Author Topic: Everyone see Timecrimes! A modern Twilight Zone (without Shamalama-crappiness) (Read 1687 times)

border · « **on:** March 20, 2009, 01:28:31 AM »

Finally got around to watching it last night.

Spanish language. A smart time-travel flick that won't make you feel stupid like Primer did. Very enthralling and moody. Also, there are gorgeous breasts. David Cronenberg supposedly interested in doing the US remake.

A man who accidentally travels back into the past and meets himself. A naked girl in the middle of the forest. A mysterious stranger with his face wrapped in a pink bandage. A disquieting mansion on the top of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable crime. Who's the murderer? Who's the victim?

In the early evening, Hector figures he deserves a little break from moving into his new house and retires to his lawn chair in the backyard. He won't have traveled more than a mile from this spot before he falls into a spinning wheel of existentialist dread--a stunning nightmare that pushes RASHOMON-style multiple-perspective storytelling so far past its outer limits that it flips into its very inverse.

Read no further or you might ruin it (and for god's sake don't watch the stupid Hollywood-architected trailer that gives away almost everything) -- seek out this film wherever possible.

Timecrimes probably won't get around to a theatre near you, but if you're in-the-loop I would try searching for stuff like:

Timecrimes.2007.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT
or
vmt-tcrimes-xvid

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2009, 01:29:13 AM »

I saw this advertised at work, the trailer looked kind of neat. It's on my list of things to watch, along with Let the Right One In.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2009, 01:29:18 AM »

I saw this during it's theatrical run, fun movie.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2009, 01:40:26 AM »

I caught it at a festival, its easily the best hard science fiction I've seen since Primer (only way less boring).

The DVD comes out on the 31st. Only 12 days away. Don't pirate it, rent it, buy it. Its utterly fantastic and fiendishly clever, and a crackerjack thriller to boot.

Watch It

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:09:33 AM »

I traveled back in time and reviewed it two months ago

http://goviolet.com/?p=759

border annihilated

Eric P · « **Reply #5 on:** March 20, 2009, 09:41:12 AM »

this never came to nyc from what i could tell, which is a shame as i was really interested

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #6 on:** March 20, 2009, 10:27:37 AM »

I've already got it sitting in my Netflix queue.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #7 on:** March 20, 2009, 10:30:52 AM »

Who names their kid Nacho?

Bloodwake · « **Reply #8 on:** March 20, 2009, 10:58:01 AM »

This looks like a Borecast review.

etiolate · « **Reply #9 on:** March 20, 2009, 06:19:09 PM »

Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on March 20, 2009, 10:30:52 AM

Who names their kid Nacho?

I know a Nacho.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #10 on:** March 20, 2009, 06:22:19 PM »

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on March 20, 2009, 03:09:33 AM

I traveled back in time and reviewed it two months ago

http://goviolet.com/?p=759

border annihilated

Oh man, "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts" sounds awesome

Eric P · « **Reply #11 on:** March 20, 2009, 06:29:10 PM »

it closes out the best horror anthology ever compiled, The Dark Descent

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Descent-Clive-Barker/dp/0312862172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237584551&sr=8-1

border · « **Reply #12 on:** March 20, 2009, 08:28:40 PM »

Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on March 20, 2009, 01:40:26 AM

The DVD comes out on the 31st. Only 12 days away. Don't pirate it, rent it, buy it. Its utterly fantastic and fiendishly clever, and a crackerjack thriller to boot.

Pirate it now - buy it later!

I hadn't noticed that the DVD release was quite so close -- I'll give this a bump when it's actually out, for honest Boreans.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #13 on:** March 20, 2009, 09:40:33 PM »

The fact that it's directed by a guy named "Nacho" kinda makes me want to see it just a little bit more.

Bebpo · « **Reply #14 on:** March 20, 2009, 10:30:10 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on March 20, 2009, 06:29:10 PM

it closes out the best horror anthology ever compiled, The Dark Descent

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Descent-Clive-Barker/dp/0312862172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237584551&sr=8-1

Is this an awesome book I should read?

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #15 on:** March 20, 2009, 10:34:40 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on March 20, 2009, 06:29:10 PM

it closes out the best horror anthology ever compiled, The Dark Descent

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Descent-Clive-Barker/dp/0312862172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237584551&sr=8-1

funny, becaues Hartwell also edited the greatest SF anthology ever compiled, The Ascent of Wonder

http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Wonder-Evolution-Hard-SF/dp/0312855095/

I buy his Year's Best SF anthologies based on that alone

Cool that Dark Descent also has Wolfe's Seven American Nights - I fucking love that story. Though really "A Game in the Pope's Head" is maybe the most frightening thing Wolfe has written

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #16 on:** March 20, 2009, 11:49:15 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on March 20, 2009, 06:29:10 PM

it closes out the best horror anthology ever compiled, The Dark Descent

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Descent-Clive-Barker/dp/0312862172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237584551&sr=8-1

Holy crap, that's going in my que

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on March 20, 2009, 10:34:40 PM

Quote from: Eric P on March 20, 2009, 06:29:10 PM
it closes out the best horror anthology ever compiled, The Dark Descent

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Descent-Clive-Barker/dp/0312862172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237584551&sr=8-1

funny, becaues Hartwell also edited the greatest SF anthology ever compiled, The Ascent of Wonder

http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Wonder-Evolution-Hard-SF/dp/0312855095/

I buy his Year's Best SF anthologies based on that alone

This too! This is why I love EB, great tastes in books a around.

Eric P · « **Reply #17 on:** March 20, 2009, 11:54:01 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on March 20, 2009, 10:30:10 PM

Quote from: Eric P on March 20, 2009, 06:29:10 PM
it closes out the best horror anthology ever compiled, The Dark Descent

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Descent-Clive-Barker/dp/0312862172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237584551&sr=8-1

Is this an awesome book I should read?

if you have any interest in horror fiction whatsoever, then yes, you should

let me put it this way, i have purchased this book three time and given it away twice to people because i think it's JUST THAT GOOD.

Eric P · « **Reply #18 on:** March 20, 2009, 11:55:25 PM »

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on March 20, 2009, 10:34:40 PM

Quote from: Eric P on March 20, 2009, 06:29:10 PM
it closes out the best horror anthology ever compiled, The Dark Descent

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Descent-Clive-Barker/dp/0312862172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237584551&sr=8-1

funny, becaues Hartwell also edited the greatest SF anthology ever compiled, The Ascent of Wonder

http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Wonder-Evolution-Hard-SF/dp/0312855095/

I buy his Year's Best SF anthologies based on that alone

Cool that Dark Descent also has Wolfe's Seven American Nights - I fucking love that story. Though really "A Game in the Pope's Head" is maybe the most frightening thing Wolfe has written

i have not read this book and i cannot buy it yet (on a self-imposed ban on buying books) but I will be doing so in about a week and a half. thanks for the heads up.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #19 on:** March 21, 2009, 05:58:24 PM »

I ended up actually checking the movie out today. It was awesome. Total mindfuck.

Bebpo · « **Reply #20 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:32:58 AM »

Just watched it. It was 3/4 star good, but what kept it from being great is how disconnected I was from the decisions of the lead character.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I just couldn't agree with him choosing to save his wife at the expense of this girl.

I mean I understand that he would value his wife that's been with him forever and loves him over some girl he just met. But as a viewer, hot girl >>> wife

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The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #21 on:** March 26, 2009, 05:23:00 PM »

Your thought process is kind of dumb.

Pretty awesome movie. I was tempted to do a back-to-back feature with Let the Right One In, but I'm going to pirate it due to the subtitles debacle.

As for Timecrimes, it was like a featured length Twilight Zone episode. Pretty badass.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #22 on:** March 26, 2009, 06:46:00 PM »

Those boobs.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #23 on:** March 26, 2009, 07:52:01 PM »

Yeah, great rack. Let's hope Cronenberg keeps the boobage intact.

Eric P · « **Reply #24 on:** March 30, 2009, 06:27:29 PM »

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on March 20, 2009, 10:34:40 PM

Quote from: Eric P on March 20, 2009, 06:29:10 PM
it closes out the best horror anthology ever compiled, The Dark Descent

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Descent-Clive-Barker/dp/0312862172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237584551&sr=8-1

funny, becaues Hartwell also edited the greatest SF anthology ever compiled, The Ascent of Wonder

http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Wonder-Evolution-Hard-SF/dp/0312855095/

I buy his Year's Best SF anthologies based on that alone

Cool that Dark Descent also has Wolfe's Seven American Nights - I fucking love that story. Though really "A Game in the Pope's Head" is maybe the most frightening thing Wolfe has written

i bought this book for the low low price of $.48. Thank you competitive Amazon marketplace

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #25 on:** March 30, 2009, 07:10:10 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on March 30, 2009, 06:27:29 PM

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on March 20, 2009, 10:34:40 PM
Quote from: Eric P on March 20, 2009, 06:29:10 PM
it closes out the best horror anthology ever compiled, The Dark Descent

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Descent-Clive-Barker/dp/0312862172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237584551&sr=8-1

funny, becaues Hartwell also edited the greatest SF anthology ever compiled, The Ascent of Wonder

http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Wonder-Evolution-Hard-SF/dp/0312855095/

I buy his Year's Best SF anthologies based on that alone

Cool that Dark Descent also has Wolfe's Seven American Nights - I fucking love that story. Though really "A Game in the Pope's Head" is maybe the most frightening thing Wolfe has written

i bought this book for the low low price of $.48. Thank you competitive Amazon marketplace

I LOVE the amazon marketplace

remember when we had to use eBay? that sucked

Eric P · « **Reply #26 on:** March 30, 2009, 07:13:30 PM »

i paid $4 in shipping, but hey. still cheaper than new, or even "used" at a used book store (which is typically just half off of cover)

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #27 on:** April 12, 2009, 02:09:21 AM »

Finally got to watch it tonight. Total mind trip.

Pretty much everything about the movie was just spot-on, except:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I was really hoping that Hector would get caught in an infinite loop with more and more versions of himself showing up. But I guess the way it ended was good too...

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TVC15 · « **Reply #28 on:** May 09, 2009, 05:57:04 AM »

This is available for streaming on netflix now

GilloD · « **Reply #29 on:** May 09, 2009, 11:53:57 AM »

I don't think I liked this as much as everyone else.

But, hey, (.)(.) !

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Author Topic: Everyone see Timecrimes! A modern Twilight Zone (without Shamalama-crappiness) (Read 1687 times)