Timescape: The Remake
I'm sorry, but this is just a cheaper version of Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1992, AKA Timescape) - and Jeff Daniels is a much better actor than Casper van Dien ever was or will be.
shareI can agree with you to some point. I need to watch that one again, haven´t seen it in a long time. But I thought this one was better now that I saw it. The Jeff Daniels flick violated several of the basic rules of time travel, he teamed up with himself, didn´t he? And at the very end he went back to his family disaster years ago and saved his wife from dying in the first place.
This one has only a trip some hours back and one alteration within the timeframe of the story, and it doesn´t even create any paradox becuase of how time travel apparently works scientifically in this movie. The "temporalistics" of this movie might be the best ones I´ve ever seen.
As opposed to those of "A days of thunder". Yeez, there´s a movie I haven´t watched the message boards for here at IMDB, must do that...
Last things first: I suppose you mean "A Sound of Thunder" and got it mixed up with Tom Cruise; man, that was one of the worst adaptations ever! I wonder if it would have been better if they had kept Renny Harlin on? Probably not, he's never been a stickler for eliminating plot holes. Hyams usually does solid action, but this was bad, Bad, BAD!
As for "the basic rules of time travel", what are those? We're talking about fiction here, so I don't see how anything can be etched in stone regarding how time travel works... So if you mean "the same matter cannot occupy the same space" (as if a Van Damme movie (or any other movie) could establish basic rules), please don't bother.
IF I went back in time, what physical principle should prevent me from meeting myself? Or shaking hands with myself (as far as I remember, Aldiss had someone do that in one of his novels) or even killing my(other)self. Since I had already passed that point in time, the "new me" could be said to be a different entity from the "old me", existing in separate timelines and hence not dying as a result of the murder on the older me, thus not creating a paradox.
And who says you can't save family members? Superman saved Lois Lane back in 1978, H.G. Wells saved Amy Robbins the year after. Worked for me.
Depends on the time-travelling paradigm the story's based on. The one you mention is what we know as the "Dragonball Z" school, as it is the one used in that series; the changes are made in the past, and "opens up" a new parallel altered timeline, but the "old you" would go back to the unaltered, dead timeline.
Others have gone with the "paradox" school, like Back To The Future, where the grandfather paradox is possible, and shown that you can actually erase yourself from existence by your actions in the past!
Two movies that get me giggling with the possible plotholes and weird stuff happening are Timecop and Deja Vu. This last one is even more evident, as the changes in the past are halfway-done; in theory none of the "hints" and such should be visible to them.
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Good one, thanks, I needed that laugh. share