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Primer (2004)
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Time Travel Plots - OK or not OK?
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"The grandfather paradox: you go back in time and kill your grandfather, which means you were never born and couldn't have gone back and committed the murder in the first place.This paradox is easily explained if you keep in mind that the universe comprises matter and energy, and that space and time are only ways to describe the current state of matter and energy, not corporeal entities in their own right. In that context, time is not a river flowing in only one direction. It, like space, is merely a way of specifying the arrangement of matter and energy in one of the universe's infinite states. (And btw, if you choose a system of units in which the speed of light = 1, then E = M, because matter and energy are actually the same thing.)So you and your grandfather are collections of matter and energy, little bits of the universe's total supply. In one state of the universe, he's alive and you haven't been born. In another state, he's dead and gone and you're alive. In a third state, t ... "
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"Catherine Hardwicke hit one out of the park for female directors this past weekend, but she had a lot of help. Not only was she working with a pre-sold property, she also had a very manageable budget of $37 million. Quite different from the $2 million she had to work with on Thirteen a few years back. Of course, she had similar budgets on Lords of Dogtown ($25 million) and The Nativity Story ($35 million), and both were box office disappointments. Still, she’s going to keep on being trusted with more money — if Summit is smart they’ll keep her on for at least the first Twilight sequel, which will surely come with a higher price tag — and as long as she continues with genre films, she’s sure to remain a profitable director. Not every talented filmmaker does well with more money. Danny Boyle, for instance, typically bombs with bigger budgets. And a lot of foreign auteurs "
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Thought Provoking Science Fiction
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"Primer isn't a movie that tries to reach the lowest common denominator in terms of audience. It expects you to meet its concepts. And for those that do there is a great payoff. Four engineers in a tiny startup realize that they have built something amazing, but don't quite know what they have. Two of them figure out they have built a time machine and manage to buy out the others. At that point they start going back in time to make money on the stock market, always careful to avoid interfering with themselves or anyone they know. But eventually the temptation to interfere in their own lives becomes too great and the repercussions grow greater and greater. This harkens back to when science fiction movies were about ideas and not just explosions. There is a lot of tech talk, but is easy to follow and actually has meaning, unlike the techobabble in most science fiction movies. It isn't boring, but the deliberate pace of this movie may put some people off if they are expecting and actio ... "
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Impressive, Most Impressive
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"Primer is an accomplishment. Ignoring the fact that the budget was only 7 thousand dollars, the film is very entertaining. Primer never slows down and last a good length so that you can watch it without feeling like you're watching an epic. It really does go straight back to classic sci-fi comparable to "The Fly" and "Pi" "
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Scienc Fiction Masterpiece!!
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"This is by far the best science fiction movie I have ever seen. I didn't understand all of the technological (apparently Carruth was some kind of engineer) lingo, or even all of the levels that this thing may possess, but I was instantly aware of its intellectual superiority. The tone is low and slow. It will lose a lot of its audience in the first fifteen minutes due to an abundance of narration that is impossible to follow. But disregard all of that. Upon watching it in completion for the first time, I was blown away! I understood everything that happened, but just couldn't believe it. At a very short running time, 93 minutes or something like that, I pushed play again and just sat back, determined to learn more. Incredibly realistic (except for the whole time travel part). Insanely cheap production cost ($7,000). Amateur acting that isn't even noticable. This is one impressive film. I recommend it to all. "
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Awkward flick; unsure success
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"I read a bevy of reviews concerning this mind game, to see if I grossly overlooked something or if the narrative really was as disorganized and unsure of itself as I thought it was. It danced around a focus but never quite lighted upon it; the inner workings clicked and clacked but never got rolling; it aspired for a lot and is up for debate as to whether or not it made it. Shop around, if you will, for other thoughts and reviews for a collective opinion is more reliable and informative than a single review, plus several are quite eloquent, succinct and wrap up the author's thoughts in a neat package. Check external reviews on imdb.com for definitive takes on this odd, quirky flick. Classic tagline though: "when you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?" "
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