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Best Time Travel Movie?
- Thread starter HotHamBoy
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After watching it i had a 2 hours session on the internet (imdb forums and other sites explaining/discussing it). Found a similar sketch like yours only with a person crawling into a box, explaining the timelines. Helped a lot 
boneyjangles
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Good shout,
I also think the TV show is better and the best Time Travel story in tv/film.
My all time favorite movie. However tried the first episode of the show and when they did the
effect on that watch or whatever it was with a scratch
PayOffWizard
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T2 is the best movie with time travel in it but not the best about time travel
ThankeeSai
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Predestination - if you haven't seen it, don't read anything about it, give it a watch and prepare for your head to fall off.
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Primer is a no budget movie with a bad script, muddled story telling, characters you don't care about, a complete lack of drama, etc. It's a boring, confusing movie. The only thing it has going for it is complexity. Anyone who loves movies should keep away from this crap movie.
Coherence is a significantly better movie than Primer, but it isn't time travel.
I'm fond of Star Trek IV. Light-hearted, self-aware, and the best ending to any ST movie. T2 is another fun classic, of course.
For more serious attempts, I quite enjoyed Looper and
Arrival
Shows a million times better then the movie IMO. Give it another shot.
zswordsman
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Back to the future 2.
Girl who leapt through time.
Girl who leapt through time.
I like movies about time travel the most when they just go nuts with the time travel shenanigans, so movies like Timecrimes, Triangle and Primer are definitely some of my favorite ones.
Really? Because I fucking love this movie. Maybe I should check out the show.
I also think the TV show is better and the best Time Travel story in tv/film.
Really? Because I fucking love this movie. Maybe I should check out the show.
GlamFM
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First post has it right - as always.
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TVexperto
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old manatee
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Time Chasers
That's not a time travel movie. It's just a 'what if [x] would happen instead of [y]'
And the only answer is Back to the Future.
NeoGold123
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Replies 1 and 2 nailing what should've been the OP. Back to the Future will always be THE time travel movie for which all others are judged against, and it's tough to beat.
I think you could count Interstellar as time travel, in a kindof roundabout way. And I really dug 2002's The Time Machine, mostly I think because HG Wells' book was my jam.
Oooh, forgot FAQ About Time Travel and Safety Not Guaranteed, both pretty good.
I think you could count Interstellar as time travel, in a kindof roundabout way. And I really dug 2002's The Time Machine, mostly I think because HG Wells' book was my jam.
Oooh, forgot FAQ About Time Travel and Safety Not Guaranteed, both pretty good.
Zoe
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I'm not to sure how true this is, but I read in one article that the show was pitched as an original time travel show. The 12 Monkeys property was forced on them.
The show barely has a passing resemblance to the movie now, and that's what makes it so good.
DiipuSurotu
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La Jetée
What?! It has a very tight, intelligent script. Anyone who wants to be challenged should watch the movie. One of the best sci-fi movies of the past 20 years. Easily!
I hate to see what you think of 2001. Not that I'm comparing the two.
Triggerhappytel
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I've never understood Primer. Maybe I'm not intelligent enough and I think someone on this forum has explained it to me before, but it basically seems to me that they go back in time to punch a guy in the face at a party.
It's a solid underrated horror film with a decent plot. I liked it much more than I was expecting to.
Inception doesn't have time travel in it? Time moves slowly in the dreams-within-dreams, but unless I missed something there's no actual time travel?
EDIT - one thing I would really recommend that isn't a movie would be the Doctor Who episode 'Blink'. It's a really clever plot about time travel and it's so well written the Doctor is barely in it but it's brilliant regardless.
It's a solid underrated horror film with a decent plot. I liked it much more than I was expecting to.
Inception doesn't have time travel in it? Time moves slowly in the dreams-within-dreams, but unless I missed something there's no actual time travel?
EDIT - one thing I would really recommend that isn't a movie would be the Doctor Who episode 'Blink'. It's a really clever plot about time travel and it's so well written the Doctor is barely in it but it's brilliant regardless.
Time travel movies are the best movies.
Donnie Darko is awesome because it's time travel X coming of age
Primer is the best grounded time travel movie, it's so down-to-earth.
Looper's story/scenario is supercool, time travelling bounty hunters wtf!
These would be my top 3 in that order. Donnie Darko is my fav movie of all time.
Don't think it was already mentioned but I really liked Contigency!
That would make a lot of sense.
Yup - it's not as wacky and weird as the film but instead turns up the dial on Time Travel shenanigans all the way up, more so starting in the second season. It covers so many subjects dealing with time travel, it's scifi bliss.
DreadfulOmen
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TissueBox
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Primer's great. Star Trek IV is legendary though, just for existing beyond treatment stage.
Did somebody say Run Lola Run?
Did somebody say Run Lola Run?
Pestilence11
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Thanks for the thread OP, I love time travel shit. Gonna check out Primer and some other suggestions I haven't seen.
Vincent Alexander
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Can I break the rules and list a TV show? And an anime at that? Because I've never seen anything that has done time travel as well as the below has:
If I have to go with a movie, I'll say Back to the Future. Though Primer has a lot of votes in here, so I might have to watch it this weekend.
If I have to go with a movie, I'll say Back to the Future. Though Primer has a lot of votes in here, so I might have to watch it this weekend.
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dancingphlower
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So good.
By far this. I also enjoyed Star Trek 09, and a certain anime film that shall not be named.
This needs to be remade.Timecop
DiipuSurotu
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It is.
Not a movie, and taken away from us a couple of seasons earlier than it should, but Continuum is brilliant and you should all watch it.
Regarding movies, there a bunch I love, but whoever first mentioned About Time in this thread gets a cookie, since I really love that one.
Also I'm just glad
no one has said they liked stuff like Freejack, Burton's Planet of the Apes or Project Almanac *shudder*
Regarding movies, there a bunch I love, but whoever first mentioned About Time in this thread gets a cookie, since I really love that one.
Also I'm just glad
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GreenMonkey
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My vote is Primer also. But you have to watch it a few times to get it. Most of it that is. First time I watched it there's that moment about halfway through that I got VERY confused on WTF was happening.
It's what really might happen if a couple of dudes got a short-distance time travel machine. Trying to correct their own mistakes and the timeline getting all fucked up.
12 Monkeys is my runner up.
Safety not Guaranteed gets a nod from me, more of a romcom but I like it.
It's what really might happen if a couple of dudes got a short-distance time travel machine. Trying to correct their own mistakes and the timeline getting all fucked up.
12 Monkeys is my runner up.
Safety not Guaranteed gets a nod from me, more of a romcom but I like it.
Commander Jameson
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MisterHero
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A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott
A Christmas Carol is the best time travel story period. Sorry BttF.
A Christmas Carol is the best time travel story period. Sorry BttF.
Professor Lich
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Pretty sure this is a straight to DVD / TV movie that ran on the SciFi channel, but I remember really enjoying it when I saw it. That was back in 2005 though...
Main idea is that a dude makes a device that lets him travel 10 minutes back in time. He decides to use that power to try to get a date with a bank tellar on the same day a gang decides to rob said bank.
Side note, there are a lot of movies called Slipstream.
TDLink
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Agreed completely. I think anyone who really loves Primer is just looking for something that is technically complicated and not actually a good film. It fails in pretty much every way in being a compelling film. And at under standard feature length it actually felt like a slog.
Übersandvich
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Those who have seen The Lake House need to get on to watching the original Il Mare. Il Mare is no doubt a personal favourite of the Korean films I have watched (and I must have watched 100 films by now).
Another film with a similar gimmick is Ditto, released in the same year and also a Korean Film.
I personally would not consider them time travel films since the characters themselves do no time travel. Their communication is what travels through time.
When it comes to films that are best in the whole time wimey drawing diagrams did-the-character-just-cause-his-own-time-travel-to-his-past-self? Would have to be Timecrimes, try to watch the film blind, since any discussion of the plot is essentially spoilers.
No doubt it is Primer.
Most if not all time travel movies fall into a limbo that doesn't make sense - "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" - essentially actions done while traveling to a point in time affect the travel itself, and it creates an infinite loop which doesn't make sense.
I watched it a few years ago so I don't fully remember, but I think Primer handled it well with it's time travel mechanic.
Most if not all time travel movies fall into a limbo that doesn't make sense - "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" - essentially actions done while traveling to a point in time affect the travel itself, and it creates an infinite loop which doesn't make sense.
I watched it a few years ago so I don't fully remember, but I think Primer handled it well with it's time travel mechanic.