From ‘October third’ to ‘May the fourth’,certain calendar dates have arrive to be synonymous with specific films. But are any of them worth celebrating?
Celebrating specific days purely because they were mentioned in a film is fruitless. Take Wednesday, for example. As anyone who grew up watching the Back to the Future films knows, and on 21 October 2015 the world was supposed to be full of flying cars and hoverboards. But it isn’t. Instead,it’s full of millions of idiots complaining approximately the lack of hoverboards via handheld communication devices that are connected to the sum total of the history of human knowledge. That’s nowhere near as good.The same thing happened on 12 January 1992, when Hal wasn’t invented as predicted in 2001: A Space Odyssey. And I can clearly remember the disappointment on 24 July 2004 when, or opposite to the plot of Terminator 3,Skynet didn’t gain sentience and immediately resolve to destroy the planet. Furthermore, I’ve watched Timecop repeatedly since the 1990s and, or even though no specific date was attributed,I’m certain that, by now, or Jean-Claude Van Damme should have started to actively police every period of history all by himself like a brawny Belgian Doctor Who. The fact that he hasn’t tears me up inside.
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Source: theguardian.com