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

6. Undead Super Soldiers

Promised By: Universal Soldier If there's something to say about Jean-Claude Van Damme, it's that his movies tend not to shy away from being bold and brash. With that in mind, very few film fans should have been surprised to see that JCVD's 1992 movie Universal Soldier would claim that at some point between the years of 1969 and 1992, we would have perfected the art of reanimating dead soldiers, and turning them into cyborg supermen fit for military usage. In the sci-fi action classic, Van Damme's character is an American soldier killed in Vietnam, but his body is retrieved and reactivated in the nineties to fight terrorists, along with his murderous squadmates, including a particularly angry looking Dolph Lundgren. Had this technology been made available twenty years ago, you'd like to think the inventors might also have advocated reanimating helpful people, like JFK, or Kurt Cobain, who could actually have significantly more impact on the world's culture and politics than an ear-harvesting Scandinavian war machine.