which one is Aunt Beru and and which one is Uncle Owen?
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxp
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Posted this thread as a response to Star Wars, as a sense, which is space opera only in a scruffier universe. Ridley Scott took that look and mixed it with the 70s bits of trucker films, Dark Star, Silent Running, et al, and did his own.
― Don Homer, I have baked a special donut just-a for you (kingfish), Friday, 4 June 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
"My last job was programming binary load-lifters, very similar to your vaporators!"
Me at every job interview ever.
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Friday, June 4, 2010 3:28 PM Bookmark
LOL
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 June 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
"They Live" is the ultimate blue collar scifi film.
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 5 June 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - i.e. Richard Dreyfuss' character.
― Chooglin'alCarbon, Saturday, 5 June 2010 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Non blue collar sci-fi = Wyndham
― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 5 June 2010 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't seen it since it aired in 1993, but I remember Space Rangers as going for an Alien inspired blue collar atmosphere
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Space_Rangers_cast.JPG
― GENE PITNEY'S SWEATER BY KANDAHAR (los blue jeans), Saturday, 5 June 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Does 12 Monkeys ever tell you what Cole's job was before he was put in prison?
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 5 June 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I think Starcraft 2 fits in this category. Interesting mix of backgrounds, too, as you have the hero with his southern/hick/redneck drawl vs the lambchopped mechanic with a strong NY accent
― Don Homer (kingfish), Thursday, 5 August 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
You can't have a white collar/blue collar distinction in slavery
In the pre-Civil War U.S. south, there were house slaves and field slaves.
― Charlie Chaliapin (j.lu), Thursday, 5 August 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I suppose someone should mention the Planet Express delivery team.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, true, tho the vibe I always got from them is more white collar/90's corporate/kinko's/fed-ex like
but I guess Scruffy would have harsh words for that
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Scruffy_2_9337.jpg
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5cAwTEEGNE
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
this was a solid thread, well done everyone
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
"the island", while indefensibly shitty, was ultimately pretty working class
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
"indefensibly shitty, was ultimately pretty working class"haha that's all of michael bay's movies.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Playing Borderlands 2 this weekend and realized that both this game and Guardians of the Galaxy(much like Starcraft I & II) had great depictions of sci-fi rednecks/hillbillies. Yet again, I posit that Michael Rooker will probably never get the full credit for what he contributes to GotG.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 23 August 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
Ha, and I completely forgot this thread had this exchange:
Yeah, but C3PO is a "protocol droid", i.e. built for a white collar job. Can you imagine him doing manual work?"My last job was programming binary load-lifters, very similar to your vaporators!"
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 23 August 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
I guess we can add Elysium / Total Recall(remake) to this list, and also Edge of Tomorrow, which pointedly highlights the contrast between grunt & pretty-boy officer
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 23 August 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm watching Snowpiercer right now. Definitely counts.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Sunday, 24 August 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
that repo men flick from a few years back. terrible, but working class, even trying to say something abt it.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Sunday, 24 August 2014 07:51 (nine years ago) link