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Escape from New York set in 1997.


bob

Escape from L.A. takes place in 2013
Kubrick, Nolan, Tarantino, Wan, Iñárritu, Scorsese, Chaplin, Abrams, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Villeneuve - the elite



I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

LilCerberus

As a joke, Turbo Kid takes place fifteen years before it was made.
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

LilCerberus

"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

LilCerberus

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) takes place in 1994
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

chainsaw midget

One of the psychic in Ghostbusters II mentions the world is going to end on Feburary 14 2016.

M.10rda

...That psychic was only about 11 months off!

LilCerberus

I believe the movie Breaking Glass (1980) takes place over several years, starting in 1980, & ending in 1984....
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

Cult_Moody_Movies

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Predator 2 is set in 1997.



I think it still hit current LA on the head......less crap on the streets though.

ER

Not quite on-topic, but one of the funnier Futurama episodes involved a sub-plot where it was mentioned that Star Trek couldn't give the people in New New York hope for the future, because it was set 800 years in the past.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Dr. Whom

Battle in Outer Space (1959) is set in 1965!
"Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone's problems are the same: fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor."

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.

RCMerchant

The OMEGA MAN (1971) is set in the far flung future of ...1977!

Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
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Trevor

Quote from: RCMerchant on March 08, 2024, 05:42:54 AM
The OMEGA MAN (1971) is set in the far flung future of ...1977!



I was ten then 😳😉
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

zombie no.one

Quote from: RCMerchant on March 08, 2024, 05:42:54 AM
The OMEGA MAN (1971) is set in the far flung future of ...1977!

2012 (2009), set in the far flung future of... erm, 2012. talk about giving your film a brief shelf life

keep meaning to check out OMEGA MAN