Mnemonic" (sp?)
PaulRobeson1925: Look at all the shoot em up movies America shovels out for the rest of the world.
What are the two big ones in every theater overseas right now? The Accountant 2? &…
Laughable(?) this is our current state of film. Guns in movies are so unimaginative. Machine guns in a movie make me want to vomit on the floor
ultradamno: The Watchmen TV show is OK...the Snyder movie is terrible, The Boys may have one-upped it.
Listener Robert: "Watchmen" is about Thatcherite policies??!!!
Squints: wooHOO.
ok then.
hey HEY hey.
Remain alive.
No matter what occurs.
Squints: Mother of mercy.
Deano de los Muertos:
↳ ultradamno @6:42
People ripped the show…I really enjoyed it.Folsom:
↳ David (in London) @6:41
The one thing I didn't like about it is that there wasn't much of the Mega City One, I want all of the different blocks with the goofy names.ultradamno: The "english take on politics" talk make me think of all-time favorite Repo Man (US, but Alex Cox)
Listener Robert:
↳ ultradamno @6:42
But the Snyder movie did have the great opening credits sequence.ultradamno: Of course The Fly is horror.
tim: I like Croenenberg a lot!
Tom from Stirling: Yep, Dan knows his movies. David Cronenberg!
tim: Existenz was killer!
ultradamno:
↳ Listener Robert @6:43
I'd have to watch a second of it twice to verify...that just will not happen.Webhamster Henry:
↳ ultradamno @6:44
The Fly does have a great Goldbloom-y monologue in the middle. and of course "Hi kids! This is how a fly eats!"ultradamno: I love eXistenZ's very guts. Underrated. A lot of Myst referencing going on.
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative: Thank you for introducing us to Dan Morfitt. (Maybe most Techtonic listeners already knew about him, but I didn't.)
Deano de los Muertos:
↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:42
I just looked up The Accountant….the poster is just Ben Affleck holding a gun lolchris in the redwoods: the ports thing is William Gibson (which probably came from Scientific American)
Tom from Stirling:
↳ chris in the redwoods @6:45
Great writerWebhamster Henry:
↳ tim @6:44
Existenz and the 13th floor en.wikipedia.org... are both "what is reality" tropesultradamno: If you like the days later fast zombies movies, I highly recommend MadS, which is on Shudder
chris in the redwoods:
↳ Tom from Stirling @6:46
i devour each and every book of his immediately upon release :)Listener Robert: "The Matrix" was a good short subject framing a boring feature film.
Webhamster Henry:
↳ chris in the redwoods @6:45
I understand Netflix is (finally) doing a Neuromancer! I hope they make it 80s-futuristic and not contemporary.Tom from Stirling:
↳ chris in the redwoods @6:47
Yep, me tooultradamno:
↳ ultradamno @6:47
Which, like The Crazies, has a little more claim on dystopia.Handy Haversack: I seem to be the only one who hated The Matrix.
MKT in Inwood: Don’t forget Max Headroom: the megacorporation was ZikZak — “We Make Everything You Need, You Need Everything We Make”
chris in the redwoods:
↳ Webhamster Henry @6:48
oh. my. god! that is fantastic news! :)Webhamster Henry:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:48
I didn't like it that much. Fun effects, it felt kind of padded to me.ultradamno:
↳ Webhamster Henry @6:48
Well, keeping The Sandman going much longer is probably out of the question (though I do hope Selick's Ocean At The End Of The Lane still happens)PaulRobeson1925: Why for example does Ireland not have a film industry and show Irish movies in their theaters? Why is it Accountant 2 and Warfare?
chris in the redwoods: battle royale is great!
chresti: Lord of the rings
ultradamno: There was a train in Hunger Games...
Troy: Battle Royal is a classic!
Johnny Walsh: "Empty Metal" Must See!
tim: Oh yeah! Battle Royale was a good watch.
Larrson Arrows: Your talking about the matrix. I don't know if you already did strange candy. I'm from Oregon so I can't really talk to you.
David (in London): Children of Men, a grim UK dystopian gem.
Spikey BXL:
↳ ultradamno @6:50
No food car thoughListener Robert: I notice the dystopian movie you're all overlooking, which in my experience is like a projective test: "They Live".
ultradamno:
↳ ultradamno @6:50
Speaking of dystopian sequeling...of course the original books were a trilogy...but it has kept going.Johnny Walsh:
↳ Listener Robert @6:51
You betcha.tim: The Thing!
ultradamno: I'm here for a projective test and to chew bubblegum!
The Butterman: Fireball! Fireball!
PaulRobeson1925:
↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:50
Accountant 2 is Dystopia and any time you see machine gun in a film. Retchedmorphe': Richard Dawson was also in Hogan's Heroes
chris in the redwoods: Black Mirror is an absolute treasure
Handy Haversack: Pretty sure it was before the BD dog.
ultradamno: The Waldo Moment is the ep I keep going back to, and one of the more flat-out dystopian
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark, Dan, all.
Larrson Arrows: I was thinking about brain candy not strange candy.
tim: Thank Mark and Dan!
toni denzo: How about ranx
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative: Good God. I just had a flash. Some (evil?) genius uploads the entire WFMU archives (playlists, chats, etc.) into an AI agent. Maybe delete this, Mark.
ultradamno: Though this will get us into the single best TV show in history: The Twilight Zone
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Dan!
Deano de los Muertos: Great show, thanks Mark and Dan
drew: Dawson was a comedian and actor before Feud. I think the womanizing thing was as much character/schtick as anything else.
ultradamno: mastodon.social...
mastodon.social...
Troy: Great show! Thanks.
bleubombersune: Mark and Dan great discussion. All stray safe and be well
Tom from Stirling: The new Westworld is very good.
Mike Sin: Fantastic show! Appreciate the suggestions.
morphe': Hearing Dr Who ... thinking QUARTERMAS and also the Dalek films ... War of the Wotlds too..
Spikey BXL: Mark, Dan ⭐⭐⭐
ultradamno: Rollerball! Soylent Green!
Fredericks: No mention of Brazil?
Maarie in Chicago: Thanks, Dan, and Mark!
chris in the redwoods: oh, they're listening! lol
thanks, Mark and Dan!
ultradamno:
↳ Fredericks @6:58
Well, I didSpikey BXL: It was a coup brick
David (in London): Great show both.
Handy Haversack:
↳ chris in the redwoods @6:58
As long as they pledge.Tom from Stirling:
↳ Fredericks @6:58
next timePaulRobeson1925: Great team chemistry, Dan & Mark!
chris in the redwoods:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:58
of course, because of doge, they can only pledge $1ultradamno: They Follow might qualify...the first is more a curse movie
ultradamno:
↳ ultradamno @6:59
Smile 2 seems to be going in that direction tooWill thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark and Dan!!!
ultradamno: And just for robots. Ex-Machina and Companion
ultradamno: Companion my fav of the year so far (have not seen Sinners yet, but going this week)....also liked The Monkey
ultradamno: (if Ex-Machina is boys need to fear their sexbots, Companion is sexbots need to fear their boys)
ultradamno: It just occurred to me...no one mention RoboCop....what a robocopout!