I had a great time watching “In Time”, a sci fi movie about a world that uses time as currency. The movie’s release is full of controversy, as famed science fiction writer Harlan Ellison tried to stop the film’s release citing similarities to his short story “Repent, Harlequin!” Said The Ticktockman. Having now seen the movie and read the short story I don’t feel the similarities were extensive, but more on that later.

The premise as seen in the trailer is pretty straightforward, and what an interesting premise this is. The movie replaces money with seconds, minutes, hours even months and years of people’s lives as people trade off time on their life line for goods and services, working themselves to the bone to be able to make it another day. Extremely topical amongst these times of economic strife and worldwide protests, the movie vilifies the “rich” immortals while making us feel the plight of the working class. All this social commentary is wrapped in this interesting sci fi concept which makes for interesting scenes and concepts, like the idea that poor people from the ghetto are always in a rush, while the rich take their time in everything, because what is there to hurry about if you know you’ll probably live another century or two?

If you’re a regularly Poweteer and have perused our forum in the past few months, you might know that a few of the Powet staff will be attending this coming year’s MAGfest X – a convention for gamers and lovers of gaming music.

Well, we just got one more awesome reason to attend the festival this year. Father of the Final Fantasy music genre, Nobou Uematsu will be the featured guest at MAGfest this year, along with his newest band, Earthbound Papas. (since The Black Mages disbanded some time ago)

Uematsu joins a very wide variety of guests to appear at this year’s MAGfest, along with the likes of AVGN, ScrewAttack, Extra Credits and a slew of other guests and bands. (sorry, no Minibosses this year) So if you’ve got a little time in early January and are in the Baltimore area, check this out and look us up!

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Here is some behind the scenes footage of the recording of the last episode of “Conan: The Adventurer”, recorded on July 29th 1993.

The recording starts with some horsing around and setup, followed by the live recording of some lines from the episode.

Shown are stars Garry Chalk, Kathleen Barr, Richard Newman, Doug Parker, Scott McNeil, Janyse Jaud, Mike Donovan and Stevie Vallance. This was posted to voice actress Stevie Vallance’s YouTube channel on Monday. Powet readers may know Stevie Vallance best as the voice of Mouse from Reboot. The cast of Conan went on to do many great shows like The Bots Master, Reboot and Beast Wars.

As it’s 1993 we can see things like Scott McNeil playing a classic grey Gameboy!

After surviving most of the last decade on eight Harry Potter films, Warner Bros. is pulling a Disney and will stop selling all versions of its Harry Potter films on December 29th. [via Deadline.com]

[Find out why, WHY they would do this, after the jump]

A friendly reminder to all that a new episode of the Thundercats airs this evening on Cartoon Network at 8:30 EST. Lion-O and the Thundercats vist the Elephant village in search of one of the magical gems. There is another promo video after the jump.

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Tallis and her ever-growing party are hot on the hells of the rogue Saarebas. Just what is he after, anyway?

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On Halloween I constructed a crude but satisfying Green Lantern costume. I was pretty proud of it, and took my daughter out trick-or-treating. But, I still hadn’t seen the movie. Missed it in theaters, and hadn’t had a chance to watch the DVD yet.

And then I did watch it and… oh boy.

I wouldn’t say this was the worst movie ever, but it definitely had some really odd choices and some really bland parts. But! I will say that Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond was both ruined and saved this movie. His hammy odd ball freak performance ran against everything else the direction, story, and other actors were trying to convey… but since they were all so bland, he was the only one with any life.

So I made this video. Enjoy.