Anticipation and Discussion

[Sindaiin]

Bring some future movies to our attention and discuss. Hype, info, updates, opinion, and predictions all in one for movies not yet released.

For example...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tZb2EU8NNw&list=LLKjLG4C4AZQkNpqmHNJoWrA&index=5
I've been looking forward to this movie for awhile. I love the concept and uber-classy style (thankfully with grit) this movie seems to exude. Hoping this movie will give Inception a run for its money. So far, I haven't seen anything that tops it imo. It's supposed to come out on the 28th of next month.
I'm also a Syntax fan now. "Pride" and "Destiny" are awesome songs.

[blacky]

'In time' looks intresting, though I can't get my head round it, why the hell would society change it's current form of currency for time? A good portion of the world would just end up dead before their time (the third world and any other poor countires) and so the human population and therefore human productivity would decrease at an alarming rate. The modern world as we know it would cease to exist.

unless that is the point?
Some kind of population control? Or some kind of ill thought out dicatorship?

[Sindaiin]

As seriously fucked up as it is, I think it would produce a new status quo, not topple to concept altogether. Literally, it's survival of the fittest. You have to manage your time with what you want and how many hours you need to work. You'll always be working and you'll work uber hard to make sure you have quality product so on one hand, you'd always have workers or at least one who can provide for the family. The darkside is also true though. While you'd have stability as a society, hundreds of thousands of people would die due to poor planning, lack of anticipation, uncontrollable circumstances, etc. The already poor would be wiped out. The lower-middle-class would become the new poor. Inflation may or may not occur due to the strangeness of the system, but it would be unsustainable as you said if inflation were to occur. Time as currency though keeps values of currency in perspective though. There's no fictional values that can be played with monetary values that really don't mean much. People would have to seriously consider how they spend it. You'd have something more concrete than gold that would last forever; though you then run into the problem of overpopulation which we already have, in which case you'd have to assume the poor would die off. Not the kindest system by any means, but quite efficient from a governmental point of view. It's not something I'd agree with though. Doesn't sit well with me to know all those people would die and there's nothing they would really be able to do about it. Aside from that, it's all theory. There's no gauruntee a system like that would work. I still like the concept as an idea though -just not in practice.

[blacky]

Oh yeah society would have a status quo of some sort if a system was in place, not saying there woulden't be. But it would be so messed up that the majority will be asking "What's the point?" It would only truely benefit an select few.
The only way such a system would be put in place would be if it was forced by an corrupt government. Because I can't see the public or even most parties voting for it. And there would be hundreds of people protesting against it.
But I am guessing the currupt goverment angle will be explored in the film

[Sindaiin]

Most likely. I look forward to seeing it toppled -or you could just get Guy Pierce to build a time machine and transport Heath Ledger there to introduce a little anarchy -no Christian Bale included.