Lord Ba'al
Well Known GateFan
Okay, first of all, I'm finding it very confusing to find the correct place to post this. Why is there a separate section for "Science Fiction Movies" and then another one for "Science Fiction, Fantasy Movies"? The first one has only two threads in it and this one seams to have many, so I figured I'd post this in here even though I originally intended to post it in the other section. I also found it difficult to find because this general section is called "In Movie Theaters - Box Office and Movie Reviews" and this is not in theaters, has nothing to do with box office and it's not a review either. Still this does appear to be the most appropriate place to post it, so here goes. Feel free to move it elsewhere if necessary.
Anyway, I got home from work a few hours ago and plunged myself onto the sofa and turned on Netflix and saw this movie named Synchronicity pass by as I was browsing. I had noticed it before but had not watched it because it was rated for 1 star. This time I was just in the mood to put something on without paying much attention to it so without much further thought I hit play.
In the beginning of the movie I was like "meh, what the fuck is this". I figured that it would probably stay that way as people had apparently generally rated it 1 star, but I stuck with it nonetheless, I was busy doing my daily internet "chores" anyway. After a while I started to find the movie more interesting and paid more attention to the TV and less to my laptop. About halfway through the movie I was wondering why it only had 1 star as I would rate it 3 stars. From then on I was pretty much only still paying attention to the movie and for the time being had forgotten all about my laptop.
As the story progressed further, in my opinion, it kept getting more and more interesting. I was now considering rating it 4 stars. In the end, I ended up rating it for 5 stars.
I think what put most people of is that it takes a while to get going combined with the complexity of the plot. The plot appears to keep getting more and more complex. Actually, to be honest, I couldn't quite grasp all of it, but that somehow makes me like it more. I'll probably have to watch the movie a couple of times more before I can put more parts of it together. I'm not going to say much about the movie because I wouldn't want to spoil anything, but what I can say is that it is based around time travel, which is the reason for its complexity.
In that sense, the movie reminded me of some other movie that I saw a couple of years ago of which I am now struggling to remember the name. Ah yes, a simple Google search on "complex time travel movie" immediately found it for me, that movie was called Primer. So Synchronicity has a similar complexity to it as Primer, or at least that's what it felt like to me. But perhaps I was just tired.
So, has anyone of you perhaps watched Synchronicity? What did you think?
Here's a link to IMDB in case you're interested.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049543/
Anyway, I got home from work a few hours ago and plunged myself onto the sofa and turned on Netflix and saw this movie named Synchronicity pass by as I was browsing. I had noticed it before but had not watched it because it was rated for 1 star. This time I was just in the mood to put something on without paying much attention to it so without much further thought I hit play.
In the beginning of the movie I was like "meh, what the fuck is this". I figured that it would probably stay that way as people had apparently generally rated it 1 star, but I stuck with it nonetheless, I was busy doing my daily internet "chores" anyway. After a while I started to find the movie more interesting and paid more attention to the TV and less to my laptop. About halfway through the movie I was wondering why it only had 1 star as I would rate it 3 stars. From then on I was pretty much only still paying attention to the movie and for the time being had forgotten all about my laptop.
As the story progressed further, in my opinion, it kept getting more and more interesting. I was now considering rating it 4 stars. In the end, I ended up rating it for 5 stars.
I think what put most people of is that it takes a while to get going combined with the complexity of the plot. The plot appears to keep getting more and more complex. Actually, to be honest, I couldn't quite grasp all of it, but that somehow makes me like it more. I'll probably have to watch the movie a couple of times more before I can put more parts of it together. I'm not going to say much about the movie because I wouldn't want to spoil anything, but what I can say is that it is based around time travel, which is the reason for its complexity.
In that sense, the movie reminded me of some other movie that I saw a couple of years ago of which I am now struggling to remember the name. Ah yes, a simple Google search on "complex time travel movie" immediately found it for me, that movie was called Primer. So Synchronicity has a similar complexity to it as Primer, or at least that's what it felt like to me. But perhaps I was just tired.
So, has anyone of you perhaps watched Synchronicity? What did you think?
Here's a link to IMDB in case you're interested.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049543/
