Movie Marathon (Part 1)

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Movies featuring astronauts or cosmonauts

  1. The Astronaut Farmer
  2. Dark Star
  3. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
5504

Movies featuring astronauts or cosmonauts

  1. The Astronaut Farmer
  2. Dark Star
  3. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
  4. Space Cowboys
5505

Movies featuring astronauts or cosmonauts

  1. The Astronaut Farmer
  2. Dark Star
  3. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
  4. Space Cowboys
  5. The Reluctant Astronaut
5506

Movies featuring astronauts or cosmonauts

  1. The Astronaut Farmer
  2. Dark Star
  3. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
  4. Space Cowboys
  5. The Reluctant Astronaut
  6. Deep Impact
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Movies featuring astronauts or cosmonauts

  1. The Astronaut Farmer
  2. Dark Star
  3. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
  4. Space Cowboys
  5. The Reluctant Astronaut
  6. Deep Impact
  7. 2010
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Movies featuring astronauts or cosmonauts

  1. The Astronaut Farmer
  2. Dark Star
  3. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
  4. Space Cowboys
  5. The Reluctant Astronaut
  6. Deep Impact
  7. 2010
  8. Apollo 13
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Movies featuring astronauts or cosmonauts

  1. The Astronaut Farmer
  2. Dark Star
  3. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
  4. Space Cowboys
  5. The Reluctant Astronaut
  6. Deep Impact
  7. 2010
  8. Apollo 13
  9. Amazon Women on the Moon
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Movies featuring astronauts or cosmonauts

  1. The Astronaut Farmer
  2. Dark Star
  3. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
  4. Space Cowboys
  5. The Reluctant Astronaut
  6. Deep Impact
  7. 2010
  8. Apollo 13
  9. Amazon Women on the Moon
  10. Forbidden Planet

Gimme a minute, I’ll come up with one

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Movies whose fake science was remarkably on the money

  1. Magnificent Obsession (1935)

Only one of two men can be saved by the lifeguard’s “machine” when they have heart trouble (because there’s only one machine). The defibrillator (albeit existing in theory in 1930), was not an actual medical device until 1947, which is the first time one was used on a patient.

The handwaving here actually worked.

In subsequent lists, cut the explanation, and just repost the title. The curious can scroll back.

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Movies whose fake science was remarkably on the money

  1. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Tablet computers. Called “Newspads” in the movie, they allow the astronauts to get news broadcasts and such from Earth.

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Movies whose fake science was remarkably on the money

  1. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  3. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)

The film depicted 3D holograms (Princess Leia’s distress message, the holographic game table on the Millennium Falcon), and 3D holographic video projections have recently been developed.

(Alas, no lightsabers or antigrav speeder bikes yet. :frowning: )

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Movies whose fake science was remarkably on the money

  1. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  3. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
    4’ Amazon Women on the Moon

Predicted it would be difficult for mini-skirted spear-carrying women on the moon to run fast in spike-heeled shoes with 4-inch platform soles.

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Movies whose fake science was remarkably on the money

  1. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  3. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
  4. Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
  5. Forbidden Planet (1956)

Belt-portable communicators (kinda like cellphones)

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Movies whose fake science was remarkably on the money

  1. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  3. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
  4. Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
  5. Forbidden Planet (1956)
  6. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

tracking/hunting drones (the mechanical hound), cameras everywhere, and wall-sized TVs … although this is probably more of a tribute to Bradbury’s vision than to the film itself.

-“BB”-

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Movies whose fake science was remarkably on the money

  1. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  3. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
  4. Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
  5. Forbidden Planet (1956)
  6. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
  7. The Martian (2015)

“The inflatable HAB that Damon’s character retrofits and lives in are already in the works, while his ingenious plan to grow potatoes using a soil made from human excrement would not just be achievable but sustainable under the right conditions.”

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Movies whose fake science was remarkably on the money

  1. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  3. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
  4. Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
  5. Forbidden Planet (1956)
  6. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
  7. The Martian (2015)
  8. A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Splashdown at sea of a manned capsule after returning from the Moon.

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Ohhhh! Good one!

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Movies whose fake science was remarkably on the money

  1. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  3. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
  4. Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
  5. Forbidden Planet (1956)
  6. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
  7. The Martian (2015)
  8. A Trip to the Moon (1902
  9. 1984 (1956)

Based on the 1947 novel. the story anticipated the military-industrial complex, as warned about bt Eisenhower in 1961

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That’s not the prophetic “fake science”.

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Movies whose fake science was remarkably on the money

  1. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  3. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
  4. Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
  5. Forbidden Planet (1956)
  6. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
  7. The Martian (2015)
  8. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
  9. Blade Runner (1982)

Climate change, caused by carbon emissions, resulting in a perpetually-cloudy sky and nonstop rain. Also, digital animated LED billboards that cover the side of an entire building.