I was tired of coming across all these quotes and references to "The Matrix" in books and being clueless about them, so last night we finally saw the movie. I now wonder why so many movies set in the future are so dreary. Not the movies themselves, necessarily; but film directors apparently see the future as a place where someone or something has absolute control over humans (books also; 1984) and everything is dark and rundown. Think of "Blade Runner" and "Minority Report", "The Island" and "I, Robot"; even the future-future section of "Meet the Robinsons" was all dark and reddish. One notable exception is the Star Wars series, which actually dared to show lush vegetation at one point, but even that was on a more 'primitive' type of planet. Sorry, moon.
It's interesting how so many filmmakers don't see the future as a very bright place.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
A Dismal Future
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Very true! I can think of several more along those lines. However, I did think of one that was positive: in the "Star Trek Enterprise" series, the earth had ended all wars...not sure how they managed that, but it was an optimistic view! Although there was lots of violence out in space...
Yeah, Terminator II; I was going to use that and couldn't remember it. I've never seen any of the new Star Trek stuff; not past Star Trek V. What others are there?
I was thinking of the Terminators also, Demolition Man and Time Cop - have you seen those? I don't think Time Cop was too negative about the future... In Demolition Man things were very controlled.
No, I haven't seen those.
You might like them... I'm sure you could find inconsistencies in them because they are time travel movies. :) They are entertaining, though.
I remember now that Demolition Man isn't really a time travel movie, it's just that some frozen people are brought back to life far in the future.
Have you seen Deja Vu?
Not that one either, sorry!
Sounds like "It's About Time" (it's about place, it's about two men in outer space!)
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