If everything we witnessed in the movies were true, this year dolphins would be leaving Earth and the war between Autobots and Decepticons would still be raging. Five years from now, a virus would kill 99% of the world’s population.
This is the cool concept behind The Movie Timeline, an attempt to chronicle the history of the world using only movies as evidence. "Who’d have thought that while Gangs of New York’s Amsterdam Vallon was killing Butcher Bill, down the road Abraham Lincoln was being kidnapped by Bill and Ted?" one reader writes.
The site takes submissions, so if you see something missing, send it in. The list already includes some recent flicks, like V for Vendetta and Brokeback Mountain, so be on the lookout for possible spoilers.
Before I take off, here’s an assortment of the best stuff that landed in my inbox today:
- The 30-minute pilot for Heat Vision and Jack is now online for all to see. For some reason, Fox rejected the Ben Stiller-directed comedy that starred Jack Black as the world’s smartest man and Owen Wilson as his talking motorcycle. It was made back in ’99, before High Fidelity changed Black’s career.
- Speaking of former Fox series, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. is coming to DVD.
