We've long since given up with relying on cinema to provide an accurate prediction of what lies in our real-life future. Time and again, popular fiction has proven itself to be no Nostradamus. Just look at Things To Come, the 1936 movie based off of H.G. Wells's book, which reckoned that war would rage throughout the sixties, a zombie-like plague would kill off most of the population through the seventies, and then everybody would be living in underground cities by the turn of the 21st century. And that we'd all be wearing huge shoulder pads and diving bell-style helmets around town. None of that came to pass now, did it? Basically, films (and books, and TV shows, and comics...) have shown themselves to be untrustworthy when it comes to predictions. They're almost certainly going to be way off the mark. Weren't we already supposed to be in space by 1999? Doesn't the high-tech, far-flung Back To The Future Part II take place in, erm, 2015? Societally, culturally, economically and technologically, we have failed to live up to the roadmap set out for humanity by films. There's still a chance that it may be dead on with one thing, though - fashion. But good gravy, given the sartorial choices of the movie future, let's hope they're wrong about that as well. Most movie star costumes are designed to translate to real life. Have you seen behind-the-scenes photos of Christian Bale in his Batman suit? It looks goofy as hell. But these are supposed to be the outfits worn by the common man in the not-too-distant future (and it looks particularly dystopian on that count). Here are ten awful future fashion trends, according to films anyway...
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
