601322, Lately I'm digging the sneaky ones Posted by buckshot defunct, Thu Mar-01-12 04:07 PM
Like, Blade Runner looks awesome *as a movie*, but I wouldn't want to live in that shithole, and I have a hard time imagining that anyone else would either. Mad Max, Terminator... yeah. Same with those, although most people in those worlds are victims of circumstance and are just playing the post-apocalyptic hand they were dealt.
But when the dystopias start resembling utopias, it's a bit more interesting to me (lately, anyways) because you can totally see how people could be lured into that kind of society. At a glance, it looks perfect. Then the story unfolds a bit more and reveals the nasty underbelly. Futures where the apocalypse never happened and people still take baths.
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