The Unofficial Official Chat Thread

What are you, twelve?

because shit like inception and star wars are super complex and mature masterpieces

In Time is actually a movie I’ve been meaning to watch. From the same guy who wrote and directed Gattaca, The Trueman Show and Lord of War (all good and interesting movies imo). Also how can you call it stupid since a lot of sci-fi has gotten away from the using science fiction as a guise to comment on modern culture and from just reading In Time summaries you can tell its supposed to be a comment on how life is something money can buy. At the very least it attempts to do justice to the sci-fi genre (not ragging on dumber sci-fi I like that too). Maybe he didn’t do a terrific job writing this one (I haven’t gotten around to watching it) But at the very least the writer isn’t terrible and it wasn’t stupid of the studio to greenlight it.

except it’s not a good movie

I didn’t really care for Inception either…

I’m not upset about how deep it is. I just hate the premise of using lifetime as currency. It’s so abysmally stupid a concept to me that I don’t even care what the movie is actually trying to comment on.

But money being a means of accounting for time or labour is an ancient idea and like the basis of economics. the movie is just playing with the idea of removing the layer of abstraction that exists between the two. Its a thought experiment or a What If? comic. It doesnt do it super well but yours is the dumbest critique of it possible

The metaphor is fine, using it as the main plot driver for a wannabe-realistic action movie is not. Yo can only suspend disbelief so far before it becomes an annoying distraction. Should have ditched it completely, e.g. Brazil.

And yet I rather liked ā€œIn Timeā€. Kinda hokey or simple, but all in all I liked it. ā€œInceptionā€ was cool at first but then I got a headache trying to keep up with the switcheroos. ā€œThe Adjustment Bureauā€ was brilliant in my opinion tho.

I liked Repo Men better than all 3 of the above movies.

Currently torrenting Top Gear S19E01.

Life is good.

Can anyone recommend any good performance-increasing configs for Crysis 1?

Dat Bentley in a Welsh Rally special.

Another fun Movie?

Twelve Monkeys.

Holy shit, China.

Shit happens when you gotta keep up with demand.

It’s a problem that will solve itself.

Well shit not even I’ve watched new top gear iPlayers

Ffffffffffff I can’t stream it due to download cap and the fact I have probably gone over it already.

Ah well I am sure it’ll be on DAVE everyday for the next decade

iPlayer doesn’t even work over here :frowning:

I’m not even British, and I get that joke.

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