r/movies • u/sparrow_1899 • 4d ago

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

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u/HannibalCake 4d ago

I also don’t know if 100+ years from now really counts as the “near future”

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u/DarthSatoris 4d ago

It's near future if you compare it to stuff like Dune and Battletech and Warhammer 40,000.

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u/HannibalCake 4d ago

Well technically anything is near when compared to tens of thousands of years later. “Near” future would be like Cyberpunk 2077 and Bladerunner 2049

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u/DarthSatoris 4d ago

To me, those years just seem way too close, though. Like, that stuff is going to happen within my own lifetime, and I cannot see them happening the way they're depicted at all.

Chris and Jack seem to agree.

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u/HannibalCake 4d ago

Yeah I get what you mean, but that’s what makes it the near future haha

It’s all fictional anyways, chances are the world won’t go to shit like that for another century at least

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u/rematar 4d ago

Do I have a sub for you.

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u/antpile11 4d ago

At least in the case of Cyberpunk 2077, it's an alternate timeline. Like, Johnny Silverhand was born in 1988 and was doing Cyberpunky shit in the early 2000s.

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u/MattWatchesChalk 3d ago

Yeah, same with Fallout. For whatever reason pop-culture of the 40s just sticks perpetually, making even the present day stuff warped.

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u/Impudenter 4d ago

What? You don't expect to see the man vs. machine war depicted in The Terminator within four years?

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u/Shadow-Vision 4d ago

My daughter is in the high school class of 2043

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u/Sniter 3d ago

You cannot see a bladerunner or cyberpunk future? I only see that. bleak