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Funny to me that they call out the excellent Vanilla Sky (yes, I know Abre los Ojos is better) and the horrible (but fun) Demolition Man, but don't mention the much more likely Idiocracy.

In seriousness, people who will wake up will face a form of Future Shock that will look tame by our standards. The Forever War touched on this incredibly well.

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What about Futurama? The whole show is about someone who gets woken up from being cryogenically frozen. We could stand to learn a lot about Fry and his adventures.

I love Futurama, but come on. The only thing you're going to learn by watching that show is how to write a funny TV script.

Really? What about Jurassic Bark[0]? That episode is extremely sad and precisely about the fallout of being cryogenically frozen.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Bark

The saddest futurama episode ever.

Only seen it once, it made me feel too depressed.

That episode gets me every time, and I've probably seen it more than 5 times. It makes me feel empathy for cryosleepers that don't even exist yet haha

My comment was a little tounge-in-cheek, but as mentioned there are good episodes about the perils of being cryogenically frozen.

Just like "Mars Attacks!" is a good movie about the perils of an alien invasion. If things that will never happen in our lifetimes can legitimately be described as perils.

Or Sleeper? The only film mentioned to get 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Warren Ellis' excellent Transmetropolitan touches on this as well.

[0] - http://amzn.to/1Tzbd5T

Just ordered a copy of The Forever War on the back of this, thanks for bringing it up.

Hope you enjoy it -- it's one of my top 5 favorite scifi books!

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