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Back to the Future Trilogy
Source code
Butterfly effect
Twelve Monkeys

Can't beat a good time travel flick... there must be loads out there, so which ones are worth seeing?

Your nominations please  :toocool:

The original 'Time Machine' based on the HG Wells book is a good film. It is interesting to see what people perceived the future to be in those films and how it has really panned out. After all according to Back to the Future, we should all having flying cars and hoveraboards by now!

Bill and ted 8)

This!

Excellent!

The Terminator.

Planet of the Apes.

Time Bandits.

Demolition Man..sort of time travel

Looper

Terminator

Primer.

Hands down the biggest head fuck of a movie of all time. Any movie that you have to watch and then read the plethora of explanatory websites afterwards is a hit with me.

This diagram for example is a must

(http://cdn.unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/primer-chart.jpg)

Mr Benn

Close the thread. Winner!!!

The Butterfly Effect was a clever film.

Yep....brilliant ending to a brilliant film.

I'm also going to throw Groundhog Day into the mix

Its a good one.  Los cronocrímenes (Timecrimes) and the more recent Triangle are similar, if not quite as good.

A Sound of Thunder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmKsKhMcIg

You can't surpass a film that opens with the line:

        "2055 – New technology was invented that could change the world…or destroy it.

        A man named Charles Hatton used it to make money."

 

I'm also going to throw Groundhog Day into the mix

Boom Boom.

A Bill Murray classic.

Might have to check those out, cheers.

A vote for Peggy Sue Got Married

Timecrimes and Primer sound fecking great, went to salisbury earlier to buy them only to find hmv has closed down  :zipped:

cheers folks keep them coming!

Some others to consider WW:

Donnie Darko
Run Lola Run
Deja Vu
Time After Time
Frequency

If you want a doomed tv series starring that bloke from Rome - Journeyman

TV offering s have to include Quantum Leap.

The reason I liked Primer so much was that it made the totally impossible seem so believable. It's run time is only 77 mins - So I watched it through whilst away with work, thought "I don't have a clue what that was all about!" read all the explanation websites/diagrams and couldn't wait to watch it again - to 'test drive' my new found knowledge if you will.

I've watched it a few times since and I still catch myself pondering over it to this day. It's certainly not for everyone, the reviews are deffo mixed, lots loved it, lots hated it.

After reading the write-ups on TimeCrimes though I think i'll be getting that soon!

Seen the first three and liked all of them as it goes, will check out the other two hadn't heard of them cheers  :clap:

can't argue with that, one of my favourite tv series ever, was utterly compulsory viewing back in the day  :nod:

Oh boy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gbt-xpwTE3k

Having sat through all of that, I feel you owe me an apology! Biggest turd of a film I've ever seen (nearly - still better than Mr Woodcock).

The idea of someone else sitting through that catastrophe of a film in its entirety as a result of my post has made my day.

:clap:

Robocop  by  far   miles  ahead.  (The  first  one  with  peter  weller).

Struggling to remember time travel in Robocop. Somebody tell me I'm not senile?

Set  in  the  future

Not really time travel then!

The French film Les Visiteurs was quite funny in places.

However, despite being less time travel-y than the original Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey wins my vote though...

"You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper. Get down with your bad self!"

(http://www.badhaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bill-and-teds-bogus-journey.jpg)

You cunt  ;)

Flash Gordon  :)

I saw this a while back and enjoyed it a lot more than some of the more modern films with their big budgets and fancy computer wizadry. Less can sometimes be more, or something like that.

Has anyone said The Time Traveller's Wife? The book is far far better but the film is worth a watch too.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Other nominations:
not quite time travel but suitably fucked up, 'Memento' is a monster of a film.

Also reading "Making History" at the moment by none other than Stephen Fry, an interesting take on what happens if you dabble with history.

Highlander

Black Knight  :)

Bless

For me: Time Bandits

I've since watched Triangle and Primer

Triangle was fecking brilliant, fantastic film 8/10. watched twice in two days and made much more sense second time around. loved it.

Primer - jesus I need to watch it again the jury is out for now but wasn't as easily accessible as triangle (melissa george in hotpants certainly helped) but first impressions is a 6/10 slow burner, one to eat away at the back of your mind to revisit which I will be doing, after reading up some of the many explanations online, has the potential to be a bit of a cult masterpiece of a pile of steaming mindfeck depending on your point of view. and indeed intelligence level!!

Also have 2 copies of Timecrimes (Spanish) ready to watch - yes I bid for, and won, both on ebay. schoolboy error  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Glad you enjoyed them WW.

Watched FAQ About Time Travel the other day which was quite good. Had that Irish fella from The IT crowd in.

no mention for hot-tub time machine?

i love fantasy etc. so enjoy time travel films but every single one of them is flawed.

take the terminator (the whole franchise, sarah connor chronicles and all) - everything that happens has to happen, if they don't then john connor never gets born in order to send his father back in time to seduce his mother.

in T2 they still continue to try to stop the 'rise of the machines' but still any success on the connor family's part would result in an all consuming paradox that the machines would rise anyway, only the leader of the resistance - john connor - would no longer exist in the future thus rendering the whole episode obsolete given that it would never have happened if they had have won - in fact any futile effort from john and sarah connor would have to end in defeat otherwise john would never exist which would result in john never being born because they used machine technology to send rhys back in the first place (and so on and so on)

back to hot-tub time machine - i don't know if any of you have seen it - the guy who stays fundamentally alters the parameters of the experience so the other three - one, his unknown son - would never need to be wherever it was they went because he would never have been suicidal in the life he then went on to lead - another paradox that just cannot be fixed.

like i say, i love time travel films but pretty much all of them are fundamentally flawed.

bttf 1 does all it can to do everything right in that sense but then bttf 2 forgets all of it by biff getting his hand on the almanac and going back to 1955 (is that right?) and marty and doc  returning to a 'present' where they are strangers to, again the paradox is that with the world biff created due to his sporting knowledge the time machine would never have been invented in the first place...

as an aside - source code isn't time travel as it is based in the theoretical mind of a near brain dead soldier that some agency managed to access in order to find a terrorist.

of course the star trek reboot is technically a time travel film which pretty much gets it right except that (old) spock has a different memory to that of young spock but that is sort of explained by the black hole... that though means two entirely different spocks will end up in the same point in time, in the same place together though years apart with different memories of how their respective relationships with the enterprise crew developed - again, an inescapable paradox.

i could go on and on and on on this subject... it is so flawed yet i can't imagine film without the genre and for me i enjoy the questions it brings.

i was rattling on for ages there but had to delete it all.  i just find the whole idea so fascinating and so absurd all at once that my mind can't stop thinking about it.

finally (thank god...) the butterfly effect is superb, still flawed of course but so well constructed.  that is all

 

I know I've read the Bradbury story this is based on but I can't for the life of me remember how it ends.

you could have just said "the grandfather paradox" but I take your point  :D

Primer is pretty good with this actually, slightly different take on it which they address and actively work around the 'paradoxes' which are created... as there always will be with any suggestion of time travel.

Which is why in the real world as we understand it, time travel will never exist, still love watching films about it though  :toocool: