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Best Dystopia Movies

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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:

  1. How the future is imagined is a characterization largely based in the time and place of the storytelling.
  2. 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:

  1. Brazil
  2. The Delicatessen
  3. Minority Report
  4. The Matrix Trilogy (and The Animatrix)
  5. The Mad Max Movies (Beyond Thunderdome was my favorite)
  6. Aeon Flux
  7. Dark City
  8. Blade Runner
  9. THX1138
  10. The Fifth Element
  11. Johnny Mnemonic
  12. Strange Days
  13. Children of Men
  14. Metropolis
  15. A Clockwork Orange
  16. V for Vendetta
  17. Planet of the Apes
  18. The Island
  19. Judge Dredd
  20. The Running Man
  21. Robocop movies (the first one was the best by far)
  22. Demolition Man
  23. Farenheit 451
  24. I Am Legend
  25. Gattaca
  26. Cypher
  27. Akira
  28. The Terminator Movies (the second one - my favorite)
  29. 1984
  30. Soldier
  31. Serenity (and FireFly for that matter)
  32. Twelve Monkeys
  33. Equilibrium
  34. Total Recall
  35. Back to the Future (Part II only)
  36. Logan’s Run
  37. The 6th Day
  38. Waterworld
  39. Escape from New York (and LA)
  40. Cherry 2000
  41. Event Horizon
  42. Lost in Space
  43. City of Lost Children
  44. La Jetée
  45. Ultraviolet
  46. Resident Evil (the first one was ok)
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