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]

I really think that its difficult for any Sci Fi to be prophetic today. Back in the 40's and 50's sure. Today so many people are connected, exchanging ideas and reading the work of the others that the average Sci Fi fan of today is far more educated than his 50's contemporaries. I think that pretty much every theory has been brought into Sci Fi in one fashion or another. Robots, AI, space travel, dimensions, genetic manipulation... ho hum. We are so spoiled. Yeah you can say some authors have creative takes on things, but its hard to say where today's prophets can lead in a direction. With technology you see and project a logical progression of how it be changed and adapted, there are things that we would like to do... but those things that we want to aren't really prophetic. Larry Nivens Ringworld is an excellent piece of prophetic Sci Fi that was a far out concept, but that came out over thirty years ago. I don't consider Gattica prophetic because all those Big Brother concepts were already espoused by Orwell. The Matrix was pre-saged by Neuromancer. So any honest prophetic movies are the old ones, but even those writers were often already in scientific fields and were trading on inside information. So really the list is limited for honest prophetic movies.

Thanks a lot bro. Don't you get sick a little of hearing that M.10? Or guns don't kill people, Alec Baldwin does. Maybe it is just a lurking thing that we have to deal with now, which is going to go on perpetually. From 2026 onward. Because I don't see there being a new Bane or acceptable like Apocalypto type of movie.
And no breakage at all from the conspiracy theorists who like to talk about the Denver airport murals or hemorrhagic fevor breaking out in rabbits across the Midwest (which I am actually starting to wonder about.) Or a constant going on of Green Lantern movies, and the star has to be more and more endowed and krunk. But these hey bro fist bump guys in spandex have no clue like what Anderson Cooper was talking about when he referred to Dana Bash as the Holy spirit. On what was probably one of the strangest CNN broadcasts that I have ever heard. Them misspelling Greenland though, didn't surprise me. I mean it is only a matter of time in my opinion, until Hollywood misspells the Green Lantern in the title of one of their movies. And then my guess is that they will leave it..The Greeen Lantern.