Twenty Minutes Into the Future: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Bicentennial Man]]'' begins in 2005. The opening caption states, [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|"The not too distant future..."]]

* The setting of the movie ''[[I, Robot (film)|I Robot]]''. Chicago looks pretty much like here in 2008, but with sleek monorails replacing the elevated trains, [[Crystal Spires and Togas|big shiny buildings with a lot of glass and open space]], long underground highways and sleek cars with automatic pilot. ...and sentient robots everywhere.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the quasi-futuristic [[Dystopia]] ''[[Brazil (film)|Brazil]]'', which takes place "Somewhere in the 20th Century" at "8:45 p.m.".

* Parodied in the ''[[Family Guy]]'' movie, when Stewie hitches a ride to the future with his future self. Stewie is amazed that not only has he not conquered the world, but there aren't even flying cars—however, there is [[Time Travel]].

* The Japanese [[Godzilla]] movie ''Destroy All Monsters'', made in 1968, was set in 1999, a year when humans would've supposedly set up a moon colony, built an island capable of holding Godzilla and his buddies, and contacted aliens in shiny silver suits. Similarly, ''Godzilla vs Monster Zero'' which took place in "198X" featured travel to other planets in the solar system.

* According to [[Michael Bay]]'s ''[[The Island]]'', we will have flying motorcycles, hovering trains in the deep South, and really ugly hotrods. Oh, and a city of clones kept for their organs (which already seems archaic, as we can do the same thing with pigs).

** The part about New York was becoming a genuine fear at the time since the film was made only a few years after the 1977 blackout and riot.

** The Los Angeles [[Escape From L.A.|sequel]] likewise played off L.A.'s growing image as a perpetual disaster area (fires, riots, gangbangers) and did so in a more tongue-in-cheek manner.

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