# Tell me why I should like Primer.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 1, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-why-i-should-like-primer/651727 "2013-03-01T14:14:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-why-i-should-like-primer/651727/61 "2015-09-22T02:02:59Z")

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> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#):
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> I have spoiled your post.

Thanks, and sorry about that.

BTW, to everyone:

That post was part clumsy spoiler, part joking reference to _The Baader Meinhof Complex_. I suppose I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which part is which. 😉

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-why-i-should-like-primer/651727/62 "2015-09-22T17:35:47Z")

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Also, I’m sorry if I came across as if I was dissing _Coherence_, which I shouldn’t be doing. It’s a good movie, and well worth watching a few times. It has a heart and a soul, and

even though the “puzzle” aspects, IMO, are less elegant than in \*Primer \*(more contrived, not as “solvable”, not as sensical, and even if you do “solve the puzzles”, the payoff isn’t really as worth it), the existential question that is the creamy nougat center of the movie is certainly interesting enough.

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