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| CJay:
--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on May 01, 2022, 12:05:25 pm --- Small synopsis: Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a top-notch reverse engineer. Corporations pay him to crack the secrets of their competitors' products. When the job is done, he has his memory of it erased. Rethrick (Aaron Eckhart), head of a company called Allcom, hires Jennings to reverse-engineer a secret government device. After the job, Jennings wakes from the memory erasure to find himself being chased by various agencies. He soon realizes that the fate of the entire world may be in his hands. --- End quote --- And on Netflix too, nice recommendation for my Sunday evening watching, thank you. |
| Black Phoenix:
--- Quote from: CJay on May 01, 2022, 01:12:59 pm --- --- Quote from: Black Phoenix on May 01, 2022, 12:05:25 pm --- Small synopsis: Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a top-notch reverse engineer. Corporations pay him to crack the secrets of their competitors' products. When the job is done, he has his memory of it erased. Rethrick (Aaron Eckhart), head of a company called Allcom, hires Jennings to reverse-engineer a secret government device. After the job, Jennings wakes from the memory erasure to find himself being chased by various agencies. He soon realizes that the fate of the entire world may be in his hands. --- End quote --- And on Netflix too, nice recommendation for my Sunday evening watching, thank you. --- End quote --- Tone down your expectations OK, it's average at best in my opinion. Story wise is a good sci-fi, but the original source for adaptation was better. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(novelette) |
| eugene:
Magic and mysticism aside, time travel is easiest to understand when you realize that we are all traveling forward through time continuously. Forward is the only direction that makes sense; you can't unstir coffee or uncook eggs. However we could travel forward at different speeds. By slowing down time for myself I can let the rest of the world go far forward. Then when I speed back up it would be as if I traveled forward in time. But you can never go back... |
| CJay:
--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on May 01, 2022, 02:16:29 pm --- --- Quote from: CJay on May 01, 2022, 01:12:59 pm --- --- Quote from: Black Phoenix on May 01, 2022, 12:05:25 pm --- Small synopsis: Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a top-notch reverse engineer. Corporations pay him to crack the secrets of their competitors' products. When the job is done, he has his memory of it erased. Rethrick (Aaron Eckhart), head of a company called Allcom, hires Jennings to reverse-engineer a secret government device. After the job, Jennings wakes from the memory erasure to find himself being chased by various agencies. He soon realizes that the fate of the entire world may be in his hands. --- End quote --- And on Netflix too, nice recommendation for my Sunday evening watching, thank you. --- End quote --- Tone down your expectations OK, it's average at best in my opinion. Story wise is a good sci-fi, but the original source for adaptation was better. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(novelette) --- End quote --- Enjoyable enough for a Hollywood treatise, I wasn't expecting high art or deep and meaningful philosophical insight. A pleasant way to spend some time. |
| Bicurico:
Of course, time travel does not make any sense, if you consider determinism. if everything is preconditioned to physical laws, in an expanding universe, there would be no free will for anyone to make decisions and hence no room for time travel "to correct things". On the other hand, if you consider that any decision taken throughout the time line will generate a new parallel universe (one for when I turned left, another if I had turned right), then there would be an infinite amount of parallel universes. But... where would they be stored? Just some thoughts for the end of a lazy sunday. Cheers, Vitor |
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