The Rum Diary and In Time
Time travels
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The movie has a dismal look—it seems to have been shot in a succession of bank lobbies. And Seyfried, who is usually cute in a fairly inarguable way, is fitted out here with a horrid red wig and ridiculously thick black eyeliner—she’s less New Greenwich than New Trenton, and the director’s insistence on this transformation is baffling. When Sylvia’s father inevitably crows that “there’s nothing I can’t buy,” you wonder why he hasn’t splashed out on a spa day for his daughter.
Kurt Loder is a writer living in New York. His third book, a collection of film reviews called The Good, the Bad and the Godawful, will be out on November 8th from St. Martin’s Press. Follow him on Twitter at kurt_loder.
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i'm traveling in tim right now!
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No Homo?
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THAT IS SUPPOSED TO SAY TIME...the e gets lost in the quantum flux.
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Uh, "traveling in Tim" is way better, dude. Whose law is this again?
We have to work out a way to use "traveling in Tim" on Cavanaugh.
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Or Tim traveling. Tim-traveling paradoxes.
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Tim-gamboling? Timboling?
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Morris Day and the Tim?
It's entropy that gives us the illusion that Tim moves in a certain direction.
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Dr. Who rides around in a Tim machine shaped like a police box.
Michael J. Fox went back in Tim.
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Some people keep Timpieces.
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You're running out of Tim, ProL.
"Sex with animals?!? There's no Tim, man!"
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A Timly posting, Episiarch.
Sorry, but I've got no Tim for your ravings.
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We have all the Tim in the world, ProL.
And stop wasting my Tim.
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A stitch in Tim saves, well, saves something.
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Van Damme was a Timcop.
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Zombie: Tim's a wastin'!
Cannibalism: We have plenty of Tim
Prophetic: Tim to die!
Apathy: Any Tim now!
Gluttony: There's never enough Tim! -
There are some, who call me...Time.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, JW...you're breaking the pattern. Not this Tim, buddy.
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Why no? I've got nothing but Tim on my hands.
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I'm gonna need some Tim to think about what you're doing with your Tim.
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Haha. That's gold, JW, gold!
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Tim Has Come Today
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Tim Is
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Once Upon A Tim In The West
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Tim After Tim
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Nin?
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HIS NAME'S NOT "DR. WHO," HE'S JUST "THE DOCTOR"!
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in Tim, like tears in rain. Tim to die."
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One time, at band camp, I stuck a Tim in my pussy.
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"Tim, tim, tim, see what's become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please" -
Genealogical: Tim is relative.
Promiscuous: Any place, any Tim
Sporty: Tim out!
Mime: Tim seems to stand still -
It's these Timless pleasures that keep bringing me here.
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No Tim Toulouse
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I thought I was out of Tim, but I was actually on Tim.
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damnit.
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Sure liked that Gattaca.
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Gattaca sucked, ProL. I'm not at all surprised In Time does too.
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No, you suck!
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I see your taste in movies parallels your taste in pizza. Thick, cheesy, and lacking any subtlety or elegance.
You disgust me!
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I hope Gore Vidal murders you, too!
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Gore Vidal? How thick, cheesy, and lacking any subtlety or elegance as an author to murder me. Now, B. S. Johnson on the other hand...
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What?! Yes, he's insane and hasn't written anything decent in decades, but he's done some great work.
He may really murder you, by the way. I think he reads the comments section of this blog.
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If he's not murdering me decades ago--say, around the time of Myra Breckinridge--then I don't want him.
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If he were to murder me, I'd want it to be by beating me to death with a copy of Julian.
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I liked Gattaca, and the cinematography was excellent as well.
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Sure liked that Gattaca
Wasn't that the one where Al Pacino stands in front of the bank yelling, "Gattaca! Gattaca!"
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Yep. He robs a bank, then goes to Titan to have relations with Uma Thurman, who cures him of the gay. Great flick. About the triumph of the bank robber spirit.
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I would see that movie. You know, if Uma Thurman, circa 1998, can't cure you of The Gay, nothing can.
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I'd make a film where I could transport poo from my bowls into someone else's by grabbing their arm. Lifespans will be measured in bowl movements.
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The Green Mile #2
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I was disappointed that Johnny Depp's character didn't get involved with a hot Puerto Rican woman, but instead got wrapped up in the one boringly pretty white girl. At least that's what it looks like by the trailer.
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Sadly enough, it appears that without Hunter around to say "NO DEPP, FUCK NO. STOP!" The Rum Diary will end up a watered down tribute to what is quite an excellent novel.
It's Thompson's only published novel, since Prince Jellyfish has not been published, and I enjoyed it a lot.
The scene where -as Loder says-"the drunken Chenault is menaced by a group of sweaty dance-floor lugs" is pretty graphically explicit in the novel, and she basically carried away to an orgy/gang rape, from what the book tells you. I doubted they would be able to convey this in a movie in an accurate manner, so I'm not surprised at this review.
Too bad, the book is awesome.
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Its been awhile, but I remember the book leaving that part pretty hazy. She gets all girls gone wild, then it gets out of control and then she's gone. It's highly suggested she's been through hell after he finds her again, but he specifically doesn't ask her about it.
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What Gilliam film are they talking about? Was it "Tim Bandits"? That was the one where a bunch of midgets travel inter dimensionally and kidnap Cavanaugh as he is about to embark on his book tour, thus reducing the number of HnR stories in the summer of 2011 by a factor of two, wasn't it?
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Ooh, good one. There's also Tim After Tim.
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Also, Somewhere in Tim, though that's a bit maudlin.
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Anybody see Depp in Out of Tim? It was shot in real Tim"..the movie length matched the elapsed tim to the second.
Anyway, it had nothing to do with Cavanaugh.
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Wasn't there also a brief tv show, Rin Tim Tim?
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Now you're just being silly!
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That's stupid.
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Ouch!
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But you're right. I was off the rails.
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A Tim to Kill?
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Once Upon a Tim in America
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At least half of these sound like gay porn titles. And why am I the first to mention that?
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Maybe you should ask yourself that. NTTAWWT. It's OK, take your Tim.
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According to protocol I would've expected this from SugarFree or Warty.
Tim to drink, I'm going to have a nice glass of white wine.
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The Land Before Tim?
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I fucking love Tim Bandits. Tim was really good in it as that little kid. Or was he playing one of the midgets?
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Don't touch that! It's concentrated Evil!
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It was the best of Tims, it was the worst of Tims.
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You guys ever read Hawking's A Brief History of Tim.
It's about the universe and this guy that really hates the L.A. Times.
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L.A. Tims
Goddammit all to hell!
Why am I always late to the party?
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I swear to fucking God, if there were a daily fish wrap called the L.A. Tims filled exclusively with the writings of Cavanaugh, I would pay $1000 a year for the subscription.
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I doubt Tim has the Tim to write something like that. Tim is money, after all.
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Tim can make the fucking Tim, then.
Tim from one's abilities. Tim to one's needs.
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Chung Mee: Speed is important in business. Tim is money.
Lawrence Bourne III: You said opium was money.
Chung Mee: Money is Money.
Lawrence Bourne III: Well then, what is Tim again? -
A short story in one on my dad's old Playboy's (I want to say early 1970s) had the same premise as "In Time." A guy lives in a world where time is money, and is desperately trying to get more time after going on a bender and wildly over-tipping a call girl. Every time I see the "In Time" trailer, I wonder who holds the copyright to that story.
(Yes, I read the articles after I was done masterbating. I was that kind of a kid.)
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TIMTMI -
A long time ago, I remember seeing a low budget short film with the same premise of sorts - it started with a newborn in a grungy looking "temple" getting fitted with a clock on his arm - his time bank of life - that was also currency. The story tracked his life in spurts, with surrounding characters making bad decisions with their clock.
The minute I saw the trailer for "in Time" (not pun intended), I thought, "they're remaking that short film"
Anyone else remember this short film?
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I’m very anxious to see Depp embody the good doctor again! Thompson influenced the past few generations with his invention of Gonzo Journalism. His work and antics will live on to influence even more generations to come. I paid tribute to Hunter S Thompson and his work with my portrait and article on my artist's blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.....mpson.html
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*barf*
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best-known for his 1987 cult comedy Withnail & I,
For the life of me I can't decide if that was offered as honest commentary or withering put-down. Your best-known work is nearly a quarter century past? A cult comedy? That's as good as it ever got for you?
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So Cyndi Lauper was singing about missing someone in that song, Tim After Tim? I thought it was about a three-way with two guys that had the same name.
Damn, this website is useful!
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On a serious note, why did they change when we fall back? I was really looking forward to the Tim change this weekend.
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Umm, didn't that happen back in about 2004 (?) when the oil price spiked. I believe this was the brilliant strategy by Congress to conserve energy.
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DST doesn't "save" any energy. It promotes shopping.
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I tried to read The Rum Diary once. I didn't make it.
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why?
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The story is an attempted critique of “Darwinian capitalism,” as it’s called at one point. The fat cats’ motto is, “For a few to live, many must die.” And why is that? “Everyone can’t live,” says one character. “Where would we put them.” Okay, whatever—time is now a zero-sum enterprise, apparently. But how were arbitrary concepts like minutes, hours, months, and years rendered tangible? And by whom? None of this bears sustained thought.
I knew as soon as I saw a commercial for this movie it was a bunch of anti-capitalism bullshit. I have zero interest in seeing it.
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Ironically, that sort of population-control bullshit sounds more like progressive Malthusian logic. Also ironic is that the fucking home of the MPAA and RIAA makes a film about a dystopia rooted in government-enforced artificial scarcity. I'm tempted to pirate it (not something I do), just to make a point.
But you're right, there's no way I'm wasting money on this idiocy. If that makes me live a small bit longer and everyone involved die a small bit sooner, then so much the better.
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Malthusian logic?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLRand apparently accepted a form of Malthusianism which held that we have too many philosophically undesirable people in the world. Just withdraw the energy supplies (Galt's motor, Ellis Wyatt's shale oil, Ken Dannager's coal) that sustain them, and the resulting die off will restore Earth to its Objectivist carrying capacity. ~Mark Plus
http://aynrandcontrahumannatur.....go_10.html -
If somewhere out there, there's an abusive husband who will die if his abused wife leaves him, that motherfucker better get ready to die, 'cause if I can talk his wife into leaving him, I'm gonna.
And I will sleep the sleep of the angels, Mark Plus' puerile and immoral complaints notwithstanding.
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Could I interest you in some capitalist bullshit?
Or are you a mooching parasite?
P.S. Eddie Willers didn't make it into capitalist heaven, and you won't either, evasive rotter, unless that net worth looks like Goldman's Sachs.
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Your best-known work is nearly a quarter century past? A cult comedy? That's as good as it ever got for you?
But see, it's a good movie, and almost no one has ever made any of those. There are more astronauts than people who've made a movie that isn't shit. Those very few people are amazing successes.
Emphasis.
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"But how were arbitrary concepts like minutes, hours, months, and years rendered tangible? And by whom?"
Ridiculous! Next thing some sci-fi writer is going to suggest that people could get *paid* by the hour!