I think this movie rises high above its low budget identity. With any great movie, it's great because the experience is better on repeated viewings. Try watching this at least three times. It was the third time that it really knocked my socks off.
shareI'd be nice if more people abstracted budget away from art. There are lots of great flicks where they stretched very thin budgets, and just plain demonstrably threw their blood, sweat, and tears into the projects... Like, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", for instance, which had a famously pitiful budget. "Eraserhead" was made on almost nothing. You may not personally like it, but it's undeniably a great work of cinematic art.
Thanks for this OP!
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And I'd like that. But that 5h1t ain't the truth. --Jules Winnfield
to be fair, watching a movie 3 times in order to have your socks knocked off might be how people define "not great movie."
i'm not saying i agree, but it's a reasonable claim.
to be fair, watching a movie 3 times in order to have your socks knocked off might be how people define "not great movie."
Yeah I expected horrible camera direction, it was decent, excellent considering the budget. The plot twists and changes the second time you watch, which is perfect considering the basis of the film. The actors aren't seasoned pros, they remind me of sterotypical guys from 2004, which is fitting since that's when the film was made. As far as emoting, they aren't Oscar caliber but they aren't bad either. It's definitely a film that will live on, netflix is a great place for it, I see it rising in popularity soon.. A lot of criticism focuses on the physics not being dumbed down, but it's not frustrating when it's over my head, time travelling films have to be over your head. The only complaint would be with audio, it was bad, probably because of the 7k budget, and if that's where they had to make a cut, it was the right place.. but the dialogue was fast. Subtitles helped.
http://www.sparknotes.com/mindhut/2013/06/20/primer-understanding-the-most-complicated-sci-fi-movie-ever-made
this website helped.
I find it stupid to group movies based on their budget. It does not matter if the movie had a big budget or a low budget, it can be both good and bad irrespective of money put into it. I can understand that comparing CGI effects budgets are relevant, but CGI is there only to compliment the movie, not to make it.
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Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.
Disagree. This is a boring film with uninteresting characters and poor acting.
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