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Bump. What an incredible movie.

It's even more amazing considering that the guy who plays Aaron (one of two main characters) also wrote the script, directed, edited and produced the movie, and also composed the music ... drumroll .. all on a budget of seven thousand dollars !

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The same budget as Rodriguez' El Mariachi, but with FAR greater quality (although you could argue that El Mariachi is better at story-telling). Of course, things could've gotten a lot cheaper since El Mariachi.

not "could have," "did" get a lot cheaper. Most of El Mariachi's costs were actual film and processing; nowadays you can rent a camera for a week for $500 which will give you film quality.

I'm 85% sure Primer was shot on film.

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