Primer is one of my favourite movies ever. It was made on a budget of 3 peanuts and pocket lint, and it shows, but damn it’s an interesting premise.
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davidgro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In most media time machines are also teleporters - many are explicitly so, with the destination space needing to be chosen at the same time as the destination time, but even when that’s not shown they still make the time traveller suddenly vanish and then just suddenly reappear elsewhen.
One movie I’ve seen with a more “realistic” time machine is Primer. It’s not at all a teleporter or portal. Very slight spoiler:
It sidesteps the whole issue that OP presents because the place where you exit the machine after traveling is just where the machine is when it’s turned on to begin with. You can’t time travel outside the machine, including to before it exists, and your path (in all four dimensions) is contiguous.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
seth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Still in my top 5. I think the acting is better than most science fiction blockbusters and every science fiction series.
FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Great movie. I enjoyed the lofi feel of Primer as it handled a really fun concept.
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same with The End of Eternity - they can travel to different times at which the machine existed.
In fact, isn’t it a bit similar with the only ‘real’ possibility of time travel - you create a wormhole and age one end by moving it faster than the other end, but the only possible travel is between the two ends that you have created.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I prefer the H.G. Wells style, where you affect the flow of time instead of a discontinuous jump.
You’re still attached to your current location, things just happen faster (in forwards or reverse). It also means that time travel takes time, which can be a handy plot tool.