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Only 482 more years until Idiocracy. Should be great.

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[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The novel the movie is loosely based on, Make Room! Make Room!, is great too, and the plot is quite different, so the movie doesn't spoil the book or vice versa. However, it's extremely bleak.

spoilerHmm, this post appeared in my Hot feed on page 2 for some reason even though it's old.

[–] brodyquest@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Soylwnt green and children of men looking more likely than anything

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We finally watched Soylent Green the other night. Nobody told me it was a neo-traditional Noir movie with a Gumshoe Detective.

Plus : wait until you hear how it ends.

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Pliny@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Children of Men is actually pretty spot on in terms of matching the real world

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Warhammer is even further in the future, ~40,000AD, vs ~26,000AD for Dune

[–] Izzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then there is "The End of Eternity" and "Death's End" which is about year 700,000+ and some indeterminate billions of years later respectively. Things get arbitrary very fast when you get to those absurdly distant futures.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes absolutely. I think the remembrance of Earth's past trilogy (the first one is the three body problem) goes all the way to just before the heat death of the universe.

Edit: wait, that's the one you're taking about sorry

[–] YoucancallmeAL@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had questionable take out last night 🤔

[–] wreel@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

That's optimistic that Idiocracy will take that long

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