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7 sci-fi movies with plausible eco-themes

7 sci-fi movies with plausible eco-themes

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Photo: Floating mountains on Pandora, from "Avatar." (ZUMA Press)

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anonymous
mst1 11/28/2011 18:49 PM

What about Damnation Alley? Radiation everywhere and just small areas that have levels that are tolerable, forming a road from California to New York.

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common sense Today 12:01 PM

Perhaps this entry is referring specifically to the environmental disaster scenario of these films instead of the films' overall plots. If not, then it is highly unlikely that people with spaceships and advanced weaponry in "Avatar" would attack a giant tree by pushing crates of explosives out the back door of an orbital vehicle, instead of using cruise missiles or orbital bombardment.

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stevef2222 Today 06:52 AM

they forgot "silent running" ...with bruce dern

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Jim Today 22:44 PM

Yes!

"dried, synthetic crap" - indeed.

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MOBADTHANGOOD 11/25/2011 17:22 PM

Soylent Green and Mad Max yes.
Avatar? I don't think so.l

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Mark Styles 11/20/2011 14:50 PM

It's amazing how prescient some sci fi movies turn out to be - Children of Men is probably one of my favorites - dark and depressing, but wholly possible. Just like the films at http://www.filmcrave.com/list_genre_movie.php?genre=Sci-Fi

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Anonymous 11/25/2011 13:57 PM

I just want to say that I've personnaly watched Avatar,Soylent Green and Mad Max. These were my personal favorites. These 3 movies show what the world would be like if there was an actual company called RDS who really wanted a mineral that was worth 20 million dollars per Kilo! Well you can say that Gold is worth about $1700.00 per ounce.. So with the way the world runs now by either gold or minerals we know that someday could be tommorow!!! And we can see wht will take place then. Will we be.... More

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Big Easy Anonymous Today 17:35 PM

Excuse me but did anyone else not notice the close resemblance to what happened to the American Indians, especially after the discovery of gold? Sacred land destroyed and people killed via smallpox (purposefully introduced) .... Soylent Green? Let's see .... we're probably just getting to that story, but let's pray not .... Mad Max would probably follow suit .... geeez, sci fi is nothing more than a blackboard upon which stories of the human condition are written upon .... and the only.... More

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Jim Today 22:48 PM

Your comments show more understanding of what science fiction is than any mainstream commentator I have ever heard of.

You will now be banished to the 7th Circle of of Y'arg for your heresy!

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It could happen

Science fiction is a flexible genre when it comes to building a story line, and many writers and filmmakers over the years have used it to craft stories with environmental themes, some by setting their stories in overly polluted dystopian worlds, others imagining a world in which humans have engineered themselves into one form of trouble or another.
 
Whatever the angle, it's always fun to see the environment play a part in a good sci-fi flick. I've scoured my personal movie collection, Netflix and IMDb to pull together a list of seven great movies with environmental themes that are definitely fiction, but they seem plausible. (Text: Shea Gunther)
 
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