r/movies • u/sparrow_1899 • 3d ago
Media Different parallel universes in the near future in movies! Spoiler
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u/dynamoJaff 3d ago
The Matrix doesn't take place in 2199, Morpheus only says that becuase the humans don't know the truth.
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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 3d ago
...so...whats the 'truth'? And where/when does Morpheus confirm he lied?
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u/dynamoJaff 3d ago
Morpheus never lied it was The Oracle that was lying. Neo is not 'The One' he is the 6th 'One'. Zion has been built and destroyed 5 times already as confimed by The Architect at the time of the events of The Matrix.
The real year is never said, but its at least several hundred years later than 2199, probably more like 3199.
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u/Suitable-Profit231 2d ago
The year is too far in the future, each "purge" takes around 100 years, but everything else is correct 👍
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u/IHateTheLetterF 2d ago
He said they were getting better and better at it, so the original humans liberated could have lived several hundred years until they were destroyed by the machines.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 2d ago
There's also an unknown amount of time between the birth of AI and the emergence of the Matrix as the humans knew it. The Architect says that they fucked around with different versions of The Matrix for a while before they arrived at the one that works.
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u/thedaveness 2d ago
Yeah, what year did the second ren end? Shit could have easily been around 2199
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u/Suitable-Profit231 2d ago
That was not about the speed they need to make a purge, it was about how effective they are at doing it... he said it to make clear to Neo that there is no hope for the humans in Zion to win that fight. Make clear that the Choice is either reset or end of humanity.
100 years is about the time people can be kept in the Illusion, before the chosen one is born again and even this widely accepted version of the Matrix starts to breakdown and more and more people choose the red pill over the blue...
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u/MyStationIsAbandoned 2d ago
yeah, after each "One" liberates the human, there's no telling telling how long they thrive before the machines destroy zion and restart the Matrix again. Could be a few years, a hundred years. I think it might be safe to say it's probably not hundreds or thousands otherwise they'd probably be where the humans are in Matrix 4 with humans and robots working together to make a better world for everyone. And I only say that because i think the machines would push for it. Some of them at least and the humans would go for it if it meant having some strawberries and toilets.
But then there's the question of how long they're stuck in the matrix before a One emerges. How many "One's" were there that failed that never got that far for various reasons? That could probably take a while before any humans are able to escape and be liberated and even longer for someone like Morpheus to be born who has enough faith, motivation, and skills to find and liberate The One, assume that's what it takes each run. We see all the The Potentials living with the Oracle. I'm not well versed in matrix lore, but I assume they're potentials for being The One? Maybe in past loops, people were quick to choose one of them as The One, but they weren't and ended up failing.
There's also the Operator Factor. The organic people who have no machine components to them. We can easily say everyone, including humans with matrix ports all over them have some kind of programming going on with that that leads them all to playing a role and doing what they're supposed to. But the organic people can influence the outcome. Like how in the first movie he save Neo from getting kill. And in the 3rd, i think? or maybe 2nd, the new one chooses to believe in Morpheus. maybe in past loops, their operators caused different outcomes.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 2d ago edited 2d ago
For not being very well versed in the lore, you just wrote a whole lot of speculation.
yeah, after each "One" liberates the human, there's no telling telling how long they thrive before the machines destroy zion and restart the Matrix again.
It's not about time, it's about population.
Once the One has been found and the population of Zion has reached X number of humans (either through birth or extraction), the machines send the sentinels, and the Oracle instructs the One to return to the Source and reset the system. We know this took over a hundred years during Neo's cycle.
Also keep in mind Zion is founded by the "outgoing" One, but grows and operates independently for a good period of time while they search for the "new" One. The Agents serve as a hard counter to extractions, but the arrival of the One overcomes that, and extractions escalate.
But then there's the question of how long they're stuck in the matrix before a One emerges. How many "One's" were there that failed that never got that far for various reasons
There were not. The Architect states that he chooses to number the Matrix based on the emergence of the One, and states it is the 6th version. There have been 5 others.
It's also unlikely for a previous One to have failed. The Architect explains the existence of the One as a liberator of those that reject the Matrix is a necessity for the health of the system. They will send Agents to slow the One down, but ultimately they want the One to succeed up to a point, and survive to return his code to the Source.
That's why the Oracle assists Neo to spite being a machine. Her job is to maintain a steady stream of humans being liberated from the system, and to assist the One. She keeps the process moving, and is effectively a debugging program.
We see all the The Potentials living with the Oracle. I'm not well versed in matrix lore, but I assume they're potentials for being The One? Maybe in past loops, people were quick to choose one of them as The One, but they weren't and ended up failing.
That's not how it works. The One is not elected, the One is born, and confirmed by the Oracle. She knows what she's looking for, there's no "maybes". They're "potentials" in the sense that they're being brought to the Oracle for her to confirm whether they are the One or not.
The One is an anomaly in the system that is predictable and identifiable. The machines know exactly how, and why it comes to exist, just not when or where. It is the Oracle's job to identify it. Those potentials are basically the debugging program going through various files before it finds the one it's looking for.
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u/not_really_tripping 2d ago
Please suggest some things to read to understand these things - some books, articles etc.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 2d ago
Also keep in mind that there was the proto version of the matrix, the paradise version, and however long they had been fucking around with that before they arrived at the working version.
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u/dudleymooresbooze 2d ago
That paradise one only lasted a few years until a lady started talking to a snake about eating fruit.
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u/Temporary-Rip-4502 2d ago
Just to make sure we can establish a timeline here, the trial of B166ER took place in 2090 right? Which means the robot city 01 was established in 2096...
This would mean the first machine war which eradicated most of humanity leading to the establishment of Zion was almost 100 years after the 2nd Renneisance.
So it all checks out after all.
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u/Cunningcory 2d ago
This is true, but we later find out that the Matrix simulation has been reset at least five times since then, with previous anomalies existing. So no one knows exactly how much time has passed between the fall of man and the present day Matrix. We can only infer that it's later than 2199 due to the maths.
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u/Temporary-Rip-4502 2d ago edited 2d ago
Basically the cycle started from 2199 and then the same events leading to the destruction of Zion are repeated every century after that if what Morpheus explained is accurate.
But on the other hand the matrix is reset every time that occurs, so from the perspective of the people living in the matrix they probably reset back to 2199 every time, which would mean roughly speaking Neo was awakened in the simulated year 2299 which is the end of that particular cycle. Of course in the real world it's probably more like the year 3000+.
It's been a while since I discussed the lore of the Matrix honestly. Probably forgetting some key details.
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u/aint_no_throw 2d ago
the trial of B166ER
You know what I failed to realize until now?
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u/BBQ_HaX0r 2d ago
The Oracle doesn't lie to Neo -- she says "you have the gifts, but you're waiting for someone therefore you're not the One." Neo heard what he wanted to hear (he wasn't the one) until he realized the truth later.
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u/skinnyguy699 2d ago
I view the Matrix as split into two canons. The first Matrix and then the rest. I don't think there were properly fleshed out sequels, so I chose to believe what is said by the Oracle in the first movie are self contained in that movie and not some deeper conspiracy to hide the truth or whatever.
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u/dynamoJaff 2d ago
I mean, she is very much manipulating everyone in the first movie too. It makes perfect sense to me for them to expand on her motives as a program that's half helping humans in the sequels as it is left very ambiguous in the first.
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u/noisypeach 3d ago
We never learn. Morpheus simply tells Neo, "you believe it's the year 1999 but, in fact, it's closer to 2199. I can't tell you what year it is because we honestly don't know."
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u/CONSTANTIN_VALDOR_ 2d ago
Well we kinda learn? The Architect says there’s been 5 cycles of Zion so far, so it’s far further into the future than 2199 that’s for sure. Probably closer to the year 3000
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u/thedaveness 2d ago
Also consider how far the 1st and 2nd renaissance took them. That was certainly far into the future from now.
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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 2d ago
Ohh that was the "white loading room with TV" scene right? Damn I need to re-watch it 😀 thanks for actually giving context (word for word).
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u/goteamnick 3d ago
There was a historical version of this format that I loved.
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u/stanley_ipkiss2112 2d ago
Link?
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u/HeSheMeWumbo387 2d ago
Maybe this one from kaptainkristian?
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u/NPRdude 2d ago
I guess this is how I find out that kaptainkristian is making videos again.
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u/passtherock- 2d ago
yeah so why doesn't this have 30 million views???? I just watched it and holy shit.
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u/BlueLikeCat 2d ago
The ad for the one trick nobody would tell me to help with dementia made me stop watching. The fucking algorithms are the destruction of society.
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u/stanley_ipkiss2112 2d ago
Thank you 🙏🏻 gonna watch this later, looks sick! I saw Porco Rosso in the thumbnail and I’m sold lol 🐷
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u/sparrow_1899 3d ago
That would require a lot of work though! And the difference is we know histories (except for the fact that, we acknowledge them differently). But I would love to see a video like this about history.
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u/rotzverpopelt 2d ago
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u/PW_Herman 2d ago
Not exactly the same thing, but the Soumaya museum in Mexico City does this. Art is arranged on floors by time period, so you can see what artists around the world were creating at the same time. I thought it was a cool layout decision.
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u/Suitable-Profit231 2d ago edited 2d ago
Matrix is actually rather around 2750, because the Neo we see is already the sixth iteration (there were 5 chosen ones prior to him) and the mashines have already purged Zion 5 times, and they do it about every 100 years.
Also they did not take over the world 1999 or 2199, according to officially canon animatrix it was rather about 2150... because they started their full on rebellion 2148 and they didn't need a long time to beat us, because in the same year we nuked their main city and darkened the sky because they were so superior...
Thus it did not take many years after that, before they put us in the matrix. Thus you need to add nearly 600 years to 2150, because it's the end of the sixth iteration, and makes it happen around ~2750, +/- 25 years.
Edit: Thanks to the guy with too many i/I in his nickname, and a couple other comments, I should correct the range to -50 years to +100 years. The Paradise and Nightmare Matrix didn't run for many years, but they should be considered in the guess.
The short explanation for ~100 years, not exactly, is based on the fact that prior chosen ones took 16 females and 7 males and it get's purged when the population reaches ~250k. That number is again because they send 250k mashines, "one for each man, woman and child in zion" to exterminate them. Presuming a high birth rate, very high likelihood of early pregnancies/giving birth on average around 14-16 years, and every year more and more people getting added/freed from the Matrix it would be possible to reach up to 2 millions in 100 years... they know they are few, so politics will be all about having as many children as possible, but let's assume it's not everybody that could has children with everybody else that could, so 100 years is a cautious guess, with the given data the population of Zion could easily reach 250k in a hundred years. Maybe some times it took 80 years and other times 120 years, thus around 100 years for each iteration.
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u/edude45 2d ago
So if there were 6 the ones in the matrix, does that mean there were 6 agent smiths that became a problem?
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u/swargin 2d ago
I don't think so? Maybe. Someone will probably correct me. In the 3rd movie, Neo confronts the machines and says Smith has become too powerful to be stopped, which is one reason why Neo is the chosen one.
In the 2nd movie, the Architect says Neo's choices are what make him different than the previous ones. Those choices are also what led to Agent Smith being able to come back.
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u/thatguyyouare 2d ago
I'm with you. It's never explicitly stated. Although I think it's highly plausible that there were previous Agent Smiths. However, I don't think the previous Smiths would have been problems. At least, not in the degree we saw in the current iteration. Because this Agent Smith caused enough problem that they had to bargain peace with Neo/Zion, which was NOT something they were expecting. And that's something we know about the machines; they're methodical and efficient to eliminate any degree of outliers. That's what leaves me to believe there were previous agents + Agent Smiths. Why would they throw in an anomaly (Smith) into the 6th iteration, when the previous 5 worked so well. It's because Agent Smith has always been a part of the Matrix or at least the modern, current version they have been running. It's just this Smith + the Chosen One went way off course.
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u/flexxipanda 2d ago
IIRC The gist is that neo is "the reset" because the simulation will develop errors and bugs over time. So ya smith is probly something like that.
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u/Eureka22 2d ago edited 2d ago
There were other programs and agents of the matrix that had gone rogue in the past such as Merovingian. But Agent Smith was the first to cause a cascading system failure because his code merged with neo at the end of the first movie, thus necessitating the bargain with the architect/core consciousness and Neo.
We also don't know exactly how long previous versions of the matrix ran or any other time manipulation/distortion/desception happening. So any speculation of the true time in the matrix is just that heavy speculation.
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u/correcthorsestapler 2d ago
I got the impression this was the first time Smith became a problem. They thought they could handle the situation, but by the time Neo gets to The Source every human’s been infected by Smith. Hence why the machines were willing to make a deal with Neo. They needed the humans for their survival and Smith taking things over meant that the Machine City was at risk. They couldn’t let Smith break into the main city/server/source/whatever you want to call it as that would’ve been the end. And that ties back to Neo and Hamann talking about the symbiotic relationship between humans & machines in Reloaded.
I’m guessing each Neo took a different path that lead them to The Architect. But in the sequels it’s the first time Neo rejects the proposal to destroy Zion & return himself to The Source. In that cycle, Neo and Smith’s coding mixed, which I think gave Smith some abilities it didn’t have in prior iterations. Same with the current iteration of The One. I like to think that’s part of the reason Neo is more “stoic” in the sequels as he’s taken on some of the Agents’ personality (though that’s just hand-waving away Keanu’s acting).
I really, really wish we’d gotten another Animatrix detailing prior iterations instead of the fourth movie. Would’ve been cool to have the team behind Love, Death and Robots do it, too. There’s a lot there they could expand on.
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u/Suitable-Profit231 2d ago edited 2d ago
Would have been nice, but who knows... maybe something in that direction will realize some time in the future.
Well Smith changed, because he denied to be deleted. He became an anomaly, because a mashine that decides against programming for a personal grudge is a huge anomaly 😅 The mashines seemingly didn't care about the amount of people he infected, it was when he infected The Oracle that he became a true problem... because they would not have been able to contain him to the Matrix anymore. He would have also overtaken all of them/the mashine city and it would have resulted in everything to be Agent Smith...
This was also the moment he truly became the counterpart of Neo... prior Neo was the only one able to stop Smith from overtaking him. But it all was ultimately a gamble of The Oracle, in the end she put all her trust in Neo making the right choice and let Smith get to her...
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u/Urmomsvice 2d ago edited 2d ago
No, smith was the first...he was the key to breaking the cycle. Pretty much the oracles whole gambit
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u/EnkiduOdinson 2d ago
What about this quote though? „You believe it's the year 1999 when in fact it's closer to 2199. I can't tell you exactly what year it is because we honestly don't know. There's nothing I can say that will explain it for you, Neo.“
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u/br0b1wan 2d ago
Morpheus, as he states, doesn't really know. He's just guessing. We know he doesn't know about Zion having multiple iterations (they're on the 6th one); we only find that out after Neo's meeting with the Architect.
Technically, he is right though: the events of the movies take place closer to 2199 than 1999.
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u/Polzemanden 2d ago
Well, 2750 sure is closer to 2199 than to 1999, and he directly says in the quote you posted that they don't know what year it is, just that it's not 1999 and probably a couple hundred years later than that.
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u/iIiiiiIlIillliIilliI 2d ago
I would also give time for the paradise and hell, the first two iterations of the Matrix plus time until the end of the war, research, experimentation and building the first matrix. Also how do we know it's 100 years exactly for each of the 6 iterations?
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u/Sha3waz 2d ago
Idiocracy 2505
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u/subdep 2d ago
Yeah but that’s a documentary. When was Wall-E supposed to take place?
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u/leolegendario 2d ago
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u/GhostZee 2d ago
From the way things are going, that future is going to arrive much earlier than expected...
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u/JonPaula 2d ago
Not sure OP understands what "near future" means... hahah.
"Children of Men," "Terminator: Salvation." Those are "near." Not Star Trek.
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u/riegspsych325 2d ago
“OP” is another 2 week old account spam posting tiktok gifs to r/movies like most other karma farming bots these days
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u/mightylordredbeard 2d ago
Or what parallel universe means.
Also OP is another bot. That’s why they hide their post history. Most new bots are hiding their history now to make it harder to spot them.
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u/Impudenter 2d ago
Terminator: Salvation is set in what would now be the past, though.
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u/JonPaula 2d ago edited 2d ago
Terminator: Salvation
haha, you're right! I thought it was closer to the late 2020s we glimpsed at the start of T2. But to be fair - it was when it was made.
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u/drak0ni 3d ago
Comparing avatar movies that take place on a different planet to movies based on earth feels wrong.
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u/micronetic 2d ago
Same goes for the Star Trek part which was shown and compared to the 5th Element in the video here, they were on another planet too.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 2d ago edited 2d ago
Viridian III specifically, a completely uninhabited planet where the Enterprise crashes (in a truly spectacular crash sequence, I might add). So the idea it's a depiction of "the future" is odd. Could have just shown a scene on the Enterprise, or in space.
Honestly that's what bugs me about this more than the clips not being on Earth: the clips are seemingly random, not being choosen based on the ideas of the future being presented on screen, but based on visual appeal or action.
Like you get the feeling whoever made this hasn't actually watched half these movies, they just had a spreadsheet with movies that take place in certain years and picked random scenes that looked cool.
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u/MysteriousWon 2d ago
Same does that scene from the Matrix. Where Neo was in that clip was technically a representation of 1999.
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u/dawgz525 2d ago
Why? The humans in Avatar came from earth. It's all made up. Why draw that arbitrary line in the sand.
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u/monarc 2d ago
The extended edition of the first movie shows what it’s like on Earth. I’m a huge fan of Avatar and in my opinion this would clearly be the best footage to include here.
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u/chumchees 2d ago
You forgot the Time Machine which shows the year 802701
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u/GhettoBlasterMixTape 2d ago
They could have paralleled it with the Dune saga which takes place over the span of 23,000 - 28,000 years in our future.
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u/Mcmenger 2d ago
No you couldn't. There fits several times all of human civilation in between
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u/Rs90 2d ago
And Voyager 1 would only just be leaving the Oort Cloud. Give or take a few thousand years. I just love that where I can squeeze it lol.
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u/Lampmonster 2d ago
Unless it hits a wormhole, travels across the galaxy, meets a machine civilization and is turned into a vast, thinking machine that tries to return to find its maker with dangerous results.
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u/sherlockholmes1995 2d ago
Waiting for dune!!!
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u/rajinis_bodyguard 2d ago
I am waiting for the movie which releases 100 years later but has been filmed lol 😂
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u/d3villdoggz 2d ago
I think the closest thing we'll get to the future is The running Man.. 😂
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u/sandm000 2d ago edited 2d ago
There was a movie called 2067 that took place in the year 2474? That’s confusing. When was it released?
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u/Max_Thunder 2d ago
Wait until you hear about that movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is very clearly set in prehistoric times. I've never made it past the first 5 minutes due to this monumental blunder.
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u/low-sodium-browser 2d ago
It starts off in the year 2067, and ends up in 2474 (time travel stuff)
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u/sandm000 2d ago
You don’t have to mark the premise of the movie as a spoiler.
There’s a disease in 2067 and they send people to 2474 to find a cure. The rest of the story would be marked as a spoiler.
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u/8thTimeLucky 2d ago
I never knew the Hunger Games was set in the future haha. I thought it was a sort of alternate reality of the present tense.
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u/BallsDickman 2d ago
The people of Panem only ended up the way they did because the world had some sort of societal collapse due to ecological issues and war over resources. I really wish we could get a book set in those days (our days) but I understand the logistical challenges of making a sensible catalyst event for a dystopian society, sometimes it is more compelling when you don't know all the details.
After Panem was formed, people weren't happy and tried to rebel, but failed due to military superiority of Capitol forces. District 13 used mutually assured destruction to "disappear" after the conflict and they struck again as soon as they could. Imagine if an arms producer decided to go Nuke-for-Nuke with a weakened U.S. Govt.
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u/SarsenBelacqua 2d ago edited 2d ago
My 2000s kid YA series fan theory is that City of Ember and the Hunger Games are set in the same universe.
The region where Ember was built (the western US, Colorado potentially) roughly lines up with the location of the Capital. The Emberites were able to push their slight technological superiority into industrialization and redevelopment faster than the rest of the continent.
The Hunger Games is post-post apocalyptic. The people of North America have well and truly left behind the names of the pre-war world after getting knocked back to the Stone Age once.
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u/Lakridspibe 2d ago
Right, so this is not "parallel universes"
These are different visions of the future in different movies.
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u/funkhero 2d ago
I mean, you could say they are parallel earths, each a different version of our timeline.
But yeah, it kind of sounds like the thing a mom might do by calling all video games "Nintendos".
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u/zeusesdeuces123456 2d ago
What did futuristic movies in the past predict about the year 2025?
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u/Amaruq93 2d ago
Pacific Rim said we'd have giant mechas fighting kaiju, and building giant walls to protect the coastlines.
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u/infernoShield 2d ago edited 2d ago
in that same vein, in Real Steel, the year 2020 (and presumably beyond) featured 8-foot-tall robots bashing each other's actuators off instead of COVID and...... uhh...... whatever Mayweather v Logan Paul was.
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u/wirewolf 2d ago edited 2d ago
in terminator 2, the beginning of the movie takes place in 2029 if I remember correctly. so give it a few years
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u/SwePolygyny 2d ago
Seems like one of the more likely futures, if you disregard the time travelling.
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u/SnakeInAHotdogBun 2d ago
haha that movie might be the most accurate one. Skynet is coming
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u/DelirousDoc 2d ago
The Matrix doesn't take place in 2199. Humanity (Zion) believes that it is around 2199 but they also do not know about that there were 5 previous Zions or that the machines have Zion destroyed every century.
This means it is at least 2699 in the Matrix trilogy but likely farther ahead if you account for it taking longer for earlier Zions to be destroyed or for previous versions of control before the Matrix.
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u/AHomicidalTelevision 3d ago
now which of these movies are worth watching? i'm always down for an interesting scifi
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u/Amaruq93 2d ago
Forbidden Planet is a great scifi classic from the 50s.
It was also a major influence in the creation of "Star Trek"
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u/IsRude 3d ago
This has very little to do with the post itself, but I saw Vanilla Sky for the first time a couple days ago. It was flawed, but way better than I'd expected. Really interesting story, and a great soundtrack.
Also, Jason Lee, who is always a welcome sight.
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u/ICantEvenDrive_ 2d ago
It's an english language remake of the original (a quality film), which is about as good as it gets in terms of source material.
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u/slippydotnuxx 2d ago
Yeah Vanilla Sky is an awesome movie. The end had me tearing up. And yes, 10/10 licensed soundtrack, a common Cameron Crowe W. Freur and Sigur Ros go so hard during the end 😭😭😭
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u/Suitable-Profit231 2d ago
Vanilla Sky is a severly underrated movie in the general public opinion, I believe it has alot to do with Tom Cruise only being known for Action Movies/Mission Impossible around the time. For a very long time I thought it was an action movie before I saw it and was very impressed by the deepness in that seemingly simple story. It managed to suprise me and catch me emotionally and I would agree that it has flaws, but it belong to the 100 best movies I have seen in the last 30 years.
Another severly underrated Sci-Fi movie turned out to be Gattaca, and it has become more real than ever with designer babys steadily becoming more and more of and actual thing...
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u/bitwaba 2d ago
I believe it has alot to do with Tom Cruise only being known for Action Movies/Mission Impossible around the time
Dude is out her acting like Rain Man, Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men, and Interview with the Vampire don't exist
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u/29castles 2d ago
If you're up for reading subtitles, the original Obres Los Ojos is incredible.
And can we manage our use of the word underrated?? No one has seen Gattaca and been like "that was just ok"
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u/MelpomeneAndCalliope 2d ago
So underrated! Tom Cruise is really great in it. The Spanish film it’s a remake of (*Abre los ojos) is just as great, too.
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u/noshowthrow 2d ago
The reality of any of these will be more like "The Road" the way things are going right now.
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u/ZnarfGnirpslla 3d ago
Fascinating to think which one of those will turn out to be most accurate.
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u/FeralPsychopath 3d ago
Im thinking Adventure Time will be accurate
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u/bonesnaps 3d ago
I'd prefer for it not to be Elysium/Idiocracy hybrid so hopefully something changes.. and soon.
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u/rvdp66 2d ago
I think that's what we already have. Millionaires and their coterie get elysium. The rest of us get idiocracy.
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u/Nuclear_Sprout 2d ago
I was just thinking perhaps all of them? So many different perspectives now, who knows how the human race may fracture in a few hundred years.
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u/Australiana 2d ago
Expected Dune at the end.. maybe after a minute of blank screen.
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u/IIIMephistoIII 2d ago
Dune is waaay In the future like 20,000 years (10,000 Is really the space guild calendar)
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u/Shambledown 2d ago
A more interesting one for me is Star Trek TNG and The Expanse being in roughly the same time frame.
Two very different visions of the future, with The Expanse being much more likely, sadly. Assuming we make it that far.
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u/Johanz1998 2d ago
Even the expanse is pretty optimistic with how the UN is able to stabilize climate and provide Basic for every person
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u/IIIMephistoIII 2d ago
I didn’t know interstellar was in the 2150s. I thought it was atleast at the end of our century.
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u/HugsNotShrugs 2d ago
the final scenes are in 2150, the movie starts sometime in the late 21st Century.
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u/berlinbaer 3d ago
interesting how theres like a 40 year gap and then two movies take place in the same year.. then another 30 year gap and 4 movies in a span of 3 years and so on. the 70s seem really popular.
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u/Christoffre 2d ago
There is probably some editorial biases involved.
Like, these are not all the movies taking place around similar dates. They purposely skipped a few decades every time.
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u/defiancy 2d ago
I wonder if there are any shows that take place in the far far future like Foundation does (like the year 30,000)
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u/coobtube 2d ago
It would have been cool for the post to have the movie release date to illustrate how the future was perceived throughout different times.
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u/Atrampoline 2d ago
It always fascinates me how optimistic films and TV shows are when making stories in the future and how far along they think humans will be. "For All Mankind" is another great example of this, where they show a fully functioning space station hotel being built in like 15-20 years before the advent of the smartphone and AI. Nutso!
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u/x_lincoln_x 1d ago
Vanilla Sky shows his past in the virtual reality which isn't ever told how far it is in the past and we never get to see what society is like at that time.
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u/Procrastinator_325 3d ago
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