Darren New wrote:
> I recently watched a movie with "realistic" dialog. Four people in a 
> garage start-up, all talking at once, all using technical terms and 
> pointing at things and upstaging each other, half the time mumbling. It 
> was pretty awful, even tho that's how you'd really do it in real life. 
> However, not actually *being* there, not having binocular vision (so you 
> can see around someone pointing at something) and not having binaural 
> hearing (so you can listen to two people talk at once) made half the 
> movie incomprehensible. (The other half was incomprehensible because it 
> was a time-travel movie and they never told the audience who was (or 
> even how many were) the "new" guy and who was the "original" guy :-)

Aww man, I loved Primer.  Sorry to hear that you didn't like it.  It was 
hard to follow, but the logically consistency and general "realistic" 
feel of everything was far enough outside my experience with other time 
travel movies that it more than made up for it.

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