Other good time travel films?
I really like the idea of time travel so what are some other good time travel films?
shareI really like the idea of time travel so what are some other good time travel films?
sharePrimer.
shareI agree.
Primer is a very "technical" (I guess would be the right word) movie about time travel and has a very interesting spin on time traveling that isn't seen in pretty much any other movies about the subject. The way it shows the concepts of how time travel could work and the effects of traveling and traveling too much. Great movie.
Like Timecrimes, it deals with time travel as the subject of the movie and not just a device needed to tell a story. Everything that happens in Timecrimes happens because of time travel and Hector's interactions with his other selves. Where time travel isn't just used to try and change something, it's responsible for the whole story playing out from the beginning.
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Ditto
sharethere are a lots of 'em
1. Stargate: SG (3 Tv series and 2 movies)
2. Frequently asked questions about time travel
3. Back to the future trilogy
4. Star trek
5. Butterfly effect
6. 12 Monkeys
7. Terminator series
8. Donnie Darko
9. Time bandits
if you want more try google.
Happy Accidents
Somewhere In Time
and for a different take... Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure
La Jetee.
shareLike the book 12 Monkeys was based on?
shareYes and no. It's not a book, it's a short movie from 1962 that 12 Monkeys was based on/inspired by. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/
shareI really like "The Final Countdown"
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Then you must check out the amazing James Belushi film "Retroactive" in which a female police woman keeps going back into the past a few hours to fix a tragedy that only gets increasingly worse.
shareSounds kinda like where they got the idea for FAQABTT?
shareRetroactive is good. So is "Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel"!
There is also the movie and TV series Frequency, and TV series Travelers.
The new 12 Monkeys TV series.
Fringe.
A pilot for a Time travel show that never happened from syfy, I forget it's name but look around you will find it.
There is also dimensional travel Ala Sliders and Parallel and there is going to be a TV series based on Parallel called "The Building".
There is also the TV show Timeless, which sadly is the least good thing on this list.
I'm watching right now a movie that is I think in Spanish I found on Netflix "The man from the future" but I don't know enough to recommend it.
There is also time loops such as groundhog day, and a short lived TV series Daybreak I think it was called.
Then there is Jorneyman, the Scottish doctor from Greys Anatomy jumps around in time putting right what once went wrong, which reminds, me, Quantum leap...
"A pilot for a Time travel show that never happened from syfy, I forget it's name but look around you will find it."
Rewind.
You may search for the TV-mini-series "Crime Traveller". They also travel just a few hours to the past to solve crimes.
Another famous time travel movie not yet mentioned is H.G. Welles' "The Time Machine".
Deja Vu with Denzil Washington
Time After Time with Malcolm MacDowell
TimeCop
The Butterfly Effect
The following are good but what I'd class as 'girlie films':
Kate & Leopold
Time Travellers Wife (book was better)
The Lake House
Lost (season 5)
Babylon 5 (some parts of seasons 1 & 3)
Back to the Future 1-3
Terminator 1-4
The Butterfly Effect
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Time Machine (2002)
12 Monkeys
Flight of the Navigator
Star Trek IV: The Journey Home
Star Trek: First Contact
Planet of the Apes
Lost, lost interest after 5 episodes of season 1, not a film
Babylon, not a film
Terminator 3-4, not good by any means
Planet of the apes, which one?
To be fair, Babylon 5 has one of the most amazing time travel plot twists of all time.
By the time it got to the later season that explained the time travel bit, you are already so invested in the past figure being separate from the modern guy, so it seems so mind-bending that they're the same person!
I don't know if I've ever encountered such a clever and fun time travel plot twist before.
Absolute same thing for me about Lost. It was the same formula each episode: a little bit of stuff happening on the island alternated with the past story of one of the characters. I have no patience when I'm getting bored.
shareTriangle can go on the list.
Insert favorite movie dialogue line here.
12:01 (1993) was a brilliant TV movie that served as the basis for Groundhog Day.
In this movie, a particle physics experiment has gone wrong making time skip back like a stuck record. One hapless guy is immune and keeps his memory from the day before. He has to put a whole sequence of events in order to halt the experiment.
Great fun.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106188/
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12:01 (1993) was a brilliant TV movie that served as the basis for Groundhog Day.
In this movie, a particle physics experiment has gone wrong making time skip back like a stuck record. One hapless guy is immune and keeps his memory from the day before. He has to put a whole sequence of events in order to halt the experiment.
Great fun.
Terminator:TSCC has a really interesting (and convincing) take on time travel. People keep coming back from the future but their future is always subtly (or not so subtly!) different from those who came back before them as the those who came first had effected the future. You'd have people who kind of knew each other but actually shared a slightly different history from each other.
It also does a good job of explaining why the Terminator 'universe' (or should that be multiverse!) is so inconsistent.
I second triangle. I actually think that movie was superior to this one.
Between the two of them there was an awful lot of similarities (causal loop, multiple protagonists, bandaged head, attempting to retify the errors) but, to me, triangle was a bit more original because it summed the events happening in one reality rather than reseting them after each sequence. It was less "time travel" in that sense (and if you watch the film you'll understand).
That "summing" factor in Trinagle blew me away (especially at the end), whearas the time factor in this movie (i.e. everything had already happened) made the film rather predictable.
Although I thoroughly enjoyed 'Triangle', I have to disagree and say it was not a time travel movie, though I can understand why some people would think that.
*spoiler below if you've never seen Triangle*
The protagonist from Triangle wasn't stuck in a causality loop, she was trapped in purgatory. Or in other words, her own personal hell.
Toward the end of the film there is clear indication that she was involved in a car accident in which both her, and her autistic son died. In the living world she never even made it to her friend's yacht.
For the rest of eternity she will relive the events of the movie, hoping each time to save her son, but knowing that nothing will ever change.
It was even spelled out in the movie when another character spoke about the Greek myth of King Sisyphus, in which the God Zeus condemns him to an afterlife of being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity.
Triangle Spoilers
There is not clear indication that she was killed in the car accident. She may be stuck in a loop and it may be hell or purgatory, but it's not because she died in that crash.
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2009 Melissa George's Triangle?
shareOMFG! I can't believe with all these films, some awesome some....meh, people have seen only SBL84 mentioned Time Crimes!
TIME CRIMES!!!!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/
It's single handedly one of the best Time Travel films I've seen.
Though it is foreign, I don't know if people on these boards have something against foreign films, personally I love a lot of them.
I also really love 12 Monkeys which has already been mentioned.
As for Time Crimes, just think of where Time Travel originated and how it would be discovered. I believe this film does THE best job I've seen of it yet. Nothing like Primer, more of an instinct based originality! Watch it!
All of you!
Uh... Meltinzone?
This is the message board for Timecrimes. The thread is about other movies similar to Timecrimes.
Please try to keep up.
LOL, yeah I figured it out after about an hour of reading into these boards, my bad, hahahaha.
I just saw time travel and went BAM.
Though I did delete the post, don't know why it's still there?
Hangs head, walks red carpet of shame.... :p
Lol
shareMaybe you traveled in time and reposted the deleted post? ;)
shareThough it is foreign, I don't know if people on these boards have something against foreign filmsNo offense, but for me (and most people in the world), every English-language film is foreign. It depends on where you're from, so i prefer the term non-English. :)
Though it is foreign, I don't know if people on these boards have something against foreign films No offense, but for me (and most people in the world), every English-language film is foreign. It depends on where you're from, so i prefer the term non-English. :)