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Started by chainsaw midget, February 20, 2024, 09:28:33 PM

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#15
February 24, 2024, 11:17:29 AM
Akira set in 2019.

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#16
February 24, 2024, 11:21:22 AM
Escape from New York set in 1997.

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#17
February 24, 2024, 04:48:31 PM
Escape from L.A. takes place in 2013
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#18
February 24, 2024, 07:07:40 PM
As a joke, Turbo Kid takes place fifteen years before it was made.
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#19
February 27, 2024, 02:11:39 PM
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

LilCerberus

#20
February 27, 2024, 04:40:52 PM
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) takes place in 1994
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

chainsaw midget

#21
February 27, 2024, 07:42:30 PM
One of the psychic in Ghostbusters II mentions the world is going to end on Feburary 14 2016.

M.10rda

#22
February 27, 2024, 08:01:36 PM
...That psychic was only about 11 months off!

LilCerberus

#23
March 01, 2024, 10:11:50 PM
I believe the movie Breaking Glass (1980) takes place over several years, starting in 1980, & ending in 1984....
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

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#24
March 02, 2024, 10:35:00 AM Last Edit: March 02, 2024, 10:47:30 AM by Cult_Moody_Movies
Predator 2 is set in 1997.



I think it still hit current LA on the head......less crap on the streets though.

ER

#25
March 06, 2024, 11:06:39 PM
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.
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#26
March 08, 2024, 01:44:03 AM
Battle in Outer Space (1959) is set in 1965!
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#27
March 08, 2024, 05:42:54 AM
The OMEGA MAN (1971) is set in the far flung future of ...1977!

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#28
March 08, 2024, 01:24:25 PM
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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#29
March 08, 2024, 01:33:38 PM
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
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