12 Tech Advances We Should Have By Now (According To Movies)

9. Light-Speed Travel

Promised By: Planet Of The Apes The monkey disaster movie raises several philosophical questions, particularly in regards to the whole lighter coloured apes being the brains of the brutish darker coloured apes argument being a clear nod - and hopefully not metaphor for fact - to the racial issues of society. But the immediate concern for the movie is the manner in which George Taylor finds himself trapped on the aforementioned ape-ridden planet. Taylor and his crew are traveling on their spaceship at lightspeed, something which even after fifty years since the writing of the original story, is still only theoretically possible. But that didn't stop Taylor from doing it in the 1960s, although this is a technicality, as theories range from the movie being set in 1968 (time of release) and 3978, somewhat slightly further ahead. If it's the former, you should probably feel mightily aggrieved that you've not yet been able to Millennium Falcon your way to the corner shops and back quicker than it takes to say "Damn dirty ape".