Sci-Fi Movies Where The Future Isn't Totally Messed Up

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I couldn't think of many. Maybe Minority Report, but it still that whole rich getting richer, poor poorer vibe.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Or... Utopias vs. Dystopias: FITE!!!

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Is the future in The Fifth Element fucked up? I can't remember.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

No it seemed okay until the big ball of evil showed up, and that was in space anyway.

What about Demolition Man?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

They've abolished sex in Demolition Man!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Not exactly, it just became a lot less messier.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Bill and Ted! The future rocked!

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I guess touching fingers with Sandra Bullock wouldn't be so bad *sigh*

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, good one Roz. A utopia built around cheesy rock, I'd be totally for that.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

This is one good thing about A.I. - the cracks in Future World are revealed fairly slowly, so you go from the the nice looking house and trees of David's owners to the nasty flesh fair business halfway through to the final Ice Age stuff at the end. Generally things seemed okay in A.I. world - robot sex slaves etc.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Back II The Future, except where McFly himself is concerned. is BTTF2 still 'the future' or have we surpassed it?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Trek

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but which Star Trek? They got pretty dystopian towards the end of Deep Space Five. And come on, would you really want to *live* in the Federation's airbrushed perfection semi-socialist future? Oh wait, it might be a bit like Finland. ;-) ::ducks::

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

As long as I didn't have to run into the likes of Archer or Riker it would be okay.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

BTTF2 = 2015.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

10 years till hoverboards OMG

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

They'd better hurry up with Jaws 5-18 then.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

If the future doesn't involve sex robots then I really don't want to know about it.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

The future in Demolition Man is so not a utopia! "In the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell."!!!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone seen 2046 is that messed up? I think I will rent it at the weekend.

OMG, we're only a year away from 2006, Transformers the Movie will soon be set in the past :(

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Doctor: "yeah, looks like another sex robot malfunction, we'll try and stitch it back as best as possible, poor fella"

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I was talking about the Star Trek movies (as per the title of the thread), I've never seen Deep Space Five.

2046 has only a couple of rather short scenes set in the future.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

And come on, would you really want to *live* in the Federation's airbrushed perfection semi-socialist future?

They got holodecks.

I would fear if Leon's idea of sex robots were endless Jude Laws.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

No, that's creepy.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

endless Jude Laws from Closer! Oh no, put me in Logan's Run now!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

It's not a movie, but FUTURAMA!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I don't understand how everyone in the Federation isn't totally hooked on Holodecks. Then again, they had that one crewman who was, didn't they? Was it Brockley? That damn Brockley, whenever anything went wrong, it was always him.

x-post, ugh, no Jude Law sexbots. Now Ewan MacGreggor sexbots, then we can talk. Especially if we could have them in different era Ewans. Skanky Ho VG Ewan. Bearded Obi Wan Ewan.

OK, I need to stop this now.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

but dude, in Futrama, there's a whole population of mutants living underground!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Jude Law Sexbots would get banned by the Federation, not even the borg would take them.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

They live better than most people in Detroit.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

The mutants from Futurama that is, not the Borg.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Jude Law Sexbots? Leon?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

I thought you meant the Jude Law sexbots lived better than most people in Detroit!!

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

The future is x-post hell, computers will only get faster!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

The sexbots probably do, though!

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Computers faster than sexbots; reproduction changed forever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Sexbots WITH faster computers installed..

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I woulda thought that sexbots would be slow and considerate lovers, perhaps they have variable speeds, I dunno.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Is fastness really a feature that is desirable in sexbots?

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm destroying my own thread.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Wait, we're back in Star Trek again...

Data: "I am fully programmed for all pleasure functions..."

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Didn't someone rape Data?

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Is fastness really a feature that is desirable in sexbots?

They'll have vibrating fingers, surely.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Yes, the scary blonde lesbian security officer who died in the first season!

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Now can we go back to talking about beardy Ewan MacGreggor Obi Wan Sexbots, please?

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

You can buy one at Toys R Us.

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

With flashing light saber!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Didn't someone rape Data?

Right idea, wrong medium.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e204/e204994o2nz.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Buck Rogers!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

When Buck Rogered Wilma.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

http://gwiezdne-wojny.pl/grafika/2003/gru/ewan.jpg

(I wish someone could come up with a dirty caption for this)

xpost to Ned

BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH AH HAH!!!

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Blade Runner

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

See, Kate, I was WONDERING why you didn't make the obvious reference! ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

which leads to Duck Dodgers!
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― Huk-L, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

(I was in sci-fi geek mode, not in dronerock mode. Je suis an idiote. Plus, the beardy Ewan Sexbot was distracting me. Sigh.)

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Is Spaceballs set in the Future?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

It's a long time ago, in a galaxy pretty far away, but not as far as that other one.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's exploding hamster zeppelin! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

The Star Trek universe was kind of fucked up. Between our time and the founding of the Federation, there were nuclear holocausts and oppressive worldwide governments and stuff. And James Cromwell rocking out to Steppenwolf.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

so when do the holocausts begin??

― Crazy Frog luvs bagpipes, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

When Jeb becomes president.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

It's not so bad in AI or I, Robot is it? Y'know, apart from the occasional malfunction, which if you think about it, we get now anyway.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Tracer, that picture is cooler than Crazy Frog.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Where's the fun in that?

Probably the Star Trek: Next Gen universe is about as close as it comes. It was damnear boring.

― Hey Jude, Thursday, 2 June 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm trying to remember The Spy's theory that Star Trek TNG was just a management training film in disguise. Heh heh.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Great picture Tracer!!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

It was Barclay.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

From Wikipedia: "The film Gattaca's retro-futurist depiction of genetic discrimination is now widely cited by bioconservatives as one of the convincing proofs that liberal eugenics is a dangerous idea. However, bioethicist James Hughes argues that 1) astronaut-training programs are entirely justified in attempting to screen out people with heart problems for safety reasons; 2) people are already discriminated against by insurance companies on the basis of their propensities to disease despite the fact that genetic enhancement is not yet available; and 3) rather than banning genetic testing or genetic enhancement, society should ensure the privacy of genetic information, and strictly control when genetic information can be used to make decisions in education and employment."

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 30 December 2005 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

a fun comment read over there http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=235989
"And the future in Transhumanist fiction isn't usually "dark", but instead really, really strange..."

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Dune?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

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