Predicting the future can be a difficult thing, as most science-fiction writers would be aware.

It’s a wild ride, and has a great deal of fun with its time-travel premise.

It’s about the coolest, most ridiculous and most entertaining way humans could feasibly defend themselves.

Sci-fi set in 2020s

When judged that way,Pacific Rimis a sci-fi success.

A lengthy synopsis submitted toIMDbcites the film as taking place in 2026.

An image from Avengers: Endgame, featuring Clint Barton, James Rhodes, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Rocket, Nebula, Scott Lang, and Natasha Romanoff.

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Scott stopping Logan from touching Jean in X-Men: Days Of Future Past.

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Godzilla vs. Kong

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A mech and a kaiju fighting

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The production design of Metropolis

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Clive Owen sitting down and looking concerned in Children of Men.

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Joel Kinnaman in RoboCop (2014)

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Makoto looking pensive next to a window with a city in the background in Ghost in the Shell - 1995

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A Terminator holding a gun with an explossion in the background in Terminator 2 - Judgment Day - 1991

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