Film Versions of the Future You'd Most Want to Really Happen
We as a people tend to see the future extremely pessimistically. 'Dystopian' is practically synonymous with 'Future' as far as the cinema is concerned. It's so rare to have a positive outlook on the future, most of the movies on this list still tell a story of a world not going so well. But most have at least some redeeming values. Let's hope we make the world a better place than movies seem to think we may.
Below are the movies where the future looks the most ideal, be it advances in technology (hey, the future would be great if we ALL lived on Elysium), robotics (if being lazy wasn't so awful and harmful, bring on the Wall-E future!), or other technologies (who wouldn't want Scarlett Johansson to whisper them sweet nothings like in Her).
This list is ranked by the world you'd most want to live in, not by the quality of the movie itself. Vote up the most ideal universe of the future or vote down the worlds that would be your absolute worst nightmare.
- 1William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Robert Wise
The original Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry, featured a near-utopian future, where science and reason triumphed.
The Federation calls on Adm. James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the Starship Enterprise to contain an immense nimbused object that's on a crash course with Earth. After investigating, ...more - 2Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover
- 3Mel Blanc, Rick Dees, Patti Deutsch
- Released: 1990
- Directed by: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
A 1960s animated franchise with a comical yet positive portrayal of future.
Based on the popular cartoon series, this animated movie, set in a time filled with family-sized spacecrafts and intergalactic travel, begins with hardworking family man George Jetson (George ...more - 4Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm
- 5Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Luc Besson
A film by Luc Besson based on French sci-fi comics by Mezieres and Christin shows quite a positive future.
In the 28th century, special operatives Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline work together to maintain order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the minister of defense, the duo ...more