Movies About Time Travel

[BuShinJu]

Hi, I'm from the future.

As I am from the future I already know that you have suggested some really good Time Travelling Movies.

But my other paradoxical self would like to hear about them too (again). (he is telling me to get off the computer so he can use it, "get away from me, me!")

What are your favorite time travelling movies?

[Zombicide]

The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. It still doesn't make any sense being able to actually travel backward through time nor does feeling a need to send a defender back through time when you already know it all works out make sense but they at least don't make it paradoxical in Terminator unlike other time travel movies (there's another arm left behind, "Uh oh, we killed someone who was gonna exist in the future in the past but I still remember them existing in our future type stuff, wuh oh, it looks like we altered the course of time, now the future's all different and I'm disappearing like all magic and shit woooo like that makes any damn sense). Also, it's one of the cases in which the sequel is pretty good. Any illogic can be overlooked since it's not significant, and pales in comparison with the greatness of the movie.

The later two entries in the series, eh ... not so good. They make me hate John Conner. I can't think of any other good time travel movies, the paradoxes in them just annoy me too much.

[johnlcox]

I highly recommend the movie Primer. It's a 2004 independent film, with a budget of only $7000, but still won some awards at the Sundance Film Festival. It's probably my favorite time travel movie. It takes a couple viewings to really understand the multiple timelines occurring throughout the film.

[Syntax]

I highly recommend the movie Primer. It's a 2004 independent film, with a budget of only $7000, but still won some awards at the Sundance Film Festival. It's probably my favorite time travel movie. It takes a couple viewings to really understand the multiple time-lines occurring throughout the film.

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I like "The Butterfly Effect" in terms of time travel. It's a more accurate representation of trying to change anything as a result of time travel. "Chaotic" results are inevitable.

[Lucius]

Idiocracy

[Samoan Corleone]

Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
The Mark Wahlberg version of Planet of the Apes

*runs and hides*

[LordCorbin]

Not sure what you mean by 'really good' but these are some Ive enjoyed but havent been mentioned.
Peggy Sue Got Married (interesting performance by Nic Cage in this one)
Timecop (good if you like action movies from that era, otherwise maybe not)
Life On Mars (not a movie but a damn good tv show, the british one, dont know if the american version was any good)
Back to the Future (geeky classic)

[flower]

12 monkeys

[Kisai]

Idiocracy

This is really like "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". Time Travel is just a plot device (Not Sure was cyrogenically frozen, not time travelled) to get a 'man out of place' in the culture to generate instant conflict. Army of Darkness is also not really about time travel.

There was a movie called 'Sliding Doors' with Gwyneth Paltrow which told parallel stories about what happened if a woman missed a train and didn't catch her fiance cheating or not. The movie flips back and forth between them.

Also, not strictly a time travel movie: 'Memento' has one consider the nature of time if one has no memories of the past. The movie is told backwards to simulate the injection of a human into a new world/situation.

[tcp]

Donnie Darko!

[Warrior]

The Time Machine

The original one, not one of the remakes.

[wongfoo]

Rocky Horror Picture Show? Granted that's more along the lines of time warp.

[BuShinJu]

Just to recap:
Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
Pretty much my introduction to time paradoxes.

Primer. Absolute classic, this movie made me think it was doable (and also made me want to start my own business, if only I had a garage).

The Butterfly Effect multiple paradoxes and trying to fix them makes more trouble? (can't remember)

Idiocracy havn't seen it, will track it down

Night at the Museum Ben stiller

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian more Ben

The Mark Wahlberg version of Planet of the Apes Tim Burton, but I still like the Chucky H version "A mad house, a mad house!"

12 monkeys Terry Gilliam classic

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Sir Walter Scott?

Sliding Doors

Memento Guy Pierce Tattoos himself

Donnie Darko Classic, if you had the chance to go back and change all the shitty things that happen by removing yourself.

The Time Machine

Rocky Horror Picture Show is there actual time travel? I haven't watched the whole thing.

[Samoan Corleone]

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian more Ben

More Amy Adams, too.

The Mark Wahlberg version of Planet of the Apes Tim Burton, but I still like the Chucky H version "A mad house, a mad house!"

I always used to laugh at the messed-up way the apes would kiss when I was little.

[thref23]

The Jacket. I'm pretty sure it involved time travel. Possibly just cryogenics or something to the extent, I don't remember.

It wasn't memorable enough to me to provide too much feedback, but I remember kind of liking it. I am usually not into Sci-Fi flicks, I hold them to very high theoretical standards. Its not necessarily all about plausability so much as meaning. I don't like Sci-Fi clicks that I feel get too greedy for their own good theoretically, that jump to theoretical conclusions for the sake of keeping things Hollywood friendly or the equivalent, that don't pay attention to theoretical detail, that take themselves more seriously than their theoretical merits deserve, and/or which I feel boast a pointless meaning or uninteresting premise.

I remember enjoying 12 Monkeys a while back. I enjoyed The Butterfly Effect as well.

[Mogura]

The Final Countdown - A modern-day aircraft carrier complete with F-16s travels through a time vortex to days just before the Pearl Harbor Bombing.

The Philadelphia Experiment - Navy experiment to cloak vessels goes awry, sending 2 officers into the future

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure - "San Dimas High School Football Rules!"

The Land That Time Forgot - Mysterious island, hungry dinosaurs, sultry, bikini-clad cave chicks--say no more...

[Darth Brooks]

I'd add Time after Time. Malcolm McDowell plays HG Wells. He comes to the future in pursuit of Jack the Ripper who has misused his time machine.

[Mogura]

I'd add Time after Time. Malcolm McDowell plays HG Wells. He comes to the future in pursuit of Jack the Ripper who has misused his time machine.Oooh, that was a good one...

[Zombicide]

Yeah, 12 Monkeys is much better than even the original Terminators (which however weren't paradoxical, just bad logic on Skynet's part. Oh right, I'll just send an assassin back through time to kill the guy who obviously survives the assassination attempt, that'll solve it. Some uber computer). 12 Monkeys had managed to slip my mind but is probably thee best time travel movie ever.


A sound of Thunder (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) was an absolute shit movie but I found to be worth watching for when there was nothing else to do, at least for the alternative evolution.

Though not so obvious since it's not literal, there is also The Matrix series of films. Our world being set in what's actually the past, the real world being set in the future comparable to our acosmic world inside The Matrix, jacking on or off of The Matrix is like time travel. Like using Star Trek's holodeck to do a period piece in such episodes of that show.

[marcus73x]

Agree with Primer. Good for a more recent storyline.

Timecrimes was pretty good too.

12 Monkeys rocked for the insanity aspect that must accompany frequent time travel. Brad Pitts' meltdowns rocked.

Idiocracy was funny. Fuddruckers name evolves into exactly what you think it might...

Butterfly Effect was entertaining, but I think it tried to dumb down chaos theory a little too much. Good idea run amok.

Timecop had cool effects, but whats with all the friggin rules on matter? Different matter, different time pal... whose universe is this anyway?

Donnie Darko was a complete mind-f**k the first time. After that, it was just pretty cool with the big bunny.

And, since the format of storytelling backwards has already been breached, Irreversible.

[Night Runner]

Good thread! :thumbsup: *takes notes*

Can anybody help me identify this time travel movie? It's an older flick (I saw it around mid-90s) - from what I recall, it involved a team of researchers with modern weapons going back to ancient times to study a tribe (Aztecs?). Then they got tricked and captured by the tribesmen, who came to possess advanced weaponry, technology, etc. Any help will be really appreciated. :)

[marcus73x]

Night Runner... Stargate? Timeline (terrible adaptation of terrible Crichton novel)?

[LaoTzu]

Time Bandits


there are no others.


Ok, most mentioned already.

[GrimWizard]

I believe Flight of the Navigator should be included in here. Paycheck wasn't a bad movie either even if it had Ben Affleck....

[Darth Brooks]

Night Runner... Stargate? Timeline (terrible adaptation of terrible Crichton novel)?

Timeline was an interesting premise wasted badly. One character was set up from the beginning as being destined to stay in the past and another hated the idea of even being there. In the end the one who spent his life preparing to live in the 1300's saved a maiden and decided to stay in the past. It would have been a much more interesting story had the nerdy guy who was uncomfortable decide to stay because he had saved a women he fell in love with and the expert had said "no way, I like modern medicine too much"

The movie just had people running and then more shots of people running. It was a two hour long "quick, over there" sequence.

[marcus73x]

Darth... agree on Timeline... good idea, poor execution.

Also think that the first Final Destination kind of fits this thread.

[refuse]

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i cant really recommend it, but if youre a fan of the genre you might like it.

i really enjoyed the music and the opening monologue

[Night Runner]

Night Runner... Stargate? Timeline (terrible adaptation of terrible Crichton novel)?
No - I saw the movie I'm looking for when I was little, so it must have been made either in or before the early '90s. I remember a particular shot from the movie - the ancient tribe people leading time-traveling researchers at a gunpoint. So anachronistic in its beauty... :)

[SpaceCadet]

The 1960 adaptation of the Time Machine is awesome, otherwise for me it's all about Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Back to the Future. Gotta love the 80's.