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Saw Soylent Green on DVD last night. I had seen it when it originally came out. The movie (starring Charton Heston, Leigh-Taylor Young, Edward G Robinson, Chuck Connors) was released in 1973 and takes place in 2022. If you lived through the 70s, or studied it, or even saw your parents photos, you probably think like I do --- that it was one of the most cringeworthy decades for fashion and hair. So it is with great sadness that I announce to you that in 2022, white men will be walking around in John Lennon caps and neckerchiefs and something similar to polyester leisure suits and black men will have large sideburns and afros you could pitch a tent in.
The cars will be strangely familiar...but only if you had one or look at history books and station wagons. Thankfully, one of the characters chose to die with the safe choice of classical music playing and did not pick something funky or I could tell you what the music will be like. Everyone will ride stationary bikes but not because of Obamacare but because they have to pedal fast to generate electricity for their single lightbulb. New York City will have 40 million people, the cops will be on the take, you will have roommates or you will be sleeping on stairways. Rich men will live in hooker apartment complexes meaning "the girl" comes with the apartment. And it looks like there is hope for religion, yet, but mostly the church as a place to sleep or confess. In an obvious choice to go retro, in 2022, computer games will be blue screen games with white chompers and only really rich people will have one.
Oh yeah, and the vegetarians will eventually have their way...sort of. There won't be any meat, but the government handout will be something called soylent (you knew that soy stuff would get you eventually) green...which is actually dead people in the form of green crackers or as I like to call it, the environmentalist's ultimate going green.
My question: What OLD movies have you seen fairly recently about what is now our near future where they either got the "future" really wrong or pretty much right?
According to the Planet of the Apes films, a plague was supposed to have wiped out all cats and dogs many years ago, and I should have my own personal servant chimpanzee right now. I feel so cheated!
Westworld. I watched it a month or so ago for the first time and really liked it, along with it's cheesy 70's vibe.
Then I played "Red Dead Redemption" right after. I couldn't help but wonder why 70's folks couldn't see that computer virtual reality is so much easier, safer and profitable to pull off than a computer run robotic "virtual" reality, and therefore more probable in the future.
Sadly, there is no robotic sex on Xbox, however. Or maybe I'm just playing the wrong games...
2001: A Space Odyssey. Released in 1968.As measured and bleak as the technology seemed at the time, it was a work of strange optimism. The movie nailed the feel of space travel, and its eventual commercialization, in a way that still resonates today.2001's prediction that one day flying to an orbital space station would require zero training or preperation is gradually coming true.Artificial Intelligence however has been a major disappointment.Until more efficient propulsion systems can be developed, none of the spaceward jaunts in the film are possible.Also videophones are not in high demand now and probably never will be.If getting to the fourth rock from the sun seems like the biggest challange of the century imagine planning a trip to Jupiter.
Hal says I am putting myself to the fullest possible use,which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Saw Soylent Green on DVD last night. I had seen it when it originally came out. The movie (starring Charton Heston, Leigh-Taylor Young, Edward G Robinson, Chuck Connors) was released in 1973 and takes place in 2022. If you lived through the 70s, or studied it, or even saw your parents photos, you probably think like I do --- that it was one of the most cringeworthy decades for fashion and hair. So it is with great sadness that I announce to you that in 2022, white men will be walking around in John Lennon caps and neckerchiefs and something similar to polyester leisure suits and black men will have large sideburns and afros you could pitch a tent in.
The cars will be strangely familiar...but only if you had one or look at history books and station wagons. Thankfully, one of the characters chose to die with the safe choice of classical music playing and did not pick something funky or I could tell you what the music will be like. Everyone will ride stationary bikes but not because of Obamacare but because they have to pedal fast to generate electricity for their single lightbulb. New York City will have 40 million people, the cops will be on the take, you will have roommates or you will be sleeping on stairways. Rich men will live in hooker apartment complexes meaning "the girl" comes with the apartment. And it looks like there is hope for religion, yet, but mostly the church as a place to sleep or confess. In an obvious choice to go retro, in 2022, computer games will be blue screen games with white chompers and only really rich people will have one.
Oh yeah, and the vegetarians will eventually have their way...sort of. There won't be any meat, but the government handout will be something called soylent (you knew that soy stuff would get you eventually) green...which is actually dead people in the form of green crackers or as I like to call it, the environmentalist's ultimate going green.
My question: What OLD movies have you seen fairly recently about what is now our near future where they either got the "future" really wrong or pretty much right?
You're a funny woman...This is this second post of yours this week that I read and laughed while reading it
"Back to the Future II" (1989) is set in 2015 and it predicted rehydrating ovens that can cook a tiny pizza into a full size pizza in 5 seconds, videoconferencing, full length motion pictures in 3D, hoverboards, flying cars, freeways in the sky, leashes that can walk a dog by itself, television you can wear over your eyes like eyeglasses, a weather service that can actually control weather not just predict it, and Miami winning the World Series.
"1984". The British black and white movie released in 1955. Featuring Edmund O'Brien as Winston Smith. This movie stuck to the original Orwell novel.
Oddly enough, this movie is not available anywhere neither video nor DVD. Someone bought the copyright and buried the movie. Heaven forbid that anyone would see it today, there are too many parallels. Unlike most movies about the future this one does not deal with futuristic gimmicks, but with the political and social situation.
If anyone saw this version, consider yourselves lucky.
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