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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780650466
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780650468
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Running Time: 77 minutes
Sales Rank: 6809
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Product Description:
Everything you think you know about modern science is about to unravel in this critically acclaimed film about two young engineers and the consequences they face when they invent a machine that enables them to travel back in time.Running Time: 77 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC: 794043784927
Amazon.com:
Primer won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and has drawn repeat viewers eager to crack writer-director-star Shane Carruth's puzzler of a time-travel drama. Carruth, an engineer by training, plays inventor Aaron, whose entrepreneurial partnership with fellow brainiac Abe (David Sullivan) unexpectedly results in a process for traveling back several hours in time. The men initially use these rewind sessions to succeed in the stock market. But a dark consequence of their daily journeys eventually complicates matters. If this sounds like a very commercial, science fiction thriller, Primer is anything but that. Shot on 16mm for $7,000, the film has a tantalizing, sealed-in logic, akin to Memento, that forces viewers to see the fantastic with a certain dispassion. One may be tempted to sit through Primer again to more fully understand its paradoxes and ethical quandaries. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Brilliant, Clever, and Entertaining
It's very brilliant in it's attention to details, and poses many questions and theories in regards to paradox, existence, physics, and relativity. The filmmakers went all out with their attention to the subject matter.
The story itself is amazing. Filled with clever,unexpected but sensible twists. You're left thinking and questioning through the majority of the fairly perplexing film, but all-the-while thoroughly entertained and interested.
The acting is superb, and it also lends itself to the movie that the actors are relatively unknown, creating some very believable and comprehensible characters.
Rating:  - What if real engineers made a real time machine?
Yes, this is a sci-fi film, but out of ever sci-fi film I've ever seen, this one has to be the most realistic. Engineers, crazy creatures that they are, actually act like these guys. Brilliant, albeit rather dull creatures that make crazy wicked awesome things.
The movie isn't for everyone, but for those that want to see a sci-fi film that actually has a shot of really occuring in real life, this is pretty much it.
Rating:  - What can I say about this film??
I was excited to see this movie...I had heard about it and wanted to see if it lived up to the hype...I mean, people compared this movie to Kubrick's 2001...
I watched it, it had some interesting concepts, but I hesitate to call this a sci fi masterpiece. To me, the film was OK...but had some problems. Out of respect for such a well done debut film, on such a low budget, I'll seek to be as polite as I can in this review-
Here's what I thought was done well...
LIGHTING- the green lighting was cool and done well
SOUND EFFECTS- the sound effects of the machine were very cool, that was something that did stand out
THE DESIGN OF THE MACHINE- that was cool, especially once they made the machine at the storage facility...it was cool looking, and, the whole weeble toy put in to the machine was an original touch...
BUT....some cons
ACTING- I hope the next film this director/writer creates a film, he'll have some actors with experience being in front of the camera...The way some of the lines were delivered, sorry, but I wasnt sure if these characters were engineers, or football jocks in high school who were forced to make a movie to get extra credit to graduate.
I admire the DIY mode that this filmmaker used, but I'd say that one thing I learned in school (yes, I am a film student myself) is that the way people talk in MOVIES has to be DIFFERENT than the way people talk in real life. We know that movie-speak ... Read More
Rating:  - Too many details - and still no clue what really happened
The engineering jargon relays much too much about how the guys go about their experimentation. Lay people do not need to hear all the details but do need to get the concept early on.
The mood of the story is intriguing and that's what kept me watching. I realized after the first half that it may never make sense to me so just played it through to the end and then of course the credits rolled and I was left with very little.
This movie really had potential, but failed to deliver because it did not communicate effectively to the viewer and did not seem to care if anyone could follow what was going on.
Rating: - Primer - a Thought Experiment
Primer is a must-see: it is by far the most complex, thought-provoking treatment of the ethics and mechanics of time travel in the breadth of the science fiction genre. Rather than concentrating on the predicatble content of cultural and technological change in future and past societies, this film engages directly with those intractable problems other SF narratives don't dare to touch - the possibility that in returning to the past you encounter another already-exiting version of yourself. The infamously inexpensive production cost (US$6,000) in no way diminishes the suspenseful rendering of suburban mediocrity in which the two lead characters work together and later disown each others' company over the increasing complications and disturbing consequences of their discovery. The hand-held shots and everyday dialogue help to make the plot seem both plausible and entertainingly paranoiac. One of my top-ten all-time favourites, this film needs to be watched at least twice.
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