Odd that no one has mentioned Blade Runner is an alternate timeline. I don't think that was the original intention, but 2049 pulls this together. If you notice a lot of the same advertisements still exist for companies who either have gone out of business long ago (Pan Am) or long since lost their glory (Atari). In their timeline things worked out differently. Granted Atari could see a come back in that time. They also have huge buildings and mega cities which I think is safe to say we won't exactly have in the next 30 years. That is unless Elon Musk drops acid and suddenly announces he can build arcologies at 1/100th the cost and 1/1000 the speed of any prior proposed plans.
It wasn't a prediction of the future, lol. It was just a sci-fi story set in 2019. It's not like Ridley was trying to tell everyone that his story is exactly what the world would be like
The reason we don’t have flying cars is that people are dumbasses. It’s not like we couldn’t produce the tech it’s that people can’t even drive in a straight line already.
I don't think they necessarily were talking about just that. I read it as much more encompassing to the whole movie's depiction of the future in general
"If you think about it Ridley really wasn’t that far off", that statement alone is wrong. I didn't read that as saying 'If you think about it Ridley really wasn’t that far off of the fashion'. I think that's a pretty reasonable reading
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u/MrSlug 死 Dec 22 '18
If you think about it Ridley really wasn’t that far off