Other good time travel films? - Los cronocrímenes (2008) Discussion

Primer.

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[–] SBL84 13 years ago

I 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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[–] view_and_review 8 years ago

Ditto

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[–] luckysaint17 13 years ago

there 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.

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[–] ggrosz 13 years ago

Happy Accidents

Somewhere In Time

and for a different take... Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure

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[–] adrianwinter 13 years ago

La Jetee.

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[–] Leopheard 13 years ago

Like the book 12 Monkeys was based on?

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[–] swyck-1 13 years ago

Yes 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/

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[–] stevegibbon 13 years ago

I really like "The Final Countdown"

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[–] Chance2000esl 13 years ago

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.

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[–] meltinzone 13 years ago

Sounds kinda like where they got the idea for FAQABTT?

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[–] aether22 7 years ago

Retroactive 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...

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[–] horrorfan000 (2070) 6 years ago

"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.

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[–] metzler-bgl 12 years ago

Harry Potter 3 has this kind of time travel. It's the best one anyway. I don't like the others. But this scene is much fun to watch :) .

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[–] samadabbasi 9 years ago

I agree.
Hermione's punch was awesome.

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[–] knight2100 12 years ago

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".

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[–] cemeterybird 13 years ago

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

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[–] saarvardi 13 years ago

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

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[–] Mastur_Batsler 9 years ago

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?

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[–] Samus Aran 9 years ago

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.

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

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.

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[–] elliot-63 13 years ago

Triangle can go on the list.

Insert favorite movie dialogue line here.

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[–] leeandfong 13 years ago

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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[–] Painbow 13 years ago

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.

I thought i'd seen that but then i realised the one i've actually seen was an earlier (1990) short film version of the story called 12:01PM - which was also very good (according to wikepidea the 1990 version is less comedic) i would recommend that version as well

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12:01_PM

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[–] SteveWasling 13 years ago

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.

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[–] Fentagon 13 years ago

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.

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[–] mrjamesbetts 13 years ago

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.

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[–] Kizuguchi 11 years ago

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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[–] whiteslim 10 years ago

2009 Melissa George's Triangle?

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[–] Mastur_Batsler 9 years ago

Triangle has way to much plot holes, and is just ridiculous, can't even compare that B crap with this brilliant movie.

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[–] Johnny_Wrong 9 years ago

Tell us one of the plot holes...

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[–] meltinzone 13 years ago

OMFG! 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!

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[–] Fentagon 13 years ago

Uh... Meltinzone?

This is the message board for Timecrimes. The thread is about other movies similar to Timecrimes.

Please try to keep up.

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[–] meltinzone 13 years ago

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

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[–] Fentagon 13 years ago

Lol

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[–] m-o-k-s-h-a 13 years ago

Maybe you traveled in time and reposted the deleted post? ;)

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[–] Bonezor 12 years ago

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. :)

Anyway, i have two additions to the list:

Tempus Fugit (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390545/). Won several film festival prizes.

Fetching Cody (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475271/).

Also, for comedy, Austin Powers 2 and 3 :D

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[–] SWLinPHX (245) 6 years ago

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. :)

Fair enough, except for three things you failed to acknowledge:

1) This board and site is English-based, so we can assume most people hare natively speak English or are comfortable with English, and consider other languages foreign

2) Hollywood is the movie capital of the world and produces the vast majority of films, mostly in English of course

3) English is the "universal language" of modern times

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