Blu-Ray Review: The Shabby, Hastily-Constructed Future and Ideas of IN TIME
This isn't precisely a review of writer/director/producer Andrew Niccol's sci-fi misfire In Time but I will be discussing my opinion of this terrible movie and how a poorly-envisioned and articulated concept of the future can completely derail any potential the material might have possessed.
In the case of In Time , it's some indeterminate point in the future where time itself has been made into a commodity, which each person's lifespan acting as a currency once they reach 18 years of age, with the haves amassing decades, even centuries of time and the have not's literally living day-to-day. Also, everyone's genetic clock is set so that they are perpetually 25. As far as high concepts go it's not terrible (maybe a bit on the nose, but we can get past that). It's in the execution and the elaboration of those plot elements, in realizing some of the implications of the pitch, and even the look and feel of the future where In Time feels less like a movie and more like a quickly assembled jumble of ideas thrown on the screen.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has suggested that the Webb telescope won't launch before 2018, two years later than recently estimated. To meet that target, NASA would have to postpone the National Research Council's highest-priority space mission,
Artist's concept of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA Testifying before a US Senate subcommittee Monday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the agency is still completing a bottoms-up assessment of the next-generation space