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on: May 12, 2010, 03:25:26 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83owHAQ0D38

Based off the Philip K. Dick short story.  Looks interesting, kind of a Dark City vibe but without all the dark.

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Reply #1 on: May 13, 2010, 08:04:40 AM

Looks good.

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Reply #2 on: May 13, 2010, 08:10:12 AM

Sounds quite a bit exactly like dark city, with out the film noir, or the epicness.

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Reply #3 on: March 05, 2011, 11:14:56 AM

Anybody catch this yet?

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Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 03:23:12 PM

Very artsy. And Emily Blunt, though pretty, has no chin.

Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something.  We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Reply #5 on: March 07, 2011, 04:38:57 PM

I saw the trailer and worried that this is some strange attempt to pick up some leftover momentum from Inception.

I'm not going to be surprised if I am way off base here though.

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Reply #6 on: March 07, 2011, 05:39:58 PM

I saw the trailer and worried that this is some strange attempt to pick up some leftover momentum from Inception.

I'm not going to be surprised if I am way off base here though.

Reviews are saying this is more of a quirky romantic comedy than anything serious.

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Reply #7 on: March 07, 2011, 10:48:56 PM

It wasn't funny, but definitely more romantic than I expected from the trailer. I went in looking for Bourne + Inception, walked out disappointed.

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Reply #8 on: March 08, 2011, 02:54:18 AM

Of all the things it could suggest, the trailer does not suggest romcom in any way.

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Reply #9 on: March 08, 2011, 12:43:09 PM

It wasn't funny, but definitely more romantic than I expected from the trailer. I went in looking for Bourne + Inception, walked out disappointed.

Caught a showing this weekend, it was OK -- I think I almost dozed off during 1st 30-40 minutes, as it moved slowly, but it got interesting enough from that point on. Though, predictable.

Definitely no *Inception*. But better than *I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry*.

Disappointed because while I expected the romantic story, I anticipated more cosmological and philosophical whimsey-ness within the narrative backdrop. Maybe it was there and I just was unable to see.

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Reply #10 on: March 10, 2011, 07:11:16 PM

Of all the things it could suggest, the trailer does not suggest romcom in any way.

Really? Fight your fate to be with the one you love? Screamed out to me that anyone expecting sci-fi thrills was going to be disappointed.

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Reply #11 on: March 10, 2011, 10:54:39 PM

Of all the things it could suggest, the trailer does not suggest romcom in any way.

Really? Fight your fate to be with the one you love? Screamed out to me that anyone expecting sci-fi thrills was going to be disappointed.
And what about that suggests romcom to you?   The Rom I can see.  The Com not so much so.

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Reply #12 on: March 11, 2011, 07:18:40 PM

Of all the things it could suggest, the trailer does not suggest romcom in any way.

Really? Fight your fate to be with the one you love? Screamed out to me that anyone expecting sci-fi thrills was going to be disappointed.
And what about that suggests romcom to you?   The Rom I can see.  The Com not so much so.

I didn't say 'com', but the trailer screamed of 'rom'. Much like "The Lake House" was never going to be a mediation on the physics of time travel.

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Reply #13 on: March 13, 2011, 01:16:06 AM

Romcom was my bad; I should have said romance.


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Reply #14 on: March 13, 2011, 01:34:51 AM

Much like "The Lake House" was never going to be a mediation on the physics of time travel.

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Reply #15 on: March 22, 2011, 07:16:37 AM

I liked the overall message but Groundhog Day was a lot more entertaining.
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