Completely Wrong Movie Futures

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

So, I was watching Event Horizon last night and was struck by the opening crawl. In its reality, we have a moon colony in 2015. Couple years later, we're on Mars. By the 2030s, we've begun the process of interdimensional travel. None of these seem too likely at this point. Yet, Sam Neill still has 8x10 photos of his wife all over his room.

So what are some other ridiculous movie futures? Either in how bad they overpredicted our technology to be or some weird mix of super and outdtaed technology.

[Bob Schlapowitz]

Back to the Future Part II. We only have three years for Universal to crank out 14 more Jaws sequels.

[Sajoa Moe]

Red Dwarf using VHS in the 22nd century. Of course they lampshaded that in "Back to Earth" when they explained the obsoletion of DVDs because people kept forgetting to put them back in their cases.

[Sir Woodrow]

Jan 29, 2012 16:05:30 GMT -5 Bob Schlapowitz said:

Back to the Future Part II. We only have three years for Universal to crank out 14 more Jaws sequels.

Not to mention three years to crank out Hoverboards.

[kidglov3s]

I'm happy that we still have cats and dogs, and that they didn't die from a space virus in 1982 and that we didn't have replace them as pets with apes and didn't then turn the apes into slaves and that the apes then didn't violently overthrow the yoke of human oppression and seige California in 1992, and that there wasn't then a nuclear war that destroyed the world as we know it and that civilization by 2002 wasn't reduced to a small tribe of apes and humans living in an Ewok village.

I'm also pretty stoked that because of pollution a wheat virus didn't kill all the grasses in the world, leading to the death of the entire grass family (most of our food supply) and that countries didn't employ nuclear weapons on themselves as a means of population control and that there hasn't been subsequent destabilization of society.

But then again....

ScienceDaily (May 26, 2010) — Four new mutations of Ug99, a strain of a deadly wheat pathogen known as stem rust, have overcome existing sources of genetic resistance developed to safeguard the world's wheat crop. Leading wheat experts from Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, who are in St. Petersburg, Russia for a global wheat event organized by the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative, said the evolving pathogen may pose an even greater threat to global wheat production than the original Ug99.
The new "races" have acquired the ability to defeat two of the most important stem rust-resistant genes, which are widely used in most of the world's wheat breeding programs.

"With the new mutations we are seeing, countries cannot afford to wait until rust 'bites' them," said Dr. Ravi Singh, distinguished senior scientist in plant genetics and pathology with the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). "The variant of Ug99 identified in Kenya, for example, went from first detection in trace amounts in one year to epidemic proportions the next year."

"Already, most of the varieties planted in the wheat fields of the world are vulnerable to the original form of Ug99. We will now have to make sure that every new wheat variety we release has iron-clad resistance to both Ug99 and the new races," said Singh.

See, nothing to do with pollution.

[Hit Girl]

Voyager VI



NASA only launched two

[Cela]

Really glad a stray planet didn't going between our Earth and Moon in 1994.

[The Line]

We didn't make contact in 2010.

[mizerable]

Not a movie, but a video game;

October 1st, 1997

The End Day

When that day came...and things didn't end, I was very disappointed.

[Sir Woodrow]

Jan 29, 2012 16:55:20 GMT -5 The Line said:

We didn't make contact in 2010.

Who says we didn't? MWA HA! HA!

[lemonyellowson]

Jan 29, 2012 16:23:09 GMT -5 Sir Woodrow said:

Jan 29, 2012 16:05:30 GMT -5 Bob Schlapowitz said:

Back to the Future Part II. We only have three years for Universal to crank out 14 more Jaws sequels.

Not to mention three years to crank out Hoverboards.

gizmodo.com/5549271/a-real-working-hoverboard-exists

back to the future 2 was more right than wrong about 2015

[wildojinx]

The 6th Day. Became obsolete the second the XFL ended.

[DrewVonAwesome]

What was that Arnold movie where in the future they have the XFL? That one is a bit incorrect now...

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

I'm disappointed the Day of Lavos never came in 1999 (technically a video game, but whatever).

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

If you want to count society's behavior in general, Demolition Man seems to be getting less and less likely.

[Hassan bin Sober]

Reel Steal had a line about "second generation" robots going out of production/use or whatever in 2014. That is just 2 years from now. What makes it so bad is that it was a second generation robot, not a first generation one which would seem to suggest we should of done been past the age of generation one robots by now and hitting the tail end of the generation two robots when in reality we haven't any such robots at all. And it's not like this is an old movie either.

[Mozenrath]

Jan 29, 2012 17:44:04 GMT -5 Clash, Never a Meter Maid said:

If you want to count society's behavior in general, Demolition Man seems to be getting less and less likely.

I do find it funny that the seashell method in the movie is actually something people used to do, going by the contents of outhouses that have been scavenged.

[Bo Rida]

I still like seeing floppy disks and CRT monitors in futuristic movies, even Futurama has them despite being late enough to see the way things were going.

[arrogantmodel]

Look at the Lost in Space tv show. It was set in 1997, they were way off.

[Deleted]

I think we recovered nicely from most of the population of the southern hemisphere being killed after an explosion in Antarctica on September 13th, 2000.