I feel like there's an uncanny valley for movie physics. And movie everything, in fact. Guns, lawyers, spaceships, cops, cars. There's a threshold where a movie cleaves *too* hard to the reality, and so becomes counterintuitively less credible as a story
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This is why something ridiculous can take you out of the movie even though other ridiculous things happened earlier in the same movie. There are, believe it or not, levels of ridiculousness
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This is why a sudden and entirely unexpected appeal to genuine physical laws, in an otherwise physically nonsensical soft science fiction yarn, can also take you out of the movie
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So where's Primer on this graph?
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Primer is extremely tonally consistent. It presents some frankly impossible things in a very humdrum, low-key way which is appropriate to the humdrum, low-key setting of the story. It's an A+
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