Um, he IS living in circa 23xx Manhattan on a flying cab drivers salary AND he has a parking spot for his cab!
And Bruce Willis’s NYC tiny apartment in Fifth Element is far more plausible than Monica’s palatial estate apartment in Friends.
I remember they explained away the apartment in the first episode by saying that an relative had lived their for decades and had a rent controlled lease on the place, and that although the relative had died, monica was faking that she still lived there to take advantage of the 1930’s era payments.
Judge Dredd–following a nuclear holocaust, humanity is (painfully) crowded into “mega-cities”, and the only way to keep some semblance of order is to turn cops into judges, empowered to dispense “justice” at the time of arrest.
The comic book was much better.
Rollerball
The James Caan version was the one I liked
Was “Dune” future or past?
Boy you surely have no clue 
Dune is set in the future, I’m no expert but it seems it’s thousands of years from the present.
I just couldn’t remember if it was far future or far past, you know, like how “Star Wars” looks future but is “long ago, in a galaxy far, far away”
(been a long time since I read the books…)
But, since “Dune” is future, that’s a future that looks bleak to many, tho strangely good to others.
I like the idea of no thinking machines and no atomics used against humans, but the ideas of whole planets being used as political bargaining chips and genetically engineering a new Jesus-type-person… well, that’s bleak to me.
I just couldn’t remember if it was far future or far past, you know, like how “Star Wars” looks future but is “long ago, in a galaxy far, far away”
(been a long time since I read the books…)
But, since “Dune” is future, that’s a future that looks bleak for many, tho strangely good for others.
I like the idea of no thinking machines and no atomics used against humans, but the ideas of whole planets being used as political bargaining chips and genetically engineering a new Jesus-type-person… well, that’s bleak to me.
I really wish this would stop happening (the double posting)
when IE goes to “cannot find server” how does it end up still posting here?
Dune is set app. 25,000 years in the future.
For the longest time I thought it was set about 8000 years in the future, but I found out that the calendar that’s used in the book series has it’s Year 1 about 15,000 years from now.
Where did you see this? I’m just interested because I don’t remember there was a date established for the formation of the guild, which is year 1 on the Dune Calander.
Gattica seemed somewhat bleak to me.
That reminds me, why is a former counterterrorist agent, or whatever he is, being forced to make a living as a crummy cabdriver? Don’t they have pensions in that future? Sorry, you still can’t sell that to me as any future I would want to be a part of. And you still can’t get away from Chris Tucker. Bleak, very bleak.
Fahrenheit 451 is another dystopian vision worth checking out.
1984, Definitely supposed to be the future, unless I missed the forming of superstates, Big Brother, or the two way TVs I’m sure it is still the future. The title doesn’t necessarily have to really be the date. After all All cultures at ione time had their own date systems it could be 1984 years after some other randomly chosen event now couldn’t it?
Brazil, the mix of old and new technology gives it a weird quazi futuristic retro look.
Brave new world. I mean holy Ford.
Split Second, where rising ocean levels flood London, starring Rutger Hauer
Actually, Rutger Hauer is in a bunch of dystopian sci-fi movies, most of which are incredibly terrible sub-MST3K dreck, except for Blade Runner. So his carreer really spans the whole spectrum of the dystopian sci-fi genre, from Blade Runner to Omega Doom, which I would personally give the title “Best” and “Worst” to, respectively.
Logan’s Run
Demon Seed (maybe not)
Does The Stepford Wives count?
Another to add to the list, though it isn’t particularly good: Final Fantasy – The Spirits Within. Premise: A meteor crashed to Earth and released a bunch of ghostly entities that kill whatever they find. Surviving humanity has retreated to energy-domed cities.
Oh, and just thought of: The Quiet Earth. Guy in New Zealand wakes up in his bed and finds that every single other person is gone, leaving him utterly alone.
Though an excellent novel/movie, I don’t find this dystopic in the same way as the others, because I can’t imagine how a technically sophisticated civilization as that portrayed in F451 could really eliminate the book. There would have to be technical manuals and journals at least.
For that reason, I see the story as being more symbolic, and hence less disturbing than the usual dystopic offering.