I happen to love the idea of Time Travel. I find it fascinating even if we might not be able to do it. There are many, many movies that deal with time travel. Some have been very good while others make you wonder on. Some of my favorites are "Back To Future" and "Peggy Sue Got Married". Of course some of the Star Movies as well. I can think of one lousy one at least in my opinion and that was "Time Bandits". But enough about what I like I want to hear what you like and hate in movies that deal with time travel.
[question posted by emeraldisle]
responses and comments:
I like that they take you to a different place,world,time period,etc. One of my favorites off the top of my head,as it's late tonight and my mind's foggy, is "Timeline" with Paul Walker. The time period that they went to in that movie is one that intrigues me. I will probably post about some more tomorrow after I think about others. Stephanie [dragonryder]
Ok I've thought of more,because other people have mentioned them! LOL "Star Trek 4:The Voyage Home". I love the way that they handle the difference in behavior, especially the swearing. LOL The movie had such a powerful message too involving animals. "Time Cop" is great because of Van Damme capturing criminals, and trying to save people he cares about. Heck Van Damme could probably play anything and I'd watch him though. "The Final Countdown"... classic movie with Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglas. It gives me chills every time I watch it. "The Philadelphia Experiment" is just an awesome movie and having Michael Pare doesn't hurt. I think "Stargate" with Kurt Russell could be considered time travel,couldn't it? I love that movie. Last there is "Somewhere In Time". I love this movie for so many reasons, especially the purpose of Christopher travelling back in time, and the time period he travelled to. Stephanie [dragonryder]
A great deal of movies that deal with time travel deal with going back in time- and as fanciful and fun as it might be to imagine, it's completely impossible. Always has been, always will be. Time travel forward is theoretically possible by traveling at almost the speed of light. If you travel that fast, time essentially becomes infinite from your point of view. You don't age (or age very slowly) while everything around you that's NOT traveling that fast ages, from your perspective, very quickly. Now, here's why traveling backwards isn't possible- to travel backwards in time, you'd have to go FASTER than the speed of light- and this is an impossibility. First off, objects with mass cannot reach the speed of light- not even the mass of a single particle. Light can go that fast because it has no mass. Humans have mass, so we can't even reach the speed of light, much less go past it. Second, even if we COULD reach the speed of light, the universe would end for us. If you reach the speed of light, time essentially becomes infinite from your point of view- however, the universe is NOT infinite- it will eventually end. If you stretch time to infinity, you reach the end of the universe, and you cease to exist. But isn't it fun to speculate about the possibility of going to the future? [thyst07]
Yeah thanks.I guess I was just a bit on edge yesterday after reading a bunch of stuff that was copy and pasted.Not that I'm insinuating that's what you did.I guess my mind was just wore down.I do think what you had to say was good,and I didn't mean it was boring in the sense that it sucked.I just thought it was a little too scientific of an answer for the question at hand.That's cool that you could give such an in depth reply though.I guess I'm just not too used to reading such deep answers here at Mylot and I was tired yesterday.I am sorry once again. Stephanie [dragonryder]
well the one i am thinking about isn't a movies its a series more so ..its Charme d and the three witches can go back in time and into the furture ...its all pretty swesome ...I think it would be so cool to be able to do this ...they can actually change the past and the future once they go there ... [lifeiseasy]
I did like the charmed episodes that dealt with that. I loved it in the finale as well. That was fantastic how they did it. Of course they did show you had to be careful otherwise you could mess things up. [emeraldisle]
What?? You didn't like Time Bandits???? Well, if you were thinking of that as a time-travel movie, I can see how you might have been disappointed. Despite being called Time Bandits, it was more of an Odyssey-like story. Anywa, my favorite time-travel movies are Back to the Future, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Terminator, and Twelve Monkeys. The TV shows Quantum Leap and Doctor Who are also great time-travel stories. What I generally don't like about time-travel movies is the whole danger of changing history. In my mind, if someone manages to travel to the past, any changes he attempts to make have already been made. If his goal is to change history, he's failed because history is what it is. BTTF was good despite this "changing history" element, because it was pretty funny. Bill and Ted, Twelve Monkeys, and The Terminator support my theory of it. (Well, The Terminator supported my theory in the first movie, but the sequel ruined it.) [MntlWard]
I love Bill and Teds, a lot better then the previews and commercials made it out to be. Terminator is great as well. Did you see the third one? You might like it but you do have to watch it all the way through it shows that it doesn't ruin your theory. Personally with time travel I don't think we can go back and change big things. Might be able to change minor things but I think time is like a large river. You can throw a small stone in it and make ripples but to change the whole path would be pretty difficult. [emeraldisle]
My favorite of all time was "The Time Machine", based on the original HG Welles novel of the same name. The best parts were the speculation on what will happen in the future... wars, extinctions, evolution and de-evolution of the human race. It did not deal with travel into the past. For that, I think "Back to the Future" was best. It was funny, especially the parts where both Marty and those with whom he interacted were puzzled by the anachronisms that each brought into play. I also liked the continual emphasis on the danger of changing the past and how it would effect future events. Although not a movie, I loved the Wayback Machine of Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman in the old "Rocky & Bullwinkle" cartoon series. [tallpaulno44a]
I wanted to mention "The Time Machine" because I watched it years ago and was pretty impressed with it; I really enjoyed the movie. There is another more recent as well; It's more of a Christian based movie; I am looking up the title so you can find out about it. It is called "Time Changer" and you can get it at either www.tbn.org or at www.amazon.com. I really enjoyed it. [Savvynlady]
I have three favorite time trvel movies. Somewhere In Time, Millennium, and Star Trek 4. With Somewhere in Time, you are going back in time. It is a romance. It is a beautiful movie. I great chick flick. With Millennium, a character is coming back to our time. This one is a sci-fi story.You get to see how the earth is in our distant future. And with Star Trek 4 The crew comes back to our time. This one is more of a comedy.Seeing the crew of the Enterprise acting like a fish out of water in the streets of San Franciso is classic. [sarahruthbeth22]
I forgot about "Somewhere in Time" I really enjoyed that one very well; I loved Back to the Future; All THREE versions. Michael J.Fox really had a knack in those movies then. There was a movie that involced time travel, and it started as though the Nazis invaded the world and what happened behind it; I forgot the name of the movie but I liked it. [Savvynlady]
i am not sure if you will like this movie but i guess you have heard it. it's the classic "Somewhere in Time". it's the time travel romantic movie i fell in love with when i was younger. [chocobaby]
Dude... you can't forget "Black Knight" featuring Martin Lawrence... hahaha (that was a joke... sort of. i liked the damned movie) anyways, my favorite movies are the Back to the Future trilogy. I think Michael J. Fox is one of the better actors of my lifetime and the trilogy was the epitome of time travel movies. I can't even really remember any other ones... [thrwbckjay67]
There are a lot of movies that deal with a person going back to King Arthur's court or a time with knights. Most are very good I agree. [emeraldisle]
Timeline is a good movie on time travel. On the comedy side though I love "Back to the Future" series which also deals with travelling to various different time periods in history. The series starring Michael J. Fox is one of my favorite in time travel comedies. Cheers! Ram [ram_cv]
try "DE JAVU" starring Denzel Washington.. [jdpartosa]
There is another movie by name "TIME MACHINE". I think direcor is Speilberg. Yes ofcourse the idea of time travel is fascinating even we know it is a MYTH. But it is a good idea to have a look at future in pictures. [bhupalmail]
These have already been mentioned, but I loved Somewhere In Time - a beautiful romantic film, and also The Time Machine - I also loved H G Wells' book! I really enjoy most of the Star Treks, and can often pick which ones will have the break in the space/time continuum :) Back To The Future movies were also great. The Terminator series is OK but not my favourite. [Bunny2]
There used to be alot of stories on concerning time travel but you dont see too many these days. I used to love back to the future and time bandits. I had forgotten about htem. Thanks for reminding me about them [villageanne]
Well, i liked the twelve monkeys and back to the future, the time machine didn't have that ussual time travel theme, as it goes very far into the future, but i liked it anyway.Oh, almost forgot, "lost in space" was cool, but the time travel starts in the second half of the movie. [777777777]
its really out of our imagination that makes it so attractive...... [arunkumarkt]
time travel as such i think is a very instersting thing and movies which are based on time travel tries to capture the audience who are excited about time travel. [blueman]
My favorite time travel movie is Millenium. It's a little bit older but it had a great story and really made me think about what could happen if people could travel in time. Here is the information: http://imdb.com/title/tt0097883/ If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it! [ChewySpree]
Millenium was awesome. I was surprised to see a few people mention because most I talk to have never heard of it. I loved it. [emeraldisle]
well i will agree with you. back to the future is one of my favorites! [xylon17]
I liked the movie Time Cop with Jean Claude Van Damme, I liked the premise of it and how they handled it. And it was a good action film with great romance to it. I didn't see the sequel from 2003 yet, so I have no idea how that may be. I thought that there was a nice touch to a movie called Somewhere In Time, with Christopher Reeve, and I enjoyed Kate and Leopold with Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman. 12 Monkees was hard to get into, it was a bit quirky but for some reason I liked it, I suppose because it was so different from the what I had come to expect from time travel themes. There was a movie, little seen or heard of with Richard Hatch and Kay Lenz it was called Prisoners of the Lost Universe, it was quirky, funny, not meant to be anything other than what it was a fun movie. It wasn't so much time travel as traveling to alternate reality I think. But same idea. I also really enjoyed the Philadelphia Experiment also from the 80's. Have you ever seen The Final Countdown? 1980 Kirk Douglas, it raises an interesting question of what would you do if you were in that situation? I mean here is modern battlship, and it has the possiblity of warning Pearl Harbor, do you take that chance and save many lives, or do you instead let history play it self out? It asks the question what would happen if we did alter history? And in the end they don't know, I liked that it offered ideas as to what could happen from altering history but that they really don't know. [nowment]
I saerched and searched for The Final Countdown and Philadelphia Experiment. I love both of them. I didn't like the sequal that much to Philadelphia Experement but I loved the original. Time cop was good as well. Did you know they did a series off it? I watched it for a while recently on Sci-Fi channel. It wasn't bad at all. Not sure why I didn't see it before when it was on at a main time. [emeraldisle]
I really love Back to the Future. With the awesome adventures of Marty McFly and Doctor Brown. I watched the three movies (the original and two sequels). I really like the idea of time travel and time continuum stuffs like that. The bad thing is there is no fourth movie of back in the future. I guess it would be great to have a time traveling machine. http://sponkit.wordpress.com [sponkit]
I just thought of something that was a favorite but not a movie, it was a TV Series, staring Dale Midkiff, called Time Trax, I thought that had an interesting premise, I suppose besides a list of great films the next idea would be the tv shows like Seven Days, Time Trax, and of course Quantum Leap. [nowment]
I remember that show. It didn't last long but it was interesting. [emeraldisle]
Does the movie 'Butterfly Effect" counts? It's a movie about true love, and about destiny. That no matter what happens, in whatever time they awere at, they are always the ones who'll end up again for each other. That they believed they were meant for each other, but they have many difficulties in trying to make their relationship perfect.. I think this movie was one of the best Ashton Kutcher starred, along with Amy Smart. [raijin]
I love them but I have yet to see one that does time travle right. They always have some kind of paradox in them or miss somethign about time travel. My favorites thoguh would have to be the Back to the Future trilogies. The first was the best then the third, then the second one. My favorite thing to do is watch them and point out all the mistakes when it comes to time travel. [mikeyr6000le]
I, too, like science fiction type time travel movies and all. I love when they go into the whole concept of time travel and explain it. I pause and rewind and try to keep up with what they are saying. :) It's all so confusing, the whole concept of time bending and the chance of meeting yourself or screwing up something so when you come back, one little thing could change the entire course of the world. It's such a cool thing to think about. [chaygylmommy]
I really cannot remember seeing many time travel movies. At the moment the only one I can think of is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one where they go back in time. I think it was TMNT number 3, but not sure on which number of their movies it was. I remember enjoying watching it as a kid. [kjscrafts]
Hehe I have that one :) Yes it was TMNT 3. It was cute and I laughed through it all. [emeraldisle]
There is a movie of Jean Claude Van Damme, i forgot the title already. Another movie is "The One" of Jet Lee wherein he travels to another time and killed his own in order to become the strongest. Fortunately, he did not killed all and left one. Also, the "Time Machine" is also about time travel. [jeb083079]
You're thinking of "Time Cop" with Van Damme. I forgot about "The One".Great movie. Stephanie [dragonryder]
ya, the idea of time travel seems very fascinating to me. but i would never like it to be present in the real world. it will just increase the complications in the world. if anyone has read the harry potter 3 book, he can easily understand that what time travelling can do. i would never like it to be present in the real world. [abhi333]
My husband downloaded an old tv movie for me called Timestalkers from 1987. I totally hate Klaus Kinski, but loved this movie! A woman from the future comes to the present to have a scientist save the past. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094154/ Another favorite is Kate and Leopold. I absolutely adore Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman is HOT! Her friend accidentally brings him back through a crack in time and then Kate must babysit him until they can send him back. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035423/ [Trace86]
Star Trek Enterprise (not a movie but a tv series) deals with time travel. I like the way they handle it because they discuss quantum mechanics, paradoxes, and even came up with a Temporal Directive as to how the Time travelling agents are exppected to conduct themselves. [seamonkey]
Donnie Darko deals quite a bit with time travel, especially the ending. [5000ml]
Even I have a deep intrest with time travel...... I have seen many programmes in discovery regarding the same and it mensions something about travelling faster than the speed of light.....................some scientist have even built a blue print of a "time machine". [sarkar1]
DONNIE DARKO is a good one that deals with time travel, the only thing that I don't like is that it makes you think really hard. As for the Back to the Future movies i loved them as a kid but watching them now they are sooooo full of plot holes and problems...like in part three how come the female relative is played by the girl tha plays his mom?...the families would not have merged until in the 50's or 60' or whenever when his mom and dad met unless they have a lineage full of incest [ArsonCuff]
Could just be coincidence showing that the men in the family like similar women. I agree though in the third movie it was stretching it a bit to have her there as well. Then again I have seen families when doing geneology where they have intermarried before. Not incest but distant cousins. [emeraldisle]
I enjoy movies with time travel them particularly because the idea for me of being able to travel back in time, or to the future is so amazing. I would like to do it, given the chance. I just hate it in movies when for example they're portraying something that happened in the past and they don't comply with historical facts. [mayharaya]
I've watched the "The Time Machine", it's about a scientist Alexander Hartdegen is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change the past. Testing his theories with a time machine of his own invention, Hartdegen is hurtled 800,000 years into the future. This is a science fiction/fantasy, action & adventure released last March 2002 nationwide. Starring: Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Omera Mumba, Orlando Jones, & Jeremy Irons., Directed by: Simon Wells & Greg Michael. [berna_tenorio]
I would have to say my favorite is Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeves. I also loved the Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher. I thought the fact that Hermoine had a time turner in The Prisnor of Azkaban made the movie much more exciting and mysterious. I loved Peggy Sue got married and the first two Back to the future films but did not like Back to the future 3. I am very interested in the new Sandra Bullock movie Premonition. I don't know if the element of time travlel is involved but from the previews, it looks like it. [loved1]
Back to the future & Peggy-Sue got married are totally great!! I think my favorite time travel movie would have to be, hands down "Donnie Darko" [Duvessa]
I like any (well, most any) kind of science fiction. Time travel has always intriqued me -- the Back to the Future series was great; Peggy Sue was good too. I didn't see Time Bandits. My gosh, when I'm trying to think about movies about time travel I'm just drawing an overload black right now! I know I've seen lots and lots ~ haha Have you ever read The End Of Eternity? That was a great book about time travel and changing events in time. [ShadyGrove]
Hehe I know how that goes with the blank with something. I've had my share of those. I haven't read The End of Eternity. I like Time Travel books as well but that one I must have missed. Will check into it though. [emeraldisle]
I loved back to the future , i love Dr Who and at the moment here in Scotland there is a programme called Primevil it is brilliant , its all about creatures coming in through a timewarp , love it xx [weemam]
I like Dr. Who as well. It's very good and I can't wait till the next season starts. I haven't heard of Primevil but maybe we'll get it over here soon. Sounds like something I'd like. [emeraldisle]
I do too. I wish they would make movies of the Diana Gabaldon series.Do you know them? R [raydene]
No I don't know that one off hand. Sorry. I will check into it though and see if I can find them. [emeraldisle]
I love time travel movies and books. I was hooked on time travel romances..because, in my opinion, romance is pretty dead these days, so travelling back in time to enjoy it is something that makes perfect sense to me. One book turned movie that stands out in my mind is The Langoliers by Stephen King. THe book was better than the movie, as is often the case. Have you seen it? It gave a whole new twist on time travel.. the past is eaten. I won't say anything else, lest I ruin it if you haven't seen/read it. I liked back to the future as well..and years ago, a kid in King Arthur's Court. THere are just SO many movies that deal with time travel and I don't think there are any I have seen and not liked..even if there was some bad acting! [Vacant]
I read and saw "THe Langoleirs". I thought it was very good. They did a great job on the movie actually. I thought Bronson Pinchot was excellent in the role he played. Very different from his usual characters. [emeraldisle]
My fav movie of all time is The Final Countdown! Have you seen Somewhere In Time? [ElicBxn]
I love both movies actually. I have The Final Countdown but not Somewhere In Time yet. I think both are excellent movies. [emeraldisle]