About movies set in the future...

[Augusto]

I was watching this movie yesterday:

http://www.dvd-science-fiction.com/upload/freejack.jpg

Its set in the year 2009, when you can steal a body from the past and transfer your mind in it and have a healthy new body.

Regardless of the plot, that movie got me wondering about those futurisc films with settings in years we already have achieved.

From your experience with futurisc movies:

What about if the future it's not so apocaliptic or maybe it's not happening so fast?

Can these movies lose its charming when we achieve its years?

And what about gadgets, machines, or the world of the future? Is there something cool to have or better to avoid?

[Paradox]

Such things are why it's often "dangerous" to set things in the NEAR future. But, eh, as long as the viewers are aware of when the actual movie was made, I think it doesn't make a whole lot of difference in anything.