15 underrated 1970s sci fi films and banned films

15 underrated 1970s sci fi films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM_mgmy0dN0

1974 the conversation
One of Gene Hackman's greatest roles. 
When you think about a film like the matrix, what makes the conversation so much more frightening is that coppola doesn't involve the fantastical elements and leaves it all into humanity. Hackman's character Karl is Neo but absent anywhere to go or any abilities to gain while in a system only going to get stronger. The fact that hackman later played in enemy of the state about the same topic and received much better acclaim shows you how good the conversation is.
One thing is the end of the conversation , when hackman's surveillance turns out to be erroneous and he is in shock to a friend but then when he picks up a phone his watchers profess he is being watched and his watchers admit to him it is a holistic surveillance. The failure of the individual to compete next to the state in the business of surveillance  is the closing theme of the story.  Their is also a movie with Sandra Bullock around identity control, which is similar to Hackman's old film and similarly didn't get the accolades for the raw approach. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huYQ7x0v9E8

1970 colossus, the forbin project
James Hong citing. The key is access. 
Funny how Wargames and the Terminator both have as their main premise computers being given access to nuclear arsenals, cause humans don't trust humans or humans don't act quick enough on command. But there lies the true story for me. It is the fact that in colossus/wargames/the terminator a computer program is given access to what it shouldn't. The enemy isn't the computer programs abilities. The enemy is the human hubris that gives computer's the access to power the computer should not have. 

https://vimeo.com/584593423?fl=pl&fe=vl

1972 Silent Running
And the role of space exploration in preserving the earth. The myth is that once humanity figures out how to go outside earth and extract everything or use everything earth can be a paradise forgetting the inefficient human systems will get in the way. 

https://ok.ru/video/5844487178779

1973 Soylent Green 
I concur about resource based social structures. The fact that soylent green has no resistance movements is underrated. The percent of people who have knowledge is being reduced to a level where not enough people know anything to have movements. Most of the people with knowledge are old. And expensive computer systems are not around either. Computer games for the rich. Computer systems in manufacturing, developing soylent green exist but they are unable to do anything or interfere with anything of a grand design, because they are designed well.  

https://archive.org/details/soylent-green-1973_20210310

1975 Rollerball
The role of sport in modernity. The key is the efficiency of human systems and how sport is one of the last and maybe only activity human beings enjoy that requires humans. humans enjoy watching humans fight to the death. In rollerball the AI is a computer trapped in a room with data. It isn't connected to nuclear weapons and in rollerball it seems people don't carry around computer systems of a certain level of advanced interaction. And yet, the corporations have specific machines for surveillance and more. The problem is of ideas. It isn't that humanity hasn't found a balance, it is that the balance through technology demands total control or adherence to a system of life.

1975 Death Race 2000
This is reality television's future. From "Big Brother" to "Naked and Afraid" to "Jackass the movie" to "Real Housewives" to "The Kardashian clan" Reality TV which is the most scripted, is designed to give viewers the distant pleasures of viewing, safe in that they are never hurt while active in that they participate in the action sequence. Death Race like Roller ball is a world where the system of business hasn't made poverty, but the human need to have more has been sated by an athletic competition designed to allow the closest to complete depravity.

https://youtu.be/-1SEgbolSF4?si=Y6oJKaLqAjXYweP3

1975 the stepford wives
As I typed, robotic bodies while electronic simulation systems are ever nearer. No laws exist to even remotely guide humans, especially males from desiring pseudo female slaves and the film correctly shows what happens to real women in a disadvantaged situation when men can replace them with someone perfect to their intentions. Not as nature intended. I argue the remake with the bioelectrical controlling chip misses the brutality of the original film. In the remake the women can be saved with a change in the circuit but in the original film, the women once truly replaced are killed to make way for the robotic woman. 

https://youtu.be/UiqinUpRQgU?si=63Pxk3Sv4AA1czfn

1973 Westworld 
Like Death race or Rollerball, Westworld is a world where poverty isn't the problem but entertainment gives humans the ability to not get involved in questioning the larger system. How is wealth distributed. As in rollerball or death race, we don't see what goes on in the poorer regions in humanity, which is the frightening reality of westworld, a playground for the haves while no consideration to the have nots who are clearly blockaded from all thought or media exposure.

https://youtu.be/PzlbMrpF7qA?si=RyFzDj0SJhkLjTtv

1978 The boys from Brazil 
Genetic engineering requires environmental controls and to what lengths can the wealthy use to dictate who is born , what traits survive. What damage can be done to humanity by humanity when genetic engineering becomes feasible to humans most fantastical desires.

https://youtu.be/3UKWdOEEFMs?si=hnNQLTWduVeQ-kmT

1978 Coma 
Organ harvesting is real. This is known in prisons or in poor countries. Coma shows this. The tragedy is how people don't want to face this, like soylent green. What if you need a human being to help you live, not to feed. The desperation to live by the rich has no bounds. Vampires. 

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9m08cm

1976 Network 
Mad as hell. Audience likes dictate over quality. It isn't about guiding to betterment but selling any subject or content to profit. Nothing is sacred when anything can be sold. 

https://youtu.be/A64rR5Dp07s?si=lHAKbcO42cgV4E4y

 

https://youtu.be/_RujOFCHsxo?si=Tom5kBIplsPI0cbF

 

1977 Capricorn One 
The key is providing an illusion is more important than the truth. Like Network media dictates events and so controlling media is ever more important. Such that the efficiency of the system will slowly degrade to a point where no one will be ready. 

https://youtu.be/fMJwIeXYE0g?si=-FZ_4QLDWmV9HZsc

1974 Dark Star 
The corporatization of space travel. Will be a true wild west of the future. Not the myth of cowboys vs Indians, but the reality of people fighting each other , surviving the elements , while either are paving the way for the rich to remove both of them once the moon/mars or other outer areas are settled, just like the west. 

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8tb80s

1976 Logan's Run
This is a dysfunctional plan of human preservation. Humanity outside the dome is dying, while humanity in the dome is in a loop. But the dome is dying. At some point no humanity will exist outside the dome and the loop inside the dome will die out in ignorance and impotency. In the original book, the rival to Logan 5 is a very old man kept young by cosmetic surgeries, who takes logan and "wife" to a ship where humanity actually exists off earth. Thus, Logan's run is really a test in the book to see who is truly ready to be free. 

https://ok.ru/video/1820870576820

1977 The Island Dr. Moreau 
Dr Moreau himself , a scientist who has placed himself far from human communities, while he is trying to do better than nature, with no thought to the community he creates. A lone human enters his private space and automatically creates chaos. Dr Moreau at heart wants to make a super race, a perfect race, as if anything made by humans can be perfect. Dr Moreau made his own tomb on an island nailed by the bodies of his inventions and didn't  realize it was an inevitable failure that one drop of external human input destroyed. 

https://ok.ru/video/250508675650

 

IN AMENDMENT
15 banned hollywood films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr2Qn7G41xo

 

Freaks 1932
It is a good film. Yes, it is insulting to midgets dwarves or various natural humans who do not have a common form. Yes, it is a revenge film. But what is wrong in any of it? The truth is, many humans do treat other humans as said midgets or others were treated in the film. Said treatment was and is not a lie. so, again, it is insensitive, but it isn't a lie and I find greater insult in the need for people to not see the truth in their negative actions. And also the truth in warranted revenge. Revenge is negative, but it is not eternally unwarranted. Sometimes revenge is earned by the cruelty of those who are revenged upon, ala white Europeans have earned revenge by indigenous peoples of the Americas, the first peoples often called native americans.
The funny thing about freaks is, in film, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein whom in literature is of a beautiful human form, is depicted as a "freak" while the creatures creator Frankenstein, in literature a obsessive infatuated egoist, is treated as a scientist of good will who made a mistake. 

https://archive.org/details/freaks-1932-colorized-movie-720p-hd

Island of Lost Souls 1932
This film treats Moreau correctly. Moreau is a man of knowledge who has found him a place on earth where he can become god with his intellect. And of course, as moreau is only human the inevitable fall from his attempt at godhood occurs. Again, the white audience of that time, which accepted, the annihilation of black towns and experimenting on black people, didn't like to see its actions. Denial. why should films support denial ? People in modernity say they want to escape when they watch films. but that isn't my desire when i see a film. I like my life, i am merely peering into a world, I don't want to escape into it. The audience has been trained to want to escape because of the lies , the banning of films like island of lost souls supports.
The Sign of the Cross 1932
Films about history are always in the situation of the sign of the cross. I grew up in a home where history was taught with one tenet in mind, truth, not desire or want or convenience or ease. Truth. when some or many black people today suggest they don't want to see slavery to whites in a film, what are they really saying? they can't stomach the truth? or worse, they rather ignore or blockade the truth of an unquestioned majority of black people, ninety nine percent, for the truth of an unquestioned minority of black people, the one percent of black people living giddy or happy in some varying integration with whites. why? What pains black people today in the truth of the past? IS it that black people today know that while they live in the light of what the old minority wanted, they live in a way the old majority would had attacked, spit on, burned with all their souls. 
When any populace in humanity can't face the violence from their forebears or the misery their forebears lived, they are weak.

https://ok.ru/video/746986867202

 

Scarface 1932
Still the best scarface for me. His sister in this film is completely brilliant. The most potent thing about scarface 1932 in comparison to the al pacino scarface is the historical honesty. Miami in the 1970s was never what scarface presented, but the mob violence in new York city or Chicago was what Muni's scarface displayed correctly. People in New York City talk about gang violence as if today is some grandiose, the greatest era of gang violence new York city had was mostly white Italian/irish/jewish and totally above control. But people from whites to non whites suggest modernity is some parallel example.  It is a lie. I notice no one has ever showed the two scarfaces back to back , at least in recent memory

https://archive.org/details/scarface-1932_202109

 

Ecstacy 1933 
I never saw this one, but a young hedy lamar. Prelolita lolita:) The lolita book is 1955 and the lolita film 1962 by stanley Kubrick are decades after estacy. 

https://ok.ru/video/3554222213830

The Story of Temple Drake 1933 
From Faulkner sanctuary, i never saw this one. This is the film that was used in the legal system for the censors. I need to view it. 

Babyface 1933 
Barbara Stanwyck can act. But beyond that, Babyface is again, truth. In modernity the real housewives show is a set of babyfaces? Bill gates and Jeff Bezos wives are babyfaces. Women use the skill in the bed chamber and in intimacy with men to get men to give to them and hope on a better ride if feasible. This is intimacy as a job, which is very common today. Babyface was at a time when women didn't have the opportunities today, to own a bank account or a house or even vote in a lot of scenarios. 

https://ok.ru/video/283708426915

Tarzan and his mate 1934
his mate:) for me, Tarzan which was written as a mythos in literature for white European peoples enjoyment and ego against the black African or others in general, merely continued its literary role in film. why ban it?
Reefer madness 1936
This movie is a lovely truth on how nazi Germany isn't the only country that made propaganda, film for quick consumption while little thought
Marijuana 1936
Reefer madness part 2
The Outlaw 1943
This is one of the films targeted by the code, and the director responded by buying into the media hype making it more scandalous than it was. The problem with self righteousness in any art field is, it is never warranted. 

https://youtu.be/I7T0tfieOf0?si=ykqFAeKRqa4my-Zu

Mom and Dad 1945
Nice idea, separate showing for men and women. That is ahead of the curve, still today , making variants of films for genders is not done or embraced. but i think it can be functional.
Song of the South 1946
haha!:) zipity do daa, ziptity yeah! really... ah boy, where do I begin. I think Disney should show song of the south before black panther all the time. It shows how film firms work. The Song of the south was to cater to the majority ticket buying audience which was mostly white and infatuated with happy negroes as underlings. Black Panther was to cater to a global audience where black ticket buyers have the money to carry a film on its own while non black ticket buyers are willing to pay to see a ninety nine percent black cast film. The key is who can buy tickets not respect or truth.
Never forget song of the south was a huge money maker for disney
Lost Boundaries 1949
After 1934 Imitation of life with real life yella or mulatta, who called herself black, Fredi Washington, and before Human stain 2003 or  Free State of Jones 2016 or Passing 2021 there was Lost Boundaries. The funny thing about passing is how many whites were and still are fearful of the claim against black ancestry. White people have killed against that claim.
video
https://youtu.be/z26VL_0EQks?si=tM7ud-X_3ZQ9ffwq

 

[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Boundaries ] 
The Moon is Blue 1943
Otto Primenger was great by putting the film forward absent the production code's judgement.

https://archive.org/details/MoonIsBlue

 

 

1932 was a great year, the last of top down independent cinema in the usa. 

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