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Tergon:
There's an entire category of post- and pre-apocalyptic movies on the Wiki. Here.
Fatty named one of the best - The Stand. Seriously. Book and movie are brilliant.
Um, what else? There's a heap of action-oriented movies like that from a decade or two ago... around the era of Demolition Man and the original Terminator. A lot of Steven King's other books, and maybe one or two from James Herbert, though they're not really that futuristic.
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Again, it's more current-times than futuristic, but still... it's awesome. This is the novel that inspired Night of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later.
And though it's a bit of a stretch... Serenity is a good one. Perhaps not apocalyptic, but it's certainly a dark-future film.
Daniel:
"Absolon." Set in a dark future world where a virus killed almost all the people!
Starring acting powerhouses Christopher Lambert and Lou Diamond Phillips!
...it's not very good!
Slick:
Man, why didn't I call this thread 'dark future' or 'dystopian future'. Dirty future sounds so... dirty.
Thanks for suggestions, but I've seen (and own some of): Blade Runner, Tank Girl, Serenity, 28 Days Later, and of course the matrix. I was trying to think of these when I was thinking of what else I liked like that earlier... Shoddy memory of mine
28 Days Later I found to just have some problems in how they act in addition to actually having the world still alive at the end. Serenity is actually the movie continuation of Firefly, so go check that out! Browncoats for life!
meganjo23:
The Jaunt may be an interesting read for you. It's by Stephen King, set in the future, and about how future technology can go bad (in kind of the same way that cars allow us to have car accidents, drunk drivers, etc). It's a short story, in The Skeleton Crew, if I remember. The way the story's set up, it's half Frankenstien/half futuristic stuff.
Also I second/third/whatever The Stand. I love it because it's so long that by the time I finish it, I'm all, "Wait, what happened in the begining agian?" and then I get to read it agian.
Heavy Duty AA Battery:
Half-Life 2 is an awesome video game that portrays a dark future. As for books, 1984 is a good one.
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