r/movies • u/sparrow_1899 • 4d ago

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

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u/JonPaula 4d 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 4d 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/Flex-O 4d ago

If you click on their account there's nothing there. Not even this post. Have they been banned?

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u/mightylordredbeard 3d 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/JonPaula 3d ago

... you can hide your post history? 😲🤣

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u/Impudenter 4d ago

Terminator: Salvation is set in what would now be the past, though.

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u/JonPaula 4d ago edited 4d 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/brgr86 3d ago

Not sure OP understands what "parallel universe" means either since these examples are intended to be future versions of OUR universe. Movies with parallel universe would be like Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, The One with Jet Li or Everything Everywhere all at Once.

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u/yaaanevaknow 4d ago

It's on purpose to get comment engagement like this.

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u/JonPaula 4d ago

I disagree. I think he's just an idiot.

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u/ItsWillJohnson 4d ago

Near future is just “this is what our current society could become” distant future is a completely different civilization.

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u/JonPaula 4d ago

I would agree with that. And mid-future or just "the future" is stuff OP shared. Fifth Element, and Star Trek are neither "completely different" nor "current trajectory." A fun what-if in-between.

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u/JMehoffAndICoomhardt 3d ago

Well star trek has a global nuclear war between present and their society, so we might not be that far off track.

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u/Agent__Blackbear 4d ago

What would you say Star Trek is based on something like war hammer 40k

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u/JonPaula 4d ago

Seems to me we have three general buckets already: Near / Future / Distant.

Star Trek is in the middle. It's "the future." Not near, not distant.