10 Sci-Fi Movies That Confused Everyone

Watching Primer for the first time is an undeniably captivating experience, but is also completely impossible to follow on the initial viewing.

In basic terms, it follows two inventors attempt to make a machine that will change the mass of objects by manipulating gravity and end up instead making a time machine. Trying to understand it is nigh impossible when you have no clue what anyone is talking about anyway.

Not only is the movie's narrative told in an experimental out-of-sequence fashion, but the film also commits to realism with their conversations about how the machine works. As a result, the time-traveling hijinks and lingo that ensue is impenetrable to a casual viewer.

There are several versions of the same person in multiple universes and all with their own machines. In broad terms, they realize using the time apparatus is bad and work to prevent themselves from ever discovering it, but a future version of one of the men is revealed to be building a giant warehouse-sized one in secret.

It's admirable how devoted to realism the film goes for, but it leaves everyone who isn't a scientific savant completely lost.

For 99% of people, it may as well be seventy-seven minutes of incomprehensible babble.