In 78 years it will be 2100. People will have close to 200 years worth of feature films to watch. How do you think people getting into film then will go about it?

Submitted by topazdude17 t3_zv1nka in movies

I’m in my mid 20s and when I first started getting really into movies the idea of having close to 100 years of feature films seemed crazy. Can’t imagine what it will be like in the future when people have close to 200 years. Say a person in 2022 has seen 500 films. Certain number from each decade. Wouldn’t it reason that in 2100 a person who has seen 500 movies has less exposure to previous decades cause the movies will be more spread out? Wonder if the number of must watch classics from the last decreases.

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TheClayroo t1_j1ml9jh wrote

Hopefully not by taking this sub's advice.

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Select_Action_6065 t1_j1mws1n wrote

“I love films, but to be honest bro, anything before 2095 is kind of boring”

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planet_irata t1_j1miwxy wrote

I think it'll be similar to books. Some of the classics will be relegated to academics and die-hard movie nerds. Some people still read Moby Dick (for example), but it's definitely not a must-read for those newly into reading. I think movies will be similar. Film studies students might watch Citizen Kane, but the general public won't. (That's already the case, now that I think about it, but I'm sure a similar fate will happen to some of the more recent classics...)

Future generations will continue to watch Die Hard at Christmas time, though. That's set in stone. ;)

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googoogfgh t1_j1mpv9p wrote

Moby Dick is basically The Godfather. I wouldn’t start with it due to its length, pacing, and denseness, but if you want to know anything about anything, you have to take the plunge eventually.

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bubbib2 t1_j1n5eao wrote

sadly very few people today care about something like silent cinema so i have no faith that anybody will care about stuff from today in 2100

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JamiePulledMeUp t1_j1oc994 wrote

Well because silent films are boring or too artsy. You take anything from the late 60s on and you get basically the same kind of experience with different cinematography as you would today.

Good stories are timeless.

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bubbib2 t1_j1px3dw wrote

your last sentence directly contradicts the first one

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JamiePulledMeUp t1_j1py39b wrote

No because silent films do not have good stories

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Public_Dig_8992 t1_j1pyz0p wrote

Go watch “The Passion of Joan of Arc”…then come and tell me that doesn’t have a good story

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bubbib2 t1_j1rei4h wrote

just a dumb and ignorant thing to say

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CapControl t1_j1pqig0 wrote

I could see that if movies in 2100 would become full on VR experiences.

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MembershipJaded5215 t1_j1mju62 wrote

In 78 years we could very well have "total recall" like feature films.

Yes, there will be classics. But entertainment evolves with technology. Imagine going to the movies, becoming the lead roll and shaping the story yourself? It would be more about the individual experience rather then the narrative.

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ETH_Knight t1_j1mt9jr wrote

It will be like music. You can listen to 50s classics. 60s. 70s. But it s the 80s 90s that people remember most.

Similarly movies will most likely have a couple decades that will be legendary but most of it will be forgotten

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Tall_Run_2814 t1_j1n2nys wrote

Films as we know them may no longer exist

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Mindofmierda90 t1_j1nsbyh wrote

I think ppl lose sight of how unprecedented our era is. 78 years ago is 1944, and at that point they only had 20-25 years worth of film to look back on. In 2100, they’ll have 200 years worth! I can’t imagine what’ll be like. Even with HD, the human eye can only see so good, so there’s a threshold for how clear screen resolution will become, and we’re already in or near it. So in 2100, they’ll be able to see us in pretty much the same resolution we have now. Can you imagine watching footage from the 1920s in 4K?

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mathaiser t1_j1oujph wrote

Let’s not be afraid to think bigger. Films will be 3D full immersive stories that you can actually witness as if your there.

Then there will be augmented reality where you walk around and a film or action movie happens in your home.

AI is going to make things so crazy.

Films today will be like a 2D drawing/painting trying to explain something.

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sue_donyem t1_j1mw3j1 wrote

It's hard to say what film will look like in 2123. I think traditional "view a film on a screen" film will still exist, but a large chunk of media will be ARM (augmented reality media, VR) and full sensory simulations. I think it'll be similar to libraries, but extremely monetized.

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QuoteGiver t1_j1oau63 wrote

They’ll only watch the life-sized 3D VR movies at that point. The old tiny-screen flat-format stories will be in museums with their predecessors, the paintings.

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Amiland1 t1_j1mjlvl wrote

I agree with it all, especially having our classics NOW eventually change with everything around it.

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Studio_Ambitious t1_j1mmgj0 wrote

I think the experience will not be so two dimensional nor linear...

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konqueror321 t1_j1o4t3o wrote

By then VR on steroids will be mainstream. You will be totally immersed in a whole body - all senses experience. The old sight and sound films from now will be like the silent movies from the early 1900s - of historical interest, studied in art schools maybe, but def not a part of the current entertainment ecosystem.

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Goondal t1_j1ogqvj wrote

Movies will be split into small, sitcom sized chunks to adjust for smaller attention spans. Film like Good With the Wind will be miniseries

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supahfly24 t1_j1oislf wrote

Like music, only the true classics stand the test of time.

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Koolest_Kat t1_j1ol8iw wrote

Jeezus, think of all the shitty remakes of great films. It’s dystopian even today.

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GallantArmor t1_j1ozs66 wrote

The filmmakers 78 years from now would likely view the movies we make today as we would view silent films. The medium is likely going to transform in fundamental ways with the ever increasing advancement of technology.

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laurentiubuica t1_j1pghzl wrote

I think most of the black and white cinema era will definitely be forgotten by the general public. Only those that would attend film schools would possibly get into Casablanca, Citizen Kane, and all the other classics. Godfather will probably be another cinematography study.

People will probably be amazed by what technology from the late 80's early 90's could do with Top Gun, Jurassic Park, The Terminator. After that they'll probably be awwed by Tarantino movies, Scorsese movies like The Departed, Fight Club will probably be a thing. So will American Psycho. They will probably be amazed on what was Nolan been able to pull out with Inception and the Dark Knight trilogy.

The comic book movies will still be your standard entertainment movies with huge over the top budgets and high on CGI. Flicks like American Pie, She's All that, I know what you did last summer will be seen like cringey and raunchy B rated comedies that probably nobody will think they were good movies in the first place.

A lot of biopics will probably saturate the film industry so the go to movie buff of the 2100's would understand who was Tarantino, Cameron, Scorsese. They'll probably make a biopic about Gun's & Roses, Rolling Stones and almost of the successful rock bands that lived through the ages.

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Yungerman t1_j1px75u wrote

It will probably be completely outdated technologically and of as much interest to the people of the future as media from 100 years ago is to us. Sure there will be some people into it, but a regular GEN epsilon kid will not be sitting there appreciating ET or the godfather or jurassic park. They're going to have completely different forms of media that render ours completely irrelevant. Virtual stuff, music in forms we can't even fathom, and ai that can turn just about everyone's imagination into some real form media.

Our brightest stars will just be flickering fading dots in their night sky no different than any that came before. Barely remembered or completely forgotten.

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josheyua t1_j1ta2nq wrote

It's like from 1940s till now. Who watches older movies? Your grandparents. Some from our 2000s will be seen as classics like its a wonderful life

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imitebmike t1_j1ml9wc wrote

you silly, by then they'll just beam the films into your brainboxes so people will be able to experience entire films in a single thought.

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Prismt t1_j1o3n5m wrote

It’ll be difficult since humanity will have an extinction event occur between 2075 and 2085

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SonicFilmz13 t1_j1on25v wrote

Will film and cinema really still exist then? Marvel and it’s superhero genre is taking over

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Septimius-Severus13 t1_j1x9tq8 wrote

There will always exist films, They will be like videogames today, AAA Or indies. With aaas being formulaic to the Bone, and indies being creative and actually fully exploring the artistic possibilities. With better technology, future Indies could be comparable to todays Or near future blockbusters.

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googoogfgh t1_j1mq0a3 wrote

Highly optimistic to think humanity will still be around, honestly.

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dhrisc t1_j1od7jl wrote

Dont know why yall are getting downvoted. These are funny and not horribly wrong comments. Lol

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AnsweringLiterally t1_j1ml81t wrote

Everything will be AI by then. No more people making movies.

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Mech-Noir t1_j1n9e74 wrote

This will happen far sooner. Really sad tbh.

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gmoney1259 t1_j1mk6od wrote

Movies will largely be phased out of everyday life. Meaning there really won't be a "Hollywood" type industry we have now. Individuals will make films at home for friends and families. There will be competitions where bunches of people make the same movies to see who is best.

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googoogfgh t1_j1mpydk wrote

That’s… not what’s going to happen 😂😂

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Mech-Noir t1_j1n998w wrote

I bet it is… we are already seeing the beginning of automation in art. And it’ll happen faster than a 100 years.

Pay attention. I’d wager this guy is right.

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googoogfgh t1_j1nxltp wrote

I’d wager you’re the same person with a burner lol

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Mech-Noir t1_j1oe2k9 wrote

Nope, just familiar with where Machine Learning currently is and is going.

Look into openGPT, Midjourney, stablediffusion. We are only a few years away from huge chunks of filmmaking and general computer tasks being fully automated.

This shit is going to catch you off guard.

!remind me in 10 years

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[deleted] t1_j1milkx wrote

I don't expect there to be many/any humans left in 2100. Probably the industrial capacity to create/distribute new movies will be mostly gone by 2050. So these survivors of the coming environmental/civilization/nuclear war collapse would really only have another 28 years of movies, and it probably would not be the wisest use of whatever limited power generating capacity they have to sit around watching Oasis of the Zombies or other Jesus Franco movies.

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