Personally, as is often noted, “Idiocracy” is probably tops for current events… but for the farther future, I’d go Blade Runner Universe, most likely… just for the sheer scale of total biosphere degradation and megacorp control. How about you?
Cyberpunk 2077 but without any of the cool tech shit.
Brave New World.
Gonna have to disagree there.
Brave New World was a managed dystopian utopia. We’re in an unmanaged mess. The only thing we have in common is the distractions.
Feels like Judge Dredd
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wow. Surprisingly awesome answer. Biff’s Casino IS America right now
This was obvious even to me as a child when I watched the movie in the 90s.
Crazy that we need a writer to say it.
If you didn’t see the movies at the same time you were aware of who Trump was, what he looked like, and what his business plan stood for, you don’t necessarily get the connection. If you’re younger, the connection may not happen because BTTF is “1980s” and Trump is right here, right now. Or, yet Alternatively, you may just think Trump, Biff, and every other person in that social class just looked like that in the 80s
Trump was all over the media at that time, he was basically the archetype of the rich American villain in every 80s and 90s movie. Some More News did like a 2 hour video about it.
He was literally in Home Alone 2.
I’m glad it was obvious for you. It wasn’t for me. Aside from Biff being an existing 1985/1955 character prior to “Trump” Biff, the retrofuturistic dystopian 1985 in BTTF2 may as well be the decade before Robocop picks up in the same universe. It all looks the same to me, so I’m in the “that’s what the 80s looked like” boat. I offered alternative, reasonable options for why not everyone made the connection as well as you did. I mean, I bet more than half the people on this platform were born after Home Alone 2. Our classics are not their classics.
The Lathe of Heaven.
Someones having some really bad dreams and fucking with the timeline.
Idiocracy.
The movie was written as a joke, but unfortunately society decided to use it as a road map.
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We have an optimist here.
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No, only seen the show. Just a bit of nuking south america and water slavery. Seems optimistic enough, but perhaps the books show it’s worse then it looks in the show. But the post asks about movies, not books.
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Yes…
But on the bright side, they do have UBI
Wall-E
Except only the rich get to leave, the rest of end up as trash cubes
Robocop, corporate ownership of major infrastructure, militant authoritarian police force.
Where is our hero robot?
The same place as the heroes in every other piece of fiction… non-existent.
No one’s going to ride in on a white horse and slay our dragons for us.
Three way tie in my book:
That episode of Black Mirror where everyone had to ride stationary bikes and were forced to watch unstoppable ads if they didn’t have credits, except everything you have to watch is AI slop instead of your crush doing porn.
Or the Handmaid’s Tale, but instead of some mysterious infertility crisis, fertile women are rare because they die in pregnancy and childbirth due to anti-science rhetoric flat out killing them. (Look up “free birthing”, etc.) At some point it gets bad enough that replacing your wife is more like getting a new pet.
Maybe the hot version of The Road. We just have wars over water and resources until the plantet’s too fucked for human life, and the survivors are just roaming around making jerky out of each other until the end.
Could be all three at once. Yay!
Her
Not a movie yet (AFAIK), but Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower is downright uncanny.
Brazil
Warhammer 40k /s
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