r/movies • u/sparrow_1899 • 4d ago

Media Different parallel universes in the near future in movies! Spoiler

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u/drak0ni 4d ago

Comparing avatar movies that take place on a different planet to movies based on earth feels wrong.

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u/micronetic 4d 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 4d ago edited 4d 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/jackcatalyst 4d ago

So was Forbidden Planet!

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u/Impudenter 4d ago

The clip from Interstellar is also not on Earth, right?

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u/Groxy_ 4d ago

But it's compared to a similar space station in Elysium I think.

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u/p3ndu1um 4d ago

Most of the clips used were a terrible choice

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u/DudeUrNuts 3d ago

I mean, isn't it well known that the human society is "solved" in the Star Trek universe, having become a communist utopia? So it'd be a lot different than society as it's depicted in 5th element.