Movies that seem to predict the future.

[DesiDucati]

After reading a message about plots in books that come to reality, that message came back in my mind when I just watched Plant of The Apes on Netflix. The ending at the airport scene seemed like it predicted the 2020 pandemic.



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Have you seen any movie scene that coincidentally later happened in real life?

 

[Dubermun]

Idiocracy for sure.

 

[cheez]

Snow Crash. We're well on our way to burbclaves, as I mentioned elsewhere.

 

[Abacinator]

Idiocracy for sure.

We're already living in it.

 

[motomania2007]

1984

 

[ucmgrad]

Pixar's Wall-E

 

[mikev]

The Simpsons.

 

[HappyHighwayman]

1984

 

[GAJ]

Network.

 

[Johndicezx9]

Network.

You saw it as a dystopian warning, Roger Ailes saw it as a business plan. :laughing

 

[CDONA]

Sky net is active,

Hell, there is a tv show about trying to stifle emerging AI

 

[Eldritch]

Idiocracy for sure.

We refer to this film as THE GREAT PROPHECY, but yes, I would also submit this record of inevitable future truth.

 

[wazzuFreddo]

the Back to the Future trilogy now takes place entirely in the past.

 

[Eldritch]

If you want to see some cool shit that was way ahead of it's time, look at Will Smith and Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State.

 

[byke]

Soylent Green.

 

[BillSmith]

Idiocracy is the gold standard.

It has been mentioned but bears repeating that Taco Bell's corporate color theme in the movie Demolition Man is slowly being adopted.

 

[GAJ]

In 1980 this kind of killer drone seemed quite "out of this world."

 

[UDRider]

Judge Dredd

 

[HappyHighwayman]

The Stand

 

[Eldritch]

Judge Dredd

The newer Karl Urban one is hella on point and some of the best Cyberpunk ever produced.