Garibaldi
2009-01-13, 05:16
I have been wracking my brain trying to find the names of these two movies that I saw awhile ago. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The first movie is probably the hardest to remember, or to find out by searching google (I've tried for hours.) Bear in mind, this was a seemingly low-budget movie I saw only about 60% of probably a good 12-14 years ago, so please bear with me. It was a 90's movie that was possibly made by HBO or Showtime.
Basically, it was far into the future and human society had completely broken down and it started (or where I started the movie) it followed a group of teenagers/early 20s year olds. Eventually they come upon a compound/house where they meet two people, one man and one woman (I'm almost positive the man was white and the woman was asian). The two take the group in and it is later revealed that the two are immortal or at least extremely long-lived as they had lived in our present time (retaining eternal youth).
Things go well at first, then some sexual tension builds up as the two begin having relationships with various members of the original group (I guess having sex with the same person for hundreds of years gets boring, hah). Eventually the two get jealous of each other's respective lovers, and the male "immortal" (For lack of a better term) kills the female immortal's lover, which angers her and then she may or may not have killed the male immortals lover (Sorry, I saw this movie a long time ago, I can't remember what happened). The two immortals start arguing in front of everyone, and the male immortal starts complaining that the mortal humans "will never understand them" and he tells one of the mortal humans the classic joke (For some reason this part of the movie really sticks out to me):
"A priest and a rabbi are standing outside a warehouse and see a young boy walk by, the priest says to the rabbi "hey, lets grab the boy and take him into the warehouse and fuck him", and the rabbi says to the priest "fuck him out of what?""
When the mortal human looks confused and doesn't seem to get the joke, the male immortal says to the female immortal something like "See! He doesn't get it, he doesn't understand why it's funny". After that the details are kinda blurry (It was one of those movies I saw late at night while falling asleep), but basically the immortals start trying to fight and kill each other (with no success obviously), I forget what happens to the remaining mortals, but i think they leave the compound.
I'm sorry, that's a pretty shitty summary, but that all I can remember of it. Does any of this sound familiar to anybody?
The next movie is probably easier to find out, even though I've tried and failed. It's a more recent movie. I only saw the end of it. But it was basically a dystopian future where the gov't of either the US or UK (can't remember which) is turned into an authoritarian Christian-esque theocracy and the protagonist (I'm guessing) is sent to prison. The movie is fairly recent I'm sure. It had a very Children of Men meets V for Vendetta (minus all the Guy Fawkeness) feel to it. In the end the Gov't Ruler is murdered I believe (like I said, I only saw the last 20 mins or so).
Again, sorry for the vague descriptions, but if any dystopian future/scifi movie buffs can help me out with these movies, I'd be extremely grateful.
Thanks
The first movie is probably the hardest to remember, or to find out by searching google (I've tried for hours.) Bear in mind, this was a seemingly low-budget movie I saw only about 60% of probably a good 12-14 years ago, so please bear with me. It was a 90's movie that was possibly made by HBO or Showtime.
Basically, it was far into the future and human society had completely broken down and it started (or where I started the movie) it followed a group of teenagers/early 20s year olds. Eventually they come upon a compound/house where they meet two people, one man and one woman (I'm almost positive the man was white and the woman was asian). The two take the group in and it is later revealed that the two are immortal or at least extremely long-lived as they had lived in our present time (retaining eternal youth).
Things go well at first, then some sexual tension builds up as the two begin having relationships with various members of the original group (I guess having sex with the same person for hundreds of years gets boring, hah). Eventually the two get jealous of each other's respective lovers, and the male "immortal" (For lack of a better term) kills the female immortal's lover, which angers her and then she may or may not have killed the male immortals lover (Sorry, I saw this movie a long time ago, I can't remember what happened). The two immortals start arguing in front of everyone, and the male immortal starts complaining that the mortal humans "will never understand them" and he tells one of the mortal humans the classic joke (For some reason this part of the movie really sticks out to me):
"A priest and a rabbi are standing outside a warehouse and see a young boy walk by, the priest says to the rabbi "hey, lets grab the boy and take him into the warehouse and fuck him", and the rabbi says to the priest "fuck him out of what?""
When the mortal human looks confused and doesn't seem to get the joke, the male immortal says to the female immortal something like "See! He doesn't get it, he doesn't understand why it's funny". After that the details are kinda blurry (It was one of those movies I saw late at night while falling asleep), but basically the immortals start trying to fight and kill each other (with no success obviously), I forget what happens to the remaining mortals, but i think they leave the compound.
I'm sorry, that's a pretty shitty summary, but that all I can remember of it. Does any of this sound familiar to anybody?
The next movie is probably easier to find out, even though I've tried and failed. It's a more recent movie. I only saw the end of it. But it was basically a dystopian future where the gov't of either the US or UK (can't remember which) is turned into an authoritarian Christian-esque theocracy and the protagonist (I'm guessing) is sent to prison. The movie is fairly recent I'm sure. It had a very Children of Men meets V for Vendetta (minus all the Guy Fawkeness) feel to it. In the end the Gov't Ruler is murdered I believe (like I said, I only saw the last 20 mins or so).
Again, sorry for the vague descriptions, but if any dystopian future/scifi movie buffs can help me out with these movies, I'd be extremely grateful.
Thanks