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What year was this movie supposed to represent?

posted 9 years ago by kamsrv13
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There is conflicting eras represented the wardrobe, vehicles etc. seem to be the 70s however there are computers with flat screen monitors??

[–] FreedomWatchTower 9 years ago

Current day and the timeline is not important in this story

[–] kamsrv13 9 years ago

Why do they make it appear to be the 70s with vehicles wardrobe etc. and then conflict with other things that had did not represent this area or were not around. There is no consistency in the representation of the time period.

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[–] bahlsdheep 9 years ago

I think it's because Michael K. William's character rolls around in a old-school Cadillac, and his entire crew has a little bit of that 70's blacksploitation look to them.

It's definitely supposed to be present day though -- as said above, Wahlberg drives a brand new BMW 1M and Domenick Lombardozzi picks him up in a brand new Cayenne Turbo.

[–] Ed in MO 9 years ago

I wondered about that myself. The star basketball player had a flip phone. So......2004, maybe?

[–] jonnypenn84 8 years ago

Yeah... give or take a year.

[–] theclarkone68 9 years ago

Sometime during the 1560s

This is Carcosa. Take off your mask.

[–] Robert_222 8 years ago

It is def. present day but I sort of felt that vibe too. It was based on a 70s movie. Never seen the original but Maybe that had something to do with it?

[–] jonnypenn84 8 years ago

I would say it was around 2006ish (judging by the type of flip cell phones they were using ) but I don't think the year was relevant to the plot.

[–] micirisi 8 years ago

Seemed present day to me. Cars mostly contemporary. The phone he tossed in the pool appeared to be a recent model iPhone. Girlfriend had a MacBook. 70's? No way.

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

[–] outTHERE_productions 8 years ago

It's the present day.

Early on in the film, Wahlberg is watching basketball on a smartphone in his car.

[–] mrpops238 8 years ago

The black basketball kid had a flip phone to subtly suggest he is a stereotypical black kid who is poor and his only chance in life is sports.

Everyone else has an iphone/blackberry but the kid can't afford one. So he uses a cheap free flip phone.

To further prove the kid is poor, Walberg bribes him with $150,000K to fix the basketball game.