What is your favourite time travel movie ever?

[Deleted member]

This is a question I heard posed recently in response to the new movie "Looper " I wonder when AFF's spend long hours in a plane if it feels like time travel

 

[alieninperth]

Clearly the greatest ever time travel movie is Back to the Future.

Only 3 more years and then the flying cars arrive...

I find that the flying can get a bit Groundhog day rather than time travel per say (I appreciate that this is time travel but uncontrolled unlike most other films in the genre and so I dismiss it as a time travel movie).

 

[medhead]

This should be best and worst time travel movies of all time. The worst for me is definitely that excrement with Auston Kucher (I don't even care how he spells his name), so bad I can't even remember the name.

Back to the future would be up there in the best, along with the Terminator movies.

 

[alieninperth]

I did think about terminator, but it's only OW, and you can't bring anything with you. I don't fancy arriving naked...

 

[medhead]

Terminator and back to the future both explore the cause and effect issues of time travel in different, but fairly easy to understand, ways and are also entertaining. I realise the butterfly effect (that horrid auston kucher movie I was thinking of) does that as well, but it a horrid way.

Of course, I do remember a Dr Who full length movie as a kid, something about Cybermen, IIRC.

 

[opusman]

There's a low budget time travel movie called Primer that I think is brilliant, but amazingly complicated - you have to watch it at least twice to even start to understand what's going on.

 

[Deleted member]

This should be best and worst time travel movies of all time. The worst for me is definitely that excrement with Auston Kucher (I don't even care how he spells his name), so bad I can't even remember the name.

Back to the future would be up there in the best, along with the Terminator movies.

The butterfly effect?


It is I, Leclerc !

 

[Moody]

The Time Traveller's Wife was better in book form, but was still one of the more realistic time travelling movies made (not that I personally feel that time travel is possible).


Strictly speaking, Memento is not a TT film but it has aspects of it due to the affliction of the protagonist. Similarly Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind will do your head in the first time you watch it, but is also a film more about memory than time. Then again - those two things are heavily intertwined.

The last Star Trek film was better than expected and had a time travelling theme. Perhaps it was just an excuse to double the Spocks, which is ironic seeing as he was killed off years ago.

And my favorite TT movie is actually a TV show. Red Dwarf used time travelling to finally reveal who was the gunman on the "grassy knoll". Epic

 

[Deleted member]

well, I saw Looper last night. I think I was slightly disappointed. however i can say I enjoyed the story. Perhaps the Hype was bigger than it deserved