The Future Soon: New Year's SCIENCE! Movie Marathon

mariomario
edited December 2009 in Movies and Shows
One of my coworkers wanted to host a movie night at her house on New Year's Day and decided to put me in charge of the selection. Since we're heralding a new decade, I decided to future things up and make it all about SCIENCE! movies! Understandably you guys probably won't be able to attend, but I thought I'd put the movie selection up so you could follow along if so inclined. This will start at 8PM PST on 1/1/2010 (doing a different movie mix on the Eve; I'm not privy to the selection but know the theme will be 80s cartoons). The films!

-Gattaca
-Logan's Run
-Freejack
-2010: The Year We Make Contact

Three of the movies are past SCIENCE! fare, and the last just seemed right due to the year. Additionally, all these movies were selected because they represent some aspect of future technological development for mankind; all four films take place in humanity's future, not some galaxy far far away that has nothing to do with humans. I figured we should be looking forward to the possibilities!

(I wasn't able to convince her to include Back to the Future Part II, sadly, but I'll gladly watch it with all y'all another time)

Since I will be assisting with party-hosting I likely will not get to do much chatting on the forums, but if anyone would like to attend the party in spirit, I will post start times for each movie so you can watch in sync with the main event. I'll try my best to drop in every now and then to chat it up, though I'll probably be more active on The Twitter.

It's gonna be the future soon!

Comments

  • geokogeoko
    edited December 2009
    y'all forgot about Category 8.
  • mariomario
    edited December 2009
    I most certainly did not! Those movies definitely take place in present day, or at best the not-too-distant future. Their data collection techniques are easily attained by our modern ability to fire small rockets at clouds and burn CD-Rs.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited December 2009
    Isn't 2010 the last year of the first decade of the 21st century?
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited December 2009
    Not anymore than 2000 was part of the 90's.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited December 2009
    That still doesn't make any sense. All that means is that the label we give to decades is wrong. If you start counting with year 1, then year 100 is the last year of the first century and year 10 is the last year of the first decade. The first year of the new millennium was 2001, so ten years would be 2001-2010.
  • mariomario
    edited December 2009
    Decades are not used the same way as millennia. A millennium starts at xxx1, but a decade is a ten-year span where the tens digit is the same. So the 2010s run from 2010-2019. It's true that a decade is technically any span of ten years, but the standard convention is to group years together as a means of summing up a short period of time. No one would suggest 1990 was part of the 80s.

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