The Film: Videodrome (1983)
What It Predicted: A sort of merging of the corporeal world with the hyperreality of video and television - by way of user-generated material. That, we think you'll find, equals YouTube!
Why We Wish It Hadn't Been Right: Now, of course, we love the Internet and there are some very good things about YouTube - but, with four-million videos uploaded every five seconds, the quality control is a bit off. For every smart DIY instructional vid and ace conceptual mash-up, there's a hundred films of someone's cat being sick.
The Film: Soylent Green (1973)
What It Predicted: A world choked with pollution and overpopulation that's led to energy wars and meteorological chaos. Oh, and food made from people - although, er, that hasn't quite happened yet. OR HAS IT?
Why We Wish It Hadn't Been Right: Yes, we know the debate continues to rage on climate change – Al Gore might just be spewing more hot air than the factories he hates.
But here’s the thing: we are seeing the results of climate change (that David Attenborough thing about polar bears was good enough for us) and the world is definitely a more jostling and fighty place than it was when Chuck Heston was raging against the machine.
No, umm, food made from humans yet, though. Apart from that earwax soup you can apparently get in Papua New Guinea.
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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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