Currently there is a big trend on futuristic films where earth has failed and humanity crashed into itself. The films that fit this trend that were released fairly recently include: Oblivion, Elysium, Pacific Rim and After Earth.
In Oblivion, Earth
has been taken over and the remaining humans are preparing to move to Saturn’s moon, Titan.
In Pacific Rim huge aliens from deep in the pacific attack humans, they take days to take down and thousands of lives and resources are lost. The world countries decide to team together and create massive monsters to fight monsters…..
Continue reading in my review on Pacific Rim
In After Earth, Cypher and his son Kitai get stranded on earth one thousand years after the earth’s population had to move out because of changes that were inhabitable.
In Elysium it is the year 2154 and there are two classes of people,
1: The very wealthy who live on the pristine man made space station, Elysium.
2: The other people who live on overpopulated, ruined earth.
A government official will stop at anything to keep the people on earth, on earth, and have the people on Elysium continue their luxurious life.
Of course the citizens of earth won’t stop trying to get there.
Max is backed into a corner and agrees to a mission. If the mission is a success it will not only save his life but might bring the people’s to equality.
All these films fit into this trend and I suspect more to be released in the coming months.
Click here for Elysium on the IMDb website
Click here for After Earth on the IMDb website
Noam Solomons-Wise 