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The future kind of sucks.

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People who added this item 1955 Average listal rating (1273 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.8
Serenity (2005)
Reason for the future sucking:

Humanity has moved to another star system, due to overpopulation on the Earth. The inner planets are controlled by the Alliance with frontier justice among the outer planets.

Year it takes place: 2517
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People who added this item 25 Average listal rating (1 ratings) 1 IMDB Rating 7.7
Reason why the future sucking: Post nuclear fall out results in beautiful green belts have become sand belts with no water, no animals, or plants.

Year it takes: 2035. The film’s time has deviated over vases periods of time, Mad Max is now mythical character, with stories changing over a period of time.

Mad Max hasn’t entered the picture yet, but will soon eventually.
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People who added this item 1371 Average listal rating (945 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.6
Reason for the future sucking:

Biker gangs have taken to stealing gas, people are reduced to living in small communities, and left to fend for themselves.

Year it takes place: 2003, although another site suggests it's 2001.

Side note: It’s been inferred that it takes place during 1984-1985.
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People who added this item 1188 Average listal rating (809 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 6.3
Reason for the future sucking:

Nuclear war turns all of Australia into a desert, people are reduced to living in shabby villages, methane is the fuel of the future, a group of kids, are forced to live, a Lord of The Flies like existence, and let's not forget THUNDERDOME!

"There’s no laws in this place. Anything goes! It’s Thunderdome!!"

Two men enter, one man leaves!

Year it takes place: 2019, although another site suggests 2005.

Side note: It’s been inferred that takes place during the early 90’s. Namely 1992.
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People who added this item 1962 Average listal rating (1293 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.8
Mad Max (1979)
Reason for the future sucking:

War has devastated the world, people start taking to the roads, and stealing gas, and biker gangs over whelm villages and communities.

Year it takes place: 2000, although another site suggests it's 1994.

Side note: It’s been inferred it takes place between 1982-1983.
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People who added this item 1668 Average listal rating (1210 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 8.1
Reason why the future kind of sucks:

Maybe baby, you can make a stand down here on Fury Road! Unless, you go up against a brutal futuristic biker gang.

Also, said group kidnaps some women, for breeeding purposes.

Year it takes place: 2060
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Reason why the future sucks:

“Damn you! Goddamn you all to hell! We finally really did it,"

Plus, the apes have taken over.

Year it takes place: Nearly 300 years after the events of War for the Planet of the Apes.
People who added this item 54 Average listal rating (25 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 7.1
Civil War (2024)
Reason why the future sucks:

A Evil presidential overlord, has sharply divided the country.

Clearly, he has to go.

The year it takes place: Alternate year now.
People who added this item 196 Average listal rating (130 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 8.6
Reason why the future sucks:

The spice war continues! I hate sand worms.

Year it takes place: Roughly twelve years after the events of the first.


People who added this item 402 Average listal rating (287 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.4
Red Dawn (1984)
Reason why the future kind of sucks:

Russia and Cuba invade a small town in America, and only a group of teens can save the day!

Wolverines!

The year it takes place: Alternate year 1985.
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People who added this item 1409 Average listal rating (886 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.3
Reason for the future sucking:

A war over spice, between House Atreides and House Harkonnen.

Year it takes place: In the late future, over 23,000 years, give or take. Years after computers have been oulawed.
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People who added this item 347 Average listal rating (226 ratings) 5.2 IMDB Rating 5.4
Reason why the future sucks:

Same idea as the original, but only this time it’s China.

Year it takes place: Alternative year 2012, more of less. Either way, things are not too dissimilar to the original 1985 film.
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People who added this item 517 Average listal rating (378 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 8
Reason why the future sucks:

Spice, the know comenity through out the universe is being battle with between several houses.

Spice up your life!

Year it takes place: 10,191
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Reason why the future sucks:

We find out when and how The Hunger Games first started.

Year I takes place:

2150 or 2200 even. Give or take.
People who added this item 96 Average listal rating (74 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 6.8
The Creator (2023)
Reason why the Future sucks:

Humans, being the dumb, panicky people that they are, decide to systematically wipe out any trace of A.I., out of fear.

The year it takes place: 2055
People who added this item 825 Average listal rating (543 ratings) 5.5 IMDB Rating 5.8
Reason why the future sucks:

Because us stupid humans, couldn’t leave well enough alone, and decided in all of it’s infinite wisdom, to clone humans.

The year it takes place: Nowish.
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People who added this item 556 Average listal rating (409 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.8
Annihilation (2018)
Reason why the future sucks:

You’re in a zone, where there are strange creatures, and no one gets out alive.

Year it takes place: Unknownish.
People who added this item 101 Average listal rating (76 ratings) 5.1 IMDB Rating 5.1
Reason why the future sucks:

The moon is about to destroy Earth, unless we stop it from happening.

“America must, can, and will blow up the moon.”

Year it takes place: 2022ish.
People who added this item 2618 Average listal rating (1781 ratings) 5.3 IMDB Rating 5.8
2012 (2009)
Reason for the future sucking:

The world's about to end, and only John Cusack can save it!

Year it takes place: 2012, obviously.

Spoiler alert: The world didn’t actually end, in 2012.
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People who added this item 207 Average listal rating (149 ratings) 4.7 IMDB Rating 5.3
Geostorm (2017)
Reason why the future sucks:

Things have gotten so bad, that weather changing satellites, have been created.

How could things go wrong?

Year it takes place: Near futurish.
People who added this item 1081 Average listal rating (702 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.4
Daybreakers (2009)
Reason for the future sucking:

A disease has turned almost everyone on the planet, into vampires.

Other people, are harvested as a blood substitute, by a company run by vampires.

I guess, that in this case, that in this Buffy Summers, would have her work cut out, for her.

Year it takes place: 2019
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People who added this item 121 Average listal rating (82 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 5.9
Reason why the future sucks:

Body modification, is taken to new disturbing and terrifying levels.

Long live the new flesh.

Year it takes place:

Near futurish.
People who added this item 1177 Average listal rating (802 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.6
Reason why the future sucks:

The world is about to end. Obviously.

Year it takes place:

Sometime. In the near future.
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People who added this item 874 Average listal rating (524 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.7
Reason why the future sucks:

A man and a robot from space, have come with a warning....

“Hey you jerks, get your act together or your doomed!”

Gas, grass, or ass. No one rides for free.

Year it takes place: 1951ish.
People who added this item 383 Average listal rating (288 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 7.2
Don't Look Up (2021)
Reason why the future sucks:

A asteroid is about to destroy us. But we are too stupid and dumb, to notice or care.

Year it takes place: Right now.
People who added this item 28 Average listal rating (18 ratings) 5.1 IMDB Rating 5.5
Reason why the future sucks:

A super virus is about to super kill us. That and there is a up and coming war between good and evil.

Year it takes place: Unknownish.
People who added this item 74 Average listal rating (56 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.7
Reason why the future sucks:

The world is about to be crushed by a deadly falling star.

Unless, we destroy us first.

Year it takes place: 1951ish
Reason why the future sucks:

A space station satellite, has crashed down on Earth, carrying a deadly virus with it.

Year it takes place: 1970ish.
People who added this item 999 Average listal rating (695 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7
Reason why the future sucks:

Aliens are about to destroy our planet, so we might as well get boozed up, first.

“To alcohol, the cause and problem of all of life’s solutions.”

Year it takes place: 2013ish
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People who added this item 36 Average listal rating (24 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 6.6
Reason why the future sucks:

Men has become unreasonably cruel, after the big one drops.

“You dropped a bomb on me. Baby.”

Year it takes place: The less then groovy year of 1962.
Reason why the future sucks:

We are about to be destroyed,by a giant space rock.

Year it takes place: 2012ish.
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People who added this item 129 Average listal rating (76 ratings) 5.9 IMDB Rating 5.6
Xtro (1982)
Reason why the future sucks:

An alien has kidnapped a man, who has returned to destroy and kill, and is now half space mutant.

Year it takes place: 1982ish
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People who added this item 18 Average listal rating (10 ratings) 3.7 IMDB Rating 3.3
Reason why the future sucks:

Aliens from a another galaxy have arrived. And they want to meet and open a whole new world of terror.

Year it takes place: 1990ish
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People who added this item 1982 Average listal rating (1379 ratings) 5.3 IMDB Rating 5.7
Reason why the future sucks:

Alien vs. Predator. Round one. Fight!

Year it takes place: 2004ish.
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Reason why the future sucks:

America is about to be nuked. It was fun, while it last.

Year it takes place: 1991
People who added this item 651 Average listal rating (388 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 6.4
Reason why the future sucks:

Vampires are everywhere! And I do mean everywhere!

Year it takes place: 2004
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People who added this item 130 Average listal rating (99 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.1
Reason why the future sucks:

A potential disaster is about to occur, and you are the only one who can stop it.

Unfortunately, you are trapped in 1984.

You it takes place: 1984
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People who added this item 1409 Average listal rating (906 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.8
Reason why the future sucks:

We are about, to be wiped out by a deadly virus.

Year it takes place: 2011ish
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People who added this item 110 Average listal rating (74 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 5.5
Why the future sucks:

You just got a satellite dish. Great! It has beamed down freaky, weird, space monsters.

Not great.

Year it takes place: Weird, strange, punked out 1986.
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People who added this item 8093 Average listal rating (5899 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 8.2
Jurassic Park (1993)
Reason why the future sucks:

God creates dinosaurs, dinosaurs die, God creates man, man brings clones dinosaurs, and dinosaurs take over.

We should have listened to Ian Malcolm.

Year it takes place: 1993ish.

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People who added this item 76 Average listal rating (54 ratings) 4.8 IMDB Rating 5.4
Reason for the future sucking:

Humans are turned into cyborgs, and can have their bodies, transfer into synethic bodies.

Year it takes place: Near future
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People who added this item 229 Average listal rating (154 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 6.1
Reason why the future sucks:

Hot female vampire babe! She wants to take your breath away! Literally!

Shall we shag now, or later?

Year it takes place: 1985ish.
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Why the future sucks:

You’re in time period, that makes no sense to you. Granted, you’re also from the Medieval ages, where there is also the bubonic plaque...

Year it takes place: 1988
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People who added this item 437 Average listal rating (284 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 6.9
Why the future sucks:

See it from the kid’s perspective. You’re from the 70’s.

You’re in a time period, that makes no sense what so ever.

And you just want to go back home, to see your family and pet dog.

Year it takes place: 1986
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People who added this item 102 Average listal rating (66 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 5.9
Reason why the future sucks:

They have come from other space, and look like humans.

And they are not friendly.

Year it takes place: 1994ish.
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People who added this item 135 Average listal rating (105 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.1
Reason for the future sucking:

An intergalactic drug dealer, has arrived on Earth and bodies full of heroin, have been piling up.

And Dolph Lungred, must team up with an alien cop, to stop the alien from killing more people, and using them as his personal supply.

Year it takes place: Unknowish
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People who added this item 191 Average listal rating (131 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 6.3
Alien Nation (1988)
Reason for the future sucking:

Aliens who are slaves, on other planets, arrive on Earth, hoping that the people would be okay, with them having jobs, blending in, having houses, and other things.

There is also a drug, that is being produced in hopes of keeping the aliens productive.

Year it takes place: 1991
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People who added this item 1070 Average listal rating (771 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.3
They Live (1988)
Reason for the future sucking:

What if news reporters, the well off, politicians, and others, are really aliens, and are brain washing us, and the only way to discover this, was to wear sunglasses?

Year it takes place: 1988
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People who added this item 178 Average listal rating (129 ratings) 5.6 IMDB Rating 6.2
The Arrival (1996)
Reason why the future sucks:

Aliens, arrive on Earth. They look like us, they sound like us, but they are not us.

And they are not friendly.

When it takes place: 1996ish.
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People who added this item 68 Average listal rating (45 ratings) 5.9 IMDB Rating 5.8
Millennium (1989)
Reason for the future sucking:

Humans from the past, arrive in the future and end up discovering, that they can't reproduce in that future, so they have to go elsewhere.

Year it takes place: 2959
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Movies in which in the future or near future, the world or part of it, goes to hell and really bad things happen.

"We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I going to spend rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will effect you in the future."

- Jeron King Criswell

"The future ain't what it used to be."

- Yogi Berra

“Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”

― Roger Zelazny

"This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."

- T. S. Eliot

"It's the end of the world as we know it,
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."

- R.E.M.

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