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In a few days it will be 2008, well into the future. Movies promised us we'd be flying cars to our jobs at the robot factory. Instead, we have to settle for iPods, free online checking accounts and AIDS. Of course, the future wouldn't have been such a disappointment if Hollywood hadn't gotten our hopes so high. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Set In The Premise
The Predictions Innovative New Technology: There's a scene in 2001 in which a character is dozing in front of a flat-panel screen built into the seat in front of him--an impressively accurate prediction of JetBlue and other airlines with TVs in their seat back. Even more noteworthy is that he's watching programming that's obviously from the 1960s, eerily anticipating Nick at Nite. Widespread Space Travel: It's easy to chide Space Odyssey for its ambitious forecast of turn-of-the-century space travel, but keep in mind that the film was released in 1968, a full year before we faked the moon landing. Nobody could have guessed that the Soviet Union would forfeit the Space Race for fear of getting its dress dirty, and then finally collapse like a little girl. This deprived us the fruits of competition. Were the Soviets still tinkering around with satellites, we'd probably be colonizing Pluto instead of bitterly revoking its status as a planet. Overall Accuracy
Timecop (1994)
Set In 2004 The Premise The Predictions
Futuristic Cars: The cars in Timecop are able to navigate by themselves, with a voice activation system so advanced it can understand Jean-Claude Van Damme. Assuming the auto industry would whip up such advanced vehicles in 10 years is like making a movie today that is supposed to be set in 1985 and having everyone driving Model Ts. Overall Accuracy Death Race 2000 (1975)
Set In 2000 The Premise The Predictions
Prevalence of Idiotic Violent Death Racing: OK, so we'll give them NASCAR. The only difference is that in the Death Race points are accumulated by running over pedestrians, and the points vary based on the age and gender of the person killed, whereas NASCAR is completely fucking pointless. Overall Accuracy RoboCop (1987)
Set In
The Premise The Predictions
Privatization of Government: The crooked Omni megacorporation is contracted to oversee the police department, leading to large-scale corruption and the cruel manipulation of RoboCop. This is an astute anticipation of the present-day debates over private military contracts. Of course, Blackwater continues to maintain it never deployed cyborgs in Iraq, if you're naive enough to believe their official account. Detroit Even More of a Shithole: RoboCop shrewdly takes place in Detroit, the only city that actually turned out to have the dystopian future sci-fi movies have been predicting for years. The movie version of the city is so overrun with crime and poverty that the Omni corporation hatches a plan to simply replace it with "Delta City." In reality such a dramatic last resort was never undertaken. Instead, everybody just kind of gave up. Overall Accuracy
So, even though no specific year is given for its setting, no matter what year you assign it, everything's still going to be completely wrong. |
Hey cracked staff! You guys were wrong about one thing.
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Hey clayhart, check this out.
It's pretty cool.
Dick.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16605_8-most-obnoxious-internet-commenters.html
wow clayheart you cant just read something to get a good laugh huh? you have to nit pick at it..its a f*****g comedy site! not cnn.com. and i thought the christian extremist comment was funny not innapropriate. ill buy you a package of tampons if it stopps the bleeding of your p***y
as for deathe race 2001 would GTA 3 qualify
Sorry but you guys are off base with Escape From New York. Remember it was 1980. No computer could scan an area and create a 3D rendering like that. They had to make it by building a model city in all black with green outlines then pan shoot it. Additionally, there were no gray camo designs, the army only ever used green up to that point. Pulse monitoring watchs can be bought at Wal-Mart, but were pure sci-fi in 80. Although we do not implant explosives in people we have developed nanobots to do a variety of other things. Beyond all of this, the movie featured terrorists hijacking a plane and flying it into a building in New York City (which is not "a tasteless allusion to Sept 11" since they made it 21 years before 9-11). And although crime has not risen 400%, the incarceration rate has risen to 1% of the total American population (which is huge) so the idea of a need for mass storage and limiting costs for operation of prisions is not far fetched. Finally the "Christian militant" comment is just inappropriate, and untrue (although I am no fan, nor ever was, of Bush Jr). Conclusion: Escape From New York featured many futuristic elements that have come true both before and after the 1997 target date.
i think were better off without most of this stuff.
shut up
back to the future trilogy is some of the best ever
and what about jaws fifteen, how Many of those do they have by now?
also when they shot the hover boards, they were real, in the boxed set of DVD's it shows it under bonusfeatures
Lolz at the dust jacket line
1984?
I agree with hpfizzle, Demolition Man should have been mentioned, but no sense in whining about it.
Geez, what happened to all the funny comments being replaced by things like "BUY!BUY!BUY!" and "I'm so fat and white and lonely singles.com" or "????""""" STFU already. Oh by the way 2001 Space odyssey had flatscreen monitors in it. That was accurate. Oh, and so was colonization of the moon.
dont forget bicentenial-man, apparently we'd have robotic robin williams' helping out around the house by 2005
What about Demolition Man? I totally think that should have been on the list.
Well, you gotta give Escape from New York credit for predicting a hero named Snake emerging and saving the world in 1997.
Great article. But "world War 1" is actually called The Great War! And World War 2 would have ended a lot quicker had America not been selling weapons to the opposing forces!
But brilliant use of Jean Claude Van Damme bashing!
Well, spam's a type of meat. I know that there are Meat Busters. Though deleting spam isn't really their thing.
The Ghostbusters get rid of ghosts, right? Is there some kind of equivalent group that gets rid of spambots?
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Hint: Utter witticism.
What would James Bond be without the corny puns? A lot better, actually.
There is nothing sadder than a kung fu star in decline.
Yes, they blow up stuff. But, they do it with a message.
Apparently, science likes sex as much as Cracked.
Lobster rights? Good one!
We know because people tried.
Pot makes you a bloodthirsty homosexual pervert.
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skipster... man... wow that was f*****g awesome.
Clayheart you are a little b***h!