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* ValuesResonance: Yes, the film wasn't very enjoyable, but many of its themes are still very relevant: energy shortages, [[PostPeakOil America becoming depleted of oil]] and falling into bankruptcy to foreign lenders, and foreign competition with newer powers.

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* ValuesResonance: Yes, Sure, the film wasn't very enjoyable, but many of its themes are still very relevant: energy shortages, [[PostPeakOil America becoming depleted of oil]] and falling into bankruptcy to foreign lenders, and foreign competition with newer powers.

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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was able to predict the rise of China as a capitalist superpower, if not the method thereof. It also predicted the USSR collapsing, Nike becoming a huge conglomerate (and with it, althetic wear being commonplace) and reality TV being out of control.
* ValuesResonance: Yes, the film wasn't very enjoyable, but many of its themes are still very relevant:
** Energy shortages.
** America becoming depleted of oil and falling into bankruptcy to foreign lenders.
** Foreign competition with newer powers.

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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was able to predict [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld the rise of China as a capitalist superpower, superpower]], if not the method thereof. It also predicted the USSR collapsing, Nike becoming a huge conglomerate (and with it, althetic wear being commonplace) and reality TV being out of control.
* ValuesResonance: Yes, the film wasn't very enjoyable, but many of its themes are still very relevant:
** Energy shortages.
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relevant: energy shortages, [[PostPeakOil America becoming depleted of oil oil]] and falling into bankruptcy to foreign lenders.
** Foreign
lenders, and foreign competition with newer powers.powers.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: So very 1970s. The film basically takes place in a world where TheSeventies never ended, both in terms of the culture and in terms of the energy crisis. (Well okay, maybe they were right about the energy crisis part.)
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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was able to predict the rise of China as a capitalist superpower, if not the method thereof. It also predicted the USSR collapsing, Nike becoming a huge conglomerate and reality TV being out of control.

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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was able to predict the rise of China as a capitalist superpower, if not the method thereof. It also predicted the USSR collapsing, Nike becoming a huge conglomerate (and with it, althetic wear being commonplace) and reality TV being out of control.
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** Foreign Competition with newer powers.

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** Foreign Competition competition with newer powers.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was able to predict the rise of China as a capitalist superpower, if not the method thereof.

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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was able to predict the rise of China as a capitalist superpower, if not the method thereof. It also predicted the USSR collapsing, Nike becoming a huge conglomerate and reality TV being out of control.



* ValuesResonance: Yes the film wasn't very enjoyable, but many of its themes are still very relevant:

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* ValuesResonance: Yes Yes, the film wasn't very enjoyable, but many of its themes are still very relevant:



** America becoming a debtor nation.

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** America becoming a debtor nation.depleted of oil and falling into bankruptcy to foreign lenders.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was able to predict the rise of China as a capitalist superpower, and the end of the USSR.

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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was able to predict the rise of China as a capitalist superpower, and if not the end of the USSR.method thereof.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: So very 1970s. The film basically takes place in a world where TheSeventies never ended, both in terms of the culture and in terms of the energy crisis. (Well okay, maybe they were right about the energy crisis part.)
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* HilariousInHindsight: The film was able to predict the rise of China as a capitalist superpower, and the end of the USSR.
* ValuesResonance: Yes the film wasn't very enjoyable, but many of its themes are still very relevant:
** Energy shortages.
** America becoming a debtor nation.
** Foreign Competition with newer powers.

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