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1. Myleti
   September 28th, 2007 at 5:27 pm

   I saw the photo and knew immediately what it was.
   I absolutely love Brazil.

   Who knew a movie so odd [very Terry Gilliam-esque, of course!] could have a song so catchy?

   Now I’ve got it stuck in my head! Thanks a ton!

2. SenorMysterioso
   September 28th, 2007 at 5:39 pm

   This is a great list, I cannont decide which to watch first

3. Ali S.
   September 28th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

   OMG! Alex, we must be connected somehow because today I was going through the need to have a list of movies and books all based on Dystopian themes.

4. Jeff
   September 28th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

   I love Robert DeNiro’s character, the vigilante duct-repairman What a brilliant movie Brazil is. I’m definitely checking through this list for movies I’ve missed.

5. Dan Smith
   September 28th, 2007 at 7:11 pm

   There are a lot of very good movies on this list, in a somewhat incorrect order. A lot of Hollywood crud is diluting the higher ranks of the list due to mass appeal.

6. Reechard
   September 28th, 2007 at 7:40 pm

   Side note - Arcade Fire has an excellent cover of the Brazil theme music.

   and here it is
   http://www.sideload.com/cb/track/?id=309746

7. sal
   September 28th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

   Very cool list. They messed up on the picture for Mad Max, though.

8. artbot
   September 28th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

   Brazil is the movie that most comes to mind whenever I think that we may be too far down the dystopian road ourselves. The scene where the terrorist bomb goes off in the restaurant and they simply put up a barrier so everyone can continue eating is both hysterical and terrifying.

   Side note: The most “out there” cover of “Brazil” ever has to be Sugar Plant’s grungy noise-pop version with broken English singing female vocals run through a mellotron. Trippy and super cool.

9. artbot
   September 28th, 2007 at 10:28 pm

   Their top 10 are pretty solid, except for Minority Report. But there are entries near the bottom I would have put much higher (Starship Troopers, 1984).

   And I question certain films as even having enough of a dystopian theme to qualify, like Serenity, Pleasantville, or War of the Worlds.

10. sal
    September 28th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    artbot does have a point. A few of those did seem to be just sci fi.

11. Stacyj
    September 28th, 2007 at 11:20 pm

    Wow, how utterly freaky - I JUST got home from watching Brazil with some folks. What a good movie! You could very much tell who’d seen it before and who hadn’t by the vaguely unsettled silence with which the first-timers reacted by the time the credits rolled, heh.

    Anyway - what an interesting list, thanks for posting it! I look forward to checking out some of the other movies on it …

12. Alex
    September 29th, 2007 at 12:41 am

    It’s not a bad music to have stuck in your head, myleti - my favorite is pink martini’s version. Probably b/c I like the band - they’re the Neatorama of music!

13. cuimhne
    September 29th, 2007 at 7:35 am

    Wow Brazil is one of my all time favourite films Love it! Good list though there’s a couple that I disagree with…

14. Noelegy
    September 29th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    Oh, I [heart] Brazil. Jonathan Pryce is wonderful as a nebbishy would-be hero. Robert DeNiro’s clearly having a great time. Michael Palin is about as far from his usual sweet, goofy self as possible. The hard part is when the absurdist vision of the future starts seeming not quite so absurd and even a little plausible. One of my definite all-time favorites.

15. aware
    September 30th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

    Moxy Fruvous did a song to the tune of the Brazil theme song, about working at a crappy job (”working in a dog food store between the ages of 13 and 16 just outside Toronto…”). It’s called “I Love My Boss”

    Lyrics:
    http://www.fruvous.com/b-lyr.html#boss

    Live recording: (track 09)
    http://www.archive.org/details/mfruvous1999-02-21.shnf

    other live recordings: (man, i love the internet archive site!)
    http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aetree%20AND%20for mat%3Amp3%20AND%20creator%3A%22Moxy%20Fruvous%22%20AND%20%22i%20love%2 0my%20boss%22

16. Douglas d'Aquino
    November 9th, 2007 at 9:21 am

    The funny thing is that the movie itselfs have nothing to do with Brazil (country), but is a nice movie. The music, on the other side, is brazilian (and considered a MPB - brazilian popular music - classic)

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