;-)

      • reversebananimals@lemmy.world
        39·
        11 months ago

        Its very good. Its a low budget indie film. Its about two unremarkable engineers who work on toy projects in their garage accidentally discovering a type of time travel similar to the movie Looper. The film follows the realization, experimentation and ultimately the downfall of the engineers due to the power of their own discovery.

        Primer is famous for being extremely complex and hard to follow. The characters speak in real engineering jargon, and there’s constant time travel paradoxes happening in the background which you don’t pick up on without multiple viewings.

        If you like being intellectually challenged, its great.

        Should also be mentioned that the director is a massive POS, which is why I don’t promote the movie even though I like it.

        • noroute@lemmy.worldOP
          112·
          11 months ago

          Thank you, director been POS never stopped me from watching or liking the movie/show. I don’t even care for most ratings or reviews. There were many times when rating or review was bad but i loved watching it.

          • magnetosphere@kbin.social
            8·
            11 months ago

            Sometimes I wonder if horrible people can be great storytellers because their outlook on life is so different from our own. That doesn’t excuse or justify their behavior, but still, I wonder.

            • noroute@lemmy.worldOP
              51·
              11 months ago

              From my personal experience watching some POS directors/writers content sometimes they can better than good once.

              • reversebananimals@lemmy.world
                5·
                11 months ago

                Then you should also check out his other film, Upstream Color. Primer is a genre-defining piece of scifi, but Upstream Color is arguably an even better film.

          • triptrapper@lemmy.world
            14·
            11 months ago

            From Wikipedia:

            From 2011 to 2018, Carruth was in a relationship with Amy Seimetz. The couple became engaged in 2013. Seimetz obtained temporary restraining orders against Carruth in 2018 and 2020 and a permanent restraining order in 2020, citing years of domestic and emotional abuse and harassment. Carruth has denied these allegations.

            On January 13, 2022, Carruth was arrested at the home of another ex-girlfriend on allegations of domestic assault and vandalism. He was released four days later on a $50,000 bond.

            • misery mansion@lemmy.world
              1·
              11 months ago

              It’s a shame because the film with Seimetz is called Upstream Color and it’s great. I saw it before the allegations so I’m glad I have an unfettered experience of it.

              But yeah

    • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
      8·
      11 months ago

      Came here to say this. That movie is fantastic. And it was made for basically nothing. It’s so smart.

      • 50MYT
        5·
        11 months ago

        They begged borrowed and stole everything to make the movie, except spent $8000 to rent lights to film.

        They then went on to make $20m at the box

    • CodeGameEat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      I’ve watched them so much, that when I started to learn english I just started to watch that movie in english, since i knew by hart half of what they were saying

    • Kichae@lemmy.ca
      81·
      11 months ago

      I was worried when this wasn’t anywhere near the top. These aren’t even my favourite time travel movies, they’re my favourite movies, period, and have been since I was 4.

    • noroute@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      11 months ago

      Oh yeah, this is a classic! Christopher Lloyd was epic there. This was the first movie I noticed this actor.

    • Bakachu@lemmy.world
      29·
      11 months ago

      This show absolutely - if for nothing else but the casting that made you actually believe past/present/future characters were the same person.

      • burkybang@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        So true. I could not believe the actor who played old Ulrich Nielsen was not the same as middle aged Ulrich Nielsen.

    • Tehgingey@lemmy.ca
      22·
      11 months ago

      Dark was absolutely incredible, one of the best pieces of media I’ve ever seen. Start to finish such a good story.

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      I feel like I missed a ton of details on my first watchthrough, but still enjoyed it a ton.

      I’m curious if anyone has given it a second go, and if it added or removed from the experience?

      • ettyblatant@lemmy.world
        17·
        11 months ago

        I have given it a 2nd-3rd-4th go, each time with a new friend who hasn’t yet seen it. And, no joke, I still pick up on a TON of details I’ve missed before. It’s just… so good

        • Neil@lemmy.mlEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          Is it ok to watch it dubbed or should I try to find a subbed version in your opinion?

          • ettyblatant@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            I’ve only seen it with subs. I have read on an old thread that the dubs are pretty good, but I haven’t given them a shot. Maybe I will try on my 5th watch!

          • burkybang@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            I tried with subs, but I couldn’t read fast enough, so I tried dubs, and they were great. The voice actors were actually really good.

    • andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 months ago

      It’s so good, I got excited when a tv series was announced. Unfortunately the show was bollocks. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

      • masquenox@lemmy.world
        31·
        11 months ago

        I never bother with spin-off shit - it’s always just money-grabbing and little else.

    • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      I love how casual they approach time travel. It makes no sense, is incredibly inconsistent, and the more you think about it the more you’ll hate it. But it’s a fun series everyone must watch.

      Spoilers:

      The time travel mechanic literally makes Bill and Ted the only people that matter, ever, in the history of time. The world belongs to Bill and Ted and this is their playground. I love how the characters recognize this in the movies too, so the writers obviously knew their time travel dynamic was goofy.

      At least in the first movie:

      • Only people who can change their future actions that’ll have an impact on the future is Bill and Ted (time traveller who told them to pass a class influenced Bill and Ted to change their future actions)

      • If someone other than Bill and Ted interacts with a different time, it has effectively zero impact on their future actions and society is largely unchanged (ie stealing Socrates and Napoleon into the present didn’t really affect modern society, and nobody found it weird a blue phone booth existed in the 1700s?!)

      • Even though Bill and Ted are time traveling, any time they spend time traveling counts against an absolute timeline leading up to their presentation.

      I think some of these dynamics changed in the second movie, and again in different ways in the third movie but don’t remember it’s plot enough to defend that claim.

      • HeartyOfGlass@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is my favorite, but I’ll sit through any of em. I just love those characters, and genuinely try to live my life along the “be excellent to each other” philosophy.

            • Coherence@lemmy.world
              3·
              11 months ago

              I’ve been a who fan for almost 40 years and didn’t put 2 and 2 together until your comment… feeling elated for the revelation and a bit like a nonce at the same time

    • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
      21·
      11 months ago

      Oh yeah, I watched it so many times.

      If I can’t choose Bill & Ted then I’d say Terminator 2.

      • noroute@lemmy.worldOP
        11·
        11 months ago

        You can, its just a suggestion not a rule ;-) This way we can try and get more different titles posted here =)

    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
      7·
      11 months ago

      I was surprised by how good this was. The premise seems very … simple? They did a really good job with it though, very entertaining.