If you haven't seen Ex Machina yet, do yourself a solid, and go find it. It will be right up your alley. Trust me on th
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Geovibe — 10 years ago(August 06, 2015 11:17 AM)
Network (1976) -
Fifteen Million Merits
had some similarities to it. Howard Beale got 'mad as hell' and he was going to blow his brains out on national television. While it was no way intended to be science fiction, it pretty much signaled where TV was headed.
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Mind bender:
Struggle with identity/reality.
Cloud Atlas (2012) - I forgot what the main theme of it was
(it had several).
NightCrawler (2014) - Essentially its about the media and how invasive and extreme it has become.
Amazing Stories (TV, 19851987) Created by Steven Spielberg, I'm not sure where it can be found - Netflix?
Mr. Robot (TV, 2015) - Hackers, psychopaths and high drama. -
hockeyhrs — 10 years ago(August 18, 2015 04:12 PM)
"The 10th Victim" (1965) starring Marcello Mastroianni & Ursula Andress. This foreshadows the rise of reality television (and it's ultimate nadir) 4-5 decades before it happened.
It's on DVD (must manually select English language audio; otherwise defaults to subtitles) and Amazon Instant Video. I don't have Netflix, so I can't say. -
realitycomments — 10 years ago(September 12, 2015 04:41 PM)
What I love about these type of threads that every once in a while I find something that intrigues me to check out. I think that's how I heard of Black Mirror.
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realitycomments — 10 years ago(September 12, 2015 04:38 PM)
I don't know about a movie, but if one hasn't ever seen all of the early Twilight Zone Episodes, that's what I would suggest. As well as the later Twilight Zone episodes, Art Gallery and tales from the crypt.
It mostly reminds me of the early Twilight Zone. Rod Serling would love this show. The second episode, I wished there was a narrated intro for that one, but alas it isn't needed. -
Frecuencia — 10 years ago(September 26, 2015 05:02 AM)
Even though ex machina is well made, the idea is an old thought experiment about AI and there's really not much else and they don't explore it deeply. I thought "the machine" had better ideas, but it's a harder swallow.
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shapethrower — 10 years ago(September 28, 2015 09:05 PM)
Other shows to recommend:
Utopia
(the UK show - not the reality TV program. Just about to be remade in the US by David Fincher for Netflix)
Orphan Black
The Prisoner- 60s version
Movies
A Scanner Darkly
Moon
I owe my solitude to other people. ~ Alan Watts
- 60s version
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iMaximus_KB — 10 years ago(January 03, 2016 03:39 PM)
Just adding to what's already been mentioned
eXistenZ- I think fans of
Black Mirror
would appreciate most of Cronenberg's work.
Darknet - A Canadian horror anthology series that certainly doesn't match the quality of
Black Mirror
but still manages to be solid genre entertainment. There are only 6 episodes, so you don't have to worry about a time commitment.
I believe both are currently available on Netflix.
- I think fans of
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trippycheez — 10 years ago(January 22, 2016 07:58 AM)
Here are some movies that I think share some aspect of the techno-social themes, darkness, and haunting Twilight Zone tone of Black Mirror. I imagine people who are into this kind of thing have already seen these, but I'll recommend just in case
Safe
: 1995 Todd Haynes movie about a well-to-do woman who develops a sensitivity to various toxins and literally becomes allergic to the modern world.
Timecrimes
: a great, underrated, somewhat dark Spanish film from 2007 I don't want to give away anything, because there are so many twists and turns, but more people should see this!
The Experiment
: 2001 German film inspired by the real-life Stanford Prison Experiment, which studied power and vulnerability. Brutal.
La Cabina (The Telephone Box)
: an eerie 1970s Spanish short film available to view on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKkfGG9q32c
Videodrome
(Cronenberg): This is classic of weirdness. But hard to explain! It's about media, violence, loss of identity. You just have to see it.
They Live
: Media messages are revealed to be coded commands, brainwashing the human race. A little morefun than Black Mirror but bears some resonance!
Upstream Color
: I had mixed feelings about this, but Black Mirror fans might like it. It's a fragmented narrative about a couple of people who have both undergone a strange ordeals that messed with their memories & identities, then they meet each other and try to put the pieces back together.
Duel
: Very strange, low-budget early Spielberg film about a big-rig truck that starts terrorizing a random driver.
of course most people will have already seen this, but
2001: A Space Odyssey
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kingjackass-78919 — 10 years ago(January 30, 2016 01:08 PM)
I would add-
Enter the Void
www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111
Lost River
www.imdb.com/title/tt2366608
Her
www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709
Ummmm, I'm sure there are more but all of the other replies have some good ones to checkout.
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kingjackass-78919 — 10 years ago(January 30, 2016 03:51 PM)
I would add-
Enter the Void
www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111
Lost River
www.imdb.com/title/tt2366608
Her
www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709
Ummmm, I'm sure there are more but all of the other replies have some good ones to checkout.
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dustypistol — 10 years ago(March 30, 2016 10:49 AM)
Definitely "
Lain - Serial Experiments
". It's an anime, but not like any other anime I've ever seen. In my opinion, anyone who likes Black Mirror would love Lain and should at least give it a watch - if they can find it. I think it's 13 25-minute episodes.
Other than that,
Jacob's Ladder
,
Utopia
(the British show) oh, and
World On a Wire
if you can handle sitting through a 3-hour German movie with English subtitles. It's very, very good - well worth your time. Don't be fooled by its "TV-movie" status or that it's from the 70's either - it's all kinds of Twilight Zone-ahead of its time-techno-social-bizarro-sickness. It's on YouTube as well, at least last I checked.
World on a Wire
: http://www.imdb.com/board/10070904/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Enjoy! -
TompaDompa — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 12:42 PM)
For future reference, you can create links to movies by using the [link=tt#######] markup putting link=tt0070904 inside [square brackets] produces
Welt am Draht (1973)
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Don't listen to the negative ones; their arguments are irrational. -
wantapieceapizza — 9 years ago(April 21, 2016 04:11 AM)
Not as much sci-fi as Black Mirror but very similar outlook in looking towards the dark side of humanity -
Spain's
Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes)
at
http://www.imdb.com/board/13011894/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
It's an anthology of shorts in which people set out to take revenge, protect their own selfish interests and of course it all ends up going wrong. Or not, depending how vengeful you are. -
niels8 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 02:02 PM)
Snowpiercer
Besides it being a very nice made science fiction movie (that deserves more attention). It has this same sad, smart future tech mixed up with political theme in it.
Dark city
If you thought the Matrix was great, go watch this gem and remind you it came out one year earlier
The signal
I was hoping for the end to be this way, but they never have the guts to pull it of. I was wrong. Instant classic for me.