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?"
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
So, yes, decent hard-working w/c parents baffled by delinquent offspring
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Starship Troopers is all about rejecting upper-class comforts and becoming a common grunt. Well, that and bug brains.
― Simon H., Friday, 4 June 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a nerd who becomes the messiah
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Dozer RIP
― shugazi (herb albert), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Starship Troopers is all about rejecting upper-class comforts and becoming a common grunt.
Uh... so's fascism. Watch it again.
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, man, Starship Troopers is a big sucker punch.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Starship Troopers is all about if the Nazis won WW2
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
"It's afraid!"
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxxxp nothing more working class than a messiah
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Blue collar, white halo
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Aye, nothing more working class than an anointed king who will usher in an age of peace and prosperity!
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Maximum OverdriveThe Last Starfighter?
― Trip Maker, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Mad Max duh
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
star wars!
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
doh, been said
Metropolis
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
farmboy = son of landowners.
probably raking it in from Empire grants tbh
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Wall-E
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
A Boy and his Dog
(Haven't seen the film but the short story certainly qualifies)
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks, guys, I was previously unaware of the subtle satiric content of a Paul Verhoeven movie.
― Simon H., Friday, 4 June 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
gruel, man gruel.
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Damnation Alley
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
not a film, but the old Sierra "Space Quest" series.
― sofatruck, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Friday, 4 June 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
lol came here to post Space Truckers but I see EZ Snappin beat me to it
"nobody jacks my load!"
― in my day we had to walk 10 miles in the snow for VU bootleg (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 June 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Ice Pirates
and every other low-budget Star Wars rip-off
― A prog venn diagram for you to think about (Matt #2), Friday, 4 June 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Ned thankig u for that link, I have been wanting to see Dark Star for quite a while.
― Yes! Yes! Hammerheads! (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 June 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
This post was inevitable, deserved, and now we can all move on. :)
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Friday, 4 June 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Avatar!
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 4 June 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn!
― in my day we had to walk 10 miles in the snow for VU bootleg (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 June 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Battle Beyond the Stars!
― in my day we had to walk 10 miles in the snow for VU bootleg (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 June 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
anything with JCVD
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 4 June 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
How is Star Wars blue collar? The heroes include princesses, members of a galactic elite class (the Jedis), and a British upper class android. The only notable blue collar character in the whole double trilogy is Han Solo.
― Tuomas, Friday, 4 June 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Exactly, Luke's story is the whole "prince" raised as a pauper. zzzz
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Solo's a fucking spiv, not a blue collar guy. The D2 units are properly blue collar tho.
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Also just cos Threepio has been programmed with a Received Pronunciation accent doesn't mean he isn't an oppressed prole too. Robot class is no way = upper class
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Fucking aristocracy makes him carry their secret messages up his arse for a start
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, but C3PO is a "protocol droid", i.e. built for a white collar job. Can you imagine him doing manual work?
(x-post)
― Tuomas, Friday, 4 June 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Plus in a Galaxy where the aristos speak like Luke/Leia who's to say Threepio's accent isn't a signifier of servitude?
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, it's quite obvious that all the droids are built for servitude. But within the internal classification of the droids, C3PO most certainly is white collar and not blue collar.
― Tuomas, Friday, 4 June 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Come to think of it, in what way are robots worse off under the Empire? They're like slaves being conned to defend their own slavedom by the patrician Rebels who will then turn round and say "cheers for that guys, now stfu and get my dinner ready"
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
you don't really find out all that shit though until the second and third movies. in the first one luke is just a moisture farmer done good!
― real eyes realize real truffle fries (dyao), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
fyi next three Star Wars movies are about C3P0 and R2 killin all humans
― in my day we had to walk 10 miles in the snow for VU bootleg (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
3pio is clearly a class-climbing whore like madonna -- racist against wookies, too.
are cops blue collar? because there's a whole set of -cops things: timecop, space cops, robocop
actually, it's a lot harder to think of SF movies without a blue collar hero!
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 4 June 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
man NV is doing some real hardcore nietzschean reversing of the magnetic poles right now
― real eyes realize real truffle fries (dyao), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
You can't have a white collar/blue collar distinction in slavery, just cos as far as we know the Threepio units don't get their hands dirty doesn't mean they aren't pawns of The Man just as much as their spaceship-fixing bros
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Plus remember that C3PO wasn't just a regular ol' protocol droid, he was a protocol droid working for a genuine princess!
― Tuomas, Friday, 4 June 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link