Films which predicted the future

Conclave: Predicted that at some point The Pope would die :exploding_head:

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Back to the Future: Predicted that in the 1980s, people would enjoy self-indulgent guitar solos :exploding_head:

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28 Days Later - predicted empty streets in the nation’s capital due to a global virus.

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Citizen Kane: Billionaires do foolish shit for fucking foolish arbitrary reasons at the expense of society :exploding_head:

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Star Wars IV (predicted more star wars films)

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Back to the Future II predicted the rise of Trump (on whom the older Biff was based).

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Planet of the apes predicted when man would fight ape :exploding_head:

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Dystopian sci-fi film Brazil predicted the winners of both the 1994 and the 2002 football World Cup :exploding_head:

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You’ve Got Mail accurately predicted us getting mail :exploding_head:

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I watched Children of Men for the first time the other day and it was pretty scary how real it felt now, twenty years later.

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The Pope Must Die :exploding_head:

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Yesterday - predicted that The Beatles didn’t exist

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‘The Rock’(1996) accurately predicted Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s career :exploding_head:

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Akira: predicted the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo would be cancelled :exploding_head:

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The Matrix correctly predicted that 1999 was more or less the peak of western civilisation, and that when the machines take over, they’ll probably perpetually suspend us in that era to keep us happy while we provide a giant neural network for them, encased in some kind of goo.

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The Great Escape (1963) predicted there’d be a music festival in Brighton :exploding_head:

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Tomorrow Never Dies

Elon Musk style media ghouls controlling the flow of information. See also the final act of MGS2

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Toy Story: predicted that Buzz Lightyear would become a really popular toy :exploding_head:

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Total Recall (1990) predicted the Busted song ‘Year 3000’ (2002)

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