It seems every movie you see these days that is set in the future everything sucks, poverty everywhere, environment destroyed, dictatorships rule with an iron fist, basically, life sucks. Here as just a handful of movies from the past few years that depict a bleak & dystopian future: Looper, Dredd, The Purge, Elysium, Avatar, Edge of Tomorrow, Children of Men, X-Men Days of Future Past, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Matrix, Oblivion, A.I., Wall-E, yes, even the fucking kids movies are depicting a horrible future. What happened to the days when we looked at the future with positive eyes? Star Trek, Back to the Future II, back in the days when we thought the future was gonna be awesome. And remember, the ones I listed are only the more recent dystopian films, we could go further back and make that list 10x bigger.
-Danny
You know, that would really suck if all of those movies you just mentioned were for the same reason as The Simpsons's awful Season 29 episode Three Scenes Plus A Tag From A Marriage: It blatantly admits that it believed including any happy parts would be boring, and only by being bleak can the future movies have any sort of conflict or engaging plot. That's like, almost an admission of laziness.
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