Which movies do you think accurately predict the future? I think Elysium is going to end up being pretty prophetic.
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Which movies do you think accurately predict the future? I think Elysium is going to end up being pretty prophetic.
The Road
War is enivitable with the increasing population rate and seeing the next world war will be the end for most of us...well probably this is right
WMDs aren't real
im not real
What
said
Nuclear weapons are a meme, no invading country wants to destroy the infrastructure of another country, and cutting trade ties with other super powers only makes you poorer.
Most nukes are tactical unironically, they are built to destroy bunkers not level cities.
as a shamrock
three leaves, but one leaf
So far all the futuristic movies from the 80's and earlier have failed the mark. What makes you think current movies will be any better?
>the futuristic movies from the 80's and earlier have failed the mark
Demolition man got many things right.
Robocop correctly predicted how powerful and dishonest corporations became, financing the destruction of entire neighborhoods so they can buy everything for cheap later (see george floyd protests in 2020, the closest to what happened in the movie; and more recently the hawaii fires).
As far as communication goes, lots of tech that seemed too futuristic like video conferences, internet connection everywhere, having a super computer in your pocket became reality a lot sooner than what they expected. Many of the stuff we see today were star trek tech a few decades ago. In fact, computers in star trek as far as interface goes, arent as advanced as what we have now. They dont even have touch screens.
Robots that clean your house are already a partial reality, and they appeared in the last decade, Give it 10 more years and they will do a lot more than now.
The AI we have today was expected to be something available only for big corporations. In reality, any loser with a RTX 3060 can use AI to make fake videos or audio of anyone they want, or run their own basic general linguistic model. That's also happened a lot earlier than expected. If Moore's law keeps being valid for another decade, in 2030 you will be running locally your own fully operational language model like ChatGPT locally, and using it for managing your home, car, and other facilities.
Dude, "They Live" literally just played out on a plane like two weeks ago.
robocop
>going to end up
The point was that it was already analogous to current life.
unprecedented insight into the human condition and most of the societal decline we're living through now
Kino
Noah's Castle is another grim-core brit one.
It's about artificial food shortages and how the govt responsible for false austerity will redirect public anger onto preppers and "hoarders".
Exactly matched the tactics used during the covid theatrics.
Isnt it obvious?
homie we're already there
all of us morons on Cinemaphile are proles
if there is hope it lies in the Cinemaphile posters
Nah, the proles actually have jobs lmao, by living on the profits of the labour of others via your neetbux, you’re essentially just an extremely poor bourgeoisie
Indeed
Already there in North Korea and China. Won’t happen to the U.S., or at least not in our lifetimes
midwit take
The future/present is more similar to Brave New World.
Why exert control through fear and surveillance when you can simply devolve everyone into pacified halfwits that care only about entertainment, casual sex and drugs.
You're moronic if you believe in this false dichotomy of it being one or the other. You think there isn't an encroaching surveillance state? You think there isn't massive historical revisionism and simple obfuscation through pushing volumes of meaningless info to the masses? You think there isn't interpersonal and intergenerational conflicts being generated by the ruling apparatus? How about you actually finish the high school English course forcing you to read these books before you try and talk shit like you know what's up.
take your meds
have sex
and go leave
What's it like having curly non-white hair
Why take it there man why?
I mean sometimes you can just tell who is a zoommutt Adin Ross viewer
which meds to take are never specified
>AKSHUALLY BRAVE NEW WORLD WAS MORE RIGHT
that's the real midwit take friend, i know you havent read nineteen eighty-four all the way through in some time, pick it up again and read until the end. wait til o'brien explains the mechanism of the party's control to winston and you'll realize its just the setting that seems more satirical/less realistic. the ideas and ideology of the novel are very much real in our world and will only get worse in our lifetimes
I don't understand why people don't think both can be prophetic...
Indeed
Why not both? BNW and 1984
I prefer Brazil, it better captures the banality and crushing bureaucracy of modern government. I could never take 1984 seriously because it suffers from the narcissistic idea that there's some mastermind out to get you. Brazil better captures the fact that it's a collection of equally inept and nasty people just bumbling along, creating this living hell because they're too stupid or self absorbed to reflect on what they're doing
>I could never take 1984 seriously because it suffers from the narcissistic idea that there's some mastermind out to get you.
you may not have understood the novel as well as you think. you realize the government doesnt care or bother themselves with the vast majority of the population in 1984 right? the MC is part of the class of people that does get surveillanced but most people dont really. additionally, the novel's setting is satirical and not actually realistic, according to the author himself it's just a simplistically depicted society in order for him to explain his ideas of government control, and as depicted in Brazil, the government does clamp down and have utter control... when it wants or needs to. its just that in the film the rest of the setting is more fleshed out
it has been forever since I read so definitely could be off. My interpretation is more just based on how I remember feeling about it at the time
> I could never take 1984 seriously because it suffers from the narcissistic idea that there's some mastermind out to get you
Also it’s questionable that Big Brother even is a singular figure that actually exists.
You’re an idiot if you think modern politics are an accident. I wish I could slap you in the face for being so ignorant.
No, it seeds the lie of systemic incompetence with no central brain guiding the agenda (and allowing bureaucratic tangle as an obfuscation/deniability tactic).
In our reality we understand that the terrorist attacks are also being orchestrated by the state in order to validate their over-arching power and surveillance. Brazil plays it coy and we're supposed to think the terrorists are real.
Gilliam/The Pythons are Masons to the core. Talented af, but they ain't your buddies.
IM THE SCATMAN
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he's literally me
what movie is this?
Reverse Truman Show: The War
>robots hearding minorities
Not a bad future
future movies are a psyop to keep people thinking the big bad dystopia is in the future.
People get scared of force head shavings and big oppressive screen playing propaganda, but alexa listening to you is a ok
case in point. It's post ww2 writers who couldn't see that the true dystopia would bright and playing corporate music.
independence day
Maybe picture related, Gamer(2009) or even something like kill all others
not the whole tech billionaire trying to take over the world stuff, but just a constant deteriorating living standards while tech only slightly gets better
100 years from now though who knows. definitely not elysium(thats more like 200ish at least)
This except there is no cure and the world just ends
This is the least likely thing to happen.
Fake Black Mary?
Don't count your chickens bro. They've already seeded the female sterility narrative in the "vax or covid side-effects: we haven't decided yet" move.
Max Headroom, 35 years ago had an episode called "Baby Grobags" about taking control of human reproduction through commercial services partnered with "accidental" environmental poisoning.
*to add: Max Headroom was the same show that STARTED with organ harvesting as the new illicit black market trade. And that's 2 seconds away from being normalized, if not considered "good" through Canada's MAID system.
In the show they literally call it The Body Bank, and two of the main villains are essentially low-key debt collectors and hit men who use the Body Bank to dispose of victims and collect debt bounties.
About 16 years in Australia the PRIME-MINISTER himself suggested that indebted individuals should be "allowed" to sell organs to service their debts. If you can do basic math, you should be able to intuit what that means in the long term. Especially as we head into end-to-end Person Carbon Debt System.
>Australia
That entire nation is addicted to meth tho, who tf would want their organs?
petrol sniffers too
>picrel
Anon ... wmbm has been pushed for a long time now.
>black girl
que? was she black in the book?
>Elysium
>Future
I haven't eeen Elysium but doesn't it involve a space station habitat where the rich live?
I think as far as that concept goes it'll never happen.
It will be a terrestrial stronghold.
Yea but without the super high tech space station
Children of Men x Demolition Man
Looper is probably the most realistic without the time travel.
the whole thing is about time travel
Yeah. The future is basically just more of the same shit as always with small tweaks every few years.
Yeah mang especially how JGL with makeup and Bruce Willis look like exactly the same person
Batman
any movie about Weimar Germany.
I don't think we'll have robots like that with a future like that. Why are there humans assembling robots in a factory? Why aren't robots assembling robots?
If I made that movie there would be a lot more body horror and the future would be a biomechanical dystopia. You remember the space jockey, how it was hard to tell where organism began and machine ended? That's what the factory our protagonist would be in the business of: taking the poor (almost everyone left) and repurposing their flesh to serve the rich. Maids that are half vacuum cleaner, miners with artificial lungs and drills for appendages, truck drivers and pilots fused into their consoles, and so on.
Instead of some program to manipulate votes or elections or whatever the frick the plot was about, the forbidden tech the MC finds is true general AI, which was outlawed decades ago and what lead to using wetware to supplement hardware. Instead the future is just modern L.A. with slightly more OSHA violations and cheap space travel. Boring.
The end of the movie wouldn't be saving everyone by giving them universal healthcare, it would be using the AI to bypass all of the controls on the cyborg abominations the rich had made and letting them run wild.
That's just warhammer 40k.
>rich people build space colonies to escape all the shitskins and pollution on earth
Isn’t that literally what billionaires are trying to do right now lmao
Unironically, Dune. When genetic therapy becomes affordable enough for rich people, it is inevitable that they will successfully reestablish feudalism. That and if defensive technologies outpace offensive capabilities. Not to mention schizo religious justifications for this new order won’t just become endorsed but will become the norm amongst the masses. Thank god I won’t be alive to ever see this shit.
also frick gun combat, melee combat is way more based