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I have just watched Primer, not bad, not great either but definitely watchable.
 
can you explain it to me? lol.

stuck a wee NSFW thing on this for folk that haven't seen the film

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i understand they time travel, but what exactly do they do? they go on about their "doubles" n shit, so they are obviously going back in time. i thought the machine was allowing them to just take a step back in time, say a couple hours, days etc ut towards the end of the film it doesn't seem like that. its heavy fucking confusing. also the thing with switching it & leaving it running, so does that mean when they do jump in it, it takes them back to when they first switched it on? it seems like that but then it seems more complicated aswell.


that film fucking annoyed me if i'm honest, even tho i did quite like it
 
parttime crackhead said:
can you explain it to me? lol.

stuck a wee NSFW thing on this for folk that haven't seen the film

NSFW:

i understand they time travel, but what exactly do they do? they go on about their "doubles" n shit, so they are obviously going back in time. i thought the machine was allowing them to just take a step back in time, say a couple hours, days etc ut towards the end of the film it doesn't seem like that. its heavy fucking confusing. also the thing with switching it & leaving it running, so does that mean when they do jump in it, it takes them back to when they first switched it on? it seems like that but then it seems more complicated aswell.


that film fucking annoyed me if i'm honest, even tho i did quite like it
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it's a really complex film, i don't get it 100% yet, it's like being stuck in a ketamine loop

this guy does a pretty good job of explaining some things

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8:45am: The go to a U-Haul where they set the timer to turn the boxes on in 15 minutes (at exactly 9am), then they head to Russellfield- a town down the road.

9:00am: The timers tick down to zero and then turn the machines on. This is the moment Abe and Aaron will exit the machines, so it’s important that they are not standing there turning the machines, which is why they use the timers. Immediately afterwards Abe and Aaron arrive at the hotel in Russellfield. They decide to isolate themselves by closing windows and turning off any radios or TVs in the room. This is important because they are trying to avoid causality issues or paradoxes. They don't even touch the subject of causality. They are just trying to use the machine for their financial again. Later in the day: Abe and Aaron leave the hotel, go to the library to check some stock and mutual fund info, and head back to the garage.

3:00pm: They turn a switch so the machines can start cooling down. As the machines are turning off, they enter. They then spend the next 6 hours in the box while moving back in time.

9:00am: After exactly 6 hours they exit the box. They find themselves in the same room but the machines are now warming up. The rest of the day they have freedom to do whatever they want without running into their former selves because they know that their former selves are Russellfield. So they trade stocks and bet on basketball games.

I think this circle of events works. They could do this most days and make a fortune. But things are happening in the meantime that aren’t shown:

here’s where things get dicey and a bit difficult to comprehend:

- They find Mr, Granger outside of Aaron’s home at 2am in the morning. As they chase him down, he goes unconscious. (Mr. Granger passes out. He’s not allowed to speak with Abe and Aaron because he’s from the future. And if they speak, then Abe would go back in time and be sure not to tell him about the machine, thus making it impossible for Mr. Granger to travel back in time. Ahhhh the mystery of paradoxes!!!) Without success, they try to figure out how he got there. They each suspect each other told him about the machine sometime in the future. It’s obvious that he has used another machine and has come from the future. Abe freaks out, and uses a SECRETIVE Failsafe machine to travel back to very earlier in the week. He’s had the Failsafe machine running since then. Abe then knocks out his previous self and steps into his previous self's life. When Abe meets Aaron in the park Aaron is taking his cues from his ear piece. Abe’s tired because he’s been time traveling in the box for days. Aaron explains to Abe that he found the Failsafe machine in another room at the Uhaul facility. he’s been trying to perfect the moment where he beats up Rachel's ex-boyfriend by going back in time numerous times until he gets it perfect. He’s trying to become ‘prescient’. The next jump comes when he explains that he put one box INSIDE the Failsafe machine then setting it up again. It seems that this allows them to travel back in time at a faster rate then before. 1 box in the failsafe would mean that every minute in the box gets them back in time 2 minutes. Aaron traveled back in time to earlier in the week, knocked out his previous self by drugging his milk and then hid the body in the attic. He then began recording all his conversations in case he had to go back that far again. When they see that he came back to knock out the version of himself that had just minutes earlier knocked out the initial prior version of himself with the drugged milk. However, this time he was not able to subdue his former self.

So I think there are 3 versions of Aaron that we know of. 'A' was knocked out by 'B'. 'C' tried to knock out 'B', but couldn't. So B is living the life with the wife and kid. I don’t know where A is. And C left town. So he decides to leave his life- one of his doubles is already living it so it's clear that he can't hang around without constantly battling himself and Abe. The last scene indicates that he's trying to build an even bigger machine somewhere out in the world.
 
Aye it is a bit confusing but I think Evads spoiler pretty much sums up the jist of it. I didn't fully understand all of it either, I watched some of the directors commentary afterwards hoping it would explain some but it went on far too long without enough explaining of the confusing parts.

I think I pretty much get it now.
 
I just watched The Orphanage, it wasn't at all what I expected and nowhere near as good as I'd hoped. Knew loads of folk who were raving about how great & scary it was, best 'horror' film they've seen etc. Alright but nothing special. :\
 
I highly recommend it, saw it on a preview last week.

Bit curious as to why its taken the best part of two years to reach British screens though. :|

Never seen a Norwegian movie till this one, but this is a goodun.
 
Just a brief reminder that "Cinemoi" the french movie channel on sky 839 has the £8 a month offer that will expire on the 10th of may.

For that price, you get 3 movies a day, and 30 new ones a month, so its great value. A lot of these movies are not available on dvd either.

Next month they are starting the Jean-Paul Belmondo season,!!! possibly my fave actor alongside Elliot Gould.

Belmondo season

JUNE
Cinémoi will present in June a mix of cult classics and rare films with Jean-Paul Belmondo, the leading light of the Nouvelle Vague. We selected early films of his career, with discoveries for the UK audience: A bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959), A double tour (Claude Chabrol, 1959), Moderato Cantabile (Peter Brook, 1960), Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962), Weekend à Zuydcoote (Henri Verneuil, 1964), Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) and Une Femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961). Films will be
introduced by French critics and UK directors.


I implore all genuine cinema lovers to sign up and keep them in business.

http://www.cinemoi.tv/
 
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I think most horror films could benefit from taking certain drugs.I usually watch sober,undrugged or stoned and thus don't end up terrified as I can deconstruct what I'm watching.
However -
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The first time I watched this in 2002 I was on my own with the curtains shut and was slightly on edge and then when it got to the tv bit I did feel fear.Fuck knows how bad it would have got if I'd been on psyches or something8o
 
fastandbulbous said:
You want real horror? Do a big line of speed & track dowm Polanski's 'Repulsion' (frightened the living shit out of me!)
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Ah yes, I recommend that one myself. Scared the crap out of me and I was sober when I watched it the first time. I actually have it on DVD, but I think I've only watched it once since I bought it. That's not an indication of it being a bad film or anything, it just freaks me out a bit too much. Like it messes with something deep inside my psyche. Especially as I've suffered from a lot of sleep paralysis and 'seen' things enter my room which I thought were trying to attack me. Much like in the film. Night terrors ftl. :|

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTLAlBnoRlA

That scene was definitely the point where I crapped myself. :(
 
Bad Boy Bubby. Written and directed by Rolf de Heer in 1993.

The first twenty minutes or so are difficult to watch, but if you can manage it the rest of the film is a reward. I love the scene in the bar where he sings with the band for the first time, sent shivers donw my spine. Very pink floyd-esque I though.
 
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