IFG Poll 59: Favourite Dystopian Films

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Given the current climate, what better time to think about our favourite dystopian films!  What are your favourite SEVEN films depicting the world going wrong?  Do discuss any omissions in the comments section.

 

ADDITION: Thank you to 4Porcelli for helping me with the list!

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39 thoughts on “IFG Poll 59: Favourite Dystopian Films”

  2. I voted for:
    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
    Escape From New York (1981)
    Logan’s Run (1976)
    Snowpiercer (2013)
    Soylent Green (1973)
    The Terminator (1984)

    I did not vote for “Metropolis”, a masterpiece but not the best dystopian for me, and I don’t like “Blade Runner”… My favorite of them all is “Logan’s Run”. I forgot to vote for “12 Monkeys” lol

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  3. Very nice selection; tough to choose – hope I get what I voted for right (have to switch browsers to do the poll!):
    Andromeda strain (which I think is most interesting in the current situation) is an all-time fave, as is Blade runner (in fact I checked both bladerunners. 12 monkeys, Planet of the apes, Matrix and either Logan’s run or Terminator.

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  4. Both Blade Runners, Terminator, 1984 and of course Metropolis!!!

    I also remember “Waterworld” leaving a strong impression on me as a child but I haven’t watched it since then …

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      • Weid but true story – this came out when I was working in TV news in the US so I knew the top state politicos a bit. There was an intermission in the movie, I go to the bathromm to pee; I hear the guy next to me calling my name and ask how I’m doing and it was the ex-governor, then running to get elected to the job again!

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      • He didn’t – he never could decide if he was a technocrat or a tough-on-crime conservative so fell behind the candidates with a sharper profile. Louisiana has first-past-the-post but winner needs to clear 50% to win outright; otherwise there’s a run-off with the top two finishers. It’s better than the UK voting system but tends to strengthen the extreme wings, which is why in 1991 we got a runoff between Nazi David Duke and corrupt left-wing populist Edwin Edwards.

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      • Everything is better than the UK voting system… Speaking of David Duke, have you seen BlacKkKlansman. I watched it over the weekend as I fell asleep in the cinema when I saw it there. Topher Grace plays a good David Duke!

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      • No, that’s one of those films that didn’t appeal to me, I’m just not a Spike Lee fan. I had actually just started grad school in New Orleans the year Duke made the run-off so volunteered for Edwin Edwards who mercifully beat him. People were repelled by both candidates so one of the bumper stickers for Edwards was “Vote for the crook – it’s important”!

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      • The crook – Edwin Edwards – is one of the gerat colourful characters of Louisiana politics: He was finally sent to prison for., predicatbly, accepting bribes for casino licenses. He divorced his second wife Candi (the name says everything) and later married his prison pen pal, Trina; when he got released from jail they briefly had, also predictably, their own reality TV show!

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      • It’s definitely one that’s much much more impactful at the cinema so if there’s ever a re-relase you can catch, it’s worth it. Between Waterworld and Titanic, there was an impression at the time that it was impossible and way too expensive to do “water films” but both came out pretty well I think.

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      • I really like the 2nd half of Titanic with all the action scenes; the first part with the romance storyline kind of drags IMO; it’s almost like it’s 2 different films – first half more targeted at women, 2nd at men – probably one of the reasons it worked so well. One thing I love about the 2nd half is them running through the narrow hallways as the water rises inside the ship; it echoes the scenes of Ripley running through the air ducts (?) on the spaceship in Alien.

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      • I do love Titanic too.
        By the way, have you seen the 1943 German version of Titanic? I have heard it is good and I want to get it on DVD.
        I like the 1953 version of Titanic and really like A Night to Remember from 1958.

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      • Rhetorical question there, Rob; of course I have. The 1943 version is quite well done; it’s also one of the more masterful pieces of Nazi propaganda – engaging plot with British greed responsible for the disaster (which actually appears to be true but I am not sure this was established at the time – it’s near-perfect subtle propaganda).

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  5. Great poll! I love dystopian films!
    I voted for:
    Blade Runner (1982)
    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
    Children of Men (2006)
    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
    Snowpiercer (2013)
    The Matrix (1999)
    The Terminator (1984)

    I’ve seen most of these movies and liked many of them. There’s a great South Korean tv show involving an outbreak called Kingdom, from last year (season 2 just dropped last week on netflix) which I would recommend. 🙂

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