Labyrinth (1986)

Reality: Teenage girl🦂s babysit their infant siblings and rant about the injustice of it all but nothing changes. Except nappies.

The Movie Reality: A mystical world o☂f goblins, talki💃ng worms and giant furry monsters held within a giant labyrinth manifests after hearing the cries of a moody adolescent. Power ballad maestro, The Goblin King, whisks babies away to his castle.

If We Lived In The Movies: Each time anyone whinged about doing something they didn’t like, t💙hey’d run the risk of turning up in a labyrinth just to be taugh🔯t a lesson.

Southland Tales (2006)

Reality: The last World War ended in 1945 and since then no nuclear attacks have occurred in the southern Uni✨ted States♛.

The Movie Reality: In July 2005, two nuclear attacks on Texas cause the United States to strike out, inciting World War III. This leads to a wo⭕rldwide fuel shortage, and greater monitoring of US c▨itizens personal habits.

If We Lived In The Movies: The wai🦩t at the petrol station would be considerably longer than it is now.

1984 (1984)

Reality: People ar⛦e free to think and say what they like. Mostly.

The Movie Reality: UK citizens are under constant surveillan꧋ce from the Thought Police, a body governed by The Pa✨rty, who monitor people’s independent thought which is now deemed a crime.

Workers at The Ministry of Truth, rewrite history so it aligns with♎ the parameters of The Party.

If We Lived In The Movies: Everyone’d be wearing tin foil hats.

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Reality: Most virtual reality experiences occur through visual stereoscopic 🌟displays and are often 🌱for specific training routines.

The Movie Reality: During the 1990s, a billionaire inventor creates a virtual ღreality simulation of 1937 Los Angeles kitted out ꦛwith humans who’ve no idea they’re a bunch of zeroes and ones in a gigantic database. Of course, the 1990s world too is a simulation.

It all gets rather Russian doll-like.

If We Lived In The Movies: Offering a cheaper, immediate alternative to pricey time travel, being able to pop baꦗck to a certain time would become a rewarding way for school children to leaඣrn about history.

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Reality: If you go down to the woods today... then ther🗹e’s likely going to be trees, grass and lichen.

The Movie Reality: In 1944 Spain, an overgrown labyrinth exists with a giant faun as a guide (who is utterly terrifying yet one of the good guys), an albino 🎉monster with hand-eyes, and a huge belching toad.

Still more preferable than hanging around wi🧔th that bastard Captain.

If We Lived In The Movies: Heading for a camping trip is now twice as terrifying as you’ve also just watched The Blair Witch Project .

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

Reality: As much as librarians sell books to kids by ℱpromising them a doorway into 𒐪another world, they don’t literally mean it.

The Movie Reality: A fictional storybook world called Fantasia, is on the brink of extinction if scrappy warrior Atreyu can’t stop tℱhe evil force of The Nothing from wiping it out.

While 🌳reading the book, a young boy called Bastian becomes entwi𓃲ned with the story world and follows his literary counterpart, Atreyu as he traverses melancholic swamps and battles monsters.

If We Lived In The Movies: Libraries and bookstores would become flooded with single gals all desperate for a copy of 50 Shades Of Grey .

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

Reality: Animated characters exist solely on TV as part of Saturday morning cartoon-wat൲ching rituals held by children the world over.

The Movie Reality: Cartoon characters refꦍerred to as “toons” are real living beings who mingle peacefully with humans. Much like꧒ people act in movies, ‘toons star in their own cartoons.

If We Lived In The Movies: Taxes would skyrocket to cope with the collateral damag🌳e caused by Wil♑e E. Coyote’s tomfoolery.

12 Monkeys (1995)

Reality: Between 1996 and 1997 no catastrophic global pandemics occurred. Apart from Spice World: The Movie . Yeesh.

The Movie Reality: Between 1996 and 1997, a deadly virus is exposed to the world’s population killing millions. This in turn causes the planet to turn into an ash-filled dystopia where humans can only exist underground, as deadly airborne particles arꦑe present in the atmosphere.

And lots of animals wander about.

If We Lived In The Movies: We’d never get that fresh windy smell in bed sheets again, what with only🦂 being able to use tumble dryers.

Tron (1982)

Reality: Computers are guarded by highly sophisticated firewalls which are programmed and acce🐽ssed through the computer screen interface.

The Movie Reality: Following the theft of his video games, Kevin Flynn sneaks into his competitor’s system to retrieve them. Once inside, the Master Control Program digitises him into the mainfr𒐪ame where he battles against the programs who app🎐ear as their human creators.

If We Lived In The Movies: Battling the blue screen of death would bring on a whole new level of catharsis, as frustrated computer use♊🤡rs could literally face the blue screen in human form.

Fatherland (1994)

Reality: World💞 War II came to an end when Allied forces won the invasion in Normandy and thousands 📖of war criminals were brought to justice after the holocaust.

The Movie Reality: Take🐬s place in a 1964 where Germany won the war, and are curr🌠ently battling with the Soviet Union, while desperately trying to recruit the forces of the United States to overthrow Stalin. German leaders attempt to cover up the holocaust.

If We Lived In The Movies: We’d all be speaking German.