Foreshadowing Movies

Contagion

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Nine years later Covid happened.

Dark City

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It was like the Matrix, before the Matrix, and it still has one the best "reveal" shots in cinema.

The Truman Show

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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To pull off the blend of live action and cartoons at that time and it still hold up is a testament to amazing acting, directing, and effects, but then you add in an actually good crime -noir story, a great villain, and the fact that Warner and Disney actually agreed to license their characters out in the same movie. And if you don’t like any of that there’s always Jessica Rabbit

Mystery Men

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An ensemble superhero satire complete with low-grade heroes, populated by character actors and comedians would have knocked it out of the park a year after the first Avengers movie. It even had a world-ending death beam at the end.


Sneakers

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And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think it's all about the information!

Idiocracy

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Watchmen

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Imagine if Watchmen premiered when the hype around The Boys started or when MCU fatigue was setting in.

2001: A Space Odyssey

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Gattaca

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Definitely Akira

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It can easily be shown with modern animes but it's from the 80's. Every picture is drawn and the animation techniques used were perfected to the scene. Story is also mind blowing.

Alien

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The music, the set, the special effects mind blowing.

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings

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very cutting edge for its time and was able to seamlessly integrate legacy movie magic techniques with novel CGI to bring Tolkien's world to the silver screen.

Her

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I think it’s accurately predicted the life in 10 years time when we get familiarised with chatgpt AI.

Back to the Future Part II

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Children of Men

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The immigration situation. Once flooding, heat and wildfires make starving populations it might be like that.

Starship Troopers

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It was a little too clever of a satire, so nobody got it at the time and people thought it was just a stupid scifi movie about fighting evil bugs.In the current political climate it seems a lot more prescient.

The Matrix

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The Matrix felt like it was ahead of its time, but still grounded in the era it came from.I mean their take on AI is pretty ahead of the times and its something that is worrying to lots of people today.