t3knomanser: Gleeman: This timeline (new window) helped me figure out what was going on when I re-watched it.

I find timelines to be more confusing than the film itself. If you view Primer through the lens of "there is no time travel," the plot makes much more sense. Instead of traveling through time, the entire story revolves around people who connect two distant points in spacetime through a shortcut- the result looks like time travel, except they never escape causality.

Hmm, interesting idea...have to re-watch it sometime with that POV.


Although Primer is generally acclaimed as one of (if not the best) theoretical/thought out time travel movies ever filmed.

/but I still get confused watching it.

Also, this:

That's "Hooper", Big Bird, "Hooper", not Looper....



DRTFA

Old man remembers old Sesame Street

Shootity-bangity, timey-wimey.

Carth: labman: Alphax: That's.. not quite what I imagined. An assassin who doesn't have to go anywhere, the victims just appear in front of him for death?

Are they appearing at the same spot they left? if not, just drop them over the middle of the ocean 400 years ago. then you don't have that pesky assassin to worry about.

or just drop them in the middle of the Jurassic period or ice age with no way of time traveling back to the present.


I find your attempt at Terra Novacating this thread disturbing....

KRAMER: Oh no, no,. no. I had to fish around in the evidence room for it. You know, they're all preoccupied, trying to hunt down this new psycho-serial killer, the Lopper. All right, I'll see ya.
ELAINE: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Who is the Lopper?
KRAMER: Oh, it's no big deal. It's just some guy who's been running around Riverside park-pffff. You know, cutting people's heads off.
JERRY: How come I haven't read about this?
KRAMER: Well, you know, the police, they've been having some internal dissension about the name.
ELAINE: Really? What're the other titles?
KRAMER: Uh, Headso...uh...The Denogginizer...Son of dad.
JERRY: Son of dad?
KRAMER: Yeah. That was my suggestion. It's sort of a catchall.

GoodyearPimp: A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock.

I guess I need more explanation. Why would you need to send someone back in time to kill them? I suppose it does take care of leaving evidence, but if things have advanced enough to allow time travel...

Yeah, I'm not sure about that, either...

Really, just seems like a convenient device allowing them to do a "Bob's a contract killer, but his next contract... is on HIMSELF! [dun dun DUNNNN!!!]" story (Oh, the EYE-RON-EEEE!), but with a twist (ghost written by M. Night Shamalamadingdong?).

Still, doesn't mean it's terrible, I guess.