Subj : Re: Movie: Primer
To   : Arelor
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Mon May 05 2025 11:43:00

-=> Arelor wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

 Ar>   Re: Re: Movie: Primer
 Ar>   By: Jimmy Anderson to Ogg on Sun May 04 2025 01:49 pm

 > If not a time travel fan, probably won't enjoy it. But for
 > hard core time travel fans... It's right up there!!!
 >

 Ar> I am definitively not a Primer fan. Give me Synchronicity any day.

 Ar> Primer definitively needed better production than it got, the dialogue
 Ar> scenes were made hard to follow because they tried to make them
 Ar> realistic (with people speaking over each other and interrupting each
 Ar> other, which is how works in real life, but makes it messy for the
 Ar> screen).

I'll agree with you there. It was less 'movie' and more 'over the shoulder,'
but not in a documentary way. And some of the dialogue was fast, just like
two engineers talking to each other! To me that made it more realistic.

 Ar>    And the plot was kind of meh. It was material to be subjected
 Ar> for the Eight Deadly Words (I don't care what happens to these people).

I can see where it doesn't build on the WHY I care, but to me the science
of it and the explanations and such... I think they nailed it in that
sense.

 Ar> They nailed the part were they discovered time travel, because I think
 Ar> they reproduced quite well how scientific advances are done. People
 Ar> does janky stuff and notices something weird, then say "look, this is
 Ar> interesting, why do you think it is happening?"

Yep - exactly! And then the 'trial run' that Abe (?) did - and how he took
the other guy with him, showing him the 'exit' before they even 'entered.'

A head scratcher for sure - and they never really explain everything, which
makes for good cinima too. :-)

But, to each his own. :-)


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