# Sci-fi Films That Present a Bleak Vision of the Future **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-films-that-present-a-bleak-vision-of-the-future/132960 "2002-10-19T10:31:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-films-that-present-a-bleak-vision-of-the-future/132960/61 "2014-03-17T22:33:43Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I have to strongly disagree; in the future world of _Minority Report_, people seem to have given up any idea of a right to privacy, and passively submit to be constantly retina-scanned and searched by police robots; at the same time, they’re constantly bombarded with advertisements on every surface. Thankfully the massive public uproar and riots in the streets over NSA’s intrusions enshrined our rights to privacy for evermore; and well, you can’t imagine Google inserting adverts into Google Glass, can you ? Not even subliminally. > [@](#): > > The criminal justice system can apparently put people into comas forever without a trial. That’s what single-camera sitcoms are for. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-films-that-present-a-bleak-vision-of-the-future/132960/62 "2014-03-17T23:29:16Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Every zombie movie ever made! Obviously, you’ve never seen **Fido.** ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-films-that-present-a-bleak-vision-of-the-future/132960/63 "2014-03-17T23:31:03Z")
The one where Mozilla Firefox has turned into a memory and CPU sucking…oh yeah that’s already happened IRL. ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-films-that-present-a-bleak-vision-of-the-future/132960/64 "2014-03-18T01:04:50Z")
The Matrix ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-films-that-present-a-bleak-vision-of-the-future/132960/65 "2014-03-18T01:23:35Z")
What is that movie with a father and son travelling down the road? Is it called The Road? Ah Yes! The Road. A very bleak and depressing movie. Not a lot of fun to watch. > **[The Road (2009) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/)** > > The Road: Directed by John Hillcoat. With Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce. In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea. Also The Book of Eli is pretty bleak too. Unfortunately, it’s not very entertaining. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-films-that-present-a-bleak-vision-of-the-future/132960.md?page=3)