TRAILER PARK TRASH: In Time

Here's a new section of the blog that I want to try out, which was the brainchild of a friend of mine.  Instead of doing movie reviews about movies we've seen, we do movie reviews on their trailers, and judge the movie solely based on that.  I've decided to call it Trailer Park Trash.

The first one for the blog is for the new Justin Timberlake movie In Time.

JT has really impressed me with his transition into acting...he hasn't done it like musicians normally do, which is to do some big budget blockbuster and fall horribly on their face.  Instead, he started out doing indie films and direct-to-video and cameos in other movies, but now he's headlining movies.  And this looks like his first foray into becoming an action star.

I'm going to admit it, the idea of this movie is intriguing.  Everyone grows to 25, and then the currency is time.  So, the rich stay young and alive, while the poor die.  It's a unique way to look at the future, just like director Andrew Niccol's other future movie Gattaca was.  However, it's kinda the same idea as Freejack, except instead of stealing people from the past, you're actually stealing their current time.  And I don't think Mick Jagger is in this movie.

What this movie has is a shitload of stars.  Amanda Seyfried plays JT's love interest...I'm sorry, I really can't see her as anything more than the ditzy girl in Mean Girls.  The always gorgeous Olivia Wilde plays JT's mom, even though she's younger than him in real life.  Cillian Murphy plays the baddie, Vincent Kartheiser plays his boss and Seyfried's father, and Johnny Galecki plays JT's buddy.  Alex Pettyfer is in there too, but that dude's a douche, so I really don't care.

Who I am excited to see is Matt Bomer, playing a 100+ year old man who gives his time to JT, thus starting the chain of events for the movie.  I'm a huge fan of Bomer and his show White Collar, so it's good to see him getting some movie time, even if it is a supporting / small part.

The film looks like it has the action and the intelligence to keep my attention, and the only thing that kinda makes me hesitant is if they try and dumb the film down for the usual JT / Seyfried / Pettyfer audience...which is 16 year old girls.  If this is a smart sci-fi / action / thriller in the same vein as Inception, it might be the movie that makes JT as big a movie star as he is a pop star.

I'm going to give this trailer...

3 trailers...I'll probably go see the movie