I watched it once in a university movie theater. They showed it twice because they said that watching it once isn’t enough to understand it. I didn’t watch the second one because I felt twice still isn’t enough eitherway
I feel like it has a much larger potential following than it actually does though.
I feel I’m more likely to have a conversation with someone who says they like scifi/time travel but hasn’t heard of Primer than I am to talk to someone who has actually seen Primer.
Far too often i hear people say “i watch movies to escape, not think.”
Primer is one if my all time fav scifi flics. I have watched it maybe a dozen times. I have to literally pause the movie every time and think “what the fuck is going on again at this point?“
It is a deeply complex plot which does nothing to try and help the audience. You have to sink or swim. I don’t think it would fly… a lot of people would leave wishing they had 75 minutes back because “it was stupid and didn’t make any sense.”
To this day i am convinced Christopher Nolan attempted to make a commercially successful version of this (Tenet) with questionable results. I thought it was alright, but was… messy.
To be fair, Primer doesn’t really have mainstream appeal, about as much as π
I watched it once in a university movie theater. They showed it twice because they said that watching it once isn’t enough to understand it. I didn’t watch the second one because I felt twice still isn’t enough eitherway
A good five or six times does it. The time travel is all logically consistent, but it’s a rat’s nest
You think?
I feel like it has a much larger potential following than it actually does though.
I feel I’m more likely to have a conversation with someone who says they like scifi/time travel but hasn’t heard of Primer than I am to talk to someone who has actually seen Primer.
Far too often i hear people say “i watch movies to escape, not think.”
Primer is one if my all time fav scifi flics. I have watched it maybe a dozen times. I have to literally pause the movie every time and think “what the fuck is going on again at this point?“
It is a deeply complex plot which does nothing to try and help the audience. You have to sink or swim. I don’t think it would fly… a lot of people would leave wishing they had 75 minutes back because “it was stupid and didn’t make any sense.”
To this day i am convinced Christopher Nolan attempted to make a commercially successful version of this (Tenet) with questionable results. I thought it was alright, but was… messy.