One of the best sci-fi flicks in the last decade or three premieres tonight on IFC.
Primer
is the story of two engineers who get in a little bit over their heads when they create an actual time machine(s). This is one of the movies that I caught, not unlike Hex, one day completely by accident (well, I had been looking forward to seeing Hex, but kept missing it; Primer was a total like, "Nothing else was on" discovery) and just lost my shit over. By far and away, easily, hands-down, the best sci-fi flick since... I don't even know what.
But it's far more than that: Primer is a total cross-genre movie that will flat-out rock your little bean! Albert Einstein would be all like, "Revind that! Vait! There! Right there, stop!" It is a crime-drama, horror, mystery, suspense sci-fi movie that just doesn't stop. It takes a moment or two to really get going, but that's the beauty of it: not only does this kind of "non-"start lull you into an almost dispassionate sense of befuddlement, it manages to engross you in the characters and minutiae of the plot to the extent that you don't really mind that not much is happening. Then it all comes full-circle in a matter of minutes that make you realize how important all that minutiae is to the overall story.
Don't even try to catch everything the first-time around because it just won't happen; relax, enjoy, let it play and wash over you, but I guarantee that after you see it, you'll be all like, "Vait! Revind that!"
Primer is far beyond "brilliance"; this movie is one of the very few films that I openly praise as true genius, and I don't throw that term around lightly.
Primer premieres on IFC at 8:00 PM (CST), followed by New Rose Hotel (based on one of the fathers of the Cyberpunk movement, William Gibson's, short). The replay of both flicks starts at midnight.
Primer
is the story of two engineers who get in a little bit over their heads when they create an actual time machine(s). This is one of the movies that I caught, not unlike Hex, one day completely by accident (well, I had been looking forward to seeing Hex, but kept missing it; Primer was a total like, "Nothing else was on" discovery) and just lost my shit over. By far and away, easily, hands-down, the best sci-fi flick since... I don't even know what.But it's far more than that: Primer is a total cross-genre movie that will flat-out rock your little bean! Albert Einstein would be all like, "Revind that! Vait! There! Right there, stop!" It is a crime-drama, horror, mystery, suspense sci-fi movie that just doesn't stop. It takes a moment or two to really get going, but that's the beauty of it: not only does this kind of "non-"start lull you into an almost dispassionate sense of befuddlement, it manages to engross you in the characters and minutiae of the plot to the extent that you don't really mind that not much is happening. Then it all comes full-circle in a matter of minutes that make you realize how important all that minutiae is to the overall story.
Don't even try to catch everything the first-time around because it just won't happen; relax, enjoy, let it play and wash over you, but I guarantee that after you see it, you'll be all like, "Vait! Revind that!"
Primer is far beyond "brilliance"; this movie is one of the very few films that I openly praise as true genius, and I don't throw that term around lightly.
Primer premieres on IFC at 8:00 PM (CST), followed by New Rose Hotel (based on one of the fathers of the Cyberpunk movement, William Gibson's, short). The replay of both flicks starts at midnight.
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