Dark future movies are, by now, as established an SF subgenre as creature features or space operas. Their world view is usually a cross between an Orwellian nightmare and a Jean Paul Gaultier fashion show: grim, oppressive and dangerous but sexy, radical and cool. In other words, you wouldn't mind visiting, but you'd hate to live there.
It all goes back to "Blade Runner," which has had a bigger impact on dark future filmmakers -- or perhaps I should say art directors -- than any other.
But times have changed since Ridley Scott was updating the definition of human for the '80s, while introducing the word "replicant" to the language.