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In Time (Film 2011)

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I apologize in advance...did a search an didn't come across this and have seen a discussion about the film on here...

In Time

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Official In Time Trailer [HD]

In Time, previously titled Now and I'm.mortal,[1] is an upcoming science fiction thriller film starring Amanda Seyfried, Justin Timberlake, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki, and Vincent Kartheiser. The film, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, is scheduled for an October 28, 2011 release.
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Cast
Justin Timberlake as Will Salas
Amanda Seyfried as Sylvia Weis
Olivia Wilde as Rachael Salas
Cillian Murphy as Timekeeper Leon
Matt Bomer as Henry Hamilton
Elena Satine as Jasmine
Alex Pettyfer as Fortis

In a retro-future when the aging gene has been switched off, people stop aging at 25 years old. However, stamped on their arm is a clock of how long they will live. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man is accused of murder when he inherits a fortune of time from a dead upper-class man over a century old prior to his death. He is forced to go on the run from a corrupt FBI-like police force known as the "Timekeepers", as well as from a hoodlum-like middle-aged Mob called the "Minutemen", led by a senior citizen named Fortis, who is 75 years old.

Keep seeing commercials for this and seems interesting...Justin Timberlake is a turn off. :lol: Like that Amanda Seyfried & Elena Satine are in the movie. :adore:

Anyone looking forward to it?

[edit] Oops! :alienblush: http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=147751 ObiWanShinobi had a trailer thread back in September.
 
This is the most recent thread I could find on this movie, and seen as it's out now and I can't be bothered starting a new one, I'll use this.

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Saw it this afternoon. As always I'm not one for writing big reviews, but yeah I enjoyed this quite a lot, it's a real fun movie with some neat ideas and Timberlake doing a fine job. It's not awesomely awesome, but worth a watch I'd say.

As for his co-star though... wow. I knew she looked familiar but it wasn't till the end credits I saw it was Amanda Seyfried. I always thought she wasn't bad looking but nothing special, but in this, wowzers. She looks A.M.A.Z.I.NG.
So hey, if you don't like the movie, at least you can just look at her for 90 minutes. I basically did :D


One quibble I'd have with it though, is that every character is supposed to be in a permanent state of 25 years old. All of the actors however are not 25.
Timberlake is 30, but he pulls it off. Seyfried actually is 25. Olivia Wilde's 27, fine. Vincent Kartheiser is 32 yet also pulls it off. Cillian Murphy is 35 though, I'm not saying that's old, but sorry he doesn't really look 25. And Timberlake's friend in the movie, played by Johnny Galecki, 36, also looks way older than 25.
 
It was laugh-out-loud funny. Especially when it was trying to be dramatic. Still, I liked the cast and most of the aesthetic. But it's a silly, silly movie.
 
I really enjoyed it. Had a good cast with a lot of "I know them from somewhere but I can't remember where" actors, took me ages to realise it was Connor from Angel!

There were a few sad moments and one quite heartbreaking one.

I'm also liking Justin Timberlake more and more with each film he's in.
 
As a huge fan of Niccol's Gattaca... I've got no interest at all in this. The premise is absurd, and not in a good way (you age 'til you're 25, then die in 24 hours if you don't get life points on a digital arm display? wtf?), the cast is uninspiring, and the promise of gunfights (which Gattaca was wonderfully free from) combines to serve up a supremely "meh" package.
 
Somethings rattling around in my head that there was something similar to "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (a new The Twilight Zone episode maybe?) that was shown on television at some point during the 80's or 90's. I can't figure out what it was though. The hook was that if you go broke, you die. Does anyone have any idea what I may be thinking of?
 
CorporalCaptain said:
Somethings rattling around in my head that there was something similar to "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (a new The Twilight Zone episode maybe?) that was shown on television at some point during the 80's or 90's. I can't figure out what it was though. The hook was that if you go broke, you die. Does anyone have any idea what I may be thinking of?
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Just in case you're serious, and actually missed it, there's a couple threads regarding the Suit Harlan Ellison brought forth (He is working on getting a theatrical version of it put together, too). In the end, they settled and he got a credit (And presumably compensation) on In Time.
 
Sindatur said:
CorporalCaptain said:
Somethings rattling around in my head that there was something similar to "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (a new The Twilight Zone episode maybe?) that was shown on television at some point during the 80's or 90's. I can't figure out what it was though. The hook was that if you go broke, you die. Does anyone have any idea what I may be thinking of?
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Just in case you're serious, and actually missed it, there's a couple threads regarding the Suit Harlan Ellison brought forth (He is working on getting a theatrical version of it put together, too). In the end, they settled and he got a credit (And presumably compensation) on In Time.
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I'm fully aware of this; I was referring to something I saw on TV one or two decades ago, like I said. Whatever it was, it was somewhat obscure.

P.S. I participated in one of the other threads on In Time with an extensively detailed post on the issue with The Terminator.
 
CorporalCaptain said:
Sindatur said:
CorporalCaptain said:
Somethings rattling around in my head that there was something similar to "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (a new The Twilight Zone episode maybe?) that was shown on television at some point during the 80's or 90's. I can't figure out what it was though. The hook was that if you go broke, you die. Does anyone have any idea what I may be thinking of?
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Just in case you're serious, and actually missed it, there's a couple threads regarding the Suit Harlan Ellison brought forth (He is working on getting a theatrical version of it put together, too). In the end, they settled and he got a credit (And presumably compensation) on In Time.
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I'm fully aware of this; I was referring to something I saw on TV one or two decades ago, like I said.
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???? "Repent Harlequin!", Said the Ticktock Man is precisely the Harlan Ellison Story the Suit was about ????
 
I apologize; major communication failure I guess.

I'm fully aware of In Time. I know what that's about. I'd posted in one of the other threads on that subject already. I pointed to that thread about In Time to show you that yes I already really do know about In Time.

What I brought up about something on the air in the 80's and the 90's is something else. Something else that also sounds similar to "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman. I was wondering if anyone else knew what that was.

Asbo Zaprudder didn't seem to have any difficulty understanding what I meant.

I really don't know what else to say, to clear up what I'm trying to say.
 
Sindatur said:
Just in case you're serious, and actually missed it, there's a couple threads regarding the Suit Harlan Ellison brought forth (He is working on getting a theatrical version of it put together, too). In the end, they settled and he got a credit (And presumably compensation) on In Time.
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Arrgh. I wish someone would have the guts to really stand up to that guy.
 
JRoss said:
Sindatur said:
Just in case you're serious, and actually missed it, there's a couple threads regarding the Suit Harlan Ellison brought forth (He is working on getting a theatrical version of it put together, too). In the end, they settled and he got a credit (And presumably compensation) on In Time.
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Arrgh. I wish someone would have the guts to really stand up to that guy.
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Why? He's just protecting his copyright. I don't know how similar the two stories are, but if there really is a notable overlap, why shouldn't her pursue compensation?
 
I like the Bonnie-Clyde dynamic between Justin and Amanda's characters. The performances of this movie were all good and some of the movie's material was thought-provoking. I like how Cillian Murphy's lawman character was uncompromising and truly dedicated to upholding the law, unfair as it is. I thought for a moment that he was going to change sides and help Justin and Amanda's characters. But concerning this character's personality and backstory, it seems that was unlikely.
 
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