Prophetic movies?

Wall Street.

4cylndrfury wrote: my wife still has a hard time with the elf king and Agent Smith being the same guy... every time I watch LOTR (which isnt really that often) I just want him once to say "MR. ANDERSON" with those silly ears and long hair going on p.s. pg too pwnage

Then she'll really flip if she ever watches "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"...

Partial thread hijack:

Seeing elfy there reminds me: If I was Julian Sands, I'd fire my friggin' agent. For him not to be cast as an elf in one or all of the LOTR flicks means somebody wasn't doing their job. Or maybe he's living the sweet life on those fat "Warlock" residuals.

jg

Prophetic, maybe not,

But one could have made a nice sum of money betting someone Predator would star two governors...

Anyone remember the "INFO Net" from The Running man? Who knew?

Funny thing about Robo Cop's 6000 SUX. When the latest re-body of Chevy's Monte Carlos came out, I remember shouting, "Holy crap, they really made a 6000 SUX!" With the right kind of squinty eyes, they do appear similar.

rebelgtp wrote: Anyone else ever find it interesting when something outlandish is mentioned in a movie then later on it becomes true? One particular example of this that I can think of is in "Demolition Man" I think it was where they say that Arnold becomes Governor of Cali (and eventually President). Then I was also finding it amusing in the movie "The Postman" the character Ford changed his name because he wanted to drive cars, the only surviving car lot sign was "Ford Lincoln Mercury". We now have GM and Chrysler going in the hole...hmmm How many more can you guys think of? It really makes me think .Is not it a little unreal?

Do you

Dr. Hess wrote: 1984 came to mind immediately, along with Animal Farm. There was a sci-fi short story called _The Marching Morons_. It has a Rip van Winkle type of character waking up in the future. Oh, and The Time Machine.

Funny you mention "The Marching Morons." I read it when I was a kid, and when I saw "Idiocracy", it was the first thing I thought of.

JG Pasterjak wrote: Jaws jg

Jaws was based on a real event, the New Jersey attacks of 1916.
http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/saf_nj_maneater.htm

I grew up on the NC Outer Banks. The old folks used to tell this story to the kids so we'd stay out of the water when they weren't around (Jaws came out when we were teenagers, and nothing would have stopped us then).

Terminator 2

BobOfTheFuture wrote: Terminator 2

from what Ive seen of todays most evolved AI...This:

is a far cry from this:

jim1234 wrote:

rebelgtp wrote: Anyone else ever find it interesting when something outlandish is mentioned in a movie then later on it becomes true? One particular example of this that I can think of is in "Demolition Man" I think it was where they say that Arnold becomes Governor of Cali (and eventually President). Then I was also finding it amusing in the movie "The Postman" the character Ford changed his name because he wanted to drive cars, the only surviving car lot sign was "Ford Lincoln Mercury". We now have GM and Chrysler going in the hole...hmmm How many more can you guys think of? It really makes me think .Is not it a little unreal?

Do you

Americathon

From 1979, about a backrupt america (out of oil) and the (then) tiny company of Nike (not yet public) being the biggest company. Many other "predictions as well.

I think idiocracy was a hack on Americathon, or at least the makers of idiocracy watched Americathon before making their film.

Xceler8x wrote: 7 Completely Unrealistic Movie Plots (That Came True) In this article they mention a show called The Lone Gunmen wherein they predicted 9/11.

Yep, Family Guy too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmmOVSmmdwk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma10IVSysNM

I keep hoping for one of the adult flicks to get all prophetic for me but it always seems like whenever a woman says something suggestive like "I want you to clean out my garage" she means that... well, she wants the damned garage cleaned out.

^^

Xceler8x wrote: In this article they mention a show called The Lone Gunmen wherein they predicted 9/11.

You say "a show called" as if nobody watched it. It was an X-Files spinoff with the awesomest quasi-regular characters, of course we all know what it was. (Right? Right?)

I watched it, anyway.

Not a movie, but there was an episode of Laugh-In where the announcer guy is doing a fake news spot. Here's the entirety of one of his jokes:

"President Ronald Reagan..." (much laughter from the audience)

In reply to Dr. Hess:

That would have served us all better as a private message. Movie thread about movies, politics thread about politics. Mentioning political figures doesn not make this a political thread.

kthanxbye.

Bwaahahaha! This is where the awkward silence goes!

I saw Animal house the other day, Steven First's character was called Flounder...

Tom Heath wrote: In reply to Dr. Hess: That would have served us all better as a private message. Movie thread about movies, politics thread about politics. Mentioning political figures doesn not make this a political thread. kthanxbye.

So, how did Margie react when you knocked on her office door to talk about board etiquette?

4cylndrfury wrote: my wife still has a hard time with the elf king and Agent Smith being the same guy... every time I watch LOTR (which isnt really that often) I just want him once to say "MR. ANDERSON" with those silly ears and long hair going on p.s. pg too pwnage

+0.5 for Idiocracy......... I liked the concept, I just wished it were a little more dark than Mike Judge happy/silly.....perhaps a little more Atlas Shrugged without the heavy socio-political messages mixed in.....

and +1 for Running Man -- aren't the reality shows just about a season or two away from this reality? Isn't that why we have the Biggest Loser -- we're just waiting for an overweight person to have their heart explode on TV?

Mental wrote: "I'll buy that for a dollar"

I use that line! Love it. People look at you funny.

Sometimes when I'm in an odd mood, when someone I don't know says "hi", I'll say "plate of shrimp."

Rollerball is in the process of becoming true in many ways.