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Beyond Thunderdome: The Future’s Twelve Worst Haircuts

  • 9/24/09 at 12:15 PM

Even though we're well past the year 2000, we're still having trouble coming to grips with the fact that today's present is nowhere near as excitingly futuristic as sci-fi movies had promised us back when we were kids. There are no moving sidewalks, cars still drive on boring old roads, and we have yet to meet a robot butler who's half as sassy as Rosie from The Jetsons. However, there is one reason we're glad that the future hasn't evolved in the way that filmmakers had envisioned: We have much better hairstyles in the year 2009 than they do in the future! Seriously, we're not sure what terrible fate awaits our planet's well-trained beauty-school graduates in the future, but whatever it is, we're fairly certain that our species' ability to wield a pair of scissors will disappear. In honor of Bruce Willis's offensively awful haircut (*cough* wig *cough*) in this weekend's release of the futuristic thriller Surrogates, your friendly Vulture editors have put together the following list of twelve terrible hairstyles from some of our favorite sci-fi films and programs of the past.

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