![]() ![]() The 2015 of Back to the Future II is a silly, cartoony place with hoverboard chases and wacky “directional” fashion (and flying cars, again). The Back to the Future movies have a lot of fun with where trends seemed to be pointing us. ![]() ![]() The famous short A Trip to the Moon (1902), by the French pioneer George Méliès, fantasised about manned space travel long before we’d taken any steps towards achieving it – albeit space travel which ends up taking the moon’s eye out.Įvery film which has ever used time travel as a device would look foolish if this was taken, in itself, as a scientific prediction, but that’s not to say it isn’t a fascinating game to play. If we watched them and every speculation had come to pass, what would be the point?Įven so, guessing at the shape of our future, and marvelling at its possibilities, has been a preoccupation for cinema since its earliest infancy. ![]() Like many films in the genre, both Blade Runners posit an alternative future with its own internal realism, rather than seeking to prophesy, with some pedantic obsessiveness, the one we’ve actually got coming. Using “accuracy” as a measure of science fiction’s value would be an unbelievably limited way to approach it. Denis Villeneuve’s new sequel, Blade Runner 2049, moves things further ahead by 30 years, exploring many of the same themes, and the world, of course, becomes less recognisable yet. It was set in the Los Angeles of 2019, which will have to work extremely hard over the next two years to look anything like it. In 1982, Ridley Scott’s cult science fiction classic Blade Runner showed us a future full of flame-belching towers, flying cars, LED umbrellas and robots (or "replicants") barely distinguishable from human beings. ![]()
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