Pretty cool.

Lol. The addition of 2001 in there is totally pointless.

Pretty cool.

Lol. The inclusion of 2001 in there is totally pointless.

Love this list - great idea. Two to add if anyone knows the dates - I, Robot and Waterworld.

12 Monkeys was in 2035.

I realize the starting points are all for the year the movie was made, but 12 Monkeys should stretch back to at least 1915 since he did spend some time in WWI or even further if you include the other travelers who ended up in the middle ages. Nice work, scientists.

Who came up with a year for The Matrix? They say right in the movie that they don't know what year it is, and Neo was like the 6th iteration of "the one." If it was 2199, that would be less than a 40 year cycle for the whole thing to play out 6 times.

Unfortunately, Idiocracy could easily have been set in 2020. We are waaaaaay ahead of the curve there.

Wasn't it on the rusty plaque on the Nebechanezzer?

Escape from New York <3

I think RoboCop is widely assumed to take place in the 1990's.

I'm sorry I just don't understand this timeline. So the dates at the right side of the bar are the times the movies take place. So then what are the dates at the bottom and why are they lined up by the year 2000? What do the bars represent???!

The thin vertical line represents the year 2000. The thick green lines begin in the year the movie was released and end in the year it was supposedly set.

I mean the thin vertical line is 2009 not 2000. Oops

Oh 2009 I get it, I was looking at it like it was 2000 and was wondering why AI was on the left side of it. Makes sense now. Thanks

The left side of the green bar is when the movie was made, and the right side is when it takes place. The white line is now.

Wasn't the first Robocop set in 1991?

Forgot Terminator Salvation.

no they didn't.

They did.

No love for Bicentennial Man?

"Those boards don't go on water!"

"Unless you got POOWWWAAAH!"

yeah, but as he said, this was the 6th iteration of the cycle, and the machines obviously lied about what year it was if the humans guessed at it.

They should've put Star Wars as "A long time ago."

I'm having a huge Back to the Future party on October 21st, 2015. It will be at the Cafe 80's.

And yes... Pepsi will be served in those fucked up bottles

Save me a seat. I heard it get's pretty crowded in there.

Glad you guys posted this. I thought it was pretty fun. I'm not too worried about the accuracy of the timeline, I just liked the concept of it all. Malcolm's suggestion about Star Wars would have been pretty funny on the timeline.

JQ

No Terminator?

and didn't Morpheus say in The Matrix that the date was just a guess. and we found out in Reloaded that the events happened over and over again numerous times

The most accurate one is gonna be 'Idiocracy'....

I don't want to catch a lot of flack, but I absolutely cannot stand this line: "proving that the future presented in sci-fi classics are rooted in alternatie parrellel universes." Aside from the fact that it has two words spelled incorrectly, it doesn't say or mean ANYTHING.

Seriously, who thought that "the future presented in sci-fi classics" WEREN'T rooted in alternate parallel universes? People out there actually thought that all these futures were written to coexist?

Did people actually ask "hey, where are all the Terminator machines?" when watching V for Vendetta? I've never heard anyone say "Children of Men sucked because there were no Hoverboards, which we know for a FACT existed by that time".

This is a well-made little piece of fan art but the idea that this finally "proves" that movie futures are not all coming from the same source is pretty absurd.

The future in Back To the Future 2 is not looking to implausible at the moment...

The future in Back To the Future 2 is not looking too implausible at the moment...

Who knows, they could do 15 more Jaws movies in the next 6 years. Also flying cars soon, maybe not as advanced though.

No, definitely no flying cars or hoverboards within 6 years, no fusion power, no instant growing pizza, fax wtf?, no robot bartender, anybody buying old apple computers as antiques and dust busters? Not unless they're some prototype. I can see adjustable jackets (no autodry) and shoes, but no, not going to be popular. We have the tech for big picture window TVs, but it won't be common. 3D ads are already available but not to the extent seen in the movie. I'm pretty sure we'll still be using our hands in some form to play videogames, whether it's a gamepad/keboard, Wiimote, or something like the Xbox Project Natal. What am I forgetting? How did the front door at Marty's house work?

Of all the movies to be remade Soylent Green should be one of them.

I think we all realised with Planet of the Apes that you can't successfully re-make a movie with a surprise ending.

Yet the Soylent Green suprise is far far far less known amongst the common people. And Soylent is painfully 70's. Also Planet of the Apes (remake) shouldn't be an example for anything.

Great list. This goes to facebook.

Wasnt The Matrix really around the year 3000 with the seven versions and all?