User:ZyMOS/distopias

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=Ones If Seen=

Dystopia

 * Æon Flux
 * Not really thought provoking, put fun
 * Pleasantville
 * Rollerball (1975)
 * Not that great, barely touched the dystopia part
 * The Island (2005 film)
 * It was OK, I liked how products were completely clueless in the outside world
 * Demolition Man (film)
 * Its a dystopia, but really bad
 * Gattaca
 * i found it boring
 * A Boy and His Dog
 * Above ground post-appoc, below ground dystopia, bizarre, not so great
 * The Truman Show
 * This is a dystopia if you think about it, but i didn't like it
 * Idiocracy
 * Stupidity is a utopia, not to good
 * The 6th Day
 * pretty bad
 * Time Bandits
 * The present day in this movie was a dystopia but the movie wasn't focused on that
 * logans run
 * Fahrenheit 451
 * Total Recall
 * Logan's Run
 * The Stepford Wives
 * fairly boring
 * Equilibrium
 * an action flick but had two things ive never seen in a movie
 * Sleeper
 * slapstick, soso
 * Fortress
 * i suppose the future humans were suppose to be distopian

Post-Apoc

 * Nausica? of the Valley of the Winds
 * Anime, i really liked this one
 * Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
 * I liked it
 * Soylent Green
 * This was good
 * The Postman
 * a bit corny
 * The Matrix series
 * Good
 * 2019: After the Fall of New York
 * boring
 * Waterworld
 * Its a nice post apocalyptic film
 * 12 Monkeys
 * My favorite movie
 * Mad Max
 * bad
 * Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
 * fairly bad
 * the Matrix
 * good
 * Planet of the Apes
 * The Omega Man
 * Tank Girl
 * Funny
 * 28 Days Later
 * Titan A.E
 * boring animation

Pre-apoc or apocoliptic

 * Colossus: The Forbin Project
 * kinda boring
 * Children of Men
 * One really good part, reminded me of how African wars will stop a battle to let polio vaccinations and the start up right afterward
 * terminator

Crapy reality

 * Escape from New York and its sequel, Escape from L.A.
 * Quite Bad
 * Brazil
 * Interestng
 * Cherry 2000
 * pretty dum
 * Freejack

Alternative History

 * CSA: Confederate States of America

Not sure where it fits

 * Silent Running
 * Hints at a Dystopia on Earth and with nature destroyed a possible post apocalypse, but i just didn't see the point in the movie
 * Westworld

=tried to watch/queued to watch=
 * The Handmaid's Tale to depressing
 * Natural City subs, maybe later
 * THX 1138

=saw along time ago=
 * A Clockwork Orange
 * The Postman
 * Johnny Mnemonic
 * Judge Dredd

=to see= Category:Dystopian films Category:Post-apocalyptic science fiction films

Dystopia (governmental/societal)==
 * FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions


 * 1984 filmed in in 1956 by Michael Anderson and in 1984 by Michael Radford
 * The Running Man loosely adapted from the novel of the same name written by Stephen King under the alias Richard Bachman
 * Harrison Bergeron, a 1995 made-for-cable film adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 short story of the same name.

Cyberpunk/techno==


 * ''Strange Days

Post-apocalyptic==


 * Damnation Alley
 * ''Genesis II


 * Zardoz

Corporate based dystopias (nongovernmental)==


 * Hardware

Alien controlled dystopias (both governmental and societal)==
 * They Live adapted from Eight O'Clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson

Miscellaneous==
 * Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
 * Code 46
 * Death Race 2000
 * Encrypt
 * Max Headroom made-for-TV film and television series
 * A Scanner Darkly based on A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
 * Threads


 * Part one
 * From: http://www.amazon.com/The-best-list-of-DYSTOPIA-movies-part-1/lm/7L6LEQ6XSHDG)

13. Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (Full Screen Edition) -- Arnold Schwarzenegger  "This time new machines called the T-X are sent to eliminate the future freedom fighter. He once again has the protection of the previous cyborg though."

15. The Running Man -- Arnold Schwarzenegger  "Law breakers are sent to play in a deadly game which takes place in a gritty, futuristic world. Very good movie!"

16. Screamers -- Peter Weller  "The US develops mechanized standoff weapons called Claws (screamers), but because they are built in wholly mechanized factories they add on weapons of their own, now the military are targets as well."

20. Battlefield Earth -- John Travolta  "One thousand years after a sadistic race nearly destroys humanity, and uses them as slaves, an alien teaches a human too much..." (anon note: oh good god, don't watch this!)


 * Part 2
 * http://www.amazon.com/The-best-list-of-DYSTOPIA-movies-part-2/lm/191696YHYZJC/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full/002-6546302-9573600

2. Impostor (Director's Cut) -- Gary Sinise  "A scientist who has developed killer androids is arrested and charged with being one."

5. A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) -- Haley Joel Osment  "A child-looking, self-aware android is about to take and emotional journey to find out if he can ever be anything more than a machine. Obsolete androids are taken and slaughtered in a freak show."

13. eXistenZ -- Jennifer Jason Leigh  "A famous game developer flees with a software marketing manager. Adventures happen as they both try to repair the development computer damaged in the assassination attempt."

18. Moonraker -- Irka Bochenko  "James Bond investigates the midair theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide."

20. Outland -- Sean Connery  "A marshal in outer space assigned to a remote mining colony refuses to look the other way when miners begin dying from a deadly narcotic designed to increase their productivity."

21. Replicant -- Jean-Claude Van Damme  "A replicant (clone) of a serial killer is created in order to help the police catch the crimical."

23. H.G. Wells - Things to Come -- Raymond Massey "In the year 1936 a global war begins. This war drags out over many decades."

=sources=


 * wikipedia
 * amazon