Around here, we’re fans of sci-fi. Low-brow, high-brow, in between…we just love movies about alien species, shit blowing up, big action extravaganzas…

OK. So maybe not the big action stuff (though I’ll happily admit to loving a good mindless sci-fi action movie) but you get the picture. But have you ever considered how many years span between Earth as depicted in The Matrix and say 12 Monkeys? No? Really? This isn’t keeping you up at night?

Well that’s too bad because someone wants you to know and really, it’s kind of fun to see a graphical mapping of these times and then think back to the movies themselves and the worlds that the filmmakers created.

The Futuristic Movie Timeline was created by Dan Meth and it graphs a number of sci-fi films on a timeline. I was a little surprised to see Dune way out in the future; for some reason I had it in my mind that it was some sort of alternate reality.

Thanks to Production Weekly for the linkage!