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April 28, 2025: Dan Morfitt and Mark Hurst discuss dystopian movies
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Today: Dan Morfitt and Mark Hurst discuss dystopian movies
For decades, dystopian movies have offered unsettling visions of AI, surveillance, robots, and societal upheaval. Now that some of those nightmares are coming true, Dan Morfitt and Mark Hurst discuss their favorite dystopian films and explore whether they offer any hope for our real-life future.
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• From a few years ago: Listener David in London created a compilation and an accompanying infographic of dystopian movies and books from the May 4, 2020 episode comment board.
• Mark writes about Butterflies (screenshot shown below): On Resisting AI intrusions (Apr 23, 2025)
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Will thee SG OCNY:
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newton:
David (in London):
Handy Haversack:
Try just replaying that episode and saying that Andy is Dan. The gum makes it sound like an accent!
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"The dreams our stuff is made of : how science fiction conquered the world"
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Yes. Paper cutter. M3gan 2 is coming
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Aliens!?
Yes, please
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I HATE Don't Look Up more than any movie that will be named today.
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Thronglets!
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What are the two big ones in every theater overseas right now? The Accountant 2? &…
Laughable(?) this is our current state of film. Guns in movies are so unimaginative. Machine guns in a movie make me want to vomit on the floor
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hey HEY hey.
Remain alive.
No matter what occurs.
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