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| In Time (negative) *SPOILERZ* by Mischief Maker 11/07/2011, 8:27pm PST | ||||
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| Not as smart as the trailers made it look.
Maybe it's just the glut of remakes and reboots lately, but the trailers made me think this was a re-imagining/expansion of Logan's Run. I thought the premise was that in the near future medical/plastic surgery technology has gotten so good that people can live and stay young forever. To keep the population under control, everyone gets the logan's run digital timer on their arm. People get so obsessed with the timer that it eclipses money as the currency of choice, and the system that was designed give everyone an equal allotment of time has been subverted and now the world is one of elites who live forever and lowly slobs making do with a little bit of time. Hence that "BOIING" moment in the trailer where the rich man is introducing his wife, his daughter, and his mother in law and they all look the same age. Boy I would have loved to see that movie. Instead the premise is that everyone in the world is genetically engineered to live 25 years, then a timer with one year left starts counting down, and they can exchange the time. Why? Well the movie posits that the entire reason the system exists is so a few people can live forever at the expense of everyone else. The system is intentionally meant to be corrupted. *slaps forehead* For a movie about economic inequality, it sure looks like is was made as cheaply as possible. Aside from one chandelier-festooned hallway that I suspect is just a generic set, the shanri-la of the super wealthy is pretty pedestrian and dull. The time cops' central HQ is obviously the foyer of a bank with giant monitors CGI'ed everywhere. And they have a TERRIBLE fakey CGI car crash. How cheap is your movie that you can't even crash a car? I came in expecting the premise to be the highlight of the movie, and the main plot to be a disappointment, but I still gotta bitch about the main plot. There's a plot thread where it's implied that the main character's dad was a revolutionary trying to overthrow the system that goes nowhere. There's a Detective Javert-like Time Cop with zero arc. He never realizes the error of his ways, he never faces poetic justice, he just forgets to recharge his time during a car chase, then runs out and dies while chasing the hero. This movie's solutions to the woes of capitalism? The hero and love interest begin robbing every bank in the world and distributing the money to the poor, who begin buying their way into the And there's this "nail biter" scene at the end where the hero and the love interest have seconds left on their clocks and have to run to a time source to save their lives, and the chick can't run fast enough and ohmigosh she could die, AND SHE'S RUNNING IN FUCKING 6-INCH HEELS! Sometimes I wonder if these moronic "liberal message movies" coming out of hollywood are a Karl Rove-like plot to discredit the left. |
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In Time (negative) *SPOILERZ* by 11/07/2011, 8:27pm PST  They have cell phones, I assume? But need to be physically close to reset a wat by 11/08/2011, 10:19am PST No, their money is literally the time before they die; run out of $ and you croa NT by 11/08/2011, 10:22am PST Re: In Time (negative) *SPOILERZ* by 11/08/2011, 1:10pm PST Re: In Time (negative) *SPOILERZ* by 11/08/2011, 6:52pm PST |
