According to film-makers, the next 12 months is likely to resemble a fiery battleground populated by evil robots,
aliens and monsters
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2019 and 2020 may only be separated by a year, but linguistically, they’re much farther apart. The words “two thousand and nineteen” just don’t have the futuristic ring of “twenty-twenty”, which at times looks like computer output and sounds like robot-speak. The movies have seized on this much, with a solid handful of sci-fi and other genre titles making use of 2020 as a pinpoint from the abstract beyond of tomorrow that felt a little farther from the 80s and 90s than the old standby of the year 2000.
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