Coherence (2013)

JaMarcusHustle

Randomly downloaded this movie tonight and have to admit, it's a fantastic movie. Part sci-fi, part thriller, part mystery... it's a really gripping movie that I'm surprised I haven't heard of before. Found it a little tough to follow but all became clear towards the end. Did a search here and couldn't find any discussion of it (willing to be corrected on that though as I'd love to hear others' opinions on this).

Anyone else seen it and if so, what did you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEceDz1Rodc

Last_Minute

I watched it last night and thought it was fantastic, one of the best movies I've seem in along time.

Well worth the watch.

splashthecash

JaMarcusHustle wrote: »

Randomly downloaded this movie tonight and have to admit, it's a fantastic movie. Part sci-fi, part thriller, part mystery... it's a really gripping movie that I'm surprised I haven't heard of before. Found it a little tough to follow but all became clear towards the end. Did a search here and couldn't find any discussion of it (willing to be corrected on that though as I'd love to hear others' opinions on this).

Anyone else seen it and if so, what did you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEceDz1Rodc

On your post alone, I am going to get my hands on this and watch it tonight. I haven't watched the trailer or even the entirety of your post above...i stopped once I read "part sci-fi, part thriller, part-mystery"

I'll let you know tomorrow what I make of it......exciting!!

Bipolar Joe

Wow, watched it a couple of nights ago. I liked it a lot. I love time travelly stuff, and this kind of fit the bill. Surprised to see the dude from Buffy in it, and he can legitimately act.

The twist towards the end was great

. Definitely one of the better low budget sci-fi's in recent years.

splashthecash

So watched it last night and loved it - it is exactly the kind of film I dig. Reminded very much of Timecrimes and that whole recursive nature of time travel.

Padraig Mor

Saw it the other day too. Well worth watching if you liked Primer (although it's not quite as complicated).

splashthecash

Does anyone have anything other recommendations for other films like this (other than the below which I have seen)?

Coherence, Timecrimes, Primer, Looper, etc..

Bipolar Joe

splashthecash wrote: »

Does anyone have anything other recommendations for other films like this (other than the below which I have seen)?

Coherence, Timecrimes, Primer, Looper, etc..

11 A.M.

Korean scientists create a time travel machine, and two of them transport themselves a few hours into the future to see if it works. They get there, and everything's gone to shit.

Pretty great time travel film. Everything gets nicely wrapped up at the end. It does have the usual sentimental ending tacked on like a lot of Korean movies, but well worth watching if you like the subject. 7 / 10

The Signal (2014).

Three kids on their way to Defcon trace a hacker, only for weird stuff to happen. The protagonist wakes up in a hospital, and everything goes to shit.

I loved this movie, really nice surprise. Not a time travel flick, but in the same vein, I guess. If you liked Coherence, you might like this. The kids aren't annoying, at least. Great special effects, although they do give too much away right at the very end. 8 / 10.

Yesterday Was A Lie.

Existentialfilm-noir from 2008. I have no way to describe this movie. Just watch it. 8 / 10.

Summer Time Machine Blues.

Japanese kids, in their schools sci-fi club, meet a time traveller. Hilarity ensues as they try to use the time machine to fix their A.C machine on the hottest day in years.

Easily the best time travel movie I've ever seen. Demands repeated viewing, there's so many little touches in the background that makes the time line fall into place, and it's genuinely funny. I've watched it a bunch of times, and always see something new. Just fantastic, 9 / 10. It would be 10 / 10 if it wasn't for the sentimental ending lines that seem to be obligatory in a lot of Asian cinema.

EDIT: I'll post more later, gotta work! There's a few more.

Goldstein

splashthecash wrote: »

Does anyone have anything other recommendations for other films like this (other than the below which I have seen)?

Coherence, Timecrimes, Primer, Looper, etc..

Triangle is the missing piece of that jigsaw.

Apart from that these are not directly time-travel related. You mightn't dig some of them, You'll enjoy most of them and you'll love a few: Upstream Color, Sound of my Voice, Another Earth (Ya, she rocks), Intacto, Code 46, One point 0, Her, Safety Not Guaranteed, Monsters, The Thirteenth Floor, Exam, eXistenZ, La Jetee, Solyaris, Solaris, Gattaca.

Tango One

Haven't watched this yet ended up getting 11.00AM enjoyable film, thanks Joe

Bipolar Joe

No problem . What did you think of the sentimentality at the very end?

Tango One

Really uncalled for and a bit odd. Don't watch that much Asian stuff do they really all end with that sentimentality ?.

Bipolar Joe

Not all of them, but a fair few end with a weird, tacked on bit about love or God or something and it can be kind of weird. 11 A.M is definitely one of the worst for it, I've seen, though.

MisterAnarchy

The Signal (2014).

Three kids on their way to Defcon trace a hacker, only for weird stuff to happen. The protagonist wakes up in a hospital, and everything goes to shit.

I loved this movie, really nice surprise. Not a time travel flick, but in the same vein, I guess. If you liked Coherence, you might like this. The kids aren't annoying, at least. Great special effects, although they do give too much away right at the very end. 8 / 10.

I watched that recently and really enjoyed it ,it looks stunning for such a low budget film and it keeps you guessing until the end .

Charlie19

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

I watched that recently and really enjoyed it ,it looks stunning for such a low budget film and it keeps you guessing until the end .

I'm still guessing and I watched it Thursday.

I'd recommend that people don't just download the films mentioned here but go out and support the filmmakers. Many of the films mentioned in this thread can be rented or bought through the US amazon video service, Coherence will set you back just under 4 euro and The Signal can be bought for 11 or so euro. Both are films that piracy will affect a lot more than it will the latest blockbuster.

Love is well worth checking out, it was directed by William Eubank who directed The Signal and is one of the most visually incentive films you will ever see. That he built the space station set in his parents back garden and shot the entire film for about half a million dollars makes it all the more impressive. It's available on a number of the different Netflix regions but is so good that I'd recommend buying it. You can get the Blu-Ray for 5 or 6 euro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiYmAixzpMg

Bipolar Joe

Deleted User wrote: »

Love is well worth checking out, it was directed by William Eubank who directed The Signal and is one of the most visually incentive films you will ever see. That he built the space station set in his parents back garden and shot the entire film for about half a million dollars makes it all the more impressive. It's available on a number of the different Netflix regions but is so good that I'd recommend buying it. You can get the Blu-Ray for 5 or 6 euro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiYmAixzpMg

Good call, that movie was a real nice surprise. Apparently the concept was put together by the guitarist in Blink 182 after he went a bit bat shit. It does have a pretty great sound track, too.

MisterAnarchy

Watched it tonight and thought it was decent enough.
The first thirty to forty minutes was really hard going though,I was tempted to turn it off a few times.
Too much shaky camera ,overacting ,and overly loud brash American characters who I didn't really care for .

I thought the basic scenario was interesting, but half the movie I was just wondering why were these people doing all this crazy stuff.
The group as a whole seemed very dim-witted and barely self aware.They were also very irritating.

One could argue that their behavior was weird because of the comet but they were overreacting from the very beginning. When the lights went off they all freaked out like it was some strange phenomenon they'd never experienced before, and when someone banged on the door they all freaked out like it was automatically the boogie man out to get them.

The situation could create paranoia, but the movie never convincingly built up to that, they're just suddenly violent & paranoid out of nowhere.
The Mike character transformation to Psycho Mike was a tad absurd - Oh there is another Mike with a red glow stick - I must kill him before he kills us all ,but I guess these were the worst case scenarios out of thousands of alternate realities

splashthecash

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

11 A.M.

Korean scientists create a time travel machine, and two of them transport themselves a few hours into the future to see if it works. They get there, and everything's gone to shit.

Pretty great time travel film. Everything gets nicely wrapped up at the end. It does have the usual sentimental ending tacked on like a lot of Korean movies, but well worth watching if you like the subject. 7 / 10

The Signal (2014).

Three kids on their way to Defcon trace a hacker, only for weird stuff to happen. The protagonist wakes up in a hospital, and everything goes to shit.

I loved this movie, really nice surprise. Not a time travel flick, but in the same vein, I guess. If you liked Coherence, you might like this. The kids aren't annoying, at least. Great special effects, although they do give too much away right at the very end. 8 / 10.

Yesterday Was A Lie.

Existentialfilm-noir from 2008. I have no way to describe this movie. Just watch it. 8 / 10.

Summer Time Machine Blues.

Japanese kids, in their schools sci-fi club, meet a time traveller. Hilarity ensues as they try to use the time machine to fix their A.C machine on the hottest day in years.

Easily the best time travel movie I've ever seen. Demands repeated viewing, there's so many little touches in the background that makes the time line fall into place, and it's genuinely funny. I've watched it a bunch of times, and always see something new. Just fantastic, 9 / 10. It would be 10 / 10 if it wasn't for the sentimental ending lines that seem to be obligatory in a lot of Asian cinema.

EDIT: I'll post more later, gotta work! There's a few more.

I watched the Signal last night, thought it was very good - I'm gonna check out the rest of the films you list above now...looking forward to seeing them!

Thanks again

PissFlapsDory

I second 'Signal' - watched it a few weeks ago.
Great ending to it.
W

charlie_says

Timecrimes is a brilliant time travel film also, worth a view.

Bipolar Joe

splashthecash wrote: »

I watched the Signal last night, thought it was very good - I'm gonna check out the rest of the films you list above now...looking forward to seeing them!

Thanks again

You can get Yesterday Was A Lie really cheap, now. 11 A.M and S.T.M.B might be hard to find. I request movies from this guy quite often, if that helps.

HalloweenJack

I saw this last night. It's an absolute mind-bender.

It was fascinating but I'd be pretty sure I didn't get everything that was going on.

I'm guessing that

the whole thing got so mixed up after Em killed two other versions of herself and the whole thing about the numbers. I did get that at the end, she's talking to a different version of Mike because he has Skype on his mobile