Comment on What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching?

kambusha@feddit.ch ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As soon as I read the title of this post, I knew that Primer would be one of the first comments.

  You are not alone, that is the hardest time loop movie to wrap your head around.

  Relevant XKCD

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  • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m gonna have to open that on a monitor.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    12 Angry Men. Gen X kid here, not my style, B&W a fair bit before my time, too old.

    My god. Put it on for a lark before bedtime on a worknight. Far too tired, stayed up all the way through, suffered the next day. Worth it.

    If OP had asked, “Name a movie you couldn’t put down?” or “What’s a movie that sucked you in and you had no choice to stop?” Yeah. That one.

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  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mainly because it’s so accurately done. It truly shows how insane it can get and it’s made worse by all the people violating their own “rules” repeatedly

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• Redoomed@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t grasp the implications of the final scene with Aaron in the warehouse until I checked the plot write-up on Wikipedia.

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• Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think this movie is virtually impossible to understand in 1 viewing.

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• Rottcodd@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was going to say this, but I figured I could just scroll until I found where someone else inevitably said it.

  By the end, I was just letting the drama wash over me and not even trying to sort out which version of who was doing what in which timeline.

  And honestly, I suspect that that's the best way to appreciate it anyway.

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• Xariphon@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Came here for this, glad to be beaten to it. I've seen this movie three times and I'm still not sure I could actually explain it.

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  • kambusha@feddit.ch ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ha, me neither. Love everything about the movie though. The fact that Shane did everything for this movie (wrote, directed, produced, acted, music, editing), it was made on such a small budget (7k I think), and shot over 5 weeks, yet it really doesn’t feel “cheap” when you watch it, is such an achievement.

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