# Which dystopian \*movie\* do you feel the US is headed for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 5, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844 "2020-11-05T15:55:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/21 "2020-11-06T03:00:53Z")
_Zardoz_ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/22 "2020-11-06T03:20:40Z")
_The Mist_ When the shit hits the fan, the religious fanatics will sacrifice the “non-believers” while the big monsters sneak in and finish everyone off. “It’s all very psychiatric.” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/23 "2020-11-06T03:29:38Z")
Well, we already saw what happened when the shit hit the fanatics: they cooed and begged for more. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/24 "2020-11-06T03:51:06Z")
_Brazil_ The bureaucracy will gradually become as absurd as our politics. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/25 "2020-11-06T19:21:28Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I’ve heard people mention that idiocracy is far better than the current US. > > the president is able to admit he is wrong. > > The president genuinely cares about the well being of the citizens. > > The president admits people are smarter than him and he seeks out and listens to experts. > > The government and culture is racially tolerant. > > The culture accepts women and minorities in positions of power. > > The government believes in democracy. > > shit we don’t have right now. I must say, you’ve hit that one out of the park. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/26 "2024-11-10T06:27:14Z")
Bumping this thread, because, well, this week has called for it. Back in the dark days leading up to the 2020 election (oh how innocent) I picked “V for Vendetta” (movie version) for the post-plague, quasi-Christian fascist future. Now that we’ve moving forward with Trump 2.0, I have to once again decide which mirror best reflects the next administration. This time, I’ve elected “Running Man” - because the justice system is blatantly for sale, the government blames everything on “those people” whether it be the ones they frame for their own misdoings or the “resistance” that requires such. Little things like the “right to a trial” are prizes to be one with life threatening risks, long since purged for those lacking power and influence. The key to reaching the president? Calling their agent, because life is a reality TV show. And all the while, the audience and most of the world laughs and _watches_ with glee. Once again, the difference is that A) we aren’t going to have the protagonist save us from ourselves and B) even if you show the whole world the Truth, they’d rather believe the lies. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/27 "2024-11-10T07:34:27Z")
A mix of _Children of Men_ and _Idiocracy_ eventually leading to _Waterworld_. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/28 "2024-11-10T07:42:09Z")
A crossover between _The Handmaid’s Tale_ and _1984,_ followed by the future scenes in _The Terminator_ except with right wing fanatics instead of robots. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/29 "2024-11-10T09:18:49Z")
I’d pick _Idiocracy_ as closest to my own theory of the national ills that brought about the results of this current election. But that’s only because the prescient sci-fi story by Cyril M. Kornbluth, _The Marching Morons_, was never made into a movie. Neither has _The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_, but maybe _Downfall_ **([_Der Untergang_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(2004_film)))** suits the purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/30 "2024-11-10T09:38:28Z")
_Rollerball_. Corporations and the billionaires that run them are the ones who control every aspect of your life, and the media is all a show to keep people docile and complacent. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/31 "2024-11-10T09:54:47Z")
_The Handmaid’s Tale_. That’s what Project 2025 is all about. Men know best, and women know least, and impregnating fertile women is necessary, whether they want to be impregnated or not. If they don’t want to be impregnated, tough, they’re carrying to term. Who cares what they think; they’re too dumb to think, and if by chance, they do come to a logical conclusion, it can be dismissed. Welcome to Gilead. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/32 "2024-11-10T10:52:41Z")
I stand by what I said 4 years ago about Idiocracy. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/33 "2024-11-10T12:41:41Z")
“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/34 "2024-11-10T13:38:38Z")
Wiki lists THE TERMINATOR as a dystopian film, so: figure things are unfolding as they should, and on track to be as good as can be hoped in 2029 after a valuable lesson is learned — with people working together to make the world in general, and America in particular, a better place? I may be doing this wrong. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/35 "2024-11-10T14:44:13Z")
Depending on how far Trump tries to go, and how much opponents try to push back, I’d say that _Civil War_ isn’t out of the question. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/36 "2024-11-10T15:39:10Z")
_ **Metropolis** _. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/37 "2024-11-10T15:52:27Z")
All of them. It will be a collage. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/38 "2024-11-10T16:06:55Z")
_Back to the Future Part II_, the part set in the present day, after Biff steals the sports trivia book. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/39 "2024-11-10T16:14:44Z")
President Trump and Speaker McFly. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844/40 "2024-11-10T16:28:29Z")
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