{"id":102,"date":"2004-08-29T16:19:54","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2004-08-29T16:19:54","modified_gmt":"2004-08-29T16:19:54","slug":"intrigued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Intrigued"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Primer is a Super 16mm film by Shane Carruth that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it won two major prizes and a fair amount of acclaim. As far as I can make out from the trailer (click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primermovie.com\/trailer_whatisessential_Large.html\">here<\/a> for 10mb QuickTime version) and various websites, the story is about four men build error-checking devices in their spare time. Through trial and error, they build a (time travel?) device that two of them realise is too valuable to market. The strapline for the film &#8211; &#8220;If you always want what you can&#8217;t have, what do you want when you can have anything?&#8221; &#8211; hints at the potential of such a scenario. Viewer opinion seems polarised with some geeks and science fiends giving it a thumbs up whilst others scratch their heads and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/primer\/\">dismiss it as claptrap<\/a>. I&#8217;d like to see it and make up my own mind but, as it isn&#8217;t even released in the US until October, I doubt it will reach the UK any time soon and then maybe only as a DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, closer to home, I am looking forward to some extended couch time over the next 72 hours as I watch the always-watchableand grossly under-used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenstott.info\/\">Ken Stott<\/a> in the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/northernireland\/drama\/messiah\/\">Messiah III<\/a>.  The two previous two-parters, written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/northernireland\/realmedia\/drama\/messiah\/messiah3_lizzie.ram\">Lizzie Mickery<\/a>, have been excellent examples of a genre the BBC do so well &#8211; taut scripted, finely crafted, well acted psychological dramas.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primer is a Super 16mm film by Shane Carruth that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it won two major prizes and a fair amount of acclaim. As far as I can make out from the trailer (click here for 10mb QuickTime version) and various websites, the story is about four men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}