Not so bright tommorows. What's your favorite dystopia movie?

[Swede]

Mine are Blade Runner and Matrix II.

[derby378]

1. Possibly GATTACA

1984 is a better novel than a film.

[peekaloo]

2. Brazil

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Ditto.

Brazil is brilliant.

ON EDIT

"Silent Running" is a long time favorite of mine.

[Richard Steele]

4. Yeah, gotta LOVE 'Brazil'!

Didn't do well at the box-office tho- I saw that in the theater ALONE.

[Abelman]

9. Creepy

That's seems a disorienting movie to watch by oneself.

[Richard Steele]

20. There was alot more ODDNESS to it than that, but I don't mention it...

...because it sounds COMPLETELY insane!

Great flic tho, I feel PRIVILEDGED to have had a 'Private Showing'!

Everyone who DIDN'T see it on the big screen really missed something.

[Abelman]

21. I luckily got to

Thanks to the college movie club we had - Gonzo - we'd show indie films and lesser known classics and foreign ones. That's how I saw Stalker in its four hours of crazy glory, with its ten minutes of train tracks going by. But it did introduce me to Almodovar and I got to see Brazil.

Brazil is a great, great movie.

[amazona]

12. yeah Brazil and 12 Monkeys is another NT

.

[6000eliot]

5. Brazil, Bladerunner, Robocop

and the silent film Metropolis, even if it is fascist and anti-union.

[thestatusquo]

6. The thirteenth floor

[Aristus]

7. Right now? "Dark City".

About as dark and dystopian as one can get. And the secret? Well, I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it yet; go rent it!

[Tom Kitten]

8. I loved A Clockwork Orange as a teenager...

I saw it again about 5 years ago and I was disturbed at how much I was enjoying the scenes of "ultraviolence" without even thinking about what I was watching...

I also think Truffaut did a good if low key job of adapting Farenheit 451 to the screen...

I don't know how dystopian it is but Tarkovsky's "Stalker" I found mesmerizing, but then again, that was a while ago...

I do think the best novels remain in your mind and not on the screen, although it helps sometimes....I liked 1984 just to see how somebody would do it, and I think they did a pretty good job...but it does not compare to reading that book for the first time...

[Abelman]

10. Ugh

Stalker was the worst movie I thought I ever saw.

(still do)

[Tom Kitten]

11. well I liked it...

I was interested in seeing what was at the center of the Zone, and I liked the journey there...granted it was anticlimactic and I couldn't get my friends to watch it through to the end (long movie, 2 cassettes, they always quit at the end of the first), but I did like it when I first saw it...I liked it better than Solaris!

[hfojvt]

14. does that mean you have not seen

Matrix II?

[Rowdyboy]

13. Favorite dystopian work? "The Day After"....But, tv's version of Stephen

King's "The Stand" was MUCH better than the critics admitted.

Hell, I even liked the Kris Kristofferson tv mini-series from the mid-1980's "AMERIKA". Ruskies invade, conquer and turn us into servants! Like "Red Dawn" only less nationalistic.

BTW Swede: Excellent question on your part. I love works like these....Have you read "The Lord's Pink Ocean" or "Alas, Babylon"? Both are flawless 1960's pieces of dystopian nightmares.

[Swede]

15. No,but I will check them out.

Thanks.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. I loved that TV version of The Stand, too...

The book is my very favorite Stephen King.

[Tom Kitten]

17. I thought of Alas, Babylon, also!

We read that book in high school...it sort of reminds me of the Ray Milland movie "Panic In the Year Zero" which was actually a pretty damn good little grade b film from 1962 about the same type of theme...


How about "Earth Abides" by George Stewart...I read that one as a teen also...I've heard it said that it was Jimi Hendrix's favorite book , for what it's worth...

I was also very impressed by the tv films The Day After and the Stand.

[Sugar Smack]

23. To me, the TV movies "The Day After" &"The Stand" were

really well-done. For theater-"The Handmaid's Tale" was the best.

[solinvictus]

18. "1984"

With John Hurt and Richard Burton.

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. Handmaiden's Tale

Almost as creepy as Utah.

[psychopomp]

22. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Yes, it is a dystopia.

Edited to add THX 1138, Lucas' first



also quite good

[Huckebein the Raven]

24. Gattaca

and The Second Renaissance parts 1 and 2 from the Animatrix DVD.

[DeaconBlues]

25. Soylent Green is a good one.

How come early in his career that dumbass Heston was in so many good sci fi flicks?