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have you seen a movie that has predicted the future?


i just watched demolition man and it predicted three things:

there would be a murderer named scott peterson
there would be weapons of mass destruction
Schwarzenegger would be president (ok, gov. is close enough)


oh yeah, and it was a great movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/

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A few months prior to the 9/11 attacks, the premiere episode of the "X-Files" spinoff "The Lone Gunmen" told of a plot to crash an airline into the World Trade Center.

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It says he registered in 2002...

And that should be "airliner," of course.

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Too bad. I already visualized the entirety of Delta Airlines used as a projectile.

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I think that's how it was in the original draft, but the writers decided that it just wasn't aerodynamic enough.

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CSI:Miami filmed an episode with a sniper prior to the sniper tragedy in Washington, D.C.

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In The Big Lebowski, the Dude writes a check for like $.37. In the background a newscast of the first US-Iraqi war is playing. The date on the check?

September 11th.


(1991, but who pays attention to a detail like that? )

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"Three Kings" had US soldiers in Iraq in the same year!

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Too bad. I already visualized the entirety of Delta Airlines used as a projectile.

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The Buck Rogers movie predicted humanity would be terrorized by an oppressive emperor named Ming the Merciless

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The Buck Rogers movie predicted humanity would be terrorized by an oppressive emperor named Ming the Merciless



OMFG!!!111!!! That was Flash Gordon you ****king n00b l4m3r!1!!!111!!!

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They were the same guy.

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Buck Rogers and Ming are the same guy

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They were the same guy.


No. Flash was a manly American who was constantly never getting off with the virginal Dale Arden. His enemy was the racist stereotype of an Asiatic psychopath – Emperor Ming the Moderator.

Buck was a manly American who was constantly never getting off with the virginal Wilma Deering (Erin Gray, you know I'm still here for you... just wear that blue body suit... I luv u still..), but who in addition, was constantly being propositioned by his racist stereotype of an Asiatic psychopath enemy – the slutty but voluptuous Princess Ardala.

Neither got laid, which is the key to the secret: both were poofs. Ming just didn't offer Flash any action.

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i just watched demolition man and it predicted three things:

there would be a murderer named scott peterson
there would be weapons of mass destruction
Schwarzenegger would be president (ok, gov. is close enough)


San Angeles is still probably a ways away, though with increasing land prices and people's increasing tolerance for 2-hour commutes, the distance between the two metro areas has closed by a hundred miles or so in the last ten years.

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San Angeles is still probably a ways away, though with increasing land prices and people's increasing tolerance for 2-hour commutes, the distance between the two metro areas has closed by a hundred miles or so in the last ten years.


No sex though. Bummer, especially since the cute female cops put out so easily. I mean, she "slept" with Sylvester Stallone – thems low standards.

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I liked Demolition Man.

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I thought it was kinda lame.....

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There are a couple of things the movie got wrong though- at least around San Francisco there has been a trend towards more local restaurants and fewer Taco Bells. Also the ethnic mix in the movie is way off from projected and even present day CA demographics.

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Star Trek (and other sci fi shows) predicted lots of technological advances.

Doctor Who predicted that the UK moetary system would change to decimals, that there would be a female british PM in the 80s and that a tenth planet would be discovered.

Year of the Sex Olympics predicted the reality TV show craze back in the 60s.

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Predicting technologies or social changes is one thing, actually getting names right is another. What other names are there in Demolition Man?

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See... Buck's not even looking!!!!

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It says he registered in 2002...

And that should be "airliner," of course.


Anyone using sprucemoose3311 as his nick is a DL by definition.

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There are a couple of things the movie got wrong though- at least around San Francisco there has been a trend towards more local restaurants and fewer Taco Bells. Also the ethnic mix in the movie is way off from projected and even present day CA demographics.


Those people were underground.

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The abortive "Lone Gunman" series was run several years ago, long before 9/11 was even on the drawing board. It's not impossible that the the idea originated with the show. Someone who watched it may have been so impressed that he suggested it to thew al Qaeda hierarchy.

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See... Buck's not even looking!!!!


be..de..bede..beep!!

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Did Dick Tracy and Get Smart predict cell phones?

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The abortive "Lone Gunman" series was run several years ago, long before 9/11 was even on the drawing board. It's not impossible that the the idea originated with the show. Someone who watched it may have been so impressed that he suggested it to thew al Qaeda hierarchy.


Sorry, Doc. "The Lone Gunmen" ran in 2001. Check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243069/

 
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