As soon as I read the title of this post, I knew that Primer would be one of the first comments.

You are not alone, that is the hardest time loop movie to wrap your head around.

Relevant XKCD

I didn't grasp the implications of the final scene with Aaron and the workers until I checked the plot write-up on Wikipedia.

I think this movie is virtually impossible to understand in 1 viewing.

I was going to say this, but I figured I could just scroll until I found where someone else inevitably said it.

By the end, I was just letting the drama wash over me and not even trying to sort out which version of who was doing what in which timeline.

And honestly, I suspect that that's the best way to appreciate it anyway.

Came here for this, glad to be beaten to it. I've seen this movie three times and I'm still not sure I could actually explain it.

I watched that movie with my dad.

We were both equally confused and all the unexpected masturbation made it a tad awkward

That's cheating. No one knows what that movie is about.

Which one is your fav out of this list?

The more I read about 2001 and the more I watch it the more I love it!

2001 was a movie that made me go "wait, what? People like this?"

I heard it come up so often and was excited to watch it. Absolutely hated. One of the worst movies I've ever watched. I had to look it up a lot after I watched it because I was sure I had to be missing something big. But no, I wasn't. Really not my kind of movie, I guess.

After watching the movie twice, then reading the book and watching the movie a third time. I now know what's going on.

It took me like half the movie to understand the pidgin for New Hawaii.

The book doesn't jump around. Each story is like a book opened to the halfway point, with another book inserted. They're all nested like this down to New Hawaii, which plays through straight, before finishing each story in turn.

I love ambitious (if somewhat failed) movies like this, and I'm not really sure if the Wachowskis could have done a better job.

For Interstellar, I think it's either you get it or you don't. I got the idea pretty well, aside from the physics and stuff behind it. I talked with some people who couldn't understand it and tried to explain it but it still left them confused.

One my favs as far as heady horror films go. I mean not horror in the traditional sense but getting old is terrifying.

I can think of at least two things wrong with that title

Holy shit was that movie a mindfuck.

Soundtrack is fantastic too

Have you tried watching it while on drugs

Me too. But I still really enjoyed the weirdness of it.

The Arnold film (subtly) tells you that it isn't real. In the beginning, when they are prepping Quaid for the implant, one of the technicians remarks "That's a new one... Blue sky on Mars." At the end of the movie, bam, blue sky on Mars.

There is zero chance that anyone could predict such an event, and no way for Hauser to have known about the reactor or what it would do. Hauser's mission was to infiltrate the rebels and get to Kuato.

There's a lot of other circumstantial evidence, and you could probably explain away a lot of other stuff. But the fact remains that nothing can't be explained as part of the dream, and there's one thing that can't be explained as real.

The is this real or a dream idea was a major theme in many of Phillip K Dick's works. Considering he wrote many of his novels and short stories while off his face on amphetamines and a cocktail of other drugs i guess it should not be much of a surprise.

I wonder if that is a reason so many of his works have been adapted for the screen. Eg:

A Scanner Darkly

Blade Runner

Total Recall

Minority Report

The Adjustment Bureau

Paycheck

Screamers

Impostor

The Crystal Crypt

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