If you were a top ranked party official in "1984" things wouldn't be so bad, but that's like saying if you are a member of the Saudi royal family things aren't so bad for you right now.
Not really, at least that wasnt Orwell's intention, he wanted to depict an order so lousy that even those who were meant to benefit the most from it knew it was lousy, hence all the need for constant self-indoctrination and reinforcement.
Winston Smith is supposedly part of the middle classes, the proles, the least well off but also, ironically, that section of society which needs the least oppressive control, is the least policed actually (its slightly more developed in the book I've always thought) dont feature in a big way in either the book or the movie, they arent characters I mean. Everything anyone can get is shite, in the only things which are held up as good in the book are the countryside and a snow globe which has sentimental value, the party hates sentiment because its contra the "serious headedness" of ideology and struggle and striving, I've always thought the scene were the snow globe is smashed during the raid at the finish should be shot in slow motion.
1984 is also meant to be a satire on authoritarianism, its meant to have the message that even when it proves completely successful authoritarianism can only produce shite, shite alcohol, shite cigarettes, shite books, shite TV, shite newspapers and eventually, shite people, Winston, an intellectual, a thinker, is rendered a broken man by the finish and broken men arent good for much, they definitely cant ever be the super men or men of tommorrow of most authoritarian/totalitarian dreams.
Brazil is another movie which manages to do these themes well, things arent as shite for the middle classes, although the entropy and breakdown and denial of it has gotten so bad that literally the place is falling apart, so much so that explosions from it all are blamed on terrorists, who no one sees and who havent made an demands or anything. The torture and resultant mental break rescue fantasy at the finish is closer to what Orwell was trying to depict as the horror of room 101, the betrayal and ruthlessness of the torturer, who was a close personal acquaintence, is ripped off from Orwell too but I've yet to see an adaptation of 1984 which really displayed it like that.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was a good movie too, at least I liked it, that future would actually be the closest to our present, if the libertarians became truly ascendent and mixed their vision with elitism, the rampant drug culture and orgy culture satisfying most of the low rent classes is something I really could see happening.
I agree that Back To The Future was the most positive depiction of a futurescape, although got to say those were positive movies and made a time when most movies had a positivity which I dont think is around anymore and seems phony or pastiche when done today.
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