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- Alien invasions, global
brainwashing, dragons.

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Over the past few decades,
quite a few films and shows

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have considered 2020 the future,

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and tried to envision life in it.

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Most of it wasn't great.

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But through it all, there
were heroes who stepped up

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to bring humanity back from the brink.

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These are the folks who
canceled the apocalypse

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in other versions of 2020.

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(dramatic electronic music)

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2018's "A Quiet Place"

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fast forwards two years into the future,

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to a world destroyed by aliens
who could hunt by sound.

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Regan, a young woman played

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by deaf actress Millicent Simmonds,

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discovers her hearing aid can emit a sound

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that temporarily paralyzes the creatures.

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Armed with her new weapon
and Mom's shotgun, of course,

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the family rises up to defend their home

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and tease a sequel, that's been delayed.

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This 2002 film sends us into
the far distant future of 2020,

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which has been ravaged
by a plague of dragons.

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- You ever seen one of these?

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- Quinn Abercromby,
played by Christian Bale,

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leads a community of survivors,

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but has to step up and become the big hero

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by killing the only male dragon.

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Matthew McConaughey was gonna do it,

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but he's kinda busy being dragon barbecue.

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Major Cage might be the
one Groundhog Daying it up.

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(man yelling)

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But he would be nothing
without Rita Vrataski.

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"Edge of Tomorrow" takes
place five years after

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aliens called Mimics invaded Earth.

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Tom Cruise's character finds
he can hack into their ability

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to reset time, but only
discovers this thanks to Rita.

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She's a war hero, who previously
had this time loop ability,

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and spends each day
teaching Major Cage to,

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well, not suck at everything.

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- Which way, focus, which way?

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- I'm thinking, I'm thinking.

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Oh man!

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- By the end, the two
of them work together

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to stop the alien invasion,
resetting the time loop,

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as well as their relationship.

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But it looks like she's gonna
have to save the world again

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because a sequel is finally on the way.

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"Dollhouse" was a series about
a group that served the rich

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by wiping people's
personalities and replacing them

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with characteristics the clients wanted.

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There were also two episodes,

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a bonus from the season one
DVD and the series finale,

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that jumped forward to
a post-apocalyptic 2020.

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There, the tech had been weaponized,

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turning everyone in the world
into brainwashed zombies.

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Echo, the protagonist of the series,

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leads a small army to the weapon's source,

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helping to destroy it and
restore everyone's minds.

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- Today we are canceling the apocalypse!

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(dramatic music)

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- Technically, Mako didn't
come into the picture

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until 2025, but it was the events of 2020

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that led her to become
a vital Kaiju killer.

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"Pacific Rim" is about a bunch of monsters

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that invade Earth through
an inter-dimensional breach

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in the ocean.

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This creates a new wave
of celebrity fighters,

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who co-pilot giant Jaeger mech suits,

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like Raleigh Becket
and his brother, Yancy.

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In 2020, we see the
first Kaiju get killed,

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but Yancy loses his life in the process,

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and Raleigh quits the Jaeger
program shortly after.

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Five years later, Mako Mori rises up

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to take his brother's place, and together,

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they venture into the
breach to stop the Kaiju

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once and for all.

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- The war we thought we
finished is just beginning.

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- But it looks like even
the dystopian future

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is not safe from unnecessary sequels.

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(dramatic music)