In Time (Spoilers)

[Zor]

Did anyone else see that film?

Basic Plot Rundown: Its the Future and people don't age past 25. After which, you start burning Time. Good news is that if you can keep this topped up you can live forever. Bad news, if you run out you drop dead. And Time has become the currency. Rich get to live forever, poor literally live day to day and die young. A guy in the Ghetto played by Justin Timberlake one day finds himself the owner of a Century and circumstances lead him to be persued by the law, hooks up with a rich girl and play robin hood/Bonnie and Clyde.

I rather enjoyed it, it was a good action peice and the plot and acting was pretty good. Also enjoyed the exploration of the world that this movie has created for itself with the Sci-Fi idea of hours of your life being the form of cash. Its done by the guy who did GATTACA and Lord of War, both of which i rather enjoyed (especially the latter).
Spoiler

Mind you i did that towards the bit towards the end rather silly. Basically the Two Leads are running to get more time from a hidden stash after the big heist of a Million Years while their clocks run down to the last second. This whole damn thing could have been avoided by skimming a day or two off the top of that million years.

Also Amanda Seyfried is Hot.

Zor

[lordofchange13]

How do the people go about adding Time to their lives?

[neoolong]

By working.

[lordofchange13]

By working.

No, I mean what process allows them to control how long they live, nanobots in the blood, vitality field, genetic engineering, magic?

EDIT:oh i see, it's just handwaved. alright, i plan on seeing this weekend either way, looks like a fun flick.

[Tritio]

I watched it last week and found it to be a good movie. It has an interesting concept, and executes it well without being too over-the-top. I found the parallels between the fictional time system and today's economic system to be quite obvious as well. The rich live lives of opulence, tucked away in zones which have a significant barrier to entry, while the poor lived from day to day in much worse conditions and the story is about breaking that system.

[dragon]

hum only bad thing about 25 years is alot of the scientist and engineers that make the most contributation are older. Hell look at Einstein, Tessla even Ford all were over 25 when they came up with their best ideas.

[Bedlam]

hum only bad thing about 25 years is alot of the scientist and engineers that make the most contributation are older. Hell look at Einstein, Tessla even Ford all were over 25 when they came up with their best ideas.

If Einstein and co had stopped ageing at 25 do you think they would not have had those ideas?

Its just keeping people at their physical prime not stopping them thinking.

[CaptainChewbacca]

No, Bedlam, Dragon's point is that if they'd died at 25 they never would have innovated and created what they did. Putting a cap that you have to earn against disincentivizes idle research. Its a society with literally no free time.

[JediToren]

I saw it and thought it was okay. I love all of Andrew Niccol's work (he also wrote the script for The Truman Show) but this one was just a little too thinly veiled and heavy handed.

The best scene is the one where Timberlake's character goes "all in" during the high stakes power game.
The death of his mother is particularly good. When she gets on the bus and realizes she is going to die, and the scene where they both run towards each other but she dies too soon.

Really any scene where you can sense the urgency and desperation of the characters is pretty good.

When the dialogue starts, it's really heavy handed, even if what they are saying is pretty accurate.

Today I watched the documentary "Blue Gold" about privatization of water resources. A lot of similarities between the two. "In Time" doesn't sound too far out.

[Shroom Man 777]

I saw it, it was okay as a light fare sci-fi casual action movie, but seemed sub-par compared to the guy's other more renowned works like Gattaca and Lord of War. He totally homaged himself with that beach swimming scene.

I dunno, he made a more compelling movie with Gattaca, without having to use gunfights and all that shit. Cillian's talents were kinda wasted in this film.

It was fun, but I think he could've done much better.

[CaptainChewbacca]

Cillian's death was the only thing that really pissed me off in the movie, because it seemed completely unnecessary and pointless for a guy to FORGET the thing that keeps him alive.

[Shroom Man 777]

It was a pretty poopy way to end him, yeah. There could've been more ways for them to make it all more emotionally significant and resonant and awesome. I mean, Gattaca was really emotionally significant and resonant and awesome, but all it had was bags of pee and blood. But I guess, lol gunfights and car chases.

Gattaca shows us that if you trade gunfights and car chases for characterization and story, you will get a superior product.

Not that In Time was bad. It was just... average. And now knowing that it was the same director (in the theater, I was thinking that it was a different director who was blatantly homaging Gattaca), you'd think he could've done better.

[AniThyng]

It strains my credulity that they could not remotely deactivate the time chip thingy. You know, like what can be done if I had the misfortune to lose my smart phone. Surely thats easier than relying on huge vaults. There's a bunch of other glaring holes (how the heck did they get back to the ghetto past concrete barriers the first time? And the cops lack even the most basic helicopters or car stopping weaponry?)

Still, obvious allegory is obvious, and the movie was fun overall.

[JediToren]

You also have to wonder why no on has apparently hacked their clocks. You would think that, rather than playing Bonnie and Clyde/Robin Hood they would figure out how to break the system by giving people as much time as they want.

[Zor]

You also have to wonder why no on has apparently hacked their clocks. You would think that, rather than playing Bonnie and Clyde/Robin Hood they would figure out how to break the system by giving people as much time as they want.

Mostly likely that is not possible and Time actually is a physical object of some sort. If it was possible to do so, the clocks would be rather pointless.

Zor

[CaptainChewbacca]

I figured it was something secure and rather unhackabe like bitcoins. Granted, I don't actually know what bitcoins are, but it seemed to fit.