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Futuristic movies timeline
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to movies@lemm.ee
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ummthatguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
It’s frustrating that the only thing unrealistic about this episode is that a riot would actually change anything
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hmm idk I feel like we’re way closer to idiocracy than ~400 years
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Takes at least two years to convince people Gatorade is better than water for plants.
daltotron@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
CheapFrottage@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I’m still waiting for that TV show where the guy says"I’d buy that for a dollar"
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I had no idea V for Vendetta was based on the future
Kroxx@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I always took it to be an alternate timeline. It’s much more impactful in the future.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I think V is the most likely to occur within the timeline specified
skozzii@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s starting to look terrifyingly accurate…
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I just watched a trailer. Is it as bad as it looks?
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Show me the grim dark future of the 41st millennium on the timeline!
Sparhawk87@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
Where do the Hyperion books fit on this graph?
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Roughly right after Idiocracy I think.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
That would explain a lot of the shit in that story…
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Yeah but Connery’s ponytail and harness thong.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Oh you missed out. The ending is fuckin glorious!
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I thought we were already in 2505
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This seems like the most likely outcome at this rate. At least costco will have oublic transit.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Perhaps the author wanted to emphasize the movies that were way ahead of their time by charting this way…
Yamayo@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
The original RoboCop movie, at least, never gave a specific year.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Shit i need to watch soylent green again
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
The first 10 minutes is all you really need to watch to enjoy all it has to offer
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
And miss charlton heston at his finest?!
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
Hm, I need to get some furniture…
trd@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Almost time for children of men. “Alright, yer 'fugees now. Show Syd the 'fugee face. Sad face.”
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Fantastic film, time for a rewatch
trslim@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I cant wait for 2047
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
2027-2032 is going to be a wild ride.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I wasn’t aware the planet of the apes took place in a parallel dimension
psud@aussie.zone 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
That would certainly explain why there’s apes everywhere.
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dude how do you skip big brother??
pedz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
As a resident of Britain, I feel like we’re pretty on track for V for Vendetta, actually.
oo1@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
opening scene of the terminator , 2029 i think.
Zozano@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
The arrow is pointing the wrong direction.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I thought the new planet of the apes movies took place in present times
Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
This is about the old one.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
oh yeah, I see the starting point in the chart now.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
It is a timeline then. I thought that what it was, but a legend would have been nice.
Skua@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
The bar is from actual release year to setting year, that's why the left edges aren't aligned
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Nah, they should go with a box and whisker. One box for release date, one for date depicted.