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Futuristic movies timeline
Submitted 11 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to movies@lemm.ee
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ummthatguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“Was able to establish a wide broascast data link through the planetary communication system” is such a fancy way to say “got viral on a tik-tok livestream” which would be the most likely outcome
friendlymessage@feddit.de 11 months ago
It’s frustrating that the only thing unrealistic about this episode is that a riot would actually change anything
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hmm idk I feel like we’re way closer to idiocracy than ~400 years
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Naw. We’ll never get there. The idiots in Idiocracy were aware of their own stupidity, and the second they find someone smarter than everyone else, the people in power immediately step down to let him tackle their most pressing issues.
The idiots IRL think they’re geniuses, and when the ones in power run into someone smarter than themselves, they run a smear campaign and/or incite violence against that person.
The future we’re falling into is much darker than the one depicted in Idiocracy.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
President Camacho legitimately being a better leader than most IRL heads of state rn. It wasn’t really the guys fault he was an idiot being born at the point of degredation he is and the guy still institutes a state wide intelligence testing program to find the smartest person he can and put that guy in charge.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Takes at least two years to convince people Gatorade is better than water for plants.
daltotron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah, we’re never gonna get to idiocracy. The movie’s premise rides on the idea that intelligence is a heritable trait, or a measurable quantity. It is more the case, I have observed, that people are idiots by necessity. You know, it’s uhh, difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. It’s pretty easy to just call everyone stupid, and then move on, but it’s much harder to understand specifically why they’re stupid.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
CheapFrottage@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I’m not sure what being almost 10yrs post robocop makes me feel, but I don’t like it. This future isn’t what I was promised in the 80s, and while no killer robots is nice, I still feel a bit cheated
DickFiasco@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m still waiting for that TV show where the guy says"I’d buy that for a dollar"
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
danc4498@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had no idea V for Vendetta was based on the future
Kroxx@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Yeah I think they did that to advance the plague in the story that allowed the dictator villain to take power.
The overlap and timeline is pretty fucking chilling considering how far right ideologies are starting to take hold globally again.
danc4498@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I always took it to be an alternate timeline. It’s much more impactful in the future.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I think V is the most likely to occur within the timeline specified
skozzii@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s starting to look terrifyingly accurate…
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
No love for A Boy and His Dog which is set in 2024 and is one of the big inspirations of the original Fallout games?
danc4498@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just watched a trailer. Is it as bad as it looks?
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
It basically kicked off how we do dust punk in media and without it there wouldn’t be Fallout or Mad Max as we know them today so, no? It’s weird for sure and not everyone is going to like it, also it’s incredibly dark and would probably be easier to list the trigger warnings it doesn’t have than does, I think it’s a legitimately good movie
jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Can’t wait to learn how the three seashells work and get some gourmet Taco Bell once the Demolition Man timeline gets here in a few years.
cooltrainer_frank@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Show me the grim dark future of the 41st millennium on the timeline!
Sparhawk87@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Where do the Hyperion books fit on this graph?
jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Roughly right after Idiocracy I think.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
That would explain a lot of the shit in that story…
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The movie zardoz makes every other shitty movie look like a masterpiece. That schlock was so unwatchable I couldn’t stand it for more than maybe 15 minutes
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah but Connery’s ponytail and harness thong.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean I guess if you’re attracted to men, that’s a plus? Was a pretty awkward 15 minutes for me. I kept looking for why people watch this movie but all I found were cocaine-based creative decisions
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Oh you missed out. The ending is fuckin glorious!
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Reading the Wikipedia synopsis for the movie was a drug trip in itself. I can’t imagine what an experience that movie must actually be lmao.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was the height drugged out movie making. When I watched I sat there with my mouth open the whole time going they didn’t just… They did…
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I thought we were already in 2505
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This seems like the most likely outcome at this rate. At least costco will have oublic transit.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not going to lie, I have no idea how to read this chart. Years go down, but also to the right for some reason? What does the vertical line on the year 2000 represent? Why do some of the bars start to the left of that line? Does the horizontal span of the bar represent the timeline within the movie?
It’s really pretty, but I can’t make heads of tails of it. Can someone help?
odelik@lemmy.today 11 months ago
This is a diverging bar chart sorted by the date in which the film was supposed to take place.
The vertical line on 2000 represents the “Distant Future, a new millennium” that a lot of sci-fi and dystopia media looked at in the past.
The left side of that bar represents the ~year the film was produced in our reality.
The right side of the bar represents the year that the film takes place.
xilona@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Perhaps the author wanted to emphasize the movies that were way ahead of their time by charting this way…
Yamayo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Left bar is year of release, but is has to be an old graph (apart from the “you are here”)because none of the movies are newer than year 2000.
toddestan@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Idiocracy and Children of Men are from 2006, which I believe are the newest films on the list. Though the bar for Star Trek suggests that it’s depicting the timeline from the 2009 movie, but that could be debated.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Was gonna ask about star wars but then I remembered that’s in the past
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The original RoboCop movie, at least, never gave a specific year.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I watched Soylent Green for the first time about seven years ago and was surprised a film from the 70s was tackling the issue of climate change back then. It’s a pretty good film, but I thought it ended a bit too prematurely. I wanted to see what happened after the lead character makes his chilling discovery.
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Shit i need to watch soylent green again
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
The first 10 minutes is all you really need to watch to enjoy all it has to offer
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
And miss charlton heston at his finest?!
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Hm, I need to get some furniture…
trd@feddit.nu 11 months ago
Almost time for children of men. “Alright, yer 'fugees now. Show Syd the 'fugee face. Sad face.”
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Fantastic film, time for a rewatch
trslim@pawb.social 11 months ago
I cant wait for 2047
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Looks like I’ma have to watch/read Barbarella. I love the super far future shit and it’s the only 1 of the 3 shown here I haven’t seen/read.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Dystopian future with red speedos. Even having watched it I could not tell you what it’s about, except the title is the corruption of a children’s book title.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 months ago
2027-2032 is going to be a wild ride.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Placing movies like Planet of the Apes on our timeline makes no sense. It’s a completely different planet, people! (The ape planet.)
andrewta@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wasn’t aware the planet of the apes took place in a parallel dimension
psud@aussie.zone 11 months ago
It never claimed to be a different dimension, just it couldn’t be earth, since apes are in charge (and different apes, not us)
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That would certainly explain why there’s apes everywhere.
trolololol@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dude how do you skip big brother??
pedz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Babylon 5 (The Gathering) is set in 2257 and the following years. To my surprise, it’s pretty close to The Fifth Element’s timeline. However the date is about the same thing they have in common.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
As a resident of Britain, I feel like we’re pretty on track for V for Vendetta, actually.
oo1@lemmings.world 11 months ago
opening scene of the terminator , 2029 i think.
Zozano@aussie.zone 11 months ago
The arrow is pointing the wrong direction.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 11 months ago
I thought the new planet of the apes movies took place in present times
Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This is about the old one.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 11 months ago
oh yeah, I see the starting point in the chart now.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
This is a terrible way of visualizing data. Who uses a bar chart for years‽ It should just be a timeline.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Because it’s demonstrating the difference in time between the year the movie was created and the year the movie depicts.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Still an awful visualization, since the scale of the chat makes it impossible to compare the release years. Also it should have a legend explaining that.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It is a timeline then. I thought that what it was, but a legend would have been nice.
Skua@kbin.earth 11 months ago
The bar is from actual release year to setting year, that's why the left edges aren't aligned
ramble81@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The annoying thing is the vertical line (when this infographic came out) wasn’t updated so it just looks like a random line.
Neato@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Timeline would suck. The right side would be so far it would compress all the data.
Clearly this should be a pie chart.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Nah, they should go with a box and whisker. One box for release date, one for date depicted.