Science Fiction Movies about the Future.... BS or Foretelling?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Science Fiction Movies about the Future.... BS or Foretelling?

Posted: 9/28/2005 7:40:35 AM EDT

After reading the Detroit Police tank thread, and seeing how the lowest part of society is behaving worse and worse... It reminds me of MANY movies from the past.

Movies/books such as; The Running Man, Robocop, Escape from NY, Demolition Man, Terminator, the FIRST Mad Max etc... Mostly the Sci Fi moives that depict a highly fragmented society, run by a police state, and a true underground of the last vestiges of people that are able to fend for themselves.

Slowly it looks like we are approaching that sort of lifestyle,... Ivory tower leadership, in control over an overly militaristic and aggressive police force, in turn control over a truely repressed mass of people. All in the name of "safety, security, and preservation of "life"'

Are these movies predicting the future or just a bunch of hooey? Or somewhere in the middle?

Posted: 9/28/2005 7:42:19 AM EDT

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All fiction has a basis in truth. All good fiction is indistinguishable from truth. It's that whole "suspension of disbelief" thing.

Posted: 9/28/2005 7:43:38 AM EDT

[#2]

90% BS

Posted: 9/28/2005 7:44:40 AM EDT

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There are plenty of Sci-Fi dystopias, as well as utopias. Star Trek would general qualify at something like a utopia, because it depicts a future in which all are equal, nobody goes hungry, etc.
Depending upon where you are at and what your station in life is, life for you may resemble either Star Trek or Terminator. IOW - something like the Terminator plot and the Star Trek plot could occur simultaneously.

Posted: 9/28/2005 7:45:30 AM EDT

[#4]

BLADERUNNER!

Posted: 9/28/2005 7:47:47 AM EDT

[#5]

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90% BS

Yeah, like Jules Verne, who accurately predicted most of our achievements a century ago.

I see frightening similarities between some recent "future predicting scenarios" and what we are actually heading towards.
The Ivory Tower vs Survivalists thing is getting more real by the day.

Escape From New Orleans, anyone?

Posted: 9/28/2005 7:52:43 AM EDT

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90% BS

Yeah, like Jules Verne, who accurately predicted most of our achievements a century ago.

I see frightening similarities between some recent "future predicting scenarios" and what we are actually heading towards.
The Ivory Tower vs Survivalists thing is getting more real by the day.

Escape From New Orleans, anyone?

Sounds like a soon to be "Made For T.V." movie coming to your local station.

Posted: 9/28/2005 7:55:21 AM EDT

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I see the future more like Thje Fifth Element myself minus the evil planet killing entity trying to smash into earth. Lots of crime, more JBTish police to deal with it, but still some personal freedom.

Posted: 9/28/2005 8:00:39 AM EDT

[#8]

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90% BS

Yeah, like Jules Verne, who accurately predicted most of our achievements a century ago.

I see frightening similarities between some recent "future predicting scenarios" and what we are actually heading towards.
The Ivory Tower vs Survivalists thing is getting more real by the day.

Escape From New Orleans, anyone?

The Omega Man, aka the Ivory Tower Survivalist.

Posted: 9/28/2005 8:02:36 AM EDT

[#9]

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90% BS

I agree. If you guess at every possiblity you're bound to get it right at some point. That said, there's lots of sci-fi movies about the future, so that 10% isn't all that small a number.

Posted: 9/28/2005 8:04:37 AM EDT

[#10]

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90% BS

Yeah, like Jules Verne, who accurately predicted most of our achievements a century ago.

I see frightening similarities between some recent "future predicting scenarios" and what we are actually heading towards.
The Ivory Tower vs Survivalists thing is getting more real by the day.

Escape From New Orleans, anyone?

Jules Verne wasn't the only Sci-fi writer.
Plenty of sci-fi BS out there. I don't see us mining spice on some planet with giant worms

Posted: 9/28/2005 8:10:27 AM EDT

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90% BS

Yeah, like Jules Verne, who accurately predicted most of our achievements a century ago.

I see frightening similarities between some recent "future predicting scenarios" and what we are actually heading towards.
The Ivory Tower vs Survivalists thing is getting more real by the day.

Escape From New Orleans, anyone?

Jules Verne wasn't the only Sci-fi writer.
Plenty of sci-fi BS out there. I don't see us mining spice on some planet with giant worms

That doesn't sound like SF. It sounds like porn.

Posted: 9/28/2005 8:17:03 AM EDT

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Plenty of sci-fi BS out there. I don't see us mining spice on some planet with giant worms

Nor did Frank Herbert. His books require one to read between the lines. They are enough to make your head hurt.

Posted: 9/28/2005 8:23:00 AM EDT

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90% BS

Yeah, like Jules Verne, who accurately predicted most of our achievements a century ago.

I see frightening similarities between some recent "future predicting scenarios" and what we are actually heading towards.
The Ivory Tower vs Survivalists thing is getting more real by the day.

Escape From New Orleans, anyone?

Sounds like a soon to be "Made For T.V." movie coming to your local station.

We could have an "Escape from Houston" also.