Future Dystopia – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Escape from New York (1981) | John Carpenter

June 2, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

Escape from New York is set in a future 1997, during a time when, after the crime rate has skyrocketed out of control, the island of Manhattan has been turned into an ultra-maximum security prison where the worst of the worst violent criminals are put to live in a state of walled-in anarchy. A potential […]

Akira (1988) | Katsuhiro Otomo

May 26, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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In this breakthrough anime masterwork, Akira starts out in 1988, much of Tokyo is destroyed by a mysterious that spreads like a dome of energy over the city. The rest of the film is set in the year 2019, as we peek into the post-apocalyptic megalopolis that has been rebuilt as Neo-Tokyo, where the government is […]

Blade Runner (1982) | Ridley Scott

May 17, 2019May 26, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The date is November 2019. The city is Los Angeles. Earth has undergone massive population explosions in the urban areas, the city landscape is a mish-mash of every culture, and almost everywhere you go there are advertisements. The most prominent of these advertisements is floating space-barge advertising the Off-World colonies, offering excitement and adventure. It […]