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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 70 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

Terminator (1984), Terminator 2 (1991), and The Matrix (1999) have entered the chat...

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

The third, believe it or not, windows 95 desktop background.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 44 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Soylent Green. Alphaville. Logan's Run. A Clockwork Orange.

Planet of the Apes.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Oh man. Soylent Green is pretty fucking close to what we're living right now.

  • Climate change
  • Housing being out of reach for working people who are now living in staircases and in the streets
  • Women losing their rights and becoming "furniture"
[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 34 minutes ago

I mean most of all human civilization has had those very things though. The climate change part is a bit more recent, but housing has and always will be problematic, and women along with anyone that looks 'different' are typically the first people subjugated in human civilizations. When you think about it at a high level, humans kind of suck overall.

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 14 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I hate every chimp I see, from chimpan-a to shimpan-z

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

Rock me Dr. Zaius!

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

I love legitimate thee-ay-ter

[–] original_charles@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Spoiler for Planet of the Apes

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 17 hours ago

True Names (1981), Software (1982), Neuromancer (1984), Hardwired (1986), Wetware (1988)

Cyberpunk is lowlife and high tech. It's completely dystopian. The early 1980s was the height of the Cold War with Reagan in power. People were not optimistic about the future in the 1980s, they were just hoping that it wouldn't end in a nuclear war.

[–] glups@piefed.social 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Lest we forget Blade Runner (1982)

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Blade Runner still had civilization. I’m not sure we’ll be that lucky.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Gad civilization... in the far flung future of 2019! 😉

Deckard missed Covid!

[–] DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world 25 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Terminator: "War is inevitable."

Terminator 2: "Actually, maybe not."

Terminator 3: "Oh yeah, never mind, there it is."

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Me putting the 3rd in to rewatch if it was that bad:

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Terminator: Arnie is the bad guy

Terminator 2: no wait, the first one made him a huge star so he's the hero now!

Terminator 3: Quick, let's squeeze one last one out before he becomes The Governator in a few months!

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I thought Terminator 4 was pretty good, but I like that you didn't even give an opinion on Terminator 5

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

Would be pretty unfair of me anyway, since I've only seen the first two myself 😁

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

MelodiousFunk: They made a Terminator 3?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

Apparently 🤷🏻

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 4 points 20 hours ago

that's a cool chat. I'd smoke a blunt with em