Top Movies Set in the Future

Absolutely brilliant, but did you expect anything less from Pixar? This is one of my 3 favourite Pixar films, the other two being Ratatouille and Toy Story.
I'd say Toy Story is the best, but honestly, I'd have to rewatch it to give a fairer judgment on it. I recently saw Toy Story 2 and it wasn't as brilliant as I remembered it being (seeing as I saw it when I was 9 I think).
The animation in this film is incredible. Pixar achieved near-photo-realism on inanimate objects in Cars, and this is 2 films up from that. It's really quite special.
But of course, it's not about the animation, it's about the film itself and the plot is fantastic as well as a wonderful little satire about the world. Humanity is restored to the human race by a robot, something completely un-human.
It's funny, endearing and just pretty much perfection on film.
I don't think there's much I can say about this other than it's brilliant.

Personal enjoyment: 9/10
Actual quality as a film: 10/10

Dissapointing if I'm honest. The plot is above average but not really movie-quality, except for the subplot which is good, the animation is fit (and widescreen, woo!), the music and voice-acting and everything else are bang on par, but frankly, it's not very funny. I sniggered alot but there were no belly-laughs. That said, how clever this film gets with it's time travel and the fantastic twist at the end all make up for it if you persevere. It's not as good a movie as the greatest TV show ever deserves, but we have at least 3 more to look forwards too, hopefully they'll get better. That said, it still rocks.

Futurama: Bender's Big Score was hardly funny at all. However, it's plot was absolutely fantastic and the amounts of emotion it reached is worthy of recognition alone. Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs is hilarious. Not quite as funny as the show was, but it's certainly close enough so that I don't care. However, it suffers in the plot department. There's nothing wrong with the plot, infact it's charmingly and bizarrely quirky, however, it doesn't feel like a movie-quality plot-line and it also feels much more disjointed than the first film. Whilst the first film could very clearly work as 4 to-be-continued episodes, it also worked fairly flawlessly as a movie. This film never feels like anything but 4 back to back episodes. However, it's still furiously entertaining and who cares if it's not important to the overall Futurama plotline. Only a small handful of the show's episodes actually are and this is 1 of 4 films.
It's not quite as good a film as Bender's Big Score, but it's WAY funnier. Hopefully the next 2 films will be this funny with a plot as good as Bender's Big Score, but we'll have to wait and see.

Personal enjoyment: 9/10
Actual quality as a film: 8/10

With the book being one of my absolute favourites, I was in a really odd position with this film.
When I first heard about it I was expecting it to absolutely rape the book. Thankfully it doesn't really rape it, it's more as though it shags it and never calls back.
Whilst I think alot of it was adapted nearly perfectly in terms of tone, more of it was nothing like the book at all. Ultimately, this is an incredibly glossy and very well made action movie but it lacks much of the depth contained within the novel and sadly falls victim to alot of Hollywood cheese.
It's sadly a real mish-mash of bits and feels like alot is missing from the final cut (including the original ending which sounds alot better, God damned American test-screen audiences).
It's a shame the Oscars wouldn't touch this type of film with a barge-pole for any proper awards because Will Smith really gives a nomination-worthy performance.
Ultimately, it's easily the best film adaptation of it yet, even if it's not as close to the book as "The Last Man on Earth", and I REALLY enjoyed it in spite of it's many flaws.

Just brilliant.

There's a certain sick pleasure to be had in watching 40 studients fight to the death.

This is one of those true 80s action flicks. It's great. It could have so easily been a PG family film but no, with the 80s being what it was, they went full out with the violence and it only ups what a cool film this is.
That's basically how I'd sum up this film. "Cool". It's a friggin' cyborg policeman in a dystopian future, short of zombies, what more could you ask for?
Acting, writing? Bah, who cares. There's nothing wrong with them, but what this film is about is the action and the special effects which are both great and to top it off it has a great little, dark sense of humour.
Overall, it's basically the same premise as The Six Billion Dollar Man, but way more badass.

Personal enjoyment: 8/10
Actual quality as a film: 8/10

A wonderfully funny satire of the way our culture's headed. One of the best films of 2006.

Only the 2nd anime I've ever seen that I genuinely enjoyed alot.

Awesome in most respects, and breath takingly shot, but it answers NONE of the questions. It's meant to make you think, but you have to draw the line somewhere, and that is why is just 7/10 instead of 8 or maybe even 9.

It holds it's status for a reason.

A great effort considering it's age. Whilst it somewhat loses it's way towards the end, it's a very solid film exploring some cool areas of sci-fi.

This is a film realisation of the stereotype of adolescence, well, male adolescence. And if you take it as such, it's really very enjoyable. Guns, gore, naked women with huge boobs and as the title suggest, heavy metal, it's all here.
The first segment is like a blue-print for The 5th Element and even Bladerunner to an extent. I'm almost certain they drew some inspiration from it. Other segments vary in quality. My favourite was the one featuring zombies on a plane during World War II.
The wrap around is confusing and utterly cheesey, but in a film like this, you really can't complain.
The music is suprisingly good, the heavy metal music isn't really over-emphasised at all and the actual score is suprisingly majestic.
The animation is also (though dated), top notch.

This is really worth checking out, just for it's cult quality and it's obvious influence on the world of animation and sci-fi.

Personal enjoyment: 7/10
Actual quality as a film: 7/10

All about the visuals, but they're pretty awesome visuals.