The Future According To Movies

Kylo Ren

Thought this was cool and thought I would share!

http://visual.ly/future-according-films

Kess73

V For Vendetta is not set in 2038.

The comic is set in the late 1980's/early 1990's and the film version is set in 2020.:)

Galvasean

I wish the real world looked like the opening cityscape shot in Blade Runner.

Kylo Ren

Kess73 wrote: »

V For Vendetta is not set in 2038.

The comic is set in the late 1980's/early 1990's and the film version is set in 2020.:)

I'll be sure to let them know!

Ridley

The Red Dwarf date is wrong too.

Immaculate Pasta

Well if Back to the Future is to be believed we have 4 years to go until we get hoverboards :cool:

Corkfeen

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

Well if Back to the Future is to be believed we have 4 years to go until we get hoverboards :cool:

Nike are coming out with the shoes so who knows.

ASIAN LABOUR MARKET BOOSTER Nike is readying the release of a pair of shoes first seen in the film Back to the Future 2, the Nike Air Mag.
Those who have seen the film and noticed the shoes will have seen a rather obvious Nike logo on the side of them, as well as the fact that they are self lacing. This might have some appeal to the more lazy amongst us, but for fans of the film, and trainer enthusiasts, they are something of a must-have.
They have been a long time coming. Nike has had a patent for self lacing shoes for some time, and an actual release has always seemed like a natural follow-on. Now it seems that time is upon us.
Trainer site Nicekicks was sent a mysterious invite from Nike, which although it did not actually say that the shoes were coming out dropped some rather large hints in the form of a box that included a paid of silver, visor like sunglasses worn by Dr Brown in the filmn along with a recorded message from the doc himself.
It said, "Welcome to Los Angeles. If my calculations are correct, over the next 24 hours you are about to see some SERIOUS SH*T!" Also included was an invitation to an event, hosted by Nike designer Tinker Hatfield, that reads, "IT'S ABOUT TIME...an unveiling that could change the course of time." The time is later today.
If Nike has cracked its self-lacing technology - and hasn't just turned to Velcro, for example - then perhaps the shoes will deserve the hype that they will receive.
Nike filed the patent for its self lacing system in November 2009. Patent apers appear to show a lacing system that reacts when a foot is placed in the shoe.
A video posted to Youtube by Dr Emmet Brown, shows the shoes in some detail. In a message posted underneath the video, incidentally the only video posted by the account, the Doc adds, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say that looks like shelves and shelves of 2011 Nike MAG shoes."


http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/boffin-watch-blog/2107772/nike-readying-future-shoes

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Immaculate Pasta

Corkfeen wrote: »

Nike are coming out with the shoes so who knows.

That is cool! When I was 17, I did have trainers like Marty's in 1985 - White Nike trainers with the red tick. It also coincided with me just passing my driving test so I would often drive up to 88mph wearing the shoes and pretend I was going back in time. :cool:

bnt

It's 2015: where are all the RePet stores?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtoLvF_TlSA

This is an "infomercial" filmed for the movie The 6th Day (2000), which is set in the year 2015. By then, according to the movie, you'll be able to buy a clone of a dead pet that's just like the old one, or better! The "6th Day" laws prohibit the use of the cloning process on humans, so there's no danger that Arnie will come home, from his job flying skiers to the slopes in a jet-copter, to find that he's been "replaced" ... :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-Abh8opLo

Chain Smoker

You must be just about the only person who thinks of the 6th Day when people talk about films set in a futuristic 2015...

bnt

Just a coincidence - I saw it mentioned elsewhere on the 'Net and remembered I quite enjoyed that film. The soundtrack by Trevor Rabin is stonking work. Though it might have been a bit better had Kevin Costner not had a schedule conflict ...

quickbeam

Kess73 wrote: »

V For Vendetta is not set in 2038.

Ridley wrote: »

The Red Dwarf date is wrong too.

While we're at it. People are killed in Logan's Run at 30, not 21 too.

conorhal

While there's some amusement to be had in scoffing at just how wrong the movie business consistently gets it when it comes to sci-fi (still waiting on my flying car damnit!), it's often more interesting to analyse where they got it right.
Good sci-fi always asks the bigger questions or satirises, through the lens of science fiction, the concerns of society today. We might not have flying cars, but we can ask if the underlying themes these films sought to explore are still relevant or worse still, that they were prescient.

Since it's 2015, let’s take Robocop as an example.

So we don't have cyborgs (yet). But, Detroit is today a bankrupt, failed city and when you consider the state of policing in the US, it has indeed become unquestionably militarized. We may not have ED-209 walking our streets, but you wonder how long it will be before drones are used as commonplace policing tools? In the case of Robocop, the underlying concerns for society that it satirises, corporatism, the privatization of state functions through outsourcing, the militarization and mechanization of policing etc. make the film seem as relevant today as it was in ’87, a point that the reboot resoundingly missed.

Kev W

conorhal wrote: »

While there's some amusement to be had in scoffing at just how wrong the movie business consistently gets it when it comes to sci-fi (still waiting on my flying car damnit!), it's often more interesting to analyse where they got it right.
Good sci-fi always asks the bigger questions or satirises, through the lens of science fiction, the concerns of society today. We might not have flying cars, but we can ask if the underlying themes these films sought to explore are still relevant or worse still, that they were prescient.

Since it's 2015, let’s take Robocop as an example.

So we don't have cyborgs (yet). But, Detroit is today a bankrupt, failed city and when you consider the state of policing in the US, it has indeed become unquestionably militarized. We may not have ED-209 walking our streets, but you wonder how long it will be before drones are used as commonplace policing tools? In the case of Robocop, the underlying concerns for society that it satirises, corporatism, the privatization of state functions through outsourcing, the militarization and mechanization of policing etc. make the film seem as relevant today as it was in ’87, a point that the reboot resoundingly missed.

Also worth mentioning that while we don't have full-on cyborgs yet we do have early versions of robotic prosthetic limbs now. In fact the robotics of RoboCop's 2015 are actually far less advanced than what's been developed in real life 2015.