10 most prophetic sci fi movies

[Newt]

Things to Come (1936) always struck me as remarkably prescient: a British science fiction film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. The screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come and his 1931 non-fiction work, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. The film stars Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, and Cedric Hardwicke.

Predicted WWII and strategic bombing, among other things.  The general 'feel' of the trends in the world politics in the film is in the right ballpark too as I recall.

[peter johnson]

Things to Come, Metropolis, and a slew of older films I can think of belong here -- I was sort of sorry to see that Popular Mechanics falls into the same trap that only newer films are worth considering that seems to affect so many of these lists from other sources.
Destination Moon is the oldest film here -- and that is essentially little more than a remake of the 1930's German film Die Frau ins Die Mond (Woman on The Moon).
peter johnson/denny crane

[skuts]

No Videodrome?

"Soon, all of us will have special names, names designed to make the cathode ray tube resonate."

1983

[Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan]

another one of these articles.  What about plan 9?  hello?

Phantom's Menace had a ton of prophetic things going on. The lack of child support and security for young kids. De facto bills written by people without a debate and whose minds were honed into 35 percent recreation. I mean why did it have to be Midichlorians. Why not buffaloberry shrub.

Whatever movie predicted that the video game Knights of the Round for the Super Nintendo would be over two hundred dollars now, is prophetic. I am not sure what movie that would be, Other than Dr. Giggles. No I mean I stick with Phantom's menace. It basically set the tone that if you are trying to make a science fiction movie after 1999 then you are fighting against the George Lucas machine. And man I would rather it be like the Girl scouts or how many guys named Hennings and played football got to fly in an A-10 tank killer. The Malastares..Uh, ok justy you got me there. I would like to be one. But only if they can tell me why the Greenland shark lives to be like five hundred years old. I mean shouldn't one of the goals of science fiction be to upgrade the hotties. Like Kelly Saindon. Like woo la la. Instead of downgrading them. And name seriously, one hot woman in a star wars movie since Carrie Fischer.
So yeah. Phantom's menace. The name is prophetic alone in that it is ugly. It promotes ugly people. Which is really

[M.10rda]

The prequel trilogy is bonkers. PHANTOM MENACE is rife w/ broad and offensive African-American, Japanese, and Jewish minstrelsy. ATTACK OF THE CLONES (which is the least watchable of the three) at least I guess has the sober idea that technology created to serve civilization will eventually destroy it. By the third chapter the U.S. had invaded a foreign country to seize its resources and started attacking the civil liberties of its own citizens, so George Lucas clearly felt smart about having the Senate cede all its power to Emperor Palpatine. But who needs sociopolitical commentary from George Lucas?!

Of course the rise of Palpatine sequence now seems timely and cogent again.  The fact that it's JJ Binks who persuades the Senate to crown Palpatine is pretty funny somehow (unintentionally). There are a lot of white Binkses in politics right now.