"...kicks"

I remember when films about the future were bright, and hopeful. Over the last 30 years certainly after "Blade Runner" it became dystopian hells on greased wheels. We can't even imagine a hopeful future now.

It must be ugly to be a kid, and see that most the projections for your future life are so rough hopeless, and deadly.
This will affect what coming authors will publish what future entertainment will sound, and look like. This with every entertainment dream about dark hells of poverty injustice, and despair. I don't think the "Infotainment War Rape Lies Oppression, and Despoiling the Earth Complex" has thought this through.

It makes money so drives everything else out. "Death Race 5000 AD!" It's a parody of itself now. I'd actually like to see a drama set in a turn of the 22nd century that didn't involve zombies vast mind controlled slave farms evil A.I. robot wars, and hyper-rich class enemies fucking in orbit watching everyone suffer below them for kicks.
Btw I just gave the plot of at least 4 major, and 500 indie science fiction movies of the last several years there.
See even I can't imagine such a drama that didn't involve horror, and despair. Is our future really 'that' certain to be 'that' awful for 'everyone' except .0001% of the 1%? Then we need to finally have that Revolution against our owners.

I Want my damned Future Back!