A dystopian society - Movies that have predicted the future or in the case of Flock, present

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July 27, 2026, 07:22 PM

HRK

A dystopian society - Movies that have predicted the future or in the case of Flock, present

With the Flock thread indicating the start of the US becoming a fully monitored society, along with many other technologies, plenty of movies predicted the change where society accepts this type of life and some people rebel against it...

War Games, Escape from New York, The Running Man, are examples, I have a list in my head but don't want to take the fun away from building a thread with titles and examples of Hollywood presenting us with one option of a future world.

July 27, 2026, 07:37 PM

FenderBender

Johnny Mnemonic

Dredd 3D

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July 27, 2026, 07:52 PM

Orguss

The Circle

"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"

July 27, 2026, 07:56 PM

Ronin101

never watched it but 1984!!

July 27, 2026, 10:41 PM

Creeping_Death

Equilibrium.

July 27, 2026, 11:07 PM

Rawny

quote:
Originally posted by Ronin101:
never watched it but 1984!!

In a sense, yes. In the film(and the book), telescreens are used. They basically used CRTs to act as both displays and cameras. They show propagandas all day and are used for surveillance. You just don't see cameras in the classical sense.

July 28, 2026, 12:18 AM

Prefontaine

Idiocracy. It might as well been a documentary.

July 28, 2026, 05:52 AM

Georgeair

Minority Report doesn't just have blanketed monitoring but predictive crime prosecutions. That's pretty far up the scale....

July 28, 2026, 09:17 AM

oddball

The Truman Show

Brazil

_{"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965}

July 28, 2026, 09:19 AM

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Brazil

Demolition Man

The Sleeper

Minority Repport

Clockwork Orange

Rollerball

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