In every sci-fi film ever

someone wrote a little microstory once about going on an airplane written just like that, in a sci-fi style, where every aspect of embarking was
explained in ultra-specific terms

The Don DeLillo Principle.

114. if music is prohibited among the general population then it will be a definite thing that high-ranking officials will have shelves upon shelves of archaic music-storing media lining the walls of their offices or personal living quarters.

"ah, yes, david7. you see we in the high command are allowed certain, shall we say, 'privileges.' that thing you are holding in your hands, we call that a 'here come the warm jets.' do you now understand why your kind cannot be allowed these freedoms?"

115. ultra-high-tech forms of music and data storage mediums, like cubes or really tiny disks or thin clear strips of plastic/crystal.

116. New drugs. Exponentially more addictive and deadly than the ones from that blissful carefree era known as the late 20th/early 21st century.

116b. New drugs given mandatorily keeping population pacified.

(…Also, this is a thinly veiled reference to Television)

Man, this is turning into a really complicated sci-fi film.

or Red Dwarf.

117. Made up swearword to allow characters to swear frequently without actually swearing.

117. Made up swearword to allow characters to swear frequently without actually swearing.

YES

118. The heroes of the story are humans, or look precisely like humans.

119. Bad Guy Control Centre is on a narrow walkway over an abyss and has no handrails.
120. Bad Guy Commander likes to give long speeches to his captured enemies while not paying any attention to what they're doing.

(These two might also be Every Action Film Ever but hey.)

121. highly esteemed british stage actors
122. competent cost-effective canadian TV actors

123. Bad guys craft designed by Mutoid Waste Company.

124. Something happens that pisses off fans of the original TV series/novel/movie/miniseries

19. Future civilisations 100 percent heterosexual

125. Except for the effeminate leader of the bad guys

126. Megacities with names like New Angeles or San Tokyo

127. The secret to defeating evil is...love

128. People in spaceships listening to classical music

129. No matter when or where it's set, past or present, inevitably someone will say "what the *hell* is that?" or "My GOD!" or maybe even "Jesus Christ...."

130. Alien physiology very accommodating to the human frame.

131. Non-Earth place names use Dutch spelling.

it's my goal to one day make a movie that combines all of these

― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 7 January 2013 06:33 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

admittedly it might have to be a mini-series

― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 7 January 2013 06:33 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry strongo, they made Babylon 5 15 years back.

i forgot to put "good" in there

132. Surly Asian gangsters.

133. Weird LED sunglasses.

134. Secret decoded message turns out to be message sent by person reading it from the future

135. Planets with one consistent climate and environment covering their entire surfaces.

136. Terraforming

136a. Loomingly gothic and industrial terraforming equipment.

137. A character cites three historical examples, two of which are from real history, followed by a made-up one from our hypothetical future.

138. corded telephones

139a. Bafflingly ADHD-inducing GUI on large upright touchscreen computer terminal.
139b. Monochrome wireframe vector graphics on tiny CRT.

140. android/robot racism

137. A character cites three historical examples, two of which are from real history, followed by a made-up one from our hypothetical future.

― abanana, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:49 (5 hours ago) Permalink

^good one!

Classic example is the original Star Trek ep "Court Martial" where Kirk is on trial. His lawyer's closing statement goes on about human laws and rights throughout the ages: the Code of Hammurabi, the Magna Carta, the US constitution, the Martian declaration of independence and the "Statutes of Alpha 3"

141. Ancient Astronauts

142. Robots/aliens abandoning their own kind for the love of a human

ok someone's already listed that

95. interfacing with universe-inside-the-global-computer-network involves hurtling through black space/neon light ripped off from tron/early rave videos/starfox. (this may have peaked around 1999.)

― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, January 6, 2013 6:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my favorite example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQeQvhp9ftg

143. In the book the main character is a middle-aged scientist, in the movie based on the book main character is a smart frat boy.

144. Commonplace tech used daily in the movie's era still referred to by overly elaborate and unwieldy multi-word name, as if humans somehow lost the ability for contractions in the interim

145. Space battles failing to utilise all available directions, as if it's actually a sea battle.

146. Evil plans of evil futuristic corporations that make no business sense whatsoever (thinking of Moon here specifically).

147. Invading alien army use ground infantry.

148. Invading aliens are actually after Earth's water supply.

149. Even though everything takes place in the year 2093, people still wear Ugg boots and use computer interfaces akin to the monitor display on a Acorn BBC Micro.

150. Protagonist is posting to a message board which is just text - no avatars or… oh wait.

151. Tense war room huddle around space map

152. Disgusting food served on long space trip

153. Human utopia is obviously worse than robot/alien dystopia

154. Progressive society in which racism and sexism have disappeared still strangely tolerant of using derogatory abuse for non-humans