10 Sci-Fi Movie Clichés Everyone Secretly Loves
6. Food In The Future Sucks!
If there is one thing to be grateful of living in the present instead of the future, it's that at least we don't have to put up with the weird meals. Sci-fi films present to audiences a world in which the food our heroes and villains consume might some of the most undesirable nonsense ever conceived.
In Snowpiercer, even before we learn that the black gel bars the back of the train consume are made of bugs, they don't look like anything you'd pick up in your local supermarket. The freedom-fighters of The Matrix don't get a Michelin Star meal either; dining on what looks like porridge but most definitely is not milk and oats.
And let's not get started on the weird things that constitute as meals in a Star Wars movie.
We love this trope because it's an exaggeration of where we are now, which is exactly what sci-fi is.
While noodles and fruit still exist in the future (according to most sci-fi films at least), it is interesting when characters on screen bite down on a meat flavoured protein bar (like in 1998's Lost In Space) or are presented with a disgusting looking substitute for a food product that went extinct hundreds of years before.