Primer

youcancallmeal

Just finished watching this and I must say I'm blown away. Its not very often I watch a film and want to put it back on straight a way again. I read reviews for this before I started watching so I had a grasp of the plot, it probably would have been even better had I not read reviews.#

It is a little bit convoluted but that's what watching it a second is for! So anyone seen this and what do you think?

johnny_ultimate

This is a film that is hard to review and perhaps would be more suited to general film discussion?

But for a review I shall keep this short.
There is much to admire. It is refreshing to see a film that refuses to dumb itself down. Its filmed in a very interesting way, and is one of the most intelligent films I have seen.
However, I would be lying if I said I understood any of it. I looked it up on Wikipedia soon after watching and couldnt even decipher that. There are so many timelines going at once it is utterly insane.

I dont think I can give this a score. A n/a from me.

Lafortezza

I thought it was pretty good, but definitely hard to get your head around. Can't think of many films I've seen that are similar to it.

adonis

i was banned for asking if anyone had seen this in this board!
very good movie and some good acting and an obviously very well thought out plotline - apparently the best way to judge whats going on is by the amount of facial hair! would look forward to seeing another movie by the director...and ill look forward to watching it again too

Karl Hungus

johnny_ultimate wrote:

This is a film that is hard to review and perhaps would be more suited to general film discussion?

Agreed. And the posts so far aren't very review-like either.

radiospan

I found a big JPG somewhere which had all the timelines drawn out. Way way to complicated to understand (for me anyway) even with the timeline / explanation!

ixoy

plazzTT wrote:

I found a big JPG somewhere which had all the timelines drawn out. Way way to complicated to understand (for me anyway) even with the timeline / explanation!

Said jpg can be found here. Nine timelines according to it.

Great headache-inducing film that stands as one of the best of that sci-fi sub-genre.

Jack B. Badd

I have no idea why it took me so long to get around to watching this but I should be properly punished, I say (chop off a hand or some such!). Primer just knocked me flat (though I've only seen it once, I'm going to have to watch it at least once more for the second half to make sense). The acting was, surprisingly, almost perfect for characters who were meant to be "ordinary and everday" (as someone in a thread on another film put it). The storyline was a piece of conceptual genius. It was written by someone who knows his physics - Yay, a sci-fi film that features real science \o/ The cinematography and setting were the absolute minimum of what was required to make the film work. It apparently cost $7000 (SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FFS!!!). Who the hell makes a film for seven grand these days?!
I'm well aware it possibly won't appeal to non-physics heads as much as it did to me (though maybe it will, who knows) but I don't care. It works And as soon as I stop telling everyone what a wonderful piece of sci-fi it is I'm going to watch it again!

Full_Circle

I know that there was an extremely clever film going on there, even if I couldnt quite grasp all of it. I spent so long thinking about it afterwards, trying to figure it out, that my head hurt But I guess that in a way is a testiment to the film. So few movies today actually make you think back on them long after the credits have rolled. On the otherhand, maybe it was just too clever or confusing for its own good :rolleyes: