Subj : Movie: Primer
To   : Arelor
From : Ogg
Date : Sun May 11 2025 08:02:00

Hello Arelor!

** On Monday 05.05.25 - 10:07, Arelor wrote to Jimmy Anderson:

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

 A> Primer definitively needed better production than it got,
 A> the dialogue scenes were made hard to follow because they
 A> tried to make them realistic (with people speaking over
 A> each other and interrupting each other, which is how works
 A> in real life, but makes it messy for the screen). And the
 A> plot was kind of meh. It was material to be subjected for
 A> the Eight Deadly Words (I don't care what happens to these
 A> people).

It was a grueling watch for me.  The plot seemed disjointed.  I  
really hated the "speak over" that you mentioned.  Reading the  
wikipedia version of the plot helped, but I am not interested  
to rewatch it to see if it clicks better after knowing what to  
expect. The "A<->B" (and the wikipedia shows an illustration of  
it) still makes little sense to me. Originally it's some  
weight-reduction experiment, but then it turns out to be a  
time-machine?

I generally have trouble embrasing the idea that "one" machine  
and the actions of one person can alter a whole timeline of  
future history affecting millions of people.

Time travel is a fun idea, but trying to present it in film or  
story form simply breaks down at some point.

I think there are other "time machine" films that are much more  
entertaining.


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

Ok..  but that's just a brief scene.  The rest of the film  
seemed like a series of disjointed scenes.

I really liked the way the filmaker/director/writers of Mememto  
stitched the story together for a powerful conclusion.



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