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The Year’s Future-Movie Score

Posted on December 31st, 2014 by Adam Pelling-Deeves

I’ve noticed a lot of activity in social media to suggest that folk are excited about 2015 being the year in which Back to the Future Part 2 is set. The last time I remember this happening was in 2001, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

It’s exciting when this happens for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we have reached a year that was once considered the future in a popular movie, and secondly, the reality is far less interesting than the movie!

Wanting to find some way to quantify this phenomenon, I’ve come up with what I’m calling the Year’s Future-Movie Score.

The equation to reach this score is (s – m) * r, with s being the year in which a movie is set, m is the year in which that movie was made, and r is The movie’s IMDb rating. The movie that achieves the highest score dictates the Year’s Future-Movie Score.

So what score do these two movies make for their respective years?

2001: A Space Odyssey was made in 1968, set in 2001 and currently rates 8.3 at IMDb, making it’s Year’s Future-Movie Score 273.9.

Back to the Future Part 2 was made in 1989, set in 2015 and currently rates 7.8, making it’s Year’s Future-Movie Score 202.8.

The only score that came close in the years between was 2010, with of course the movie 2010 reaching 176.8.

the remainder being:

2002: Patlabor 2 The Movie — 68.4
2003: Death Machine — 51.3
2004: Timecop — 58
2007: On the Beach — 49.7
2008: Split Second — 99.2
2009: Freejack — 90.1
2011: Revengers Tragedy — 60.3
2012: Acción mutante — 123.5
2013: Escape from L.A. — 95.2
2014: Moon Child — 73.7

So when does it look like this phenomenon will happen again? Well thanks to my fantastic Year’s Future-Movie Score I can tell you exactly when!

2018 was the setting for 1975’s Rollerball and with an IMDb rating currently at 6.6 it reaches a YFM Score (yep, that’s what I’m calling it now) of 283.8. It’s not a well liked movie but the time lapsed will make its future predictions entertaining enough for this not to matter.

But the big one is 2019 with Akira scoring 251.1 and Blade Runner breaking into the 300s with 303.4 — let’s get working on those replicants, science people!

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