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Brazil (1985)

When you’re getting into the concepts of SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROWs many classic literary interpretations have stood the test of time. It’s felt “1984” a few times this month and today’s selection is no different but perhaps it feels a little closer in its mediocre society. Things are cluttered, disconnected and cartoonishly inept. Life lived under paperwork and forms in drab buildings, some of them you hope you never see inside of. The best of your reality is in your dreams but when the faces in your dreams appear in reality then you just might see a chance to rise above the drab world. A creative tour de force by Terry Gilliam early in his “post Python” film career, it remains a visually impressive work of humor and devastation that stands out amongst his unique filmmaking career. When talking about dystopia on film it’s hard not to include Gilliam’s 1985 film “BRAZIL” starring Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Bob Hoskins & Katherine Helmond to name a few. There is some good in this world. Good men who want to help. Good people who want to care for their neighbors. Can they make it in this very familair ultra-propagandized society? God willing, return I will to Old Brazil. We found this link to the movie: https://archive.org/details/brazil-1985-1
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The Trial (1962)

For this month’s movie theme, SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW, late stage humanity can come subtly. You live your life, as normal as far as you can see it, then you become accused. You assert some faith in the law and individual right that you’ve been told exists. Maybe you can maneuver these charges if only you knew what the charges were. If only you knew what they were saying behind the door that is only for you but you can’t enter. Your dystopia is here. We’re discussing “THE TRIAL” and this 1962 adaptation of the work from Franz Kafka holds the same philosophical intentions but this is an Anthony Perkins movie (he played Norman Bates in “Psycho”) and it’s directed by Orson Welles. Perkins was a complex closeted gay man of classic Hollywood and Orson Welles knew that at the time and used it to draw tension. Playing in this adds another tone. It can be interpreted in the Kafka way but also on what’s secretly within its lead who gives an incredible performance. It was said that Perkins was aware of this at the time. What would you do if you stood accused of something and no one told you what? We all have rights, right? I might shut the fuck up at the very least but it’s futile to think that would even matter win a world like this. Here’s the classic right here: https://archive.org/details/the-trial-1962-restored-movie-720p-hd
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Jubilee (1978)

SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW is the theme and it’s all about dystopian futures and perhaps familiar places of history, altered, from before their time. Today’s discussion is a time capsule of a corner of a music and subculture scene amongst the rubble of postwar England. This gaggle of strange kids, some more lethal than others, thrive whereas the countries greatest titles and traditions fall. Top of the Pops? Eurovision? Thankfully these still exist in this anarchic world. Buckingham Palace? Not so much. It’s probably owned by a Texan now. All this observed from the past by Queen Elizabeth I with the assistance of the angel Ariel. We’re talking about Derek Jarman’s early queer-art-punk film “JUBILEE” from 1978 starring Jenny Runacre, Jordan, Toyah Wilcox, Adam Ant, Little Nell, Orlando and many more. A worthy entry for those into popular music history and their subcultures. A unique dystopian film representing an extremely chaotic, yet familiar England on the eve of the Thatcher era. A prophetic sickness from the mind of Derek Jarman. The Queen seemed to take it all in stride, really. Jarman really should have made the little person play Catherine. Here’s a link to this cult punk gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCVLpdpxHAs
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Robocop (1987)

How can you not sit down with a couple of 80’s heavy hitters for our month’s dystopian theme “SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW”? Especially the one we’re discussing in this episode. This privatized authoritarian world of technocratic mediocrity might hit closer to home than any future film we’re discussing all month. The near future setting of Old Detroit is extremely violent and absurd. There are no deep solutions. Only increased repression by corporate funded police. Barely anything works so if you don’t die by getting shot 30 times then you’ll probably go out in a much dumber way when your technology shits the bed. Paul Verhoeven sets up his reputation nicely with his ultra-violent, ultra-satirical 1987 sci-fi film “ROBOCOP” starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith and more. Officer Murphy meets his end and is reborn into a 24 hour policing cyborg. His natural training is essential but his memories of his old life are harder to deprogram. Robocop became an eighties cultural icon who once save the Pro Wrestler Sting from a cage after the four horseman tased him and locked him up. Unlike his mechanical contemporaries, Robocop stood the test of time. Robocop is really the only functional thing in this movie. Here’s a link we found if it still works: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1gutp9 
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Alphaville (1965)

When it’s SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW your dystopia can manifest in many forms and styles. Maybe your megacity is cold and logical, devoid of love and sorrow, but you got some level three seductress dime pieces walking around ready for whatever? But don’t catch feelings! If you do you’ll be machine gunned into a pool and the Alphaville Synchronized Swimming Club will surround you in the water and make sure you’re dead. We’re breaking the seal on Jean-Luc Godard in today’s dystopian discussion about a familiar detective played by Eddie Constantine who defined the role of “Lemmy Caution” prior to Godard coming along and making this notorious French new Wave sci-fi in 1965 called “ALPHAVILLE”. Lemmy never saw it like this before as he infiltrates a city called Alphaville that has become the center of a greater global conflict. A logic-based society ran by a computer called Alpha60 and its maker, Professor Von Braun. Posing as a reporter from the Outer Countries, Lemmy must withstand the tests of this society and keep his composure with the help of poetry and a villain’s daughter. A beautifully cool film with a genuine sense of humor that, in the end, defies its cynical world with the hope of feeling. Love. Yeah, it’s corny. Love wins, sure, but finding it during this strange adventure is a minor miracle. We don’t even know if Dick Tracy and Flash Gordon are still alive for fucks sake. 
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The Purge (2013)

It’s dystopian future month all August and some futures seem a little too close for comfort. This movie is about the year 2022. It came out in 2013. Now it’s 2024 and there’s no day devoted to mass killing, yet, but the undercurrent of violent obsession in our society combined with our propagandized fear of the impoverished makes this movie concept not at all hard to grasp. James DeMonaco’s dystopian hit “The Purge” from 2013, starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Heady, became a franchise darling. It’s easy to ponder what you would do in a society that allows mass killings and various crimes to go unimpeded for 12 hours one day a year. The New Founding Fathers have “fixed” the country and have allowed the people to blow off some steam. The young Republicans take to the streets to kill the most vulnerable. The concerned Democrats take shelter in their tacky homes and watch people die on their security cameras. Blue flowers on their patios to signify that they support the Purge and the country itself in the hopes that it deters them from being targets. Can this top security system salesman protect his family during the Purge from his daughter’s shitty boyfriend, his son’s soft heart and the Temu version of Patrick Bateman? Even if you survive, you’ll have to do it all again next year.
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Stalker (1979)

We’re getting deep into some strange futures all month. SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW is the perfect follow up to last month’s war movie theme but is it war that gave us the strange future we’re seeing in this episode? Some say a meteor. Maybe something alien. Something shifted the world. We’re talking about our very first Andrei Tarkovsky film with his 1979 psychological dystopian flick “STALKER” starring Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn & Nikolai Grinko. The Stalker, The Writer and The Professor all head out of their pee pee colored town into a forbidden zone that looks quite inviting except the zone changes and can trap you and there’s a room there that gives a person their deepest desire. Not the one that they outwardly wish for but the one in their heart. The Stalker carefully leads these men through and gives them the opportunity to see their desires. Can these men bear to know deep within themselves? Should this room be destroyed or is it a glimmer of hope? A mystery to have faith in beyond our stagnant societies. It might make your kids telekinetic. It was the meteor wasn’t it?. A comet probably. Here’s the flick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hBLv-HLEc
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The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)

We’re in the future all month long for August’s theme that we’ve dubbed “SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW” and so far we’re 2 for 2 on post nuclear war societies. Every Monday (mostly) is a vintage selection (vintage is considered 1969 and before) and we’re going into a bizarre and fairly deep cut 1962 science fiction film that ponders the limits of humanity and the humanity of the things humans, and humanoids, create. It certainly does ponder. Through very long winded diatribes does this movie ponder. It certainly could have utilized drama better and perhaps throw in a little more danger. That said, many of the themes and subjects of Wesley Barry’s “THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS” carries forward in later works such as “Blade Runner” and “Battlestar Galactica”. Will the Humanoids replace us all with improved “Clicker” versions of ourselves? It’s not as bad as it sounds. They even trim your waistline a little when they bring you back. Either that or you can join some human cult headed up by some guy called “The Cragus” whose sister is banging a Clicker. But just between you and me? “The Cragus” seems a little too stiff lately if you know what I mean. This movie is all over the internet. One such link right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otcht1mbJ-I
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The Terminator (1984)

Glory & Propaganda is done and now we must head into the future and then back to the present to prevent the future. New month, new theme but war still lingers and this future is as bleak as they come. It’s all about tomorrow all August in a them we’re calling “SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW”. Much of what we discuss this month  will occur in the aftermath of nuclear fire. It’s all Oppenheimer sequels this month. We start it off in a glimmer of hope with an 80s sci-fi/horror classic starring Arnold Schwarzenegger who was just starting to get his career off like a rocket. In a rare performance of Schwarzenegger villainy, he plays a cyborg (it’s type invented this year) sent to 1984 to kill the mother of a human war hero in order to ensure the rise of AI machines that have killed most of us off. Yeah, you know we’re talking about James Cameron’s 1984 hit film “THE TERMINATOR” also starring Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton. Reese was sent back by John Connor to protect his mother and then fuck his mother so that he can also be the daddy of the future messiah who beats the machines. We break this time travel logic down some. There’s always some holes but did you see that truck explode and the Terminator crawling from the wreckage looking scary as shit? That was badass. T2 will be discussed near the end of the month so cum with us if you want to live.
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Antichrist (2009)

We’re doubling down this week on selections for our overarching year’s theme called “A DREARY YEAR OF LARS VON TRIER”. By the end of what is already a complete shithole year, we will have discussed a dozen movies by the dreary Danish auteur Lars von Trier. We’re now over halfway there. Today’s film discussion is one of his most notorious and amongst the smallest casts we’ve ever discussed for a movie. It only stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg (and somebody’s little German kid) as “He and She” who are struggling to cope with the loss of their child who crawled out the window while they were love tunneling. “He” decides to dedicate psychiatric techniques upon his wife and go out to a secluded cabin in the woods called Eden. It’s there when the nature of evil, and the evil of nature, unravel all around them. Hold onto your dicks and clits, folks. Von Trier’s psychological horror ‘ANTICHRIST” from 2009 lives up to its brutal reputation. Don’t mind the stillborn fawn and the fox eating itself. They will check up on us later. They say this was the talk of Cannes that year. When are we gonna get to go to Cannes? Do I gotta cum blood to get into a prestigious film festival or what? Here’s a link we found: https://www.effedupmovies.com/antichrist-2009/
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