Am I missing something?

[kickaha]

Just watched Primer, after months of having folks tell me it was an amazing mind-fuck, and avoiding all spoilers.

So, um, where was the mind-fuck? Seemed like a pretty straight-forward time travel story with multiple causality loops. Well done definitely, but I kept waiting for the big wowzer moment, and then the credits rolled. Ernh?

Seriously, did I miss something?

Edit: Yes, I loved it. :) Just wondering, seriously, if the DVD skipped a chapter or something. Not because it didn't make sense, but because it *did*. My one naggling question was Rachel's Dad. That seemed ambiguous.

(Watch it, if you haven't.)

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[dollraves.livejournal.com]

Nah... I watched. And though I thought it was amazing and even twisty, I didn't consider it even remotely a mindfuck. Like you, I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I didn't see why everyone was raving. *shrug*

As my friend Byron put it after watching it, "That Emperor there ain't got no clothes..."

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

My biggest disappointment was their chance to play with a causal loop Schroedinger's Cat scenario, when they're talking about possibly telling someone else, and looking at the two boxes, and saying "He could be in one of these right now..." It was the one point in the movie where they had the setup all in place to start an interesting diversion, and they bagged it. Ah well, the rest made up for it.