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Interesting article - I am always curious how the psychology behind the edits subconsciously plays into my understanding of, and feelings toward, character dynamics.

For those who haven't seen it, Whiplash is my favorite movie of the past several years. The "third act" is probably the most intense finale I've seen in quite some time as well.

Highly recommended to anyone, musical background or not.

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I am generally a movie curmudgeon with a high bar. I got it as an iTunes rental for a long flight. iTunes only gives you 24 hours once you press play. I watched it three times before expiring.

What else do you like you as much as this?

Spinal Tap. Point Break. Sneakers. Primer.

Cool, agree on the first two, will have to rewatch Sneakers, haven't seen Primer. Here are some of my favorites: Kramer vs. Kramer, High Noon, Groundhog Day, Leon: The Professional. High Noon in particular is told in real time so it has this intense feeling like Whiplash.

Sneakers is wildly entertaining on many levels. Plus it was an early hacker movie which was cool. Primer is trippy, one of those rare movies where you will instantly watch it again after the first viewing. Then you'll google the plot and read for an hour and watch it a third time in the same day. It works though.

Primer is the best film featuring time travel that I've ever seen. And yes, the plot is highly convoluted, and there is virtually no explanation. Also, it was filmed on a very low budget, and some of the key dialog is hard to understand.

Along similar lines to Primer (both in terms of story and production), you might enjoy the film Coherence...

Primer was great! I liked the gritty, detailed, realistic but fictional engineering in the story as much as anything. That aspect reminds me of the Neill Blomkamp films - District 9, Elysium, Chappie.

I remember reading a review/summary/explanation of Primer that was written up--by necessity--in LaTeX.

remember this chart showing the timeline complexity of primer as well ? http://i2.wp.com/bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp...

xkcd's chart for Primer feels just as helpful:

https://xkcd.com/657/

wow, he nailed it again :)

Sneakers is such a great film and so very underrated.

If you haven't seen it The Conversation is a brilliant film for a hacker. And Pi

Even as a musician, it's the human expression side that talked to me. Expressing your voice and ideas. Also the existential notion of time, no rush no drag, very important outside of the instrument.

The final part was like being in a rocket taking off, pretty intense.

he did mess up the shuffle tho on the beginning building snare fill thing. good drummer who played it but he wasnt buddy rich :)

> For those who haven't seen it, Whiplash is my favorite movie of the past several years. The "third act" is probably the most intense finale I've seen in quite some time as well.

Totally agree. I watched it during a flight totally randomly. I didn't expect much but it was a great surprise. The finale was so intense I had to watch it a second time.

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