1999AD-Wink Martindale-Entire Film, part1of3

[MrAdvancedAtheist]

Didn't you expect to see a ruined Statue of Liberty on that beach?

[MrAdvancedAtheist]

3:00 LOL the Dark Shadows music!

[usernamewhaa]

i wouldnt have the fadish notion \lol

[newR4Zi3L]

2 years before landing :D

[mapdark]

I love how the kid HAS to switch pc's to watch his course on physics XD

[bunnybooties]

It's funny how the kid needed three separate computer monitors to do his school lessons and he's flunking anyway. But the iPhone/iPad hadn't come out yet where he could do it all with one device using one or two apps. 1999, what a quaint time.

[jadencampbell3]

1:30 well they predicted snuggies..

[HankIsAwsome]

one wheel in the back two in the front?

[98bigbutt]

I can't believe the setting of this story took place 12 years ago. What they didn't know at the time is that by 1999,the USSR is no more,Y2K bug was in the fear in everyone's hearts,and the internet was just at its infancy. Also in the real 1999 looked nothing like that at all.

[Mxsmanic]

I saw this film in high school, and it was already dated. Everyone in class was convinced that we'd have computers running our homes by 1999, except me. Futurists always overestimate the rate of change in society, and they also tend to assume that the trends of yesterday will continue tomorrow, and that's never true.

[carlsm95]

@Mxsmanic Stop complaining and appreciate the fact that this movie got much of it right. Today computers rule many aspects of our lives.

[Avellania]

"School" just two mornings a week? I wish this had become reality.

In 1999 I was in 3rd grade and if this were reality I probably would have had to go to high school once in a month. ; )

[fivestarmichael]

Funny how in the "future" cars and homes actually became banal and plain looking. Just 20 years ago (in 1990) you could tell the difference between the Volvo and Ford.

If anyone comes out with a unique style like the Scion or Element it is imitated to the point where the unique is no longer unique. Surely no cars in 2010 with fins and domed roofs.... more like a box with wheels.

Amazing how the future has brought us so much banality.

[HowardFair]

I seem to remember that the Statue of Liberty is buried up to her neck on that beach at the start...

[LARiots1992]

I wonder what the USSR's version of this film would have looked like.

[ilovemayo123]

This is fascinating! I thought the 50's were the only things with this nostalgic twinge of the future

[cvournakis]

I too saw this in school as a kid. It was 1970 and I was in 2nd grade. We use to get 16mm films to watch in class. The movie stayed with me all these years. I remember the car, the mother making food, the father getting a body scan health evaluation and the sand model of the house the son made on the beach. After watching it, I remember a girl in my class calculating we'd only be 36 in 1999, and we all were thrilled!

[raindancecru]

I wanna play my PS3 on that telly!! 6:14

[BaronVonLethal]

if i let my crappy computer run my home id be eating boxer shorts for breakfast and noodles would be coming out of my shower. then it would crash every time someone looked at it funny

[starberry2947]

@BaronVonLethal

LMFAO XD

[WAM250]

It's very interesting that a film from 1967 includes the moonlanding (which happend 1969).

Many things mentioned here came true and we will see increasing technology-development in our near future ;-)

[AvocadoTomato]

@WAM250 Actually that's really not weird about the moonlanding. JFK said we would reach the moon by the end of the decade(the 60s) and it came true.

[thatslavicguy]

I was 8 in 1999! Woah. that kid would be people of my age..weird lol

[parthenopeogelthorpe]

I saw this when I was in 4th grade - 1970 or 71 - and have forgotten it. The microwave, VCR, home computer - all of it is there and I looked for these things over time because of this film. This piece does show that it is often impossible to predict the "social future" - the mother is at home and the dad pays the bills - she doesn't concern her "old self" with these things. THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS INCREDIBLE GEM!

[HunterMann]

Great to see this! I'm looking for a 16mm print of this! HM, Highway Cinema