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Best Time Travel Movie?
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Transistor
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Back to the Future, plain and simple. Nothing else even comes close
ElRenoRaven
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Back to the Future 1,2,3. Nothing will ever top those 3 movies when it comes to Time Travel.
Imperial Bishop
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The Back to The Future trilogy still the GOAT
Puck Beaverton
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Black Knight
Lights and Waves
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The Time Traveler's Wife is good if you're in the mood to cry.
HomerSimpson-Man
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Back to the Future trilogy. They are personally some of my favorites movies of all time too.
Hoho for breakfast
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Frequency (there's a TV series on Netflix based on the movie), 12:01(early 90s TV movie), and Back To The Future 1 and 2. Minority Report also.
TheLostBigBoss
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It's unfortunately a spoiler for the movie itself, so I'm not sure how I can talk about it without simply putting spoilers over the movie name. It was a relatively recent movie that I found handled time travel in a more unique manner than most movies.
Arrival had good use of time travel. Instead of overwriting events with time travel, we literally saw time travel in real time.
I look at it this way, instead of having the movie think of time travel like a road you pick up and place down in front of you to change direction, our character instead treats time like a layered cake that she is able to experience by penetrating all the layers at once
I look at it this way, instead of having the movie think of time travel like a road you pick up and place down in front of you to change direction, our character instead treats time like a layered cake that she is able to experience by penetrating all the layers at once
BudokaiMR2
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I love Star Trek IV the most because it's the outlier in many ways to me.
For once the travelers are actually coming from a far and away better future (except for no whales of course).
For once the travelers are actually coming from a far and away better future (except for no whales of course).
and let the fireworks begin
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
All the best ones have been mentioned but ill put forth 12 Monkeys and Flight of the Navigator.
Amazed at their good taste!
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I'll be the weird guy who picks BttF 3.
What? Randomly becoming a western was awesome.
Am I missing something? Neither of those have time travel. >.>
Well, okay, I guess the Tesseract scene sort of counts (though not really, he only acts upon the past rather than going to it).
What? Randomly becoming a western was awesome.
Am I missing something? Neither of those have time travel. >.>
Well, okay, I guess the Tesseract scene sort of counts (though not really, he only acts upon the past rather than going to it).
bitbydeath
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Project Almanac (for most recent)
Otherwise I'd also vote for The Butterfly Effect.
Otherwise I'd also vote for The Butterfly Effect.
Fancyarcher
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Back To The Future is best, with an honorable mention to 12 Monkeys & T2.
HomerSimpson-Man
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Since a lot of notable ones were already mentioned, I really liked:
It's Danzel being his awesome self in another Tony Scott production with a scifi twist halfway through!
RIP director Tony Scott.
It's Danzel being his awesome self in another Tony Scott production with a scifi twist halfway through!
RIP director Tony Scott.
Discotheque
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Terminator 1 and 2
Back to the Future 1
Bill and Ted
Interstellar
12 Monkeys
Primer
In that order
...actually on second thought I don't really think stuff like interstellar really counts.
Back to the Future 1
Bill and Ted
Interstellar
12 Monkeys
Primer
In that order
...actually on second thought I don't really think stuff like interstellar really counts.
RiderKairuu
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Safety Not Guaranteed kind of fits the bill. I really enjoyed that movie.
Since a lot of notable ones were already mentioned, I really liked:
It's Danzel being his awesome self in another Tony Scott production with a scifi twist halfway through!
RIP director Tony Scott.
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The Artisan
Member
I don't know if this counts but the Trunks saga in Dragonball Z
I didn't know your name was a time travel movie. If that's the case can I assume it's similar to this.
Better
Megadragon15
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Army of Darkness.
InstigateAndInquire
Member
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Since a lot of notable ones were already mentioned, I really liked:
It's Danzel being his awesome self in another Tony Scott production with a scifi twist halfway through!
RIP director Tony Scott.
Unless I'm thinking of something else, isn't this movie like super dumb?
Doesn't Denzel realize he can affect the past by shining a laser pointer through a screen?
The opposite. The first film is one of the best screenplays of its era and tells a touchingly human story that is merely facilitated by time travel. In the sequel, time travel is the story, and it's a fairly slapdash plot with a lot of weird holes, awkward changes to the characters to set up the third film (Marty's obsession with being called chicken, Doc's fondness for trains and the Old West, etc.), and works hard to undo a lot of the outcomes of the original film. The entire Old Biff thing makes no sense, not just in that he somehow knows how to operate the time machine but that Doc Brown, who repeatedly states the dangers of time travel and the hazards of potential misuse, apparently leaves the fucking door unlocked and the keys in the ignition when he parks the most dangerous thing ever invented on the street in a neighborhood repeatedly acknowledged as crime-ridden.
The first film is a masterpiece. The sequels are okay but nothing special in terms of storytelling, although at least the third remembers to be character driven instead of being a mindless plot march. The future sequences of 2 are a lot of fun and the most memorable part of the movie, but the rest of it is a bit of a slog. It's not in any imaginable way better than the first, and if you're just talking about movies that have time travel as their focus instead of as a device to get to the real story (as BttF1 uses it), there are at least half a dozen better and more thoughtful uses of the concept than BttF2, including the first Bill & Ted movie.
Nappuccino
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Not exactly time-travel, but utilizes similar concepts: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Interstellar had "real" time travel as we understand it now. 3 hours on a planet near a black hole = 21 years of "our time" has passed.
Good choices. I was pleasantly surprised with Project Almanac
polyh3dron
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Welp, guess I won't watch Your Name now.
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
I also think the TV show is better and the best Time Travel story in tv/film.
Yeah this might be my pick. I like when Time Travel is a confusing mess vs exact science.