Re: 9 SONGS (no spoilers)


Sandro wrote:

moviePig wrote:

CODE 46, yes.  Not 'brilliant' in the colloquial UK sense... but I do
think Winterbottom's a bright guy, and I still looked (and look) forward
to his stuff.  As to an "interesting and cheap way to do sci-fi" (and
moreover do it "legitimately")... yes, but my current knee-jerk paragon
is PRIMER...

In which direction do your knees jerk on Primer? 

(Don't know if you're serious... but 'paragon' means good.)

I went to the trouble of seeing in in a cinema, even though it looked
like it had been filmed on one of those Fisher Price pixallated
toy video cameras, and very much enjoyed it. It gets ridiculously
complicated, and gets virtually impenetrable towards the end
(I needed a bit of help afterwards by looking up some of the
director's comments online to explain a few details, like that
bloody party and the nutjob with the gun), but I liked it. It was
one of the better usages of the time travel concept that I've
seen since, oh, I dunno, Sound of Thunder? :)

*Virtually* impenetrable? Hah! Afterwards, I googled up a web site (of many) that credibly layed PRIMER's events out end-to-end ...and it still gave me a headache. And, yes, I still long for Carruth to do another, asap.

But... my turn to be confused... I've heard from some quarters that SOUND OF THUNDER actually has enough specialized merit to be worth a peek... but I'm not sure whether you're agreeing. (Given that you survived PRIMER, I'd like to know.)

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