The recent premiere of ‘Don’t worry, my dear’ has once again brought dystopias to the fore in the cinema, something I wanted to take advantage of so that our dose of recommendations today focuses on 4 of the best dystopian sci-fi movies ever that you can see on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney + and HBO Max.
if you seek other recommendations within the same genreI remind you that we also have lists of great futuristic science fiction movies in streaming, other great movies that mix action and science fiction on platforms, also great science fiction comedies and space science fiction movies that you can’t miss.
Before getting into the matter, I would also like to remind you of our reviews of the best Netflix movies in 2022, the essential movies of this year that you can see on Amazon Prime Video or the best cinema of 2022 available on Disney +. Without further ado, let’s go with today’s picks:
‘AI Artificial Intelligence’ (‘AI Artificial Intelligence’, 2001)
Address: Steve Spielberg. Distribution: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O’Connor, Sam Robards, William Hurt, Brendan Gleeson, Jake Thomas, Ken Leung, Clark Gregg, Enrico Colantoni, Ashley Scott, Paula Malcomson, Ben Kingsley
the movie that steven spielberg inherited from Stanley Kubrick It may not be his best approach to science fiction cinema, but that does not prevent us from appreciating a powerful work with a great visual imagination, becoming hypnotic at times, and that also knows how to handle its most emotional component to strike a chord public sensitive. The big question remains whether it should finish a little earlier…
Review of ‘AI Artificial Intelligence’
Blade Runner (1982)
Address: Ridley Scott. Distribution: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, Brion James, Joe Turkel, M. Emmet Walsh, William Sanderson, James Hong, Morgan Paull, Hy Pyke
Obvious and inevitable – apart from the fact that it seemed a bit exaggerated to include the estimable ‘Dredd’ on this list -, since we are talking about one of the most important science fiction films of all time, both on an aesthetic level, imitated to the point of satiety in later years, as in what counts, with everything related to replicants with an unparalleled capacity for fascination, especially the unforgettable Roy Batty of Rutger Hauer.
‘Blade Runner’ review
‘The Road (2009)
Address: John Hillcoat. Distribution: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Molly Parker, Michael K. Williams, Garret Dillahunt
The natural choice on Amazon would have been the exceptional ‘Children of Men’, but I already recommended it to you in my selection of great science fiction movies that failed unfairly. For a similar reason, I also ended up discarding the wonderful ‘Snowpiercer’ and opting for this remarkable adaptation of the novel by Cormac McCarthy that proposes a post-apocalyptic dystopia that focuses on a more intimate and human story with the struggle of a father played by Viggo Mortensen to get ahead and keep his son alive.
Review of ‘The Road (The road)’
‘Wall E’ (2008)
Address: Andrew Stanton. Cast (vocals): Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, with Sigourney Weaver and Fred Willard
It may surprise some to find one of Pixar’s most popular films here, but it fits squarely with the premise of the article, since it takes us to a future in which the Earth is uninhabitable and humans have become series dependent and somewhat pitiful. It is true that the most critical part of ‘Wall-E’ is perhaps the least fortunate of the function, but we will always have those extraordinary first minutes.
‘Wall-E’ review
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