I see people talking about Back to the Future as another time travel film. What other time travel films have you seen and liked. One of my favs is Time Rider.
share12 Monkeys is great - and La Jetée wich it is based upon is also interesting.
Then there is Primer, which is a more "realistic" and technical take on the time travel consept. (I may have to re-watch it though, as I found it quite confusing the first time)
Donnie Darko is one of my favorite movies - I wouldn't quite call it a time travel movie, but it is a central part of the plot.
And of course, Time Bandits is quite amusing.
Time Bandits is epic.
shareYou aren't the only one who found Primer to be a bit muddled. The difference is that I have no desire to rewatch it. I agree with you on "12 Monkeys", primarily (though not exclusively) because of Brad Pitt's performance. And "Time Bandits" is really quite funny. It's not quite as high on my list of comedies as a lot of other people place it, but I do enjoy it quite a bit.
One that is ARGUABLY a time travel story (it's figuratively time travel, though not in the sense that most people think of time travel stories) is Woody Alan's "Sleeper". It's not my favorite Woody Alan film, but it is quite funny at times, and it deals with the subject of a man out of time -- his character is frozen when a medical procedure he has in the 20th century goes wrong. And he wakes up into a weird future dystopian future. I still love the robot dog Rags, that he is assigned: "Hello, my name is Rags! Woof Woof Woof!"
Imho, there really haven't been that many GOOD time travel movies. The Back to the Future films were moderately good, in my opinion, but others liked them better than I did (I actually liked the third one the best). There's so many great time travel novels and short stories, that it disappoints me that so few of them have made it to the big screen (and the few that I can think of, were a bit disappointing). "Doomsday Book" and "To Say Nothing of the Dog", to name two by Connie Willis, are both brilliant -- the first was brilliant, and the second was hilarious (both set in the same universe). Her WWII time travel novels, "Blackout" and "All Clear" also set in that universe, I didn't enjoy them quite as much as the previous books in that universe. But they did win awards, so they SHOULD be considered for movies or a miniseries at the very least. She's an excellent writer, and more people should read her works, instead of all of the lesser young adult fodder that tends to get the big screen treatment. I'd even love to see John Kessel's "Corrupting Dr. Nice", which is a hilarious time travel comedy involving a kind of a love story, a scientist who smuggles a baby T-Rex through time, time travel used primarily for tourism, and so on.
Of course, there's "The Time Machine," based on the original H. G. Wells novel, with Rod Taylor playing the role of Wells. For it's time, it is a terrific film blessed by the special effects genius of Ray Harryhausen, and, in her own unique way, by the special effects of Yvette Mimieux.
Rod Taylor makes for a much grittier Wells than Malcolm McDowell. That probably explains why he is called "George" by his familiars while the McDowell character answers to "Herbert."
And, even though it was just an episode of a TV show rather than a film, no discussion of time travel is complete without mentioning "The City on the Edge of Forever." If time travel can make a soup kitchen Mother Theresa out of Joan Collins, it just has to be fiction.
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I'm 55 and I first saw "The Time Machine" at the local theatre in 1961, when I was 6.
Of course, it was new at the time so I don't find it "Dated".
I did find it very entertaining and thought provoking though (even to this day)
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If television episodes are to be considered, we must acknowledge "The Man Who Was Never Born" originally shown in October 1963 as part of "The Outer Limits" anthology series. Martin Landau was great - as he usually is in any role he plays.
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Someone mentioned Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys", which is fun but I think "Time Bandits" is even better from the same director.
Also of course there's "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" which was co-written by Nicholas Meyer, the guy who wrote and directed "Time After Time." And of course they're both set in San Francisco and they both feature the time traveller falling in love with someone from our time and taking her back with him into the past/future.
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What I liked about Star Trek IV was that it was the first (and possibly the only) movie where aliens come to earth to contact a species other than man. Even Spock said, "there are other species on Earth. Only human arrogance would assume the signal must be meant for man"
It's the only Star Trek movie to this day where nobody died.
All other time travel movies depict the idea of altering the future is a bad idea, even something as noble as killing Hitler could make things worse. They altered Earth's history for the better.
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I remember this one movie from my childhood... I think they went back to the same moment in time three times in an attempt to prevent the Kennedy assassination... I don't remember the details, though. Does anyone know the movie I'm talking about?
shareAh, never mind, I'm pretty sure it was Running Against Time (1990)...
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Best Time Travel films would be
1. Back to the Future 1-3
2. Time After Time
3. Terminator 1 and 2
4. Time Bandits
5. The Time Machine-orginal and Remake
6. Army of Darkness- I know its through magic but still counts
as time travel
7. Star Trek 4
8. Donnie Darko
I was want to the add that the very end of Superman:The Movie -Superman did
alter the past to save the day, a very good time travel twist.
I believe you are referring to an episode of the updated "Twilight Zone" which ran for 3 seasons on CBS from 1985-1988.
The episode "Profile in Silver" (Profile in Silver/ Button, Button Season 1 Ep: 20) starred Lane Smith as a future descendant of JFK who travels back in time to meet his famous ancestor, and somehow prevents his assassination. This leads to world changing consequences.
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"Time Machine" the one starring Rod Taylor, the other Time Machine by Guy Pearce wasn't bad at all.. i love those 2.
"Kate and Leopold" has the concept of time travelling.
there's an episode in "Flash" (TV series) called Fast Forward which is considered by fans and myself as the best episode ever.
"The Girl from Tomorrow", an Australian TV series, that basically deals with time travelling.
"Time Cop" starring Van Damme, saw it as a kid and still love it.
the idea of time travelling exists in Terminator although it's not a time travelling film, but we'll still have to see what the new part will be about.
"Time Trax" the TV series
I love "Back to the Future 1 and 2", not a fan of 3.
My absolute favorite was Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeve. So sad
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Loved Deja Vu - very clever movie if you think it through
shareThe premise of TIme Cop was cribbed from Isaac Asimov's classic TT novel, The End of Eternity. In both, there is an elite establishment which has the job of traveling through time to fix problems.
There was a great Outer Limits episode with Amanda Plummer that had a similar premise re thwarting a serial killer. Also, a not so great TOm Cruise film.
Check out the low budget film Primer.
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