Future Shock - 1993

What's shocking about this movie is that it gets 4 stars out of 10 on IMDB!

Today after work I watched the 1993 movie Future Shock. It was under the Watch Instantly category on Netflix. Holy crap. It's terrible. Near Dark is a masterpiece compared to this garbage.

The tagline on IMDB reads "Beyond virtual reality open your mind to a new dimension in terror!" Really? Terror? I was laughing through this entire movie. I think this was written before the concept of Virtual Reality existed as we know it. It must have, because there was no virtual reality in it whatsoever.

Basically three patients go in to see their shrink. They talk about their "horrific" problems. The shrink turns on a switch to some Magic 8 Ball looking thing and that's when we see the patient's terrible issues. I guess the Magic 8 Ball thing is the "virtual reality" or something. It really just looks like a bad prop from Spencer Gifts. And the Virtual Reality is just the patients venting on a couch.

The movie is really three completely boring stories put together. The first story put me to sleep, the second story, starring our hero Bill Paxton, was entertaining, and I couldn't even get through the first 10 minutes of the third. So I'll write about the second story, which is hysterical (but not meant to be).

Bill Paxton plays Vince, the room mate that "terrorizes" the nerdy dude who works in a morgue by day and by night spends all his earnings at Costco (I am totally serious). So Vince answers the nerdy dude's ad for a room mate and Chaos Ensues. What does Vince do that is so horrific? He leaves dirty dishes in the sink! He has a girl over and then have loud sex late at night! He doesn't pay the rent on time! So the nerd has enough and plans to kill Vince, only Vince beats him to it. And then the cycle starts again with Vince answering an ad placed by another nerdy dude who he knows won't talk back. Hilarious!

If you want a good laugh with your friends, watch Future Shock. Maybe someone can make it into a drinking game or something? That would be a good time for sure. Check out the trailer if you don't believe me:

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So, in conclusion, the only good part of this movie, of course, is Mr Bill Paxton in his leather pants. That's two for two! He wore his leathers in Near Dark and now again in Future Shock. I know he wears his leather pants in Boxing Helena, too.

How many films does Bill wear leather pants? Oh, I'll find out. Don't you worry.