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How ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘The Running Man’ predicted 2019 — decades ago
NY Post ^
| 2/2/2019
| Reed Tucker
Posted on 02/03/2019 5:52:57 AM PST by Carriage Hill
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'Blade Runner' original was one of my favorites; didn't see 'Running Man'. Article draws some prescient comparisons to today and our immediate future.
To: carriage_hill
They managed to squeeze some enviro-weenie pap into the article.
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posted on
02/03/2019 5:55:05 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(McCain's passing ended up being + 2 net Republican Senators. Him, and Lindsey Graham.)
To: carriage_hill
Blade Runner was meant to be a warning about how our climate was changing, how our pollution was destroying the world, how industry is taking over the environment,
And here I thought it was meant to provoke thought about what it means to be human. Silly me.
To: carriage_hill
Ok. It's 2019, where are those cool flying cars we've been promised!
To: Flick Lives
Getting closer, but still behind schedule:
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:02:34 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Lazamataz
Since they control the media, they can it into every article, in some way.
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:04:20 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: rightwingcrazy
Blade Runner was meant to be a warning about how our climate was changing, how our pollution was destroying the world, how industry is taking over the environment, That the writer and all the persons quoted make no mention of the book that's the basis for the movie, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", shows their colossal ignorance. Indeed, the story was about what it means to be human.
To: carriage_hill
This article is stupid. It claims the forest fires in California are caused by pollution.
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:11:00 AM PST
by
for-q-clinton
(This article needs a fact checked)
To: Lazamataz
Yeah, stopped reading right at the word ‘Climate’
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:15:44 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
(For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
To: carriage_hill
Blade Runner is based on the book, Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep and it's clear the dolt writing this article didn't bother to read the book.
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:15:46 AM PST
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
To: carriage_hill
Never let a Replicant put in your contact lenses.
Not with the thumbs!
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:16:09 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: carriage_hill
Heh, we should always remember that reporters are reporters because even “science for poets” was beyond their ability.
To: Flick Lives
One thing Blade Runner got wrong -
Pan Am didn’t survive till 2019
To: Flick Lives
Imagine what folks do with their cars already. Now imagine theyre doing it with a _flying_ car.
I think flying cars would be a disaster.
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:24:33 AM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: carriage_hill
Wikipedia:
The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by nuclear global war.
They're naturally trying to re-construct a narrative about this film being prophetic.
Nuclear war was going to produce a "nuclear winter" not man-made global warming.
BR didn't predict man-made global warming.
To: carriage_hill
Running Man is a 7 to
Blade Runner’s 10.
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:25:42 AM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: yesthatjallen
Solent Green should be
The “Flag Ship” for
This Hoax called Global warming.
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:28:35 AM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: carriage_hill
"..'Blade Runner' original was one of my favorites; didn't see 'Running Man'.."Classic Aaaaaahnold one liners and heavy cheese. But still, set yer brain on the end table and enjoy.
The game show portion fits nicely with the current crap that passes for "entertainment" on TV.
As for Blade Runner, we got the sexbots and flying cars still in the cooker but coming along. Advertising everywhere (even the damn gas pumps!)in multi-cultural cities.
**sigh** Might as well toss "Idiocracy" on this lil pile of celluloid prophets as well. d;^)
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:33:04 AM PST
by
CopperTop
(Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
To: for-q-clinton
This article is stupid. It claims the forest fires in California are caused by pollution. Inverting cause and effect is a classic ruse of advanced propaganda.
By doing so, you can make societal norms seem absurd and mad.
There's a guy at the NYT who every year or so writes an article under a headline that's some variation of this: "Incarceration Rates Increase Even Though Crime Remains At Historic Low".
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:45:22 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: Flick Lives
We have giant video screens and (sex) robots.
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posted on
02/03/2019 6:46:32 AM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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