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No new films opened up Friday, so no Monday Morning Movie Critic to speak of. So let's talk about something else. In roughly 12-1/2 hours, it will be 2008. Just two years away from "the year we make contact" and just eight years away from replicants and blade runners. Hollywood - and the sci fi writers it adapts from - loves to postulate about our future. The 1999 of Strange Days bore little resemblance to any place I knew, and no scary monoliths popped up anywhere seven years ago. But hey, I'm still hoping for a future like the Jetsons. My perpetually tardy self could benefit from a bevy of machines to do everything for us. So tell us: What's your favorite or hated cinematic look at The Future? |
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Posted by tom @ 3:37 PM Mon, Dec 31, 2007
I am a big fan of end of the world movies. Road Runner would be best but I feel it will be like Children of Men. We will destroy ourselves.
Posted by Kip Mooney @ 5:31 PM Tue, Jan 01, 2008
Road Runner? Meep-meep! Anyways, my favorite (or hated, because it's frightening and awfully realistic) would be Andrew Niccol's 'Gattaca,' which presents a future in which parents can engineer the traits they want for their children. Anyone born the "old-fashioned way" is looked down upon. Unsettling stuff.
Posted by Chris Vognar @ 9:53 AM Wed, Jan 02, 2008
Plus the Monday Morning Critic is on vacation. But Soylent Green is made out of people.
Posted by Shannon Sutlief @ 11:42 AM Thu, Jan 03, 2008
I like "Dark City." Scary future but a handsome Rufus Sewell, plus it's nice to see Richard "Riff Raff" O'Brien get some work...