A quality use of spare time

Now see, I don't know if this guy has a day job, but he's certainly put together a potent example of what can be accomplished with a little creative thinking and time to kill: The Movie Timeline (thanks to Chris at Grist and Jason at Kottke).

The concept is staggeringly simple: It's the total history of the universe, if all movies were true. Yeah, I'm already geeking out.

So. For instance, you can see that the planet Krypton exploded the same year Sonny Corleone was murdered and Harry Lime resurfaced in Vienna. And did you know Phinneas Fogg's journey around the world coincided with the staking of Dracula?

Most interesting is the “future” — unkillable Buck Rogers will emerge from his frozen slumber about the same time the unkillable Jason Voorhees terrorizes a space station. And apparently, the Earth will be invaded in 2020 (dragons), 2150 (Daleks), 2373 (Borg), and 3000 (Psychlos), and in fact has already been invaded many times over... especially in the 1950s.

And 2046 looks to be a big year for Hell in our solar system: The Event Horizon will open a door to Hell in orbit around Neptune at the same time that Hell breaks out (literally) at the UAC base on Mars's moon, Phobos. I'd say 2046 would be a good year not to travel, except that on Earth, the apes will already be running things.