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Dystopian future movies
Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 21:26
by mr brightside
I thought it might be fun to have a list of reliably accurate dystopian future movies to enjoy. Disaster movies don't count. Some of my favourites are:
Book of Eli- Eocene style climate, nuclear fallout, cat eating
Mad Max- obviously!
Hunger Games
Any others to add?
Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 22:23
by Little John
The Road
Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 23:09
by adam2
The Postman.
Re: Dystopian future movies
Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 23:33
by vtsnowedin
mr brightside wrote:I thought it might be fun to have a list of reliably accurate dystopian future movies to enjoy. Disaster movies don't count. Some of my favourites are:
Book of Eli- Eocene style climate, nuclear fallout, cat eating
Mad Max- obviously!
Hunger Games
Any others to add?
On the beach 1959
Fail- safe 1964
Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 15:07
by Lurkalot
"Reliably accurate" to me means a scenerio I could see happening rather than one that couldn't which pretty much rules out zombie apocalypse films. That lead me along such lines as 1984 , Metropolis , and Gattaca but just in case I had a quick check and there are a few that hadn't sprung to mind and thinking back they were pretty good , the likes of Brazil and No blade of grass.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films
Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 15:41
by careful_eugene
12 Monkeys
Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 16:05
by fuzzy
Dr Strangelove
The Bedsitting Room
Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 19:09
by mr brightside
Perhaps 'City of Ember'?
Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 19:12
by mr brightside
Lurkalot wrote:"Reliably accurate" to me means a scenerio I could see happening rather than one that couldn't which pretty much rules out zombie apocalypse films.
Pretty much i reckon. However 'I am Legend' has some very good depictions of how nature might reclaim a city after a die-off.
Posted: 24 Jul 2016, 00:02
by BritDownUnder
Setting aside disaster movies and a quick collapse think the Handmaid's Tale is a good idea of how society will operate.
On TV I like the treatment of a world with less or damaged technology shown in Revolution (no electricity) and Jericho (EMP and fossil fuel shortages) though these are both sudden but selective collapses.
In print I go no further than Kunstler's World Made by Hand but there is a whole genre out there.
Posted: 28 Jul 2016, 12:04
by nexus
Children of Men is very powerful, and hopefully not prophetic.
Posted: 05 Jun 2017, 15:33
by RenewableCandy
Wot no Handmaid's Tale yet??
Lads...
Posted: 05 Jun 2017, 16:20
by PS_RalphW
I remember there was a film of handmaid's tale back in the 90s. It showed at one cinema in London and by the time I got there the screening was cancelled
Posted: 05 Jun 2017, 16:54
by RenewableCandy
There's an American TV series. It's on Channel 4 at 9 pm on Sundays.
I daren't watch it.
Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 10:22
by BobbyFields
Blade Runner is always first on my list.