Blue-collar / working-class Sci-fi flicks: List them here

Dim? Educated?

they did have a spot of educated cruelty about their persons.

Prep school rapists, yeah.

alex always felt like a bit of an aspirational dandy to me, pretensions that went beyond whatever small ambitions were harbored by his droogs - i.e. he was working class through and through

Alex = classic Mod taken to its logical conclusion, tbh.

xp Yeah, I can see that, actually. It's the perfect makings of a bully, really.

Indeed, written before mods even existed!

Well there just weren't as many zings back in those days, you didn't need mods

x-post Yeah just about every John Carpenter joint.

"Gattaca" is about class, isn't it?

Almost more about eugenics, really?

Eugenics is about class.

But isn't Ethan Hawke a janitor or something who aspires to more?

Stretching a point maybe, but Tetsuo is definitely examining Japanese middle-class identity, albeit through the medium of a white-collar guy's penis mutating into a giant rotating drill. I guess that's class-based sf though, rather than specifically blue-collar.

Fifth Mothertrucking Element

^ too often ignored

Total Recall

Nah Ahnold is pure executive

But Quaid is way gritty.

Dude... he's actually a

CONSTRUCTION WORKER

(didn't mean for that to be two posts, oops.)

A Clockwork Orange the book strongly suggests that Alex's family is fairly comfortably off (can't recall exact details, but parents baffled cz they'd provided everything for him, think they bought him his shiny top-of-the-range hi-fi though maybe he, uh, acquired it). But, they do live in a small place in a giant towerblock and not a big-assed house like the mad old cat-lady's.

So he seems fairly well-off middle-class to me, but maybe a high-rise garret stuffed with a giant state-of-the-art stereo is the 60s-future equivalent of "why are these working class people not content when every council flat is full of DVD players and Playstations and in my day we only had (etc etc)"

Read the book a) first and b) again much more recently than the film, so not sure what the film implies.

(Sorry to go back to old subthread)

Salvage 1! (Andy Griffith as the Astronaut Sanford, builds a rocketship of out scraps in his junkyard)

Matrix!

A "why are these working class people not content when every council flat is full of DVD players and Playstations and in my day we only had (etc etc)"

Well it's late 50s/ early 60s so it's more "Why is this generation, who have so much more money and freedom and opportunity than we had, so feckless and ungrateful and destructive?"

So, yes, decent hard-working w/c parents baffled by delinquent offspring

Matrix!

maybe some of the later ones where zion is a utopian industrial disco for hard working free men with taut glistening muscles, but neo and trinity are str8 white collar.

Starship Troopers is all about rejecting upper-class comforts and becoming a common grunt. Well, that and bug brains.

Neo is busted down though from fake white collar programming job to real gritty resistance movement on board a bust up ship where all they eat is gruel.

he's a nerd who becomes the messiah

Dozer RIP

Starship Troopers is all about rejecting upper-class comforts and becoming a common grunt.

Uh... so's fascism. Watch it again.

Yeah, man, Starship Troopers is a big sucker punch.

Starship Troopers is all about if the Nazis won WW2

"It's afraid!"

xxxxxp nothing more working class than a messiah

Blue collar, white halo

Aye, nothing more working class than an anointed king who will usher in an age of peace and prosperity!

Maximum Overdrive
The Last Starfighter?

Mad Max duh

star wars!

doh, been said

Metropolis

farmboy = son of landowners.

probably raking it in from Empire grants tbh

Wall-E

A Boy and his Dog

(Haven't seen the film but the short story certainly qualifies)

Thanks, guys, I was previously unaware of the subtle satiric content of a Paul Verhoeven movie.

Aye, nothing more working class than an anointed king who will usher in an age of peace and prosperity!

gruel, man gruel.

Damnation Alley

not a film, but the old Sierra "Space Quest" series.

alien 4 too

i wouldn't say alien 3 because all the prisoners seemed like they'd just come out of an english acting school, and thus they had to SHOUT VERY LOUD THEIR LINES. except Dance, he just quietly mumbled his way through his scenes.