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5. Elysium and the others like it.

Sun Feb 16, 2025, 08:53 AM

Feb 2025

Is what they want. I believe those movies were to get us use to it.

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What dystopian movie most accurately represents our current course? [View all] debsy Feb 2025 OP

"The Day After Tomorrow" is another. nt Shermann Feb 2025 #1

Good reminder of the climate crisis debsy Feb 2025 #2

Manchurian Candidate. lark Feb 2025 #3

Spot on! debsy Feb 2025 #7

Just finished binge watching The Man in the High livetohike Feb 2025 #4

I've been wanting to watch that for a while now... debsy Feb 2025 #6

Elysium and the others like it. Blue Full Moon Feb 2025 #5

Countdown to Looking Glass nt Bookreadingliberal53 Feb 2025 #8

Leave the world behind mikeysnot Feb 2025 #9

Mad Max The Madcap Feb 2025 #10

I'm thinking Mad Max too, as we head toward environmental collapse Iris Feb 2025 #23

The first three episodes of the Star Wars series JPK Feb 2025 #11

Yes, Trump's cabinet reminds me of the Mos Eisley Cantina! nt Shermann Feb 2025 #12

Life After Humans GreenWave Feb 2025 #13

Soylent Billionaires. (I'm working on it.) nt Buns_of_Fire Feb 2025 #14

I'll help! debsy Feb 2025 #18

Idiocracy Deep State Witch Feb 2025 #15

Yup. The first time I saw it, GoCubsGo Feb 2025 #16

Absolutely right debsy Feb 2025 #19

Judge Dredd Is a Contender MineralMan Feb 2025 #17

Not a Movie but JustAnotherGen Feb 2025 #20

Well, my droogs, it's Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange". allegorical oracle Feb 2025 #21

Morlocks vs. Eloi Mossfern Feb 2025 #22

Empire Strikes Back combined with Idiocracy marmar Feb 2025 #24

House of Cards (American version_). Ping Tung Feb 2025 #25

The Purge RandySF Feb 2025 #26

Dead Zone-Stephen King sheshe2 Feb 2025 #27

Phillip K Dick's "Kill All Others" on Amazon YorkRd Feb 2025 #29

I don't think there is one really Meowmee Feb 2025 #30

Delbert Mann's "Darkness at Noon." Tarzanrock Feb 2025 #31