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re: The 50 Best Dystopian Movies of All Time
Posted on 6/2/21 at 12:09 pm to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 6/2/21 at 12:09 pm to RLDSC FAN
I admit that there are many I haven't seen, as the genre is too dark for me. But Equilibrium and Looper should get more accolades. Looper's depiction of the near future is horrifying, and likely accurate.
This post was edited on 6/2/21 at 2:25 pm
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Posted on 6/2/21 at 2:23 pm to RLDSC FAN
12 Monkeys
The Warriors
V for Vendetta
The Warriors
V for Vendetta
Posted on 6/2/21 at 2:26 pm to RLDSC FAN
Gattaca deserves to be in the top 10.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 6:59 pm to nes2010
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Not one Mad Max movie made the top 50?
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For our purposes here, we’ve focused on Earth, eliminating films where the threat is from another planet. We’ve also eliminated post-apocalyptic films where society hasn’t been rebuilt to the point of a functioning government.
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Mad Max is an Australian post-apocalyptic action film series and media franchise created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy
Because Mad Max isn't what they are rating.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 7:40 pm to Sun God
quote:They had to go to some really bad areas of Dallas to film those Detroit scenes.
Robocop is about Detroit being a shithole
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:15 pm to OMLandshark
The Road Warrior was the movie that got me to think about how F'ed up things might be.
No The Postman either.
It's a high hat list.
It has movies that show world's where technology is still around. Things like intelligence and education are also still important.
Big business is still around in some of their higher picks.
They don't favor movies that show a full reboot. They want to have their cake, and eat it too.
They show no respect for real men.
No The Postman either.
It's a high hat list.
It has movies that show world's where technology is still around. Things like intelligence and education are also still important.
Big business is still around in some of their higher picks.
They don't favor movies that show a full reboot. They want to have their cake, and eat it too.
They show no respect for real men.
This post was edited on 6/2/21 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:25 pm to Jack Ruby
quote:The yodeling alone makes it a much watch.
You can dispute how good the original Mad Max actually is,
Goose Sings the Brollalolla Song on YouTube
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:30 pm to VoxDawg
goofy double post
This post was edited on 6/2/21 at 8:38 pm
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:33 pm to VoxDawg
quote:"Obama World"
The one we're currently living out the prologue is pretty terrifying.
and the sequels
"Trump World"
and
"Biden World"
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:36 pm to OMLandshark
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I’d like to visit the Blade Runner Universe, but sure as shite wouldn’t want to live there.
just imagine where it goes after 2049 when that universe finds alien life
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:38 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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That's like naming the best WWII movies and eliminating Nazis.
no post-apocalyptic is anarchic and humans trying to reboot society in shitty conditions
dystopian movies require a developed society to where society is oppressed
i don't get children of men, but i'm willing to listen
*ETA: the entire point of dystopian movies is to exaggerate real issues in contemporary society to the point of oppression, which leads to examination of our current conditions. even blade runner, which doesn't directly address why their society has become dystopian, uses their need for replicants to create an existential piece.
you don't get this with post-apocalyptic movies, which are more of a sadistic punishment, often created by a real issue in contemporary society. that issue destroys the world, basically. the road warrior literally has an expository piece about how we destroyed the world over oil, and the whole conflict of the societies is basically around petro products.
This post was edited on 6/2/21 at 8:47 pm
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:48 pm to SlowFlowPro
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i don't get children of men, but i'm willing to listen
Children of Men is equally dystopian and apocalyptic. It’s that film specifically why I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive. Humanity is totally fricked within the century, and most of the world outside of Britain is just point blank apocalyptic. That’s a movie where I don’t see the difference really.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:50 pm to OMLandshark
i would definitely call it apocalyptic (or, more precisely, proto-apocalyptic), but not really dystopian
i haven't watched it in a bit, so i may just not be remembering all the governmental oppression
i haven't watched it in a bit, so i may just not be remembering all the governmental oppression
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:59 pm to SlowFlowPro
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i would definitely call it apocalyptic (or, more precisely, proto-apocalyptic), but not really dystopian
i haven't watched it in a bit, so i may just not be remembering all the governmental oppression
Here’s really what it is: it’s a dystopian society that is living in an apocalyptic world. Children of Men really blurs those lines.
Key and her child are black for a very specific reason: because the Mitochondrial Eve that is basically all of our ancestors was certainly black emerging from Africa, and it symbolizes that from that one child, the first child born out of Africa that 99.9% of us are descended from to one degree or another indicates that humanity will survive. Regardless of what happens from then on out, our entire species was endured by and is represented by that baby, and last time a baby like that was born was like 100,000 years ago.
This post was edited on 6/2/21 at 9:05 pm
Posted on 6/2/21 at 9:01 pm to dgnx6
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We’ve also eliminated post-apocalyptic films where society hasn’t been rebuilt to the point of a functioning government. Because Mad Max isn't what they are rating.
I guess. I would argue that most of the movies have a government of some sort. In the first the government is still around. The police are like vigilantes and the bureaucrats don't really support them. I think this could have fit in.
Road warrior is my favorite but it doesn't have a government. Gastown is definitely society rebuilt to the point of a functioning government with a caste system and economy shown, but Thunderdome isn't the strongest movie. Fury Road has a government and caste system with cooperation between different "towns". The movie is focused more on the chase than that society. I think Mad Max and Fury Road could have been included. Some of the titles they have on there don't seem to fit that criteria any better than these movies, especially Mad Max.
This post was edited on 6/2/21 at 9:09 pm
Posted on 6/2/21 at 10:56 pm to RLDSC FAN
Children of men should be higher.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 6:49 am to RLDSC FAN
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1. Blade Runner (1982)
Posted on 6/3/21 at 8:41 am to HabaneroBuck
quote:ummmm
Ultra-violence, inane television ads, corporatocracy, rampant drug use, rampant violent gangs working in conjunction with political power, etc.
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