Mine is The Time Machine (2002) by director Simon Wells

      • reversebananimals@lemmy.world
        38·
        7 个月前

        Its very good. Its a low budget indie film. Its about two unremarkable engineers who work on toy projects in their garage accidentally discovering a type of time travel similar to the movie Looper. The film follows the realization, experimentation and ultimately the downfall of the engineers due to the power of their own discovery.

        Primer is famous for being extremely complex and hard to follow. The characters speak in real engineering jargon, and there’s constant time travel paradoxes happening in the background which you don’t pick up on without multiple viewings.

        If you like being intellectually challenged, its great.

        Should also be mentioned that the director is a massive POS, which is why I don’t promote the movie even though I like it.

        • noroute@lemmy.worldOP
          111·
          7 个月前

          Thank you, director been POS never stopped me from watching or liking the movie/show. I don’t even care for most ratings or reviews. There were many times when rating or review was bad but i loved watching it.

          • magnetosphere@kbin.social
            8·
            7 个月前

            Sometimes I wonder if horrible people can be great storytellers because their outlook on life is so different from our own. That doesn’t excuse or justify their behavior, but still, I wonder.

            • noroute@lemmy.worldOP
              41·
              7 个月前

              From my personal experience watching some POS directors/writers content sometimes they can better than good once.

              • reversebananimals@lemmy.world
                5·
                7 个月前

                Then you should also check out his other film, Upstream Color. Primer is a genre-defining piece of scifi, but Upstream Color is arguably an even better film.

          • triptrapper@lemmy.world
            14·
            7 个月前

            From Wikipedia:

            From 2011 to 2018, Carruth was in a relationship with Amy Seimetz. The couple became engaged in 2013. Seimetz obtained temporary restraining orders against Carruth in 2018 and 2020 and a permanent restraining order in 2020, citing years of domestic and emotional abuse and harassment. Carruth has denied these allegations.

            On January 13, 2022, Carruth was arrested at the home of another ex-girlfriend on allegations of domestic assault and vandalism. He was released four days later on a $50,000 bond.

            • misery mansion@lemmy.world
              1·
              7 个月前

              It’s a shame because the film with Seimetz is called Upstream Color and it’s great. I saw it before the allegations so I’m glad I have an unfettered experience of it.

              But yeah

    • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
      8·
      7 个月前

      Came here to say this. That movie is fantastic. And it was made for basically nothing. It’s so smart.

      • 50MYT@aussie.zone
        5·
        7 个月前

        They begged borrowed and stole everything to make the movie, except spent $8000 to rent lights to film.

        They then went on to make $20m at the box

    • CodeGameEat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      7 个月前

      I’ve watched them so much, that when I started to learn english I just started to watch that movie in english, since i knew by hart half of what they were saying

    • Kichae@lemmy.ca
      81·
      7 个月前

      I was worried when this wasn’t anywhere near the top. These aren’t even my favourite time travel movies, they’re my favourite movies, period, and have been since I was 4.

    • noroute@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      7 个月前

      Oh yeah, this is a classic! Christopher Lloyd was epic there. This was the first movie I noticed this actor.

    • Bakachu@lemmy.world
      26·
      7 个月前

      This show absolutely - if for nothing else but the casting that made you actually believe past/present/future characters were the same person.

      • burkybang@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 个月前

        So true. I could not believe the actor who played old Ulrich Nielsen was not the same as middle aged Ulrich Nielsen.

    • Tehgingey@lemmy.ca
      18·
      7 个月前

      Dark was absolutely incredible, one of the best pieces of media I’ve ever seen. Start to finish such a good story.

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      7 个月前

      I feel like I missed a ton of details on my first watchthrough, but still enjoyed it a ton.

      I’m curious if anyone has given it a second go, and if it added or removed from the experience?

      • ettyblatant@lemmy.world
        17·
        7 个月前

        I have given it a 2nd-3rd-4th go, each time with a new friend who hasn’t yet seen it. And, no joke, I still pick up on a TON of details I’ve missed before. It’s just… so good

    • andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world
      11·
      7 个月前

      It’s so good, I got excited when a tv series was announced. Unfortunately the show was bollocks. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

      • masquenox@lemmy.world
        31·
        7 个月前

        I never bother with spin-off shit - it’s always just money-grabbing and little else.

    • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialEnglish
      41·
      7 个月前

      I love how casual they approach time travel. It makes no sense, is incredibly inconsistent, and the more you think about it the more you’ll hate it. But it’s a fun series everyone must watch.

      Spoilers:

      The time travel mechanic literally makes Bill and Ted the only people that matter, ever, in the history of time. The world belongs to Bill and Ted and this is their playground. I love how the characters recognize this in the movies too, so the writers obviously knew their time travel dynamic was goofy.

      At least in the first movie:

      • Only people who can change their future actions that’ll have an impact on the future is Bill and Ted (time traveller who told them to pass a class influenced Bill and Ted to change their future actions)

      • If someone other than Bill and Ted interacts with a different time, it has effectively zero impact on their future actions and society is largely unchanged (ie stealing Socrates and Napoleon into the present didn’t really affect modern society, and nobody found it weird a blue phone booth existed in the 1700s?!)

      • Even though Bill and Ted are time traveling, any time they spend time traveling counts against an absolute timeline leading up to their presentation.

      I think some of these dynamics changed in the second movie, and again in different ways in the third movie but don’t remember it’s plot enough to defend that claim.

      • HeartyOfGlass@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        7 个月前

        Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is my favorite, but I’ll sit through any of em. I just love those characters, and genuinely try to live my life along the “be excellent to each other” philosophy.

            • Coherence@lemmy.world
              3·
              7 个月前

              I’ve been a who fan for almost 40 years and didn’t put 2 and 2 together until your comment… feeling elated for the revelation and a bit like a nonce at the same time

    • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
      21·
      7 个月前

      Oh yeah, I watched it so many times.

      If I can’t choose Bill & Ted then I’d say Terminator 2.

      • noroute@lemmy.worldOP
        11·
        7 个月前

        You can, its just a suggestion not a rule ;-) This way we can try and get more different titles posted here =)

    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
      7·
      7 个月前

      I was surprised by how good this was. The premise seems very … simple? They did a really good job with it though, very entertaining.