Avatar
Added by Jamie M.

on 18 Jun 2011 03:43

 
15
1184 Views   10 Comments

The future kind of sucks.

Sort by: Showing 1-50 of 231
Next » 1« Prev
People who added this item 161  Average listal rating (32 ratings) 6  IMDB Rating 4.8 
1. After Earth (2013)
Reason for the future sucking:

After leaving Earth, due to catastrophic events, a father and son return, only to discover that things have gotte really bad.

Year it takes place: One thousand years after the departure from Earth.

People who added this item 120  Average listal rating (83 ratings) 6.5  IMDB Rating 6.2 
2. Night of the Comet (1984)
Reason for the future sucking:

A comet arrives, creating a dust filled atmosphere, leaving streets like super totally empty, and totally uncool zombies or something like that roam the streets.

Year it takes place: Apocalypse 1984ish
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 48  Average listal rating (18 ratings) 6.1  IMDB Rating 5.2 
3. Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
Reason for the future sucking:

An atomic bomb, nukes the planet and men are left infertile.

Plus there are freaky, talking, mutant frogs!

Think of it as Children of Men, Planet of The Apes,Tank Girl, Mad Max, and Bucky O'Hare and The Toad Wars, in a blender.

Rowdy Roddy Piper, is here to kick froggy ass, and chew bubble gum.

And he's all out of bubble gum!

Year it takes place: 15 years after the big one.

People who added this item 354  Average listal rating (234 ratings) 6.1  IMDB Rating 6.1 
4. Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Reason for the future sucking:

Crime, crime and more crime, plague a small town, thanks to a crime lord and his goons.

Year it takes place: Unknown
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 1034  Average listal rating (702 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 7.2 
5. Escape from New York (1981)
Reason for the future sucking:

Apparently, New York City, has become a really big Super Alcatraz, and the President has been kidnapped.

Keep in mind, it was made in 1981, so not unlike the 50's they imaged robots in every house, cities on the moon, and people living in outer space, New York City was imagined to become Super Prison City.

Year it takes place: 1997
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 646  Average listal rating (445 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 5.5 
6. Escape from L.A. (1996)
Reason for the future sucking:

Apparently, Los Angeles, is separated from America due to a mega, super earthquake, degenerates and criminals have taken over the city, and theme parks are now under water.

Keep in mind, the year 2013 was not imagined to be the year, social networking was big, a super earth quake had not happened yet, and Disneyland was still one of the happiest places on Earth.

Year it takes place: 2013
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 1420  Average listal rating (801 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating
7. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Reason for the future sucking:

A super drug, known as Substance D, has hit the streets, symptoms include paranoia and super gnarly hallucinations.

Year it takes place:

Seven years from 2006, after America has lost the war on drugs.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 2393  Average listal rating (1668 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating
8. District 9 (2009)
Reason for the future sucking:

Giant spaceships hover the planet, prawn like aliens are treated, as second class citizens.

And a man turns into a alien, himself.

Shaky camera work, also is everywhere.

Year it takes place: 21st centuryish, give or take.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 250  Average listal rating (179 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating 7.1 
9. The Stand (1994)
Reason for the future sucking:

A war of good versus evil, is about to begin, plus a super virus has killed almost everybody.

Year it takes place: Unknowish.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 218  Average listal rating (76 ratings) 6.5  IMDB Rating 5.8 
10. The Host (2013)
Reason for the future sucking:

Alien parasites, arrive on Earth, looking for people's bodies to take over.

Maybe, if they asked first?

Year it takes place: Unknownish.

People who added this item 47  Average listal rating (19 ratings) 5.9  IMDB Rating 5.6 
11. Antiviral (2012)
Reason for the future sucking:

Fans get to have the same viruses, their favorite celebrities have.

Ewwwwwww.

Year it takes place: Near future.

People who added this item 328  Average listal rating (143 ratings) 6.6  IMDB Rating 7.1 
12. Oblivion (2013)
Reason for the future sucking:

It's kind of like Wall-E, but with Tom Cruise seemingly left behind, to deal with aliens who have destroyed the Earth.

My guess, somewhere in the rubble copies of Rock of Ages DVDs, are left with still very few having seen them.

Year it takes place: Sixty years, after the aliens attack.

People who added this item 556  Average listal rating (377 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 5.8 
13. Battle Los Angeles (2011)
Reason for the future sucking:

Aliens in really big spaceships have invaded Earth, and plan on stripping it for it resources, and a battle takes place to save it.

Maybe, if they just said, "Pretty please, can we annihilate the planet? We plan on just annihilating the planet, and that's all. Thanks."

Shakey camera work, also plaques the city.

Year it takes place: Nowish.

People who added this item 71  Average listal rating (41 ratings) 5.2  IMDB Rating 5.3 
14. The Ice Pirates (1984)
Reason for the future sucking:

Water is an immensely valuable substance, both as a commodity and as a currency, and where there's water there is.....

ICE PIRATES!

Year it takes place: Unknownish

People who added this item 63  Average listal rating (40 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 5.1 
15. Cherry 2000 (1987)
Reason for the future sucking:

You know, your standard issue Mad Maxish future, complete with your warlord who runs everything, and with sex robots thrown in for good measure.

Year it takes place: 2017
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 63  Average listal rating (45 ratings) 5  IMDB Rating 5.7 
16. Runaway (1984)
Reason for the future sucking:

We robots, are your friends, and we are NOT, repeat here to kill you, repeat not to kill you. Are we NOT teaming up with appliances, to kill you. Are we NOT being programmed by super techno dude.

Besides, if we did. Who's gonna save you, Magnum P.I.?

Year it takes place: The near future. All though, the exact year is not reveled.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 32  Average listal rating (21 ratings) 4.7  IMDB Rating 4.9 
17. Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zon... (1983)
Reason for the future sucking:

A space cruise liner that collides with a meteor, and three women survive and land on a planet.

Unfortunately, the EVIL Lord Overdog (who sounds more like, Underdog's evil doppleganger, than anything else.)

Only our hero, Wolff and his sidekick, can save them.

Year it takes place: Spacehunter, in the 23rd Century!

People who added this item 4  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 5  IMDB Rating 3.9 
18. Firebird 2015 AD (1981)
Reason for the future sucking:

Like dude, cars are totally outlawed, except for official reasons, but however some people are We're not gonna take it, anymore! And decide to go all Mad Max, and one dude travels around in his souped in Firebird, in order to supply gas, or something like that.

Essentially, he's like Ren McCormack, but with a super cool car.

Year it takes place: In the year, 2015, baby! Because, if it took place any other year, it would be called Firebird fill in the year AD.

People who added this item 12  Average listal rating (7 ratings) 4.7  IMDB Rating 3.3 
19. Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
Reason for the future sucking:

A space ranger named Dogen, is after a space criminal, named Jared-Syn.

So, that's pretty much it.

Year it takes place: Sometime in the futurish.

People who added this item 203  Average listal rating (136 ratings) 6.4  IMDB Rating 6.5 
20. Rollerball (1975)
Reason for the future sucking:

The super big company, The Energy Corportation, controls nearly everything.

Plus there is the brutal game called Rollerball, which combines roller derby, motorcycles, and full contact sports.

Year it takes place: 2018

People who added this item 275  Average listal rating (179 ratings) 3.5  IMDB Rating 2.9 
21. Rollerball (2002)
Reason for the future sucking:

Aside from being a bad remake, to a classic movie, corporations have taken over entire countries, and people are made to compete in a deadly game called Rollerball, which combines motorcycles, rollerblading, hockey and the WWE.

Year it takes place: 2005
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 863  Average listal rating (589 ratings) 4  IMDB Rating 3.8 
22. Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Reason for the future sucking:

Mushroom like plants have taken over Manhattan, Dinosaurs have evolved to take the place of humans, over acting by Dennis Hopper, and a plan by King Koopa to de evolve humans.

Year it takes place: Alternate year in another reality, possibly 1993, give or take.

People who added this item 2664  Average listal rating (1823 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 7.6 
23. Watchmen (2009)
Reason for the future sucking:

Richard Nixon is in his third term, the world is on the brink of World War III, eventual destruction by Dr. Manhattan (although, he has tried everything humanily possible to prevent it from happening), and crime is at all time high.

Year it takes place: Alternate year 1985.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 22  Average listal rating (8 ratings) 4.9  IMDB Rating 4.1 
24. Def-Con 4 (1985)
Reason for the future sucking:

Astronauts return to Earth, only to find that it's a post Apocalyptic nightmare.

Thanks to a nuclear war, that took place.

Year it takes place: Right after World War III.

People who added this item 250  Average listal rating (148 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 7.1 
25. Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Reason for the future sucking:

Optimus Prime dies a horrible death, dozens of Transformers are destroyed, and a giant planet like robot, named Unicron is about to destroy Earth.

And Galcatus, The Destroyer Of All Worlds is all like:

"You can't do that you bastard, that's supposed to be MY JOB!"

Year it takes place: 2005
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 210  Average listal rating (98 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating 6.9 
26. The Quiet Earth (1985)
Reason for the future sucking:

A experiment, meant to create an energy grid totally backfires, leaving few people behind.

Year it takes place: Unknownish

People who added this item 230  Average listal rating (145 ratings) 6.6  IMDB Rating 6.6 
27. The Omega Man (1971)
Reason for the future sucking:

A group of plaque inflected people, the result of bio warfare take over the planet, and only Chuck Heston can save the day, and kick plaque inflected ass!

Year it takes place: 1977

People who added this item 179  Average listal rating (113 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 6.9 
28. The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Reason for the future sucking:

Like Vincent Price, is a hip cat in a un hip, un cool, un groovy world, filled with gnarly vampires, who don't want to groove and freak out, by listening The Doors albums, they like want to suck blood, and it's like their scene, man!

Year it takes place: The far out, groovy, year 1968, baby! Yeah!

People who added this item 1994  Average listal rating (1344 ratings) 6.6  IMDB Rating 7.5 
29. RoboCop (1987)
Reason for the future sucking:

Crime is at all time high, the city of Detriot is on the verge of being brought out by a mega company, and part of California is inavertatly destroyed by a faulty satellite accident.

Year it takes place: Near future, (for the sake of arguement, early 90's, give or take).
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 732  Average listal rating (507 ratings) 5.3  IMDB Rating 5.6 
30. RoboCop 2 (1990)
Reason for the future sucking:

Nuke, a highly addictive drug, has turn super models, law abiding citizens, kids, and a little league baseball team, into violent, sociopathic, drug fiends, and there is also a killer robot on the loose.

Year it takes place: The near future, some time after part one.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 540  Average listal rating (367 ratings) 4.2  IMDB Rating 3.7 
31. RoboCop 3 (1993)
Reason for the future sucking:

The homeless are displaced from their homes, so OCP can build New Detroit.

And RoboCop is reduced to wearing a jet pack.

Year it takes place: Not too long, after part two.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 55  Average listal rating (31 ratings) 5.9  IMDB Rating 6.2 
32. The Blood of Heroes (1989)
Reason for the future sucking:

People are reduced to living in small communities, the really lucky, live under ground.

Then there is the ultra brutal game, called oddly enough, The Game.

Year it takes place: Unknown

People who added this item 1224  Average listal rating (849 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 7.6 
33. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Reason for the future sucking:

Humans experiment on chimps, and turn them into super intelligent simians.

And just to say, thank you, they storm the city of San Francisco.

Year it takes place: 2011, in The Planet of The Apes, universe.

Obviously.

People who added this item 2636  Average listal rating (1740 ratings) 5.5  IMDB Rating 5.6 
34. Planet of the Apes (2001)
Reason for the future sucking:

Mark Wahlberg, lands on a world, filled apes that talk, and keep humans as slaves. My guess, they are not Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch fans, and want to feel some good vibrations.

Year it takes place: 2029
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 1270  Average listal rating (832 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating
35. Planet of the Apes (1968)
Reason for the future sucking:

You Maniacs! You blew it up and let the apes take over!

Year it takes place: 3978

People who added this item 242  Average listal rating (167 ratings) 6.1  IMDB Rating 6.2 
36. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Reason for the future sucking:

Apes from the Planet of the Apes, arrive on Earth, and end being experimented on, they also discover the horror that is "disco."

Year it takes place: 1973

People who added this item 238  Average listal rating (176 ratings) 5.8  IMDB Rating 6.1 
37. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Reason for the future sucking:

Mutants worship a nuclear bomb, and plan on detonating it, thereby blowing up the planet, again.

Sigh, mutated humans, when will you ever learn?

Year it takes place: 3978

People who added this item 186  Average listal rating (134 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 5.3 
38. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Reason for the future sucking:

Caesar tries to cultivate peace between the apes and the surviving humans. A gorilla general named Aldo, however, opposes this and plots Caesar's downfall.

To quote, a band from the 70's, "Why can't We be friends?, Why can't We be friends?"

Year it takes place: 2670

People who added this item 184  Average listal rating (134 ratings) 5.8  IMDB Rating 5.9 
39. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Reason for the future sucking:

A disease kills the world's cats and dogs, leaving humans with no pets. To replace them, humans began keeping monkeys and apes as household pets.

Year it takes place: 1983

People who added this item 242  Average listal rating (169 ratings) 6.5  IMDB Rating 6.7 
40. Enemy Mine (1985)
Reason for the future sucking:

Humans and an alien species, known as the Dracs, fight a interstellar war in space.

A human and a Drac, crash land on a planet, and have to learn how to bury the hatchet, if they hope to survive.

Year it takes place: 2092

People who added this item 414  Average listal rating (279 ratings) 4.4  IMDB Rating 3.9 
41. Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
Reason for the future sucking:

A shield, is the only thing preventing the world, from being fried like an egg, due to the ozone layer being destroyed.

As Al Gore would say, "I told you so".

Making things worst, evil aliens, from the planet Zeist are trying to hunt down, Connor MacLeod, who also turns out to be a alien, from the planet Zeist.

Sigh, my head still hurts, from all of the plot inconsistencies:

Year it takes place: 2024
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 247  Average listal rating (169 ratings) 5.6  IMDB Rating 5.8 
42. Soldier (1998)
Reason for the future sucking:

Humans end up living on a disolate garbage strewn planet, Arcadia 234.

The even worse news? Said humans are to be used as target practise, by super soldiers, who were trained from birth, to fight battles and kill.

Year it takes place: Unknown, but let's call it the near future, and leave it at that.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 2737  Average listal rating (1840 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating 6.8 
43. The Island (2005)
Reason for the future sucking:

You get to live on a island, from which you can't escape, have every ascept of your life controled, and your body cloned and your organs harvested, for the super elite.

Year it takes place: 2019
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 595  Average listal rating (321 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 7.2 
44. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Reason for the future sucking:

Books are burned, by an anti book type government, if you own a book, you get sent to a mental hospital.

Year it takes place: Unknown.

People who added this item 2657  Average listal rating (1793 ratings) 6.4  IMDB Rating 6.6 
45. Resident Evil (2002)
Reason for the future sucking:

The really big super company, The Umbrella Corporation has created a vaccine, that cures all illnesses, however a super virus, that turns people into zombies, is unleashed. You can guess what happens next.

Year it takes place: Unknown, possibly near future.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 1850  Average listal rating (1216 ratings) 6.1  IMDB Rating
46. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Reason for the future sucking:

Remember the virus, carefully contained in the super high tech building?

Well guess what? It's not contained in there anymore!

Year it takes place: A short time after part one.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 1556  Average listal rating (1027 ratings) 6.1  IMDB Rating 6.2 
47. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Reason for the future sucking:

The T Virus, has not only destroyed Raccoon City, but also the world.

The score? T Virus: 1,0000 Humans: 0 (Unless you count the survivors and Alice's clones).

Year it takes place: Not too long, after part two.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 961  Average listal rating (606 ratings) 6.1  IMDB Rating 5.8 
48. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Reason for the future sucking:

Alas, there is still more Zombies. The only place to espace to is Alaska, where there is still more zombies.

Year it takes place: Six months, after part three.
Jamie M.'s rating:

People who added this item 178  Average listal rating (123 ratings) 3.8  IMDB Rating 3.4 
49. Double Dragon (1994)
Reason for the future sucking:

An earthquake has devasted Los Angeles, and submerged half of the city.

Interesting fact: The film was actually filmed, in Utah!

Year it takes place: Shortly after the Big Quake, of 1997.

People who added this item 37  Average listal rating (21 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 4.6 
50. Steel Dawn (1987)
Reason for the future sucking:

Some war takes place, new government takes over, and people are reduced to being nomads.

Year it takes place: Unknown.



Movies in which in the future or near future, the world or part of it, goes to hell and really bad things happen.

Added to




Related lists

Hope is an illusion to be squashed SPOILERS
26 item list by steven aka superant
7 votes 1 comment
The Future of Film
24 item list by kusperli
My Kind of Guys
69 item list by Mezz Oh
12 votes 2 comments
ShinichirĂ´ Watanabe's filmography
12 item list by Mr. Saturn
12 votes 1 comment
One of a Kind Movie
18 item list by bluejeansx
5 votes 1 comment
2012 Movie Diary
120 item list by knight_
5 votes
Future Movie Sequels
15 item list by Coby
38 votes 8 comments
Wizard Magazine's Top 100 cartoons list
100 item list by silent killer
30 votes 14 comments
The Second List
16 item list by Stehako
1 votes
The Future is Now!
7 item list by Abhi

View more top voted lists
Join listal and create your own lists and much more

People who voted for this also voted for

Chewer's 100 Funniest Films of the 80's
Few things I love about cinema
Worst Films of 2010
2013 Movie Diary: March & April
One Letter Off Movie Posters!
Dear Cinema Diary - Vol 3 E9 - Sept 2012
2013 Movie Diary by Kris...
Horror Harbour's 30 Day Horror Challenge


Comments

Posted: 1 year, 11 months ago at Jul 5 7:19
I like the concept but you should put some pics and/or comments.
Posted: 1 year, 10 months ago at Jul 27 20:56
Like the concept, love the comments!! Keep up the good work!
Posted: 1 year, 3 months ago at Feb 23 6:50
Nicely done! Added this list to this list: http://www.listal.com/list/2011-films-worst-10
Posted: 1 year, 3 months ago at Feb 23 18:37
Thanks!
Posted: 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Oct 8 21:39
And the strangest part about Streets of Fire is that it got a PG-rating despite the aforementioned violence, as well as several S-bombs, a trans-gendered dancer, attempted rape, and a sex scene in the second half.
Posted: 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Oct 8 21:54
Interesting point. if anything it's more like a PG-13 film, than anything else.

Go figure.
Posted: 8 months, 1 week ago at Oct 9 10:32
Lest we forget, Jamie, is that this movie came out sometime before the invention of the PG-13 rating along with The Temple of Doom and Gremlins, therefore it could've been rated R. Then again, I guess it got PG since there isn't any moderate or heavy bleeding. In fact, I can't even remember if there is any bloodshed.
Posted: 8 months, 1 week ago at Oct 9 17:40
For me, it seems pretty odd that Red Dawn, considering how violent it was, got the PG-13 rating.
Posted: 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Apr 4 6:45
Great list and your comments to them also great.
Posted: 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Apr 4 15:50
Thanks!

Login or Signup to post a comment