The Film: The Truman Show (1998)
What It Predicted: Reality TV was in its infancy when Andrew Niccol posited the idea that we could watch someone live out the mundanities of their life on television.
Why We Wish It Hadn't Been Right: The parade of media-trained fame-whores annually wheeled in for Big Brother and its endless imitators.
For us, Reality TV stopped becoming an intriguing social experiment the year a non-celebrity won Celebrity Big Brother and then became a celebrity - for winning Celebrity Big Brother. And it's all Andrew Niccol's stinking fault.
The Film: Blade Runner (1982)
What It Predicted: A smog-covered, sprawling future-LA cityscape dominated by giant, animated billboards.
Why We Wish It Hadn't Been Right: Do we really, honestly need massive, moving ads for Viagra?
And jiggly, building-sized lingerie ads might be fun, but they cause ogle-related traffic accidents...
...traffic accidents, we might add, that would have been halved if scientists could have ignored Blade Runner's video posters and focused on creating its far cooler flying cars. WE WANT OUR FLYING CARS, YOU SCIENTIFIC BASTARDS!
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Bulletproof_animal
Feb 18th 2009, 14:28
"Problem: the film was complete and utter c**k." Thanks for that stunning incite. When I figure out what your juvenile (and completely subjective) opinion on the film has to do with the point of this feature I'll be sure to tell you so that you might stop being a sad, little child, who so desperately wants his opinion to be heard. Idiot.
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alowe
Feb 18th 2009, 16:21
Thanks for that stunning insight (spelling!). When I figure out what your juvenile (and completely subjective) opinion on my final, obviously throwaway comment has to do with the rest of the feature I'll be sure to tell you so that you might stop being a sad little child, who so desperately wants his opinion to be heard. Idiot.
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ashley.russell
Feb 18th 2009, 17:36
I didn't really understand that comment either. TF gave Hitchhikers' 4 stars anyway so I'm wondering what that was all about?
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squirebrown
Feb 19th 2009, 20:31
Hitchhikers... was pretty damn good - among the highlights of the last great summer - 2005. Batman Begins, War of the Worlds, The Descent.
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