5. Final Destination (2000): woman missed Air France flight 447, only to die in a car crash 2 weeks later
An Italian woman who didn’t get on the recently crashed Air France flight 447 because she arrived late to the airport was killed in a car crash just two weeks later. A lot like the movie Final Destination!
Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31. All 228 people aboard lost their lives after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris. After losing the flight, the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day.
Two weeks later, Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.
According to a Brazilian TV show, the woman and her husband hadn’t bought a ticket from Air France. Both travel at Iberia. The surviving husband testified the story was just a lie. Thanks, Dani .
4. Unbreakable (2000): boy survived being hit by a car unscathed
In the movie Unbreakable, David Dunn (Bruce Willis), a depressed security guard, survives a violent train crash without a single scratch. Recently, four-year-old Turkish boy Muhammet Dirlik also got lucky: he was hit by a car, which sent him tumbling down a flight of stairs. But what seems like a surely fatal accident left Muhammet unscathed.
3. Destination Moon (1950): man gets to the Moon
Perhaps the most boring movie ever made about space travel, Destination Moon, is a tale of astronauts obeying Newtonian physics. The dramatic climax comes when the crew realizes they don’t have enough fuel to make it back to Earth, and even after dumping all of their unessential gear, one of them will have to stay behind.
At its best, Destination Moon is an astonishingly sober primer on the physics, and potential complications, of space travel. When the crew takes off, an extended sequence (they’re all extended, really) shows the effects of acceleration on their grimacing faces. When it’s time for a spacewalk, the astronauts put on their suits and wait, and wait, as the air cycles out of the crew compartment. It’s all very scientific and responsible. For what it’s worth, the moon also looks remarkably like it should. And when the rocket first leaves Earth, the crew counts down from 30. There is such a thing as too much realism.
2. Demolition Man (1993): Schwarzenegger for President
In this movie, Sylvestor Stylone’s character, a time-traveling cop from the past, is told to his disbelief that actor Arnold Schwarzenegger had become president after the Constitution was amended. In 1993 when they made Demolition Man directors probably figured ‘Lets go for the most ridiculous futuristic prediction for Schwarzenegger and make him a President, oh yes he’ll like that!’
Not only is Arnie’s dream of being a US President a possibility –he’s already governor and the Constitution could be amended–, but the futuristic New World Order which mirrors that depicted in the 1993 movie is possible as well.
1. Americathon (1979): China rises, USSR collapses, and US faces financial crisis
In 1979 a strangely prophetic movie was written by Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman starring John Ritter, Fred Willard, and Harvey Korman. “Americathon” was made 30 years too early–in 1979. John Ritter plays the president in a future America (1998) when we’ve run out of oil and cash. Among the hilarious–and insane–predictions for America 20 years into the future were that China would embrace capitalism and become a global economic superpower. Nike, then a fledgling little shoe company in Oregon, would become a multinational conglomerate. The USSR would collapse. People would buy expensive, specialty coffee drinks. And America would be deep in debt to foreign investors. Do you see any coincidence?
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