‘The year was 2017 …’ Why we’re all living in Pamela Anderson’s Barb Wire world now

The critics weren’t kind to Pamela Anderson’s 1996 movie Barb Wire, but maybe history has been a little less ruthless on the big screen flop, suggests @natelee on Twitter.

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Uncanny isn’t it?

The Running Man, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, was also famously set in 2017 and has a lot to say about the way we live now (if you look close enough).

It wasn’t a very good movie either, but at least it was better than Barb Wire.