Good movies dont need to be remade. What movies deserve a re-release
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
ive seen it 20 times over 30 years and it still keeps me thinking.
there was one thing just this last time… he says “lets live here” in the end… and i never understood why when he was basically tortured/trapped in the same place for decades. wouldnt you want to gtfo? i recently realized; that last day, he actually came to care for those humans. why leave home?
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.
