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Positive future sci-fi movies and TV

 
 
 
Wasn’t Close Encounters fairly positive? I haven’t seen it in a while but I think it was about nice aliens.

Recently, there was that movie Her where a guy falls in love with an AI. Sure, the sequel is a bit dark when their kid nukes the planet and then goes back in time to kill Sarah Conner, but the first movie in the series was nice and happy.
 
Angry Floof said:
Jayjay said:
Altered Carbon. Someday we get to live forever and indulge in all manner of fetishes. Fun all around.
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That one didn't look like a positive future to me.
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the future is positive, but the story is about the seedy underbelly of it. so you could call it a mixed bag, but really the book is just a pulpy noir gumshoe murder-mystery set against the backdrop of the tech of 300 years from now.
 
prideandfall said:
Angry Floof said:
Jayjay said:
Altered Carbon. Someday we get to live forever and indulge in all manner of fetishes. Fun all around.
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That one didn't look like a positive future to me.
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the future is positive, but the story is about the seedy underbelly of it. so you could call it a mixed bag, but really the book is just a pulpy noir gumshoe murder-mystery set against the backdrop of the tech of 300 years from now.
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I started watching last night. It's a future of vast inequality. But interesting so far, at least. I love the Poe AI character.
 
Babylon 5

One episode, after setting up something like the Federation, one of the characters says no one will remember what they did 100 years from now. It then showed quick stories set 100, 500, 1000, and 1 million years in the future.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
Wasn’t Close Encounters fairly positive? I haven’t seen it in a while but I think it was about nice aliens.

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Good example, and it highlights a point relevant to the claims that a positive future would be boring.
Close Encounters had fear, action, and conflict but they were caused by good ol' fashioned human nature and politics in reaction to the futuristic events that themselves were positive.

I just saw "Passengers" which is neutral in terms of how the future compares to today. The fact that it is the future is only important because it allows for this unique context of a fully automated ship full of thousands of people in hibernation pods traveling 120 years to colonize a planet. This means all passengers and the crew are asleep, except for this one guy whose pod malfunctions and is now facing the situation of being alone on the ship for the rest of his life, destined to die of old age before he reaches the planet. While he finds himself in a bad situation, it's due to a random event and not because of something about the future that is negative.
 
Interstellar? I haven't seen it, but seems positive.
 
prideandfall said:
GenesisNemesis said:
LIKE I SAID. I HAVEN'T SEEN IT. :mad:
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there is literally not one single thing positive about that movie, unless you count my earlier death as a positive because watching that dumpster fire sack of shit film took at least a couple years off my life.
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Then the fact that GN hasn't seen it would appear to be a positive - so you are both right ;)
 
I think that Interstellar was very positive. It's message is that no matter what dire situation Matt Damon gets himself into - trapped behind enemy lines in a war, stranded on any number of deserted planets, whatever - the human race will always come together as a whole and do whatever it takes to rescue him.

It's inspiring and uplifting to remember just how blessed we all are to have Matt Damon with us.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
I think that Interstellar was very positive. It's message is that no matter what dire situation Matt Damon gets himself into - trapped behind enemy lines in a war, stranded on any number of deserted planets, whatever - the human race will always come together as a whole and do whatever it takes to rescue him.

It's inspiring and uplifting to remember just how blessed we all are to have Matt Damon with us.
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Well the flip side of that is that rescuing him has cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars.

I mean, one or two times might be misfortune, but when it becomes a habit, perhaps we should be sending the guy an invoice. I'm just saying.
 
How about tying a rope around Matt Damon whenever he leaves the house. Then the next time he gets lost, all you have to do is wind him back in.
 
Matt Damon is a goddamned treasure. If he needs to be rescued, we will drop everything and spend and do whatever it takes to get him home safely. If he then needs to be rescued again, we'll do that again and again and again.

It's like with Lois Lane. Superman never says "FFS, Lois, exactly how many times can one person accidentally fall off of a building?". He just swoops in and saves her without any complaints. Matt Damon is our Lois Lane.
 
Matt Damon just bought a Tesla Roadster with a dashcam. Check it out:

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.... damnit Matt not again.
 
Jayjay said:
Matt Damon just bought a Tesla Roadster with a dashcam. Check it out:

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.... damnit Matt not again.
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Go to the YT page of the feed and see how many idiots are there saying it's fake.
 
Angry Floof said:
Loren Pechtel said:
Because such a society isn't going to be a very interesting place for a story.
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Star Trek has been interesting since the 60s.
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Well, in all fairness, the people of Earth had solved all their problems, but the rest of the galaxy still needs us Hoomans to fly up on their systems and give them the what-for on the higher moral standard.
 
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