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Primer

Over at Techland they are going through some of the most important Sci-Fi movies from the first century of cinema. Today they posted about Primer, a movie I completely loved and yet had forgotten about.

Here is the plot (from Netflix):

Quite by accident, an engineer builds a machine that can transport the user back in time. But his discovery comes with an ominous caveat: At the heart of this puzzling device, nothing is as it seems on the surface. David Sullivan and Shane Carruth co-star in this Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, a film whose inventive narrative blends a patchwork story line with overlapping streams of dialogue that help build tension and suspense.

Primer is the best time travel movie ever. Oh, wait - Back to the Future trilogy. Hmm, let's say it this way: it is the best movie about real, possible time travel ever. While I am fuzzy on some of the details, I remember thinking about the movie and forcing it on friends long after I initially watched it. The movie's budget was a paltry $7000. $7000! Avatar probably spent that much the first .00003 seconds of production.

I highly recommend checking it out and will be renting it and going through it again for myself. Hopefully I can convince my wife to sit through it with me. Here is the trailer:

Click here to add it to your Netflix Que.

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Attention Time Travelers!

If you are anything like me, it is not uncommon to find yourself in some past age with the flux capacitor in your time machine on the fritz. It is hard enough to work of those things without all the peasants yelling that you are some sort of witch and hurling fruit and vegetables at you. I mean, honestly, who throws produce?

I remember this one time .........


Well, that's a story for another post. Anyway, the point is that I have often wondered what I would do if I ended being stranded in the past. I wonder how I would survive, of course, but more importantly I wonder how I would rise to dominate and control the indigenous people. I mean, what good is being trapped in the past if you are just another peasant or low-end soldier? Please!

Fortunately, there is now a great history cheat sheet that I can hang in my time machine in case of emergency. I post it here so that my fellow time travelers might purchase their own copy. Keep in mind, however, that if we both become trapped in the same time era I must destroy you. Just a heads up.


Get your print or T-shirt here.

Created by Ryan North (the great Dinosaur Comics).



HT: Dark Roasted Blend


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