Films set in the "future" which is now our past

[Fez909]

What are they, and how wrong were they?

I'll start with Class of 1999. It was made in 1990, so they didn't give themselves very long for their nightmare scenario to kick in. The situation is this: schools are now so dangerous that they have to bring in robot teachers to teach the kids. This turns out to be a very bad idea as the robots were military robots and they're armed with all sorts of weaponry, which they use on the kids.

Haven't seen it for years, but I really enjoyed watching I when I was younger. It's probably shite.

We do have robot teachers, but they're used to help autistic kids, not discipline da yoots.

 

[DotCommunist]

Demolition Man. With sly stallone, wesley snipes and Sandra Bullock

 

[Fez909]

Demolition Man. With sly stallone, wesley snipes and Sandra Bullock

ha! I was just searching for that to check the dates. I think you're right, though

 

[Belushi]

Bladerunner

2001

Mad Max

 

[DotCommunist]

Alien Nation not the series although that was also good

 

[Belushi]

Escape from New York.

 

[Fez909]

Alien Nation not the series although that was also good

Nope. Alien nation isn't a futuristic film. It was set in the times it was filmed, I think?

 

[DotCommunist]

1984 then?

 

[moochedit]

Still doesn't qualify yet (2015) but getting very close...

 

[DotCommunist]

no hoverboards yet

 

[moochedit]

2001

and 2010

 

[moochedit]

no hoverboards yet

next year will be ace

 

[Belushi]

It's interesting to look at 80's films to see how wrong we got it. Bladerunner and it's Japanese dominated future, or Rocky 4 and its depiction of a a fearsome scientifically and technologically advanced Soviet Union.

 

[skyscraper101]

heh I was thinking to do this thread yesterday - Fez there is a weird synergy going on between us these days

Anyway... I nominate Strange Days.

(ace soundtrack too)

 

[DotCommunist]

ha! I was just searching for that to check the dates. I think you're right, though

its a great action film as well, snipes eats the fucking scenery while kicking the shit out of everyone.

what they got wrong? 'After the franchise wars all resteraunts are now Taco Bell'

and also: the three sea shells

 

[DotCommunist]

heh I was thinking to do this thread yesterday - Fez there is a weird synergy going on between us these days

Anyway... I nominate Strange Days.

(ace soundtrack too)

good shout.

 

[skyscraper101]

2001

and 2010

and 2012

 

[Fez909]

heh I was thinking to do this thread yesterday - Fez there is a weird synergy going on between us these days

Anyway... I nominate Strange Days.

(ace soundtrack too)

Yesterday your future had you making this thread. But today, with your yesterday in the past, we see things didn't turn out like you thought.

Shame you aren't a film..you'd have been a perfect example

 

[moochedit]

there a couple here we haven't had yet..

http://www.totalfilm.com/features/1...-the-future-1/terminator-2-judgement-day-1991

 

[skyscraper101]

Terminator 2 was set in the mid nineties. 1995 I think. But its not really alluded to. But it'd have to be because John Conner would only be like 6 years old if it were actually based in 1991. He's supposed to be 10 but no way, he's at least 12 in the movie.

 

[Belushi]

A Clockwork Orange.

 

[Frances Lengel]

What's that one set in Glasgow (they filmed it in Glasgow coz it was the most futuristic looking city in the uk)? A 70's effort. And they end up in a bothy near a beach for a bit. Fuck knows.

 

[AverageJoe]

We're a bit early on this one as it was set in 2018, but the original Rollerball (1975) is an interesting film because a fair bit of its story, which was Science Fiction at the time, is now already Science Fact

- Corporations controlling sports teams and being more powerful than governments
- The increase in speed and violence to be used as entertainment
- Multiple camera angles and big screen replays
- Population held in check via drugs and mass media
- The use of the collective to smother the individual (which I'm sure happened back then as well to be fair)
- A single searchable database that holds all the information ever written

There's others because its actually quite a subtle film that comments on a future whereby we have no real control over our actions; only those that we are allowed to make within the confines of advertising etc.

I've even bored myself, but its well worth getting hold of a copy to watch

 

[goldenecitrone]

1984 then?

30 years ago. Amazing really. I was thinking today that some time in the not too distant future people are going to think it was incredible that someone still alive was actually born in the 20th century. Much like we used to think about somebody born in the 19th century.

And Space 1999, although that was a TV show.

 

[weltweit]

1984

 

[JTG]

We still have a couple of years to go on Blade Runner

 

[laptop]

Buck Rogers in the 21st Century?

Metropolis is set in 2026 - not long now

 

[moochedit]

Buck Rogers in the 21st Century?

nah it was 25th century

 

[alsoknownas]

Terminator may have happened. The Connors, et al are constantly battling to prevent the technology that leads to Skynet from being invented. We may be living in a timeline in which they were successful.

 

[alsoknownas]

I've even bored myself, but...