Movies of Future Past

[kingandy]

I'm thinking about having a "Days of Future Past" party, showing various films that were set in the "Near Future" but made the unfortunate decision to pick a specific year - a year which has now passed. 2001 and 1984 are obvious choices, Transformers: The Movie (set in 2005) is another given. Hazier are the Terminator movies (because Judgement Day apparently happened in 1997, though the movies themselves are ostensibly "present") and Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Kahn (with the Eugenics Wars again set in the 1990s, though maybe the original series ep would be better for that)...

Here's the ones that have been suggested so far, you are invited to express a preference or make suggestions.

Movie	Future Date
1984	1984
2001: A Space Odyssey	2001
Terminator	1997 (Judgement Day)
Transformers: The Movie	2005
Class of 1999	1999
Le Dernier Combat	1999
Space: 1999	1999
Holocaust 2000	2000
Death Race 2000	2000
Planet of the Apes	1972 (launch date)
Escape from the ^^	1973
Conquest of the ^^	1991
Battle for the ^^	2001
Timecop	1994 (discovery of time travel)
Escape from New York	1997
Rollerball	2005
Space Seed (ST:TOS ep)	1992-96 (Eugenics Wars)
Bicentennial Man	2006 (opening)

I have no plan for when this party would be. Though I have considered the possibility of setting a date, waiting until it's passed and then doing something else entirely.

Comments

[paulgregory.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_fictional_future_events
may also be of use, although it's not just restricted to films.

Although straining the implied conditions of "a year that we remember", and "mostly set in a future that has past", then 1936's "Things to Come" covers 100 years, most of which have passed.

[kingandy]

Things To Come has been suggested to me, but I'm not sure. The still-actual-future elements put me off. Though it is no doubt hilarious. I will peruse that timeline, though.

I may narrow the criteria to "Entirely within the future at time of release, and now entirely in the past". And "Was future at time of my birth".

[littlebus.livejournal.com]

Planet of the Apes Extended Trilogy:

1972 - Taylor and crew set off from Earth (Planet of the Apes)
1973 - Cornelius & Zira arrive in the past (Escape from the ...)
1991 - Ceasar becomes the Ape Messiah (Conquest of the ...)
2001 - The Ape Conquest continues (Battle for the ...)

[bacony.livejournal.com]

Gareth has the hilarious Jean-Claude Van Damme movie 'Timecop' that begins 'In 1994, man discovered time travel'. The Future cars of the 80's are particularly funny?

[paradoxrealm]

I only bought it because Mia Sara is highly cute.

[rob-e-coyote.livejournal.com]

John Carpenter's

Escape from New York:
The Year is 1997. Manhattan Island has now become a walled maximum security prison for the world's worst crimminals. All the bridges leading out of the prison have been rigged with mines. The Rivers have also been mined, but when Air Force One crashes somewhere in the city, a former war hero turned convict is offered freedom if he can rescue the president within 24 hours.

[rob-e-coyote.livejournal.com]

Thought of another, the original Rollerball, set in 2005.

[kingandy]

But that movie hasn't come out yet ... and will not be set in that timeframe, surely?