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At the risk of courting downvotes, Brazil from 1985. Not 100% sci-fi, as there are some comedy/fantasy/horror elements, but boy is it just wild. I don't know where Terry Gilliam gets his inspiration from.

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Brazil is so billiant because it depicts a technologial socity where the technology is full of bugs and often malfunction - just like reality. Most dystopian sf assume technology just works but is used for evil purposes.

Brazil suggest the terrorist bombings are really just explosions caused by bad plumbing.

I'd say its a fine suggestion. A dystopian movie portraying a futuristic, overly bureaucractic government which is highly dependent on unreliable whimsical machines paired with a hyper consumerist society.

Robocop and Running Man portray similar scifi futures / society.

They each have a big corporation pulling the strings, OCP and ICS.

12 Monkeys is also a great sci-fi Gilliam movie, not underrated though :)

Is there some dislike for Terry Gilliam? Can't think why anyone would want to downvote Brazil here.

I love Brazil and nagged lots of friends to see it. I now see through their eyes that it's pretty long if you're not enjoying the scenery.

This is one of my favorite films, maybe my favorite sci-fi film. The "steampunk" way in which future technology is depicted is one of the reason Brazil aged so well IMO.

I would actually consider it to be a free adaption of Orwell's 1984.

Every time I watch Brazil, I am surprised to discover Robert De Niro in it.

Every time.

Real-life bureaucracy?

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