Best Dystopia Movies
I love the ‘dark and foreboding future gone wrong’ as depicted in movies. I return to this theme again and again as a lens in how I view my world (especially against the backdrop of our looming environmental crisis).
I think it’s interesting that:
- How the future is imagined is a characterization largely based in the time and place of the storytelling.
- The future seems more and more broken every day. It’s difficult anymore to find a film that shows the future as a better place than today (wherein the 50’s, the future was a magical place with flying cars and food that comes in pill form).
These nearly always reside in the genre of science fiction… so here it is, my list of:
46 Favorite Faulty Futures Featured on Film:
- Brazil
- The Delicatessen
- Minority Report
- The Matrix Trilogy (and The Animatrix)
- The Mad Max Movies (Beyond Thunderdome was my favorite)
- Aeon Flux
- Dark City
- Blade Runner
- THX1138
- The Fifth Element
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Strange Days
- Children of Men
- Metropolis
- A Clockwork Orange
- V for Vendetta
- Planet of the Apes
- The Island
- Judge Dredd
- The Running Man
- Robocop movies (the first one was the best by far)
- Demolition Man
- Farenheit 451
- I Am Legend
- Gattaca
- Cypher
- Akira
- The Terminator Movies (the second one - my favorite)
- 1984
- Soldier
- Serenity (and FireFly for that matter)
- Twelve Monkeys
- Equilibrium
- Total Recall
- Back to the Future (Part II only)
- Logan’s Run
- The 6th Day
- Waterworld
- Escape from New York (and LA)
- Cherry 2000
- Event Horizon
- Lost in Space
- City of Lost Children
- La Jetée
- Ultraviolet
- Resident Evil (the first one was ok)
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