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Re: Predestination - Film Review
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07/03/2015 22:13
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Sounds awfully like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies (here http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/303/heinlein_all_you_zombies.pdf if you want to read it). Good to see the film-makers have moved on in the fifty-odd years since he wrote it!
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Re: Predestination - Film Review
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10/03/2015 19:56
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Reverse time-travel is logically incoherent, but not to worry! Sounds fun.
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Re: Predestination - Film Review
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11/03/2015 10:33
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It’s a cracking film. I caught it during a film festival last year.
Yes, it’s based on All You Zombies – but if you don’t know the old story, don’t read it until after seeing the film! Predestination works much better when you have no idea what to expect.
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Re: Predestination - Film Review
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11/03/2015 13:26
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No, no … it was screened at some film festivals last year, then got a proper general release just last month. So it’s a this-year film really. I just saw it early!
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Re: Predestination - Film Review
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11/03/2015 18:26
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Saw this last year and quite liked it, the acting and photography were excellent but something about the time travel paradox of the story didn't work for me. Maybe I was just distracted by the main character looking a bit too much like Leonardo DiCaprio's evil twin.
Still prefer the Spanish time travel thriller, Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes).
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Re: Predestination - Film Review
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11/03/2015 19:29
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Re: Predestination - Film Review
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11/03/2015 19:52
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Re: Predestination - Film Review
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11/03/2015 21:15
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Pace was too slow for my liking and the fizzle bomber sub-plot was weak. @Graham - Would you agree other time paradox movies usually have more credibility because it's conceivable events in an original timeline led to the paradox existing?
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Re: Predestination - Film Review
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11/03/2015 21:22
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The bomber sub-plot was one of the things invented by the film - it wasn’t part of the original short story. Possibly why it didn’t sit so well?
If you want a truly cracking time travel paradox film, I recommend Primer. Be prepared to watch it more than once though, to try and make sense of the time loops …
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