{"id":2216,"date":"2009-04-16T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T11:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2009-04-13T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T15:07:50","slug":"inaccurate-movies-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2216","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Inaccurate&#8221; Movies About the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo has an article listing its &#8220;Top 10 Inaccurate Movies About the Future.&#8221;  As nearly as I can tell, they&#8217;re basing inaccuracy entirely upon whether the movie&#8217;s events occurred by the time the movie predicted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SOYLENT GREEN (1973)<br \/>\nAccording to this movie, the population of New York City in 2022 &#8212; a mere thirteen years from now &#8212; 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To quote Inigo Montoya, &#8220;You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/photos\/celebrities\/gallery\/1633\/top-10-inaccurate-movies-about-the-future#photo0\">Link<\/A> <I>(Hat tip to DaleB)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo has an article listing its &#8220;Top 10 Inaccurate Movies About the Future.&#8221; As nearly as I can tell, they&#8217;re basing inaccuracy entirely upon whether the movie&#8217;s events occurred by the time the movie predicted. SOYLENT GREEN (1973) According to this movie, the population of New York City in 2022 &#8212; a mere thirteen years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}