XPost: rec.arts.movies.current-films, alt.movies   
   From: eichler2@comcastsucks.net   
      
   On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 01:01:29 -0000 (UTC), Lewis   
    wrote:   
      
   >In message <59dd3790.2309462218@localhost> Bice    
   wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:37:08 -0000 (UTC), Lewis   
   >>  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>In message <59dbee33.2225145375@localhost> Bice    
   wrote:   
   >>>> Someone mentioned in this thread that the timeline doesn't really fit,   
   >>>> that we should have flying cars and space colonies by now.  Remember   
   >>>> that the first one was based on a book written in the 1960s, and for   
   >>>> the new movie they were stuck using the same timeline if they wanted   
   >>>> to have Harrison Ford in it.   
   >>>   
   >>>In Blade Runner 2049 the Soviet Union still exists and Atari is a real   
   >>>company. Oh, and there's also a PanAm airline.   
   >   
   >> Atari's still around.   
   >   
   >Please note what I said.   
   >   
   >Atari is *not* still around.   
      
   OK, the Atari *name* is still around, if you want to be picky about   
   it.  So it's not impossible that there could be big neon Atari signs   
   in 2049.   
      
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