{"id":151211,"date":"2025-06-02T04:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151211\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T04:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T04:35:09","slug":"five-movies-that-spookily-predicted-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151211\/","title":{"rendered":"Five movies that spookily predicted the present"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sun 1 June 2025 21:30, UK <\/p>\n

Most movies set in the future have pretty bleak expectations. They usually involve some form of dystopia, whether it\u2019s a barren wasteland torn asunder by civil war or bloodlust in outer space. If a film<\/a> looks like it\u2019s set in utopia, fast-forward to the end. Things are guaranteed to get ugly. <\/p>\n

Most movies about the future get things laughably wrong.\u00a02001: A Space Odyssey\u00a0imagined the cosmos as a heavily trafficked transit area\u00a0in which\u00a0spaceships flitted from planet to planet to take suited\u00a0businessmen\u00a0to board meetings.\u00a0That\u00a0might\u00a0not exactly be the film\u2019s premise,\u00a0but it is the setting.\u00a0Back to the Future II\u00a0set expectations way too high when it predicted that in\u00a0the year\u00a02015, teens would be zipping around suburbia on hoverboards. They also imagined a world in which fax machines\u00a0were conveniently affixed\u00a0to mailboxes, so they weren\u2019t thinking too far ahead on everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some movies got some general things right about the future, but took such a big swing that specific inaccuracies overshadow those general accuracies.\u00a0Ridley Scott\u2019s Blade Runner <\/a>predicted environmental destruction, overcrowding, and artificial intelligence, but the flying cars have yet\u00a0to come\u00a0to fruition.<\/p>\n

The movies that got the future right were not dreaming up exciting new methods of transportation. They were predicting the breakdown of the media, police brutality caught on camera, reality TV, and an increasingly unimportant and imbecilic United States of America.\u00a0All of them\u00a0are\u00a0almost certainly\u00a0less entertaining to watch now than they would have been when they were released.\u00a0Comedy turns to all-too-familiar tragedy, wild\u00a0flights of\u00a0imagination turn to grim docudrama. Still, we should give credit where credit is due.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Five movies that predicted the present:<\/p>\n

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