Calling all old movie fans! Have you seen this film?

[Gothic Sponge]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021016/

Plot Summary for
Just Imagine (1930)
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.


This film is wacked! It's great fun to see how they imagined 1980 back in 1930. TCM and FMC plays it all the time. Check it out!

[Kellanved]

1. sounds a little like Metropolis

The original, not the thrice-damned Anime BS (nothing against Anime in general).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/metropolis.html

[Deja Q]

2. They were half right...

* Diet supplements are pills. Some people really do use them to (partially if not primarily to replace food. Dieticians have to remind people to eat and not pop pills.)

* Government is arranging marriages - between men and women only. Allow the regressive repukes to take control, they'll decide if people can marry outside their skin color, via their IQ, or other ridiculous parameters. I can see forced abortions of perceived as imperfect children (let's hope they don't find the gay gene or whatever, we all have a right to life.)

* Pity airplanes hadn't replaced cars... but with cell phones, this would make flying impossible. :-)

* Test tube babies are not uncommon.

I've got to see this flick... thx! :D

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. YES!!!!

the only science fiction musical. It's very silly, but has that whole Hugo Gernsback vibe.

[nuxvomica]

4. I have been looking for this movie for years!

El Brendel was a wonderful film comedian little remembered today. This has been on TCM and I missed it?

[Gothic Sponge]

5. Okay, it's going to be on FMC at the end of the month

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July 30 at 2:01 pm
July 31 at 4:01 am

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