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Top Ten Prophetic Sci-Fi Flicks
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:07 pm
by [Syl]
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:02 pm
by Mr. Broken
In no particular order.
Water World (global climate change)
The Road Warrior (fuel starvation)
The Day After Tomorrow (global climate change)
From the Earth to the Moonalibrium (been there done that)
The Running Man ( desensetivity through media )
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (Submarine Technology and oceanic exploration)
Death Race 2000 (reality TV )
The Terminator (rampant technology)
The Fly (genetics )
Equalibrium ( chemical enforced population desensetivity )
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:03 pm
by Mr. Broken
sorry type o on #4
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:17 pm
by Cail
Idiocracy should be on the list.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:23 pm
by Mr. Broken
agreed.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:57 pm
by High Lord Tolkien
Sleeper.
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:11 am
by The Dreaming
Thats a pretty great list... and reminds me of a few movies I want to see again. (Gattaca rules!)
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:41 am
by dANdeLION
Demolition Man (predicts Governor Schwartzenegger will run for president)
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:37 am
by matrixman
That was a very stimulating article, HAL. I mean Syl.
I'm afraid I don't often pay close attention to a sci-fi movie's predictive accuracy. The only film I can think of at the moment (that hasn't been mentioned yet):
Jurassic Park - recreating dinosaurs from fossil DNA was a far-fetched idea in 1993 when the movie was made, but in terms of more
recent extinct animals, the notion that they may once again walk among us seems actually plausible. This was illustrated in a show I saw recently about the well-preserved remains of a baby mammoth discovered in 2004.
Could a mammoth be cloned? With today's cutting-edge science, the reality of a living, breathing mammoth is looming closer than ever. Formerly skeptical paleobiologists now speculate that humans might even witness the "rebirth" of the mammoth in our lifetime. New high-tech advances in DNA technology mean that scientists are not only one giant step closer to penetrating the secrets of the mammoth's world, but also to deciphering its very genetic code.
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:15 am
by The Dreaming
dANdeLION wrote:Demolition Man (predicts Governor Schwartzenegger will run for president)
Impossible without SERIOUS constitutional change. (President must be born in USA) I don't see it happening.
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:49 am
by Mr. Broken
Perhaps V For Vendetta should be added?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:21 pm
by dANdeLION
The Dreaming wrote:dANdeLION wrote:Demolition Man (predicts Governor Schwartzenegger will run for president)
Impossible without SERIOUS constitutional change. (President must be born in USA) I don't see it happening.
My point was the part about Schwartzenegger being Gov.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:14 am
by Montresor
The stuff featured on the televison shows and commercials, and the general tacky consumer degeneration of society as espoused in Robocop has always struck me as being very prophetic.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:31 am
by Loredoctor
Mr. Broken wrote:Perhaps V For Vendetta should be added?
Uh . . . . don't.
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:55 am
by Holsety
Loremaster wrote:Mr. Broken wrote:Perhaps V For Vendetta should be added?
Uh . . . . don't.
GASP
ITS ALREADY HAPPENING