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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 01:55 PM
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Need help remembering the name of a time travel movie
It's about two guys who figure out a way to go back in time a few days. They're going to put a bunch of money into the stock marked. They end up going back and forth and actually run into themselves. Wild movie that is just about impossible to figure out.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:04 PM
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1. This one?
Edited on Tue May-31-11 02:06 PM by MorningGlow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

Oops link won't quite work. But you get the idea. The tail end is /Primer underscore (film) no spaces.

On edit: Better link (IMDb): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:55 PM
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2. That's it! Thank you much!
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:56 PM
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3. Oh, don't thank me--thank Google
I just plugged in "time travel movie" and "stock market" and bam! :hi:
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 01:52 AM
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10. Primer
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 03:03 PM
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4. Here is the time travel bonanza,,,
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 12:10 AM
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8. They left out one of my favorite time travel "B" movies
When Time Expires (1997) with Richard Grieco, Chad Everett and Tim Thomerson.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120502/
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 03:12 PM
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5. There were only two things about it I couldn't figure out,
either right away, or at all.

The ending took a while to figure out, as it's pretty vague.

And I never could figure out why they didn't stop their experiments the very moment their handwriting went to shit and their ears started bleeding. I can't think of a single engineer I know that would have ignored adverse medical effects and pushed on anyway. That part really stood out to me in the movie and why it made me think much less of it than was developed in the story before that point.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:27 PM
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6. i never stopped anything i wanted to do because my handwriting went to shit and my ears were bleedin
Edited on Tue May-31-11 09:28 PM by pitohui
i liked the movie, the point you make seems valid when i read it written down but whilst watching the movie i have to admit that it never crossed my mind

lots of engineers wouldn't stop their experiments at that point, in my opinion, i thought it was called testosterone

seriously if you get that far you're just gonna ... stop? how could you?

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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 12:24 AM
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9. Because...
brain damage can be permanent, and then you can't do what you set out to do. Seems rather obvious to me.
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 06:47 AM
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11. The one guy states very early in the film
That in NO WAY does he consider the experiments to be safe. They went into it knowing it was a bit crazy.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 07:04 AM
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12. And that's where I lose any sense of "disbelief".
It was simply not realistic to me, whereas most everything else was.

At the very least within the story they could have had MRIs done. Then if those came back negative or inconclusive, then I could have seen them pressing on. Otherwise, I thought that was the biggest plot-busting flaw.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:30 PM
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7. Can't you just go back in time to when you first saw it?
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