If you like this, I have 2 movies to suggest
Timecrimes and
Primer
"I'd like to keep Spike as my pet"- Illyria, Angel S. 5
Time lapse was a lot better than primer.
sharedude, you're crazy! i love time traveling movies and this one was no exception. it was, like someone else already mentioned, more clever than it seems at first and just an enjoyable experience throughout.
but primer is just another level. i believe it may be the only air-tight time travelling movie i've seen.
crazy is a little harsh but I'll absolutely put my hand up and say Primer is the best time travel movie I've ever seen and every one that has come after it, doesn't really get near it even though movies like this one were really enjoyable. Primer blew me away and when I read up on it and found out it was basically made for lunch money, I couldn't believe it, the directors next movie was also really worth checking out.
I must "confess" that I don't know either of the two mentioned movies, but what are your (and others’) thoughts on movie "Predestination" (2014): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/? That is, of course... if you've already seen it. :)
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I didn't care for Predestination. I didn't like the overly-melodramatic tone and score, and I thought the story was gross.
shareThe 'story' was pretty much a direct copy+paste from one of the most famous Sci-Fi and time travel authors ever.
Say what you want about the acting/score/tone/etc. But the writing was air-tight.
It's an adaptation of a story that's about 10 pages long, so that's really not an accurate statement. I liked Predestination alright but it was heavily padded with filler in order be a feature. The worst thing about expanding the length is that the ending is heavily telegraphed and predictable, whereas in the short story it is a major twist.
sharePredestination was enjoyable as a movie, but it was one of those dime a dozen impossible time travel movies. Time Crimes is internally consistent, as in if you think about how time travel logically "should" work, everything in the movie makes sense, without some crazy gotcha theories (one of the reasons I didn't like Interstellar ending). Ex, you can't come from the future to save your own life, since you obviously survive to live into the future so you don't need saving.
Primer must be too smart for me, because I just get lost after half an hour.
and I thought the story was gross.
lol. I loved the flick, the pace, the twist ... but you're right it was gross if you really think about it.
The twist when revealed gave me an "ewwww" feeling. share
I've never been a big Eghan Hawke fan, but I enjoyed Predestination. The actress sold it, and when I realized who her love was, I found it both a little repulsive and very moving - two feelings that don't usually occur at the same time. I thought it made up for any of the movie's shortcomings.
sharePrimer really is the definitive time travel movie, but I personally find all time travel movies and TV interesting to an extent.
Look at Time Lapse, although a lot of people are slating it at least stimulated a lot of debate on the plot.
You know, I've tried to watch Primer twice, and both times I couldn't get through it. Does it pick up at all?
My personal favorite (although it has its shortcomings) is Triangle. I watched it three times over a weekend trying to put all the pieces in place, and each time I was riveted.
I've seen all the other movies listed here, and enjoyed them all to varying degrees. The best part, though, is coming to imdb and reading other people's take on the movie. The time loop movies, I think, draw posters that are willing to put more thought into their posts. :)
I too love Triangle, what a great movie.
Primer is a slow moving low budget cerebral movie. Shane Carruth rejects any movie norms, especially "Hollywood" type structures and pacing, so it "picks up" intellectually really.
Google image "primer timeline" and check out the 1st image for an idea on the depth of the movie.
I checked it out - wow. You talked me into it, it's back in my movie queue. :)
shareI, too, love Triangle. Great little film.
I quite like Primer but it doesn't hit me the same way Upstream Color does. A beautifully told love story with a sci-fi setting. Fantastic film in every way.
"Do you want to give him a kiss?"
Predestination surprised me at how innovative and well-told it was. The story seems shaky for a long time, but once things are explained later in the film, it just wows you.
Time Lapse was much better than I thought it would be. Definitely and interesting take on the whole knowing the future plot. Its biggest drawback was that the pacing just falls apart midway and doesn't improve til near the end. If they'd tightened up the middle, it would have been a better movie.
And while Primer eventually has a satisfying story with the whole time-travel bit, the first half is absolutely awful and overrated. I know the director decided to not care if his audience could understand the physics and advanced science that was being spouted by the characters, but it made it really hard to grasp onto the story until things finally started happening. That's not avant garde filmmaking, that's just pretentiousness.
Time Crimes is far superior.
very overrated and average.
shareAnd "Time Crimes" was a lot better than "Time Lapse" :) But, "12 monkeys" still rules.
shareNah. Donny Darko will forever rule ... the soundtrack alone is great.
Love 12 monkeys too. Very few time travel or alternate reality flicks that I have not liked on some level. It's my favorite premise.
Coherence is one of my favorite low budgets. I had to watch that three times looking for nuances I didn't catch previously. That deals with alternate realities though rather than time travel.
Agree, Donnie Darko is awesome, one of my all time favorites, but somehow I never really saw it as a time traveling story. I suppose it could really be interpreted like that though and then it definitely rules too :)
Nah. Donny Darko will forever rule ... the soundtrack alone is great.
Love 12 monkeys too. Very few time travel or alternate reality flicks that I have not liked on some level. It's my favorite premise.
12 Monkeys, agreed! But Donny Darko? 😭 I didn't know what was all the fuss about it (hearing good things about it all over the internet before watching it..), and certainly I was very disappointed after seeing it. I guess I am one of those who "just don't get it" 😉 (i.e. don't "get" the 'brilliance' of Donny Darko)?
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A few pages back someone mentioned the Spanish "The House at the End of Time" and I thought that one was pretty good.
If you liked "Time Lapse" then the '90s TV series "Early Edition" was similar in that the main character gets tomorrow's newspaper today, and has to make decisions about what to do in order to save people, avert tragedies, etc.
And if you want an oldie that's comedic, 1944's "It Happened Tomorrow," which some said was ripped off by "Early Edition."
Sounds interesting! I wil check it out!
"I'd like to keep Spike as my pet"- Illyria, Angel S. 5
Primer was very difficult to get - and I didn't want to get a headache thinking about it but Primer definitely gives you more to chew on whereas Time Lapse is more fun and easier to follow.
What hump?
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