Other than SOMEWHERE IN TIME, TIME AFTER TIME, and the BACK TO THE FUTURE series does anyone have any other favorite time travel films?
I would also add PORTRAIT OF JENNY, 12 MONKEYS, and THE TWO WORLDS OF JENNIE LOGAN.
I have a pretty good list of time travel books, with Jack Finney's being at the top, but time travel films seem harder to find.
Thanks!
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I like The Butterfly Effect, both big screen versions of Well's The Time Machine, and Time Cop.
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Also, Time Bandits. You might like The Philadelphia Experiment.
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try TIMELINE !
I really love this one!
The best time travel movie I've ever seen is "For All Time" (2000). Don't know if it is available. Definitely a must see.
Another movie that was very good was "Happy Accidents".
'For All Time' was already mentioned.
I just wish to add that the film is actually based on another well-known film: 'A Stop at Willoughby' - an episode in Rod Serling's famous 1950s or '60s sci-fi series 'The Twilight Zone'
The bad thing is that 'For All Time' appears to be 'For TV only', so there's no chance of buying a proper DVD - only waiting for them to condescend to show it when they like it - and, unfortunately, they don't appear to like it as much as I do. :-(
As for the Twilight Zone - I can't get it either, not where I live. :-(
So I've never even seen the 'original'.
There was a really good British TV series Goodnight Sweetheart.
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Star Trek IV where they save the whales is a great time travel story.
Of course, they are traveling from the future to the present. Well, the 80's were the present when it was made.
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Don't forget Hallmark Hall of Fame's "The Love Letter" - Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh - fabulous movie!
i would whole-heartedly recommend "The Time Traveler's Wife."
Although this is actually a (fantastic) book, I heard last year that Brad Pitt had bought the film rights to it. Hopefully he won't leave the rights on the shelf for too long and will start casting/producing etc. in the not-too-distant future - this is a most excellent read, albeit a real tear jerker.
I love Portrait of Jennie! But a lot of time travel fans get upset, because there is no explanation for that one. That's a movie without logic :)
Then there's the good, old-fashioned A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. And all of its remakes.
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Logic? Time travel?
Do those two ideas go together? LOL!
I think the first thing you have to do when you watch a time travel movie is forget everything you know about logic!
I've read so much about the 'rules' like if you rearrange something or step on an ant you'll ruin the future, but on the other hand the sheer fact that you've gone back in time has rearranged history! WhatEVER!
So I say just enjoy the story and don't try to figure it out. UNLESS you are trying to learn how to travel through time! :-)
I agree. But you have to acknowledge, that there really is no explanation for how Jennie travels through time in Portrait of Jennie. So I know a few people who got turned off by the 'it just happened' scenario.
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"the final countdown" with martin sheen and kirk douglas.1980's era aircraft carrier ends up in WW2 and they have to make a choice.should they stop the attack on pearl harbor or let it happen?i was fascinated with this film when i was younger and indeed bought the DVD when it was released.
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I thought Jennie was a ghost or some kind of apparition or something. I don't think she has any idea what time she in, and she died many years before the movie began.
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