Ahem... The Umbrella Corporation (new window)

"Yes sir, allow us to wheel you to our comapny's complaints department..."

What about The Uranus Corporation?

Catholic Church?

International Genetic Technologies (InGen)
"Jurassic Park" (1993)

Is tampering with nature okay if it's for the kids?

Yes, yes it is.

Genom Corporation.

Shaft Enterprises.

SnarfVader: What about The Uranus Corporation?

heh, he said 'anus'

/heheheh

I knew that Weyland-Yutani would be right up there immediately, as well as the Tyrell Corporation ("Rosen" in Dick's book). Pretty solid list, all things considered, and even had a few I wouldn't have thought to guess.

No Wolfram & Hart?

Globo-Chem Corporation ("We own everything, so you don't have to") (new window)
NSFW Language

Taco Bell. Judge Dredd was a chilling view of our likely future.

Control_this: Taco Bell. Judge Dredd was a chilling view of our likely future.

You're thinking Demolition Man. "Enjoy-joy your meal, sir."

How about ENCOM from Tron? Not very thinly veiled reference to Microsoft, and how right they were.

Scientology?

Fun fact: in the novel of Alien: Resurrection, Weyland-Yutani had been bought out by Wal-mart. Now that's disturbing.

No Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems?

What about these guys? (new window)

What about Primatech Paper?

RodimusPrime: Fun fact: in the novel of Alien: Resurrection, Weyland-Yutani had been bought out by Wal-mart. Now that's disturbing.

There's a short (cut) scene which mentions the same on DVD. I remember laughing, then realizing that it could probably happen.

Wow. They left out CHOAM and the Spacing guild from Dune....

I was hoping for Blue Sun...contracted by the government to kidnap, torture, and lobotomize gifted children in order to turn them into assassins. Oh yeah, and I believe they developed the chemical that murdered an entire planet and created an army of self-mutilating, rampaging cannibals.

A better world...

maybe black mesa?

that was a joke. ha ha, fat chance.

These guys designed and contracted the Death Star.
When Darth Vader is on your sensitive customer list, you're one of the big players


http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Santhe/Sienar_Technologies

How about Halliburton (new window)

ohhh, fictional.

WFern: Control_this: Taco Bell. Judge Dredd was a chilling view of our likely future.

You're thinking Demolition Man. "Enjoy-joy your meal, sir."

You're right! Thanks. I gotta see that again.

StrangeEmily: Ahem... The Umbrella Corporation (new window)

Came to say this.

No Mom's Friendly Robot Corp?

How about that company where Sean Connery was a policeman on some space asteroid mining deal.

/only because I was too lazy to find Penatrode

Krusty Burger?

kronicfeld: A lot of these aren't "disturbingly powerful," they're just excuses to talk about pop culture. The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant? Please.

I dunno. The fact that the nuclear power plant can completely ignore safety standards without fear of reprisal is pretty disturbing. Also, no one stopping the corporation from building the sun-shield until it was fully complete and operational seems a bit disturbing. Seriously, wasn't there some bureaucrat with a zoning law that coulda killed that one?

No Umbrella = Invalid list

Raider_dad

[Conglomo]

You win.

dletter: So, when do we all start complaining about no Brawndo on the list?

Just wait 500 years or so...

No LuthorCorp?

FAIL

It didn't have much to do with the movie though.

Going video game on this, but what about the Union Aerospace Corporation? (new window)

/the movie never happened

Timdesuyo: kronicfeld: A lot of these aren't "disturbingly powerful," they're just excuses to talk about pop culture. The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant? Please.

I dunno. The fact that the nuclear power plant can completely ignore safety standards without fear of reprisal is pretty disturbing. Also, no one stopping the corporation from building the sun-shield until it was fully complete and operational seems a bit disturbing. Seriously, wasn't there some bureaucrat with a zoning law that coulda killed that one?

Mr Burns did get slapped by the NRC and had to sell the plant to the Germans....

/Umbrella Corp should be a wholly owned subsidiary of Weyland-Yutani...

The 4 or 5 corporations that ruled the world in Rollerball -- Energy (in Houston, I think) was the one James Caan (Jonathan) played for, and John Geilguld? was the boss?
/I'm gonna google this for the details
//there was something about a computer made of water

There are at least two companies named Cyberdyne.

At least one of them works with robotics. The Japanese Cyberdyne corporation is one of the firms building the exoskeleton suits.



You have to admit, they have given into the geek side.

From Wikipedia:

"The game
In the film, the world of 2018 is a global corporate state, containing entities such as the Energy Corporation, a global energy monopoly based in Houston which deals with nominally-peer corporations controlling access to all Transport, Luxury, Housing, Communication, and Food on a global basis.

The film's title is the name of a violent, internationally popular sport around which the events of the film take place. It is similar to Roller Derby in that two teams clad in body armor skate on roller skates around a banked, circular track. There, however, the similarity ends. The object of the game is to score points by the offensive team (the team in possession of the ball) throwing a softball-sized steel ball into the goal, which is a magnetic, cone-shaped area inset into the wall of the arena. The team without possession of the ball is defensive and acts to prevent scoring. It is a full-contact sport in which players have considerable leeway to attack opposing players in order to take or maintain possession of the ball and to score points; in fact, in this overpopulated future, the object of the game in the original short story is to kill off the players. In addition, each team has three players who ride motorcycles to which teammates can latch on and be towed. The player in possession of the ball must hold it in plain view at all times.

Rollerball teams, named after the cities in which they are based, are owned by the various global corporations. Energy Corporation sponsors the Houston team. The game is a substitute for all current team sports and for war. While its ostensible purpose is entertainment, Mr. Bartholomew describes it as a sport designed to show the futility of individual effort."