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Groundhog Day plus teenagers equals Repeaters
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by: Paul Tassi Sep. 1, 2010

There's a film getting a bit of buzz at pre-TIFF, it takes a very familiar concept, and reworks it for uh, the modern day I guess. It's called REPEATERS and it's essentially if you stripped GROUNDHOG DAY of its humor and sent it into quite a darker place.

It's not one person stuck in an infinite time loop this time, it's three teenagers, and rather than take this time to learn how to play the piano or ice sculpt, they find that their newfound freedom allows them to be complete assholes, and rampage around on crime sprees and shooting each other.

HitFix has the debut trailer for it, and I have mixed feelings about the whole thing. It seems kind of cheap to just take a creative concept, and put some teens and explosions in it, but it could be surprisingly worthwhile if it goes a BUTTERFLY EFFECT-ish route, which actually turned out to be rather interesting with it's time paradoxes, though I suppose time loops are a different matter altogether. This is from indie director Carl Bessai and is currently looking for US distribution.

What do you make of it?

 

Source: HitFix

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Extra Tidbit: What would you do if your day kept repeating itself? I'd do the training useful skills thing. Crime sprees would get boring after a while.

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PainTrain
12:42AM on 09/02/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
JoBlo
Was there nothing else more newsworthy than this? I find it hard to believe so.
Was there nothing else more newsworthy than this? I find it hard to believe so.
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RickyFitts13
11:12PM on 09/02/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
movie news is movie news... deal with it and wait for a better article, or scoop some insider news for yourself
movie news is movie news... deal with it and wait for a better article, or scoop some insider news for yourself
 
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iamjacksnihilis
8:45PM on 09/01/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
i find that most things + teenagers = shit
i find that most things + teenagers = shit
 
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iamjacksnihilis
8:44PM on 09/01/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
i find that most things + teenagers = shit
i find that most things + teenagers = shit
 
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sequencer
6:57PM on 09/01/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
i'd try my balls off to get with jessica alba. who cares if she's got the herpes?
oh, and i'd kill a few people. over and over and over.
oh, and i'd kill a few people. over and over and over.
 
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msgelter
6:40PM on 09/01/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
MAN was that bad!
BAD BAD BAD trailer! HORRIBLE trailer! And not "trailer of a horrible movie" bad (although it WILL be a horrible movie), just a BAD trailer! If you nowadays you can make spectacular trailers out of total Pieces of Garbage, WHAT does this tell us? Low, low budget, (can't even hire a decent trailer service) low, low ideas (as already discussed), low,low script and low, low acting. (As is evident...
BAD BAD BAD trailer! HORRIBLE trailer! And not "trailer of a horrible movie" bad (although it WILL be a horrible movie), just a BAD trailer! If you nowadays you can make spectacular trailers out of total Pieces of Garbage, WHAT does this tell us? Low, low budget, (can't even hire a decent trailer service) low, low ideas (as already discussed), low,low script and low, low acting. (As is evident in this "trailer".) At LEAST Ed Wood TRIED harder!
 
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MidnightAngel
3:47PM on 09/01/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
is this a SyFy original movie?
is this a SyFy original movie?
 
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DareDevil
2:07PM on 09/01/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
there was an episode of X-Files i saw back in the day that had a simular plot, everyday Moulder would wake up and re-live the same day, and have to stop a bank from being robbed, never the less, that was one of my all time fav episodes... this movie doesn't look as a good as that epi.
there was an episode of X-Files i saw back in the day that had a simular plot, everyday Moulder would wake up and re-live the same day, and have to stop a bank from being robbed, never the less, that was one of my all time fav episodes... this movie doesn't look as a good as that epi.
 
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Terminal_83
1:47PM on 09/01/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
It could turn out to be really good or like "Butterfly Effect."
It could turn out to be really good or like "Butterfly Effect."
 
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The_Soloist
1:16PM on 09/01/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Looks Interesting
It was way too short, but I love the concept of the movie even though like the article mentioned that it seems like a rip off Groundhog's Day. If it's anything like The Butterfly Effect, then this should be for a good time. Lots of backstabbing it looks like in this movie.
It was way too short, but I love the concept of the movie even though like the article mentioned that it seems like a rip off Groundhog's Day. If it's anything like The Butterfly Effect, then this should be for a good time. Lots of backstabbing it looks like in this movie.
 
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Tyson J.
1:15PM on 09/01/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
You should've had my back, Kyle...
On the fence about this one.
On the fence about this one.
 
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Spraragen88
12:50PM on 09/01/2010 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Looks bad
Umm I doubt this will do anything with time paradoxes. The trailer did nothing for me it was too short and yet showed off too much.
Umm I doubt this will do anything with time paradoxes. The trailer did nothing for me it was too short and yet showed off too much.