Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Too many films predicting the future, not all get it right (what a surprise!)



Forget Back to the Future II and all the things like Donald Trump-inspiration Biff Tannen becoming true with the US presidential election. Everyone scorned Arnie's The Running Man in 1987. It's actually extraordinarily prophetic of Trump's America (and how the former reality TV host may deal with the incarceration problem):
The year is 2017. The world economy has collapsed. The United States has sealed off it's borders and has become a military controlled police state which controls TV, movies, art, books, communication and censorship. In the police state America has become, criminals have a choice. They can serve their sentences in prison or they can take part in "The Running Man" a government owned violent game-show where contestants running for freedom are pursued by "Stalkers", wrestler-like bounty hunters.

On another note in film, Sylvester Stallone's John Spartan was frozen twenty years (and three days) ago in Demolition Man.  For a 1993 film, it was exceedingly optimistic about cryo-freezing three years hence.

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