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	Primer (movie) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Primer is a 2004 film written and directed by Shane Carruth.
		Primer' s plot, though highly recursive and filled with developments whose implications may initially be difficult to follow, has been generally well received by critics as creative and inventive given the often-abused science fiction theme of time travel.
		Primer was filmed with a budget of only USD $7,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Primer_(movie) (446 words)

	Primer Movie Review
		Primer tells the story of four friends, Aaron, Abe, Phillip, and Robert, who work by day as engineers at large, faceless corporations and spend their free time in Aaron’s garage, developing personal projects in the hope of hitting upon an idea profitable enough to allow them to become their own bosses.
		Primer has none of the fancy special effects or distracting CGI images that we’ve come to associate with contemporary science fiction, relying instead on the classic sci-fi model of setting up a complex ethical dilemma and then watching the characters squirm around in it.
		Primer isn’t for everyone, but for those who enjoy a complex, tricky plot (the obvious, and already overused, comparison is Memento), it marks the debut of an exciting new talent.
	www.pajiba.com /primer.htm (595 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Primer
		As much as Primer is about the science (at least, the look and feel of it), the jargon-filled dialogue is substantial and stylistic, tying King Solomon knots into every interpersonal exchange that happens in the washed-out, blue-and-gold suburbscape of Carruth's Dallas shooting ground.
		The puzzles in Primer are atmospheric to the extreme, as they overlap, double back and careen off in various directions; they function doubly as brain-teasers and incitements for people to pay for multiple viewings, all the better, to decode Carruth's hectic speculations.
		Primer is a first rate film and hollywood should watch and learn.
	www.hour.ca /film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=4829 (1761 words)

	Primer (2004): Reviews
		The movie may be too precious for mass consumption, but its filmmakers' willingness to assume the best of their audience, combined with its Everyman origins, suggest a movie that deserves a chance.
		Primer is obviously not for all tastes, but if it connects with you, prepare to be obsessed.
		The movie is a study of the interaction between two nerdy guys who get into a project over their heads, but the story itself is a puzzle that must be figured out.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/primer (1124 words)

	eastbayexpress.com \| Culture \| The Hard Sell \| 2004-02-11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Primer 's not quite the controversial film The Believer is, but it comes with its own set of issues, chief among them that the movie's about as easy to follow as a raindrop in a hurricane.
		He used a 35mm camera to storyboard the movie and learned the mathematic principles involved in cinematography--in other words, he basically figured it out as though shooting a film were a math problem for which only he could find the solution.
		But the movie was one of those snowflakes that turns into an avalanche in the Utah mountains: With every screening, and there were five spread throughout the festival, more and more people showed up, and more and more stayed for the Q&A sessions with Carruth after the screening.
	www.eastbayexpress.com /issues/2004-02-11/stuff.html (2160 words)

	Joe Critic \| "Primer" Movie Review & More
		Primer is one of those types of films, only created at a fraction of the price.
		Primer was created by Shane Carruth, an admitted novice who wrote a decent script and took it upon himself to get it filmed for the lowest price possible.
		Primer has already won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and screened at Cannes this year.
	www.joecritic.com /revarchives/00000271.php (702 words)

	Primer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Primer arrives with gobs of hype and the Grand Jury Prize from Sundance.
		A great deal of the dialogue is technical gobbledygook which has left viewers puzzled and confused, but that might have been forgiven had the narrative and sequence of events been presented with any clarity.
		This is a film at the undergraduate film school level, not one that should be sold to moviegoers paying the full price of a ticket.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies9/Primer.htm (415 words)

	Primer - DVD Movie Central
		Time travel movies are often fraught with anomalies, specifically regarding what actually might happen if you go back and make small changes to the events that have led up to the present.
		If nothing else, Primer is the first film that pays less heed to the fantasy of going back in time and more to the scientific implications of it.
		Primer deals with expansive issues, and a great deal of it was shot in Carruth's garage.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/primer.htm (855 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Primer
		The film’s low budget, quick wit, mere 77 minute running time and intricate script allow the audience to suspend any disbelief on what “time-travel” is about and makes it more about what it would be like if this kind of “fantastical” element was really introduced to two real-life office drones.
		I did have a couple problems with some of the film’s editing structure and some of film’s twists lost me for a second but there is so much interesting stuff here to behold.
		Given its financial constraints and wealth of intelligence, “Primer” is definitely a must-see for every sci-fi and would-be sci-fi fan out there.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews.php?id=primer (342 words)

	"Primer" (movie) -- X-PHILES WORLD-Off Topic
		The guys in the movie (it's a mostly male cast; one of the men has a wife, but she's not it in it much) are sort of better-looking versions of the Lone Gunmen.
		Now, I realize that there are some movies where these things are actually essential plot elements, but a LOT of movies just seem to throw them in to keep the audience from wandering off to the popcorn stand or something.
		The writer/director of "Primer" seems confident that his movie is intriguing enough for people to enjoy it even though nothing blows up and nobody strips.
	www.voy.com /3051/4853.html (229 words)

	0x2a: Movie Review: Primer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Primer is the story of a bunch of guys accidently building a time machine in their garage.
		This sounds horribly complicated and actually more or less is horribly complicated, but nevertheless the movie does a great job at hiding its complexity to the (first time) viewer.
		There is a recurring line in the movie, that might describe quite a bit of how the movie was made and actually also how I think about creativity: "They took from their surroundings what was needed and made of it something more."
	www.codingmonkeys.de /map/log/archives/000192.html (341 words)

	Movie Review - Primer - eFilmCritic
		Primer (2004) puts forth some interesting ideas, but anyone who struggled in high school science class is going to be hard-pressed to follow them.
		The origins of Primer, which are currently being gobbled up by the media, are as follows: Trained in mathematics and engineering, 31-year old Shane Carruth began writing the film’s screenplay while still employed as a software engineer.
		Primer might be the most pretentious and stupid movie ever made.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=8535&reviewer=379 (761 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Primer
		While the prospect of a self-styled auteur tackling quantum physics in his film debut immediately strikes fear in my heart, it turns out Shane Carruth and Primer are direct beneficiaries of their own limitations.
		As the film unfolded it occurred to me that if something like this were ever to happen, this is the way it would happen.
		Primer is not Memento, or even Darren Aronofsky's ìPiî which is certainly a fair comparison.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/primer-cm-153524316.html (439 words)

	Primer Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		This is not a thriller that builds to an obvious climax where all hell breaks loose, but a film that quietly portrays the insidious effects of time travel on the characters' psyches.
		If Primer is a little too murky at times to follow, it's refreshing to see a film that's almost too smart for its own good—at least in terms of reaching a mass audience—rather than some formulaic drivel devoid of anything resembling originality or intelligence.
		Aaron (Carruth) and Abe (rookie David Sullivan) are engineers who, along with two buddies, spend 30 hours a week in Aaron's garage, trying to come up with inventions that will make money on top of their significant corporate incomes.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=138868 (1523 words)

	Andy's Anachronisms -- Primer (2004)
		Primer follows the story of four entrepreneurs struggling to get rich by building and marketing hi-tech gadgets out of their garage.
		In the final act of the movie it’s revealed that the two have been separately using the time machine for their own agenda.
		As a rule, I don’t normally go looking for the moral to a story, but in the case of Primer there seems to be two apparent ones worth considering.
	www.timetravelreviews.com /movies/primer.html (1212 words)

	Primer (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But while the movie has one sci-fi element in it (the device), the movie isn't even about that.
		I was up for hours discussing this movie with friends, and if that's not what you like to do with your movies, then this one probably isn't for you.
		Remember, Shane Carruth had no idea even how to make a movie when he started making this one, but the end result is something far more fascinating than your typical film-school snob could ever put together.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0390384 (464 words)

	P R I M E R M O V I E
		PRIMER is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage.
		While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities--ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want.
		PRIMER was Sullivan's first official casting call, and his first leading role in a feature film.
	www.primermovie.com /story.html (2160 words)

	Primer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		PRIMER is a mesmerizing thriller that introduces a gifted new filmmaker with an exciting new sensibility.
		The inspiration for PRIMER came to Carruth at a time when he was reading books about discoveries.
		Following a viewing of PRIMER -- and it may not be one's last viewing of the film -- nothing about the experience of watching movies is likely to be the same.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/primer/about.php (1806 words)

	Primer Movie Review - MovieWeb
		When I say that Primer requires a second viewing to fully understand it, I donât necessarily mean it as a compliment.
		But Primer is deliberately hard to follow â” less in what happens than why itâs happening; less in its science than in its fiction.
		Primer is a detached experience relying less on character and mood; the actors are fine but Aaron and Abe are too normal to stand out.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/264301 (775 words)

	8mm Movie Film Primer by Super 8mm Filmmaker Super 8 Man
		Eight millimeter movie film is 25 ft. long and 16mm wide in its original form.
		A word of caution: although the original width is 16mm, 16mm movie film cannot be used in your 8mm camera.
		This is because 8mm movie film requires twice as many perforations as 16mm film.
	home.pacbell.net /mnyberg/super8mm/8mm/primer.htm (189 words)

	Primer Movie Review - MovieWeb
		Primer is in dire need of some sort of voice-over guide.
		Primer knows we are a bunch of peeping toms sitting there, staring at it like a naked girl through a window.
		Director Shane Carruth, in a means to validate and actualize the art of time travel, saps the fantastical elements out of the action and makes it a boring boardroom dissertation that would fail in appealing to Hewlett Packard tech heads at a board meeting.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/reviews/review.php?film=2447&review=584 (1792 words)

	Dialectic Humanism: Primer - the movie review
		The only reason I went to see Primer was because of the buzz brought on by its awards at Sundance 2004 (Grand Jury Prize, and Alfred P. Sloan Award), and a local rag gave it a good review.
		Much of the excitement generated by this film springs from its minuscule budget - supposedly Primer was made for under $10,000.
		The other films that have sent me to dreamland are Fritz Lang's silent movie classic Metropolis, and the documentary Endurance on the ill fated Shackleton expedition to the South Pole.
	dialectichumanism.blogspot.com /2004/10/primer-movie-review.html (287 words)

	The Amateur Movie Primer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		If you start showing people your movies you are going to get people who love them and just as many, if not more, who hate them.
		On my movie Inquisition, I went in thinking I knew just what was needed for the film and how to make it the best possible movie there was.
		There are a lot of bad amateur movies out there, but from watching them you could figure out what to avoid and not do.
	www.cinemaeye.com /pagetwo/309_0_8_0 (943 words)

	Primer - MoviesOnline!
		Everything you think you know about modern science is about to unravel in the provocative thriller Primer, an award-winning film available on DVD from New Line Home Entertainment on April 5, 2005....
		Since it's discovery, "Primer", the new indie thriller by Shane Carruth is one I've been keeping a watch on.
		Thinkfilms has a really slick movie called Bright young Things, set in the 1930âs, the film centers around a social set known to the press â“ who follow their every move â“ as the âBright Young...
	www.moviesonline.ca /film1310.htm (370 words)

	Primer (kottke.org)
		Great movie, though, and having lived in Addison I noticed quite a few places I've been to and thought "man this would be a great location for a movie scene".
		No matter how perfectly and poetically the climax of a movie (or any narrative for that matter) wraps things up, you still have to get there, and the getting there has to be good for the whole thing to be good.
		I didn't think it was that hard to follow, but I knew it was a challenging movie going in and paused the movie a lot to think about what was happening before moving on with it.
	www.kottke.org /05/05/primer (2663 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Primer (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		"Primer" is one of those very rare movies that comes along to give Hollywood a real kick in the pants-to say "THIS is how you create a thriller"-it's in the heart, not in the budget.
		Primer is already a cult classic and will be discussed for years to come.
		The part that I really liked about this movie is its exploration into what happens in the human character and their relationships when they stumble onto a resource that provides great benefit and huge circumstance, and yet don't really fully understand or prepare themselves for how/why it works or the implications it brings with it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007N1JC8?v=glance (2432 words)

	Primer : Movie Description, Show times & Film Critics - Quebec - CinemaQuebec.com
		Another movie that was difficult to understand was Mulholland Drive, but the difference is that Mulholland was entertaining despite the confusing plot, and the fun came from trying to figure it out.
		Primer is the kind of movie that seems as if the plot should be a little easier to get.
		Great movie, not to be missed; although you may have to see it a second time if you don't pay attention.
	www.cinemaquebec.com /aw/crva.aw/p.cq/r.que/m.Quebec/j.e/i.7425/s.0/f.Primer.html (757 words)

	greg hughes - dot - net - Primer: One great movie you need to see, but can't just yet...
		Primer: One great movie you need to see, but can't just yet...
		Primer is the sleeper movie that will make it’s way into lots of living rooms this spring, via DVD.
		If you like movies that make you watch, challenge your mind, tell a great story, won't let you forget about them, and which successfully don't fit the typical Hollywood mold, this one you will want to see.
	www.greghughes.net /rant/PermaLink,guid,47527ee2-89ad-441b-b6c4-64fee37c52d3.aspx (636 words)

	The Trades - Entertainment Industry Analysis
		This doesn't mean "Primer" is an especially good film, because there are many problems with it, but I have to applaud Carruth for trying to bring a sense of reality to the concept.
		Part of the story seems to be about an attempt to interrupt some unpleasant incident involving the girlfriend of Abe (Samantha Thomson as Rachel Granger) and her ex-boyfriend showing up at a party with a shotgun.
		The movie was made, it says in the press guide, for $7000 and that shows.
	www.the-trades.com /column.php?columnid=2779 (961 words)

	greg hughes - dot - net - Primer - out on DVD already
		If you know anything about the plot of this movie, this time shift on the DVD release is a complete mind mess.
		This movie was made on a $7,000 budget by a first-time movie maker, and it beats the pants off most films made these days.
		And one of the best things about Primer is that it takes your brain for a twister of a ride, gives it a real workout.
	www.greghughes.net /rant/PrimerOutOnDVDAlready.aspx (491 words)

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