Actually this has got me thinking about all movies not just BR. I mean something like Avengers and all the superhero movies have to be set in an alternate universe very similar to ours present day in same cities but because there is no Iron Man or Hulk etc in the world that everyone is aware of and no alien invasions etc so they must be set in like a parallel universe. DC go one further as Superman/Batman are in made up cities that dont even exist (Metropolis = NYC in the Reeve movies with all the landmarks, then in the Singer and Snyder movies its an different city thats based on NY)... however something like Blade (Snipes) maybe can take place in our reality/universe as its all happening in secret/behind closed doors that only few people know about.. however XMen while initially kind of secretive soon becomes blown out into the world so everyone knows about mutants (actually its in X1 as a relatively new phenomena but then is made to be revealed earlier in DOFP)
And if you look at other movies then most can probably take place in our universe so long as nothing huge happens in the movie that gets out into the general population and would impact and alter the history of our universe e.g. ID4 starts off real world but then becomes an alternate reality when aliens turn up (and the sequel is full on alternate reality). Similar the rebooted Planet of the Apes movies start off our reality and then go alternate reality. Jurassic Park 1 could be real world as it happens in secret but not any of the sequels as the whole world knows about dinosaurs being alive. most if not all of 007 films could be real world as like Blade it mostly happens in establish real locations (not made up like Gotham) and its all off the radar/secret ..same with Indiana Jones (happens in the past but all secretive/hushed up/no evidence), Terminator & BTTF (as they dealing with altered timelines so could still work as our universe), Predator, The Thing etc. Even XFiles its possible to be our reality as again its all in extreme secret circumstances and hushed up. Even MiB can probably get away with taking place in our universe/reality. And then theres romcoms all of which probably happen in our universe, and historical (providing nothing occurs that changes the outcome of what happened some something like Inglorious Bastards probably can't work)
And future stuff like Star Trek, Alien, Matrix, Total Recall so long as it remains in the (far) future and nothing in its past is contradicted with our past/present (unlike BR2049) it can be considered futuristic take on our universe not alternate reality (unlike Blade Runner now and other 'use by/expired' future stuff like 2001/10/12, original Planet of the Apes, Escape From NY/LA ..and actually Star Trek has the Khan thing which supposedly happened in the 1990s so that's now abit of a problem - which Into Darkness conveniently ignored)
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6 years ago
Spot on Bozo.
but whats BR2049's contradiction? is it just the dates? clearly BR1982 is still in the futire , i dont give a fuck if Philip K Dick took a guess at 2018 or whatever and got it a bit wrong , the flying cars and robots speak louder than the number 2018 and BR2049 is just BR82 30 years later.
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