Los cronocrimenes (2007)

jeffreylebowski

I watched Los cronocrimenes a couple of months ago with a friend, we just stumbled upon it. A Spanish film, really unusual and we were hooked as soon as it got going.

If you click the link, I'd advise you don't even read the plot line on the front page, I had a great experience of it knowing almost nothing.

Here's what I knew:
A man encounters many complications as a result of a time travel trip of less than an hour.

(The plot line on the front page says much the same but it gives away a couple of other small things that I think it's more fun not to know going in)

It's being remade in 2011, though I don't know more about it.

Hope anyone who checks it out likes it!

Vic Vinegar

Is it known as Timecrimes here?

Great film! i really enjoyed it, can't really say much about it without spoiling the plot somewhat.... highly recommended!

Bah... remakes, i doubt they'll do it justice. Hope i'm wrong though!

jeffreylebowski

Bombleswizzum wrote: »

Is it known as Timecrimes here?

Great film! i really enjoyed it, can't really say much about it without spoiling the plot somewhat.... highly recommended!

Bah... remakes, i doubt they'll do it justice. Hope i'm wrong though!

Yeah I think the English title was Timecrimes, but I didn't wanna emphasize that too much because as my friend said "It sounds like a JCVD vehicle".

S.M.B.

Is there any particular reason why people don't refer to films by their International title?

jeffreylebowski

S.M.B. wrote: »

Is there any particular reason why people don't refer to films by their International title?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I tend to think of a movie under whatever title I originally saw/heard it.

For instance I still think of Banlieu 13 as District 13 because that's how I first encountered it.

johnny_ultimate

I liked it, but I did think it was a bit of a simplified take on time travel - it didn't really do anything new with the concept. I kept thinking 'Primer for beginners', which I don't necessarily think is a bad thing. The best time travel films tend to leave you pleasantly disorientated (even Futurama: Bender's Big Score had this effect) but this didn't go anywhere that surprising IMO. Enjoyable film, but I was a little disappointed after hearing amazing things (although I did pay like 5.99 for it in HMV, which was good value).

Or perhaps I was put off a little by timing issues -

when it started revisiting previous events from a different POV, such as finding the girl in the forest or the main character using his binoculars on the hill, I often thought that it seemed to be taking far longer than it did in the first place

- dramatic effect perhaps! Don't know if anyone else here had this problem, but it did occur to me a couple of times that the timeline was a bit too flexible on occasion.