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Title text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.


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These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicate which characters are together at a given time.


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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I've never seen "Primer", but after seeing this chart I'm a bit scared...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I watched it once in a university cinema. They showed it twice to give people a chance to really understand it but most left, including me because it was so much beyond that a second watch couldn't clear it up.

But yes, I watched it, AMA, but nothing about the movie

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have watched it twice.

I still have no idea if that timeline is close to correct or completely wrong. I still don't get exactly what the end of the movie means. I highly suspect the movie's story doesn't end at the end of the movie, but I have no way to be certain. I still don't know if a couple of people actually died.

Or, in other words, I only watched it twice. I have no idea what the story is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still don’t get exactly what the end of the movie means.

it means Aaron is creating a giant time machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But were they all over the world already? Is the machine under construction or running for thousands of iterations?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, that was your mistake because during the second viewing you from one week in the future would have walked in and explained the plot to you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For one thing, it's not linear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a couple of guys use time travel to try to get rich, but they completely fuck up their lives in the process

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's kind of complex to follow through and they left out a lot of explaining so you have to use your brain. It's a fun but not great movie. However it's the only one with properly done time traveling logic and after watching it, you will see all other time traveling movies as a joke.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any movie that forces an entire genre of fiction to measure up against it is a great movie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's not as well shot as it could have been and acting could be better. So great in some aspect, yes. Not so much in others. But it's well worth the watch definitely.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Watch it...it's not scary or anything, just really hard to keep track of all the time jumping. Interesting concept though...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think the chart is accurate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't either but I've heard is a really decent time travel movie

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If anything, the chart is simplified.