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Turned it off halfway through


Besides the terrible camera-work, dull and boring actors with monotone voices, and dialogue that you could only understand if you were a tech major, the film was a SNOOZE FEST.

The only people who actually think this is good are the people who think they are smarter than everyone.

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It's a brilliant story, conveyed horribly. Considering the low budget, I can forgive the poor acting and dialogue. But there are indeed many bad sides to this film that could easily have been improved. For once I would have liked to watch a remake with more professional production and direction.

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Perhaps you should watch less complicated movies. I don't see bad camera work, Just a few night scenes with static which was common back then. I even noticed that in the show 24.

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Perhaps you should watch less complicated movies. I don't see bad camera work, Just a few night scenes with static which was common back then. I even noticed that in the show 24.

I'm a film major and I've worked on several films with A-list actors.

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"I'm a film major."

There it is.

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You know blowup dolls dont count, right?

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Yet your Youtube channel is full of bad Call of Duty videos played on console

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I think i know your problem, and you have written it up yourself - you simply dont understand the film.

I find that most people who complain about "not understanding" films tend to generally actually be less "smarter" than everyone else. So yes, in comparison people who get films like these do tend to be smarter.

Though you are correct that much of the dialogue is quite technical and thus people who dislike science are unlikely to understand it.

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I find that most people who complain about "not understanding" films tend to generally actually be less "smarter" than everyone else. So yes, in comparison people who get films like these do tend to be smarter.


 Zing!

Can't stop the signal.

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There is a reason smarter are used in quotations.

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The only people who actually think this is good are the people who think they are smarter than everyone.


Well, then, clearly, they are if they understood everything you didn't. Or at least smarter than you.

Can't stop the signal.

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I didn´t like it either.
If somebody like it, be real, don´t say it´s the best movie you ever saw, because, then, you are suffering of Emperor´s new clothe syndrome, a very common disease with this movie.
You can´t put The Godfather and primer in the same bag, for example.

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I like Primer above Godfather.
It's in my top ten for sure.

PS I'm smarter than most (Sheldon, Einstein,etc.). So, that's why I liked it?
I like time travel films. Nothing to do with IQ.
But, yes, I understand it all, including the charge that the emperor has no clothes.



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dialogue that you could only understand if you were a tech major


Eh, that might be an issue right there, kid. It's technobabble. It's mostly nonsense. It was a cheap way of trying to add some plausibility to the characters and their ability to do time travel, by convincing the audience that they were some top-tier, silicon valley-esque science-y dudes.

That stuff doesn't last past the beginning of the movie though. The rest is wholly time-travel and paradoxical things.

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Perhaps someone smarter would have watched it to the end before posting about it. Things got explained perfectly, and oh my, you missed ALL the xxx sex scenes. Woe be to you.

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It missed just one thing very dearly.....more cutting!
Cut out all the irrelevant blablabla and it would have been a great 10 minute short film.
If only I could have payed attention then I probably would have understood the science better. But I kept missing things because more interesting things entered my thoughts. Like groceries and the macarena and stuff...

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