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Posted: 6/4/2019 4:40:40 PM EDT
Here are mine, in no particular order:
1. Thrill Seekers Thrill Seekers Apparently in the future, tourists pay to be present at disasters, plane crashes, etc., in the past. But what happens when one of those disasters accidentally gets prevented? 2. The Butterfly Effect The Butterfly Effect The main character's method of time travel is kind of goofy, but this movie more than any I can remember shows how quickly time travel can fuck things up and how hard it is to unfuck them. 3. Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home Humpback whales are extinct in the century where the main characters live. They have to go back in time and retrieve two of them to communicate with an alien space probe that is destroying earth because it can't find any extinct whales to communicate with. By far the best of the Star Trek movies with the original cast, and I don't care what anybody says. 4. Edge of Tomorrow Edge of Tomorrow A soldier is stuck in a time loop until he can figure out why and how to stop it. 5. Back to the Future Back to the Future This would probably be #1 if these were ranked in a particular order. A kid goes back in time and has to be careful to preserve the timeline so he doesn't accidentally prevent his own birth. 6. Twelve Monkeys 12 Monkeys In a bleak future, a convict is being used as a time-travelling guinea pig to find out why the world ended and to try to prevent it. 7. Source Code Source Code An army pilot keeps looping back to the past to try to prevent a terrorist bombing. 8. Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes This is the Charlton Heston version from the late 1960's. No spoilers, but if this film doesn't have the ultimate surprise ending, I don't know what does. 9. The Time Machine The Time Machine It's rather tame by today's standards. Still, it was one of the first and best for its time and has to be included. 10. The Terminator The Terminator A robot from the future tries to assassinate the mother of the resistance fighter that defeated the robot army years in the future. |
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If you're counting day loops for time travel, one must always include Groundhog Day.
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If we are counting time loops I would add Groundhog Day.
Edit: Beat by 5 seconds |
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All good choices, OP, especially The Butterfly Effect and 12 Monkeys.
Honorable mention should go to Primer, as well. There is only one choice for the all time greatest time travel movie, though... Predestination |
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Without a doubt, it was To Pass the Time, which debuts in 2087.
Amazing camera work. And it captured the tastes and smells of the locations perfectly. Really groundbreaking stuff. |
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That is the most 80s movie cover ever.
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Here are mine, in no particular order: 8. Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes This is the Charlton Heston version from the late 1960's. No spoilers, but if this film doesn't have the ultimate surprise ending, I don't know what does. View Quote You put the movie in a time-travel list; you just gave away the surprise ending. |
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PRIMER View Quote The second time I saw it, it made a lot more sense. The third time I saw it, I prepped myself by studying a diagram of exactly how the time travel worked. I really need to see it a fourth time. |
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Quoted: The first time I saw it, I thought it was a good movie, but I was still confused. The second time I saw it, it made a lot more sense. The third time I saw it, I prepped myself by studying a diagram of exactly how the time travel worked. I really need to see it a fourth time. View Quote |
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You put the movie in a time-travel list; you just gave away the surprise ending. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Here are mine, in no particular order: 8. Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes This is the Charlton Heston version from the late 1960's. No spoilers, but if this film doesn't have the ultimate surprise ending, I don't know what does. You put the movie in a time-travel list; you just gave away the surprise ending. I mean, if "Planet of the Apes" is a time travel movie, technically so is every other movie ever made. |
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Paul Walker was an awful actor and the movie was cheesy as heck but I always liked Timeline.
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