115. ultra-high-tech forms of music and data storage mediums, like cubes or really tiny disks or thin clear strips of plastic/crystal.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
116. New drugs. Exponentially more addictive and deadly than the ones from that blissful carefree era known as the late 20th/early 21st century.
― Magic Miike (R Baez), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
116b. New drugs given mandatorily keeping population pacified.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
(…Also, this is a thinly veiled reference to Television)
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Man, this is turning into a really complicated sci-fi film.
or Red Dwarf.
― fit and working again, Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
117. Made up swearword to allow characters to swear frequently without actually swearing.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
YES
― Magic Miike (R Baez), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
118. The heroes of the story are humans, or look precisely like humans.
― Aimless, Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
121. highly esteemed british stage actors122. competent cost-effective canadian TV actors
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
123. Bad guys craft designed by Mutoid Waste Company.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
124. Something happens that pisses off fans of the original TV series/novel/movie/miniseries
― NINO CARTER, Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
19. Future civilisations 100 percent heterosexual
125. Except for the effeminate leader of the bad guys
― 1.5GB of audio-destroying fluff (los blue jeans), Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
126. Megacities with names like New Angeles or San Tokyo
― fiscal cliff huxtable (latebloomer), Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
127. The secret to defeating evil is...love
― fiscal cliff huxtable (latebloomer), Sunday, 6 January 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
128. People in spaceships listening to classical music
― fiscal cliff huxtable (latebloomer), Sunday, 6 January 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
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...."
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 6 January 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
130. Alien physiology very accommodating to the human frame.
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Monday, 7 January 2013 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
131. Non-Earth place names use Dutch spelling.
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Monday, 7 January 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
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
Sorry strongo, they made Babylon 5 15 years back.
― Una Stubbs' Tears (Trayce), Monday, 7 January 2013 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
i forgot to put "good" in there
― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 7 January 2013 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
132. Surly Asian gangsters.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 7 January 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
133. Weird LED sunglasses.
134. Secret decoded message turns out to be message sent by person reading it from the future
― NINO CARTER, Monday, 7 January 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
135. Planets with one consistent climate and environment covering their entire surfaces.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 7 January 2013 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
136. Terraforming
― NINO CARTER, Monday, 7 January 2013 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
136a. Loomingly gothic and industrial terraforming equipment.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 7 January 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
138. corded telephones
― abanana, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
139a. Bafflingly ADHD-inducing GUI on large upright touchscreen computer terminal.139b. Monochrome wireframe vector graphics on tiny CRT.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 7 January 2013 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
140. android/robot racism
― ledge, Monday, 7 January 2013 09:28 (eleven years ago) link
― 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"
― fiscal cliff huxtable (latebloomer), Monday, 7 January 2013 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
141. Ancient Astronauts
142. Robots/aliens abandoning their own kind for the love of a human
― fiscal cliff huxtable (latebloomer), Monday, 7 January 2013 09:46 (eleven years ago) link
ok someone's already listed that
― fiscal cliff huxtable (latebloomer), Monday, 7 January 2013 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
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
― fiscal cliff huxtable (latebloomer), Monday, 7 January 2013 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― President Keyes, Monday, 7 January 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
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
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Monday, 7 January 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
145. Space battles failing to utilise all available directions, as if it's actually a sea battle.
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Monday, 7 January 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
146. Evil plans of evil futuristic corporations that make no business sense whatsoever (thinking of Moon here specifically).
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Monday, 7 January 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
147. Invading alien army use ground infantry.
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Monday, 7 January 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
148. Invading aliens are actually after Earth's water supply.
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Monday, 7 January 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, 7 January 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
150. Protagonist is posting to a message board which is just text - no avatars or… oh wait.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
151. Tense war room huddle around space map
― Moodles, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
152. Disgusting food served on long space trip
― Moodles, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
153. Human utopia is obviously worse than robot/alien dystopia
― Moodles, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
154. Progressive society in which racism and sexism have disappeared still strangely tolerant of using derogatory abuse for non-humans
― Manhattan Transfer Window (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 January 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
155. Shocking discovery of dead aliens
― Moodles, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
156. Computer hacker takes mere seconds to break into highly secure system
― Moodles, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link