According to Terminator 2, Judgement Day was supposed to happen in 1997. Later sequels and spin-offs would push it back to 2003, 2004, 2011, and 2017. We managed to avoid a lot of Judgement Days so far.
Back to the Future 2 showed us we were supposed to have flying cars and hover boards in 2015.
Star Trek told us there was going to be Eugenics Wars (that conflict that Khan was created for) sometime between 1992 and 1996.
So, what other futures from movies are now in our past?
I keep seeing a meme that says Mad Max was set in 2020...
The Running Man starts with a text card which reads:
"By 2017 the world economy has collapsed. Food, natural resources, and oil are in short supply. A police state, divided into paramilitary zones, rules with an iron hand."
The Batman Beyond cartoon series is set in the dystopian Gotham City of 2019.
2001: A SPACE ODDESSY.
Why ain't we running around space?
Goddammit!
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1984.
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Seems like nowadays, it's Big Brother who needs watching!
Rollerball said we would have no more disease, war, poverty etc: that worked out very well. 😳
DEATHRACE 2000 should really be a thing!
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Blade Runner - all versions of Blade Runner take place in 2019 Los Angeles
pretty sure we did this thread not that long ago but I can't find it... maybe we set the thread in the future?
THE ABYSS (1989) - set in 1994
TIME COP (1994) - set in 2004
JUST IMAGINE (1930) is set in 1980, and had us flying in one man individual planes and flying to Mars.
And Mars has some crazy styles!
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Quote from: bob on February 22, 2024, 08:38:03 AM
Blade Runner - all versions of Blade Runner take place in 2019 Los Angeles
I don't think BLADE RUNNER 2049 does.
FARENHIET 451 (1966) , where books are banned and burned, takes place in 2022. And now certain parts of the Republican party are practicing that very thing!
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Soylent Green was set in 2022.
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2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)
Year: 1998
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Creepozoids (1987)
Akira set in 2019.
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Escape from New York set in 1997.
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Escape from L.A. takes place in 2013
As a joke, Turbo Kid takes place fifteen years before it was made.
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) takes place in 1994
One of the psychic in Ghostbusters II mentions the world is going to end on Feburary 14 2016.
...That psychic was only about 11 months off!
I believe the movie Breaking Glass (1980) takes place over several years, starting in 1980, & ending in 1984....
Predator 2 is set in 1997.
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I think it still hit current LA on the head......less crap on the streets though.
Not quite on-topic, but one of the funnier Futurama episodes involved a sub-plot where it was mentioned that Star Trek couldn't give the people in New New York hope for the future, because it was set 800 years in the past.
Battle in Outer Space (1959) is set in 1965!
The OMEGA MAN (1971) is set in the far flung future of ...1977!
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Quote from: RCMerchant on March 08, 2024, 05:42:54 AM
The OMEGA MAN (1971) is set in the far flung future of ...1977!
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I was ten then 😳😉
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 08, 2024, 05:42:54 AM
The OMEGA MAN (1971) is set in the far flung future of ...1977!
2012 (2009), set in the far flung future of... erm, 2012. talk about giving your film a brief shelf life
keep meaning to check out OMEGA MAN
Class of 1999 came out in 1990.
Then it's sequel class of 1999 II came out in 1994. (Although they do say in the movie that two years have passed so it's 2001. They just didn't retitle the movie.)
Try to beat this: the 1982 film Class of 1984 is set in ... 1984.
It always gets me that the original X-men movie was set "in the near future" while it's sequels were in the present.
I guess that near future" really was near.
The Moody Blues wrote a soundtrack for this thread.
Escape From L.A. takes place in 2013.