Brainless future or brainless writers?

Rating: 4/10 (13 December 2011)

Before the movie starts, they show an ad now in my local movie theater suggesting that it is so much better to see a movie on a big screen, than on a small TV at home and I agree. Unfortunately I do not want to see explosions, car crashes and chases or gory mutilations. While I used to go to the movies all the time, I am lucky if I find four or five movies a year I want to see.
I just want to join the chorus of the people who went to see the movie because they liked the idea behind it and came out disappointed. I am a big fan of Aldous Huxley's "Brave, New World" where he created a world of perfect young people who would not age and would die at a predetermined age. In his book the class system is solved by sleep schooling people into being happy with the place in life they have been assigned. The age idea brought me into the movie; the change of currency from money to time did not seem to make such a big difference to me. And I thought that the age idea was the only thing well done in the movie. The rest did not convince me. This was to be some kind of future? It looked more retro. Like always I was disturbed by the obligatory need for car chases and extensive use of guns. Can nobody envision a future less violent? And the time currency was so unprotected, that it was just unthinkable that people would not constantly rob each other all the time of time. Is there nobody in Hollywood to produce something a little bit more intelligent? Are they just counting on getting certain uncritical young people into the movies, who want to see certain stars. Apropos stars, I was happy to see Johnny Galecki {Big Bang Theory) in a small role, he should get bigger roles in movies. He is an excellent actor.