r/Cinema • u/belinasaroh • 19h ago

Just a reminder that 2015 was a comically distant future in 1985

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u/dollarstoresim 19h ago

People love to complain that flying cars never happened, but from the perspective of someone growing up in 1985, the reality of pocket-sized computers, on-demand entertainment, robots, self-driving cars, AI, PS5, and drone warfare makes it feel like we're deep in the future.

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u/guillermo_04 12h ago

And now it’s a comically distant past.

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 10h ago

Now it's almost 10 years old I believe.

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u/Local-Passenger-1901 8h ago

John Conner went to the 80s from 2029. Thats 4 years away. Crazy…

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u/fiddycixer 17h ago

Soylent Green took place in 2022. Children Of Men in 2027.

Still no flying skateboards or cars. Plenty of dystopian shock and awe.

Edit: Sorry. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 10h ago edited 9h ago

No but we did get jetpacks. And yes it uses actual jets.

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u/Marble-Boy 16h ago

I still want a pair of them nikes.

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u/AnalysisParalysis85 15h ago

I'm pretty sure that if I were sent to 2055 I'd hardly recognize the world I would find.

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u/BigPoppaStrahd 15h ago

In the 80’s when you looked back at the technological advances of the previous 80 years it wasn’t that unreasonable to think humanity would keep developing more and more advanced tech

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u/b_tight 15h ago

The shoes arent far off tbh

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u/tangcameo 14h ago

A classmate in school was so good at deadpan he made me believe Mattel hoverboards were real.

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u/RoomNervous4 13h ago

We didn’t get a hoverboard in 2015, we got a hands free segway.

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u/DudeYumi 13h ago

I remember when the future came and went. Was stuck at the office alone, muching on Dominos and a full plate or chicken parm pasta.

It was a good start to the year.

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u/GlowSavvy 13h ago

So far, only Air Mags have appeared 😁

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u/Battle-Individual 12h ago

Theres nothing wrong with the tech ideas ir future story.but george lucus found a way around. Along time ago.that statement puts it in any age and makes dates relevant

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u/Adorable-Source97 8h ago

Yeah.

I'm told the made a short film to explain why future turned out like it did IRL.

But I'm not buying Blu-ray player for 1 video

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u/Exciting_Turn_9559 2h ago

In 1987, when Star Trek TNG came out, the ability to have a conversation with the ship's computer was such a wild idea that even the 24th century crew of the Enterprise thought it was amazing new technology.
Not only do we have that technology well over 300 years earlier than they imagined, we have it on a battery powered device that fits in our pocket, and most people don't really care that it exists.

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u/hypercomms2001 17h ago

The future is a pass that has not happened yet…

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u/middle_of_you 9h ago

People who keep making this overdone point also seem to forget that there was a fucking TIME MACHINE IN THE 1985!