Future is Now

The year 2020, can arguably be made as the year no one saw coming or ever predicted.  Hollywood has fantasied on stories of post apocalypse scenarios, outbreaks, political satires, and social injustices. However, no screenwriter, prophet, psychic or analyst could had devised a model that would brace of what was to come.
So to unintentionally deepen the void of unpredictability here are 4 movies that was made to predict the future of the year 2020,  The time of which their stories had taken place; and how radically different the view points are from our reality.


G.I. Joe the Rise of Cobra
The  film was released in theatres August of 2009,  based on the 1964 Hasbro toy line, that became a popular cartoon series in which the movie is derived from. It is the first installment of the movie franchise and like the title suggests its how Cobra became introduced, acting as a wayward origin story.  Directed by Stephen Sommers who at that time was celebrated as being the director of the two Mummy movies starring Brendan Fraser, An action adventure franchise that Sommers appeared to have the DNA to showcase an epic tale for.  The film is juxtaposed to the deployment of military  now being used to help the civilian populist  to manage and combat an invisible enemy ravaging the world, within the medical community, senior's homes, and local law enforcement,
                            As our scientists and doctors are working like mad to discover a cure.


Pacific Rim
Brought to theatres by Academy Award wining Director Guillermo Del Toro in July of 2013.
It was an homage to Kaiju Mecha, and of anime media. It was better received from the international audiences making under a half billion dollars at the box office.  The irony would be looking at Hong Kong, China as the last base for Jaegars the giant robots devised to fight these massive monsters from the deep oceans.  China has been looked upon as the starting base of a global pandemic with micro-biological viruses that pass from person to person.  As the government seem to be at odds with its people, and with democracy. 
A contrary last stand from the depicted movie,


Real Steel

A 2011 movie, starring Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo, based on a 1956 short story called Steel, that got adapted in a 1963 episode of Twlight Zone. It is a rough characterization of social distancing with the concept of animatronic robots fighting, as a televised or online viewing for sport.
The plot and literal machination of the movie does not properly stand up a decade later but the concept of online games or sports without an audience is now the new approach for 2020.



Stealth

An American military science fiction movie, that hit theatres on July 2005. About 3 top fighter pilots posed to develop an automated robotic stealth aircraft. In the real world at the start of 2020, the world was morning the loss of a civilian aircraft shot was down by military, as an accident. There was a pilot crash and flight accidents which occurred in 2020,  as a result of mechanical issues or unforeseen incidents like a bird in the exhaust or turbine as was the case of Canada's snowbird crash in Vancouver. Less people look to flying unless it is a necessity for 2020.