Michael Keaton has had a wildly diverse career, and he is always notable in every one of his roles. In fact, he’s created several characters who remain touchstones of contemporary American film, like his manic title character in Beetlejuice (1988) or his moody and low-toned Batman in the first reboot of Batman (1989). Take even his minor role as Captain Gene in The Other Guys (2010). Instead of the stereotypical commanding officer yelling at those wacky guys who don’t follow the rules—a trope that first emerged in the Dirty Harry movies in the 1970s—Keaton’s Captain Gene is a beleaguered bureaucrat who is working a second job as the manager of a Bed Bath and Beyond and just doesn’t want any trouble.
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Well, That Didn’t Work Out So Well: My Favorite Cheesy Movies About Dystopian Futures
The lists go on and on: robot therapists, nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners, and flying houses. For every utopian prediction of the future, Hollywood seems to have come up with a dystopian opposite. Dystopia is one of my favorite words ever. It’s the view of the future as completely terrible. Everything will be dysfunctional.
Movies about our impending dystopian futures are among my favorites. Why? Because almost all of them are as wrong about the future as the idea of ape chauffeurs and flying houses. Here are my picks for the cheesiest movies about our collective dystopian future.
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Robocop turns 30 this summer! In honor of this classic science fiction film's milestone anniversary, we crunched the numbers to find which 30 sci-fi movies DVD Netflix subscribers have rented most over the years.
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