i feel like it was pretty based actually, i don't remember if there was a shitty lib moral at the end but it was certainly a very interesting take on socioeconomics
one of those late 2000s movies, like jumper, that had a cool af premise but wasnt
I'm glad I'm not the only one that has these two movies lumped together in my mind, along with that weird action thriller Wanted
I still crack up thinking about that movie, and about how the central plot revolved around a magical loom that told this team of elite assasins to kill people, and the villain of the story had decided to stop listening to the loom and kill people for his own personal gain.
I meant the original comic book had the story that "The main character is actually a supervillain and isn't that cool how he's just killing all these assholes, but guess what?
You're the asshole if you enjoyed it you sick fuck!"
by any chance were you also 13 when those movies came out and were just simultaneously excited for all of them
I was pretty young, plus the fact that there were just so many commercials back then, it was inevitable that the movie trailers would get burned into your brain
The amount of time you had to live was a literal unit that could be traded between people as currency. And I think nobody aged, you stayed at peak physical form until the day you ran out of time and then you dropped dead.
My memory of the movie is hazy but time was artificially scarce, right? The question of eternal life had been answered, but they still imposed deaths on people in order to maintain control? So the lower classes were constantly living from paycheck to paycheck with only a few days or weeks left, while the super rich had millennia of time stored up, which was functionally useless to them.
Yeah, it was a pretty good idea now that I think about it. It could've done much better as a tv show or even animated series that explored the world in more depth.
yeah there's a lot better that could be done with the idea. i do think they kinda failed a really cool premise, but it was still worth the watch.
there's a correlation between lifespan and wealth in the real world, but yeah the movie was a bit meh, i dont't remember much. what i remember most was was parents being the same age as children which looked weird
