Yahoo has an article listing its “Top 10 Inaccurate Movies About the Future.” As nearly as I can tell, they’re basing inaccuracy entirely upon whether the movie’s events occurred by the time the movie predicted.
SOYLENT GREEN (1973)
According to this movie, the population of New York City in 2022 — a mere thirteen years from now — is somewhere around 40 million people, or three times the population of Mumbai. As of the 2000 census, the current population is around 8 million, so if this movie is going to approach anything close to reality, New Yorkers had better get busy.
To quote Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Link (Hat tip to DaleB)
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From the assessment of BLADE RUNNER:
>>Ten years from now, when the movie is set, we won’t have off-world colonies or sentient robots who look like Daryl Hannah — as awesome as that might be.<<
Obviously they haven’t seen a recent photo of Daryl.
When the link to this article was up on Yahoo’s main page, it was accompanied by a close-up of Scarlett Johansson’s face in a scene from THE ISLAND. I’m presently reading Michael Marshall Smith’s SPARES which was written in the mid 90s and is centered on the assisted escape of clones from a body farm and the attendant action sequences that follow. in the late 90s, Spielberg bought the film rights to SPARES in a seven figure deal. Subsequently Spielberg’s company produced THE ISLAND, which is centered on — the asssited escape of clones from a body farm and the attendant action sequences that follow. Smith now opines that a SPARES movie will probably never be made.
Ya think? Dude, call your lawyer already.
BTW, MMS is a very gifted multilingual (he speaks and writes in English, American, and Australian) writer based in the UK. He wrote three genre novels in the mid to late 90s before crossing the border into crime fiction. The titles are ONLY FORWARD, SPARES, and ONE OF US. They’re all well worth reading.