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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 01:33 PM
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Is there any movie that is more of a parable to our times....
...than "Gladiator?"
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 01:39 PM
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1. "V for Vendetta" comes to mind n/t
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SergeyDovlatov Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 11:52 PM
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11. I am not as optimistic ;-(
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 01:40 PM
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2. TV series "Dark Angel" that runs repeats on Sci-Fi channel
at various times, is set in a future USA that's very similar to where we are heading.
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Ravy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 01:42 PM
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3. Not since "Ernest becomes the President!" nt
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 11:21 PM
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10. Lordy. How did I miss that one?? n/t
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jayctravis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 02:09 PM
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4. Brazil (n/t)
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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 02:34 PM
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5. Report immediately to Information Retrieval n/t
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 11:13 PM
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9. Central Services is now being run by Halliburton n/t
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Cheap_Trick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 10:40 PM
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6. 1984
the 1983 version with John Hurt and Richard Burton.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 11:04 PM
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7. Rollerball


Fascist Dystopia, run by a corrupt and Satanic elite for their own benefit.



So what else is new with the Roils?
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 11:07 PM
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8. dumb and dumber.
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