# The best movie set in every year... but not made in that year **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457 "2013-05-15T22:13:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/461 "2015-01-30T06:48:34Z")
what about Full Metal Jacket??? First Half: 1967 (basic training) Second Half: 1968 (TET offensive) ---
**Author:** ![jepflast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@jepflast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jepflast)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/462 "2015-01-30T07:12:23Z")
The Big Lebowski may actually be set in 1990. George Bush is shown on TV saying “this aggression will not stand” and it’s from 6 Aug 1990 according to a NY Times article I just looked up. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/463 "2015-02-25T05:12:12Z")
Xkcd has done a strip on a similar idea. > **[Stories of the Past and Future](https://xkcd.com/1491/large/)** > > Little-known fact: The 'Dawn of Man' opening sequence in 2001 cuts away seconds before the Flintstones theme becomes recognizable. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/464 "2015-08-04T21:45:18Z")
I’ll get around to updating this in the next week or so. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/465 "2015-08-04T23:21:53Z")
> [@jepflast](#): > > The Big Lebowski may actually be set in 1990. George Bush is shown on TV saying “this aggression will not stand” and it’s from 6 Aug 1990 according to a NY Times article I just looked up. Yes, it’s set in 1990, the year of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Dude dates his check in the supermarket “September 11, 1991,” however, exactly ten years before 9-11, getting the year (he is the Dude, after all) wrong. [http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2007/06/lebowskicheck.jpg](http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2007/06/lebowskicheck.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/466 "2015-08-05T03:28:04Z")
:smack: I was wrong about **Perks of Being a Wallflower**. It’s set in 1991-92, not 1989 as I originally claimed. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/467 "2018-08-30T06:42:51Z")
Should I resume this? Been a little while, maybe worth doing so… ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/468 "2018-08-30T06:48:40Z")
To add: Erin Brockovich, 1993 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/469 "2018-08-30T08:22:18Z")
**BCE 78000** - Quest For Fire ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/470 "2018-08-30T18:49:05Z")
I’m trying to pin down the years Gulliver’s Travels was set. According the original novel, _Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships_, (I love the old time book titles), the timeline breakdowns like this: 1699: Lemuel Gulliver visits Lilliput. 1702-1706: Lemuel Gulliver visits Brobdingnag 1706-1710: Lemuel Gulliver visits the floating island of Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan. 1710-1715: Lemuel Gulliver visits the Land of the Houyhnhnms. We then would have to determine which movie version of Gulliver’s is the best. My take would be Gulliver’s Travels miniseries released in 1996 starring Ted Danson. It’s one of the few adaptions to feature all four voyages. So I guess you could add Gulliver’s Travels(1996 version) to any(or all of the above years.) Or we could just pick 1702 as a year that isn’t taken and leave it there. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/471 "2018-08-30T18:57:33Z")
If we can add direct-to DVD movies, \*Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder \* is set in the year 3009. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/472 "2018-08-30T19:03:57Z")
I’d like to add _Titan A.E._ is set in 3043. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/473 "2018-08-30T20:47:44Z")
Add Ready Player One - 2045 ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/474 "2018-08-30T20:49:10Z")
And Bladerunner 2049 - 2049 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/475 "2018-08-31T02:55:13Z")
Glad to see this thread revived! I’ll add: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 1908. A classic. The two pals almost certainly snuffed it that year. Parkland - 1963. A powerful, heartbreaking movie about those in Dallas caught up in the Kennedy assassination. ---
**Author:** ![robz2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@robz2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robz2)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/476 "2018-08-31T14:30:11Z")
Summer of 42 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/477 "2018-08-31T14:55:46Z")
Netflix has an original movie based on Stephen King’s short story, “1922.” It’s creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/478 "2018-08-31T15:22:49Z")
1830-Lust For A Vampire 1834-The Black Room, Comrades 1839-Amistad 1840-Jane Eyre 1844-Dragonwyck, Burn! ---
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Minor nitpick: Dune is actually further in the future than the year 10191. It is 10191 by a calendar that came into being roughly at roughly the year 10,000. So Dune is actually set about the year 20,000, at least according the [Dune Encyclopedia](http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_(Dune_Encyclopedia)). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/480 "2018-09-04T01:50:06Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Netflix has an original movie based on Stephen King’s short story, “1922.” It’s creepy. You’re supposed to tell us what year it’s set in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=25)