bill5 Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 I always liked this kind of thing, but it's so easy to do it badly But there have been some good ones...some of my favs: Movies - Edge of Tomorrow - Terminator 1 and 2 - Groundhog Day - Happy Death Day (and its sequel) - Interstellar - Time Bandits Shows - ST Voyager where Kim's screw up dooms Voyager to crash into a glacier - ST orig series the one with Joan Collins - ST orig series the one with Teri Garr - Various episodes of Twilight Zone - Various episodes of Quantum Leap 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose EB5AGV Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 "Back to the future" movies, specially first one 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuelBLupowitz Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Russian Doll! Such a cool variation on the genre. First season is a little more Groundhog Day, but the second season is closer to what we’d think of as time travel, even if it’s still a bit of a deconstruction. My wonderful, late sci-fi nerd cousin Andy apparently was thrilled with the original Terminator movie because “they understood how time travel worked!” But when T2 came out, he left the theater horrified that they messed up the mechanics relative to the first film. His wife had to gently remind him that nobody *actually* knows how time travel works… 😆 2 Quote Samuel B. Lupowitz Musician. Songwriter. Food Enthusiast. Bad Pun Aficionado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldwin Funster Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. STATIONNNN!!!! 2 Quote FunMachine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 +1 on Groundhog Day If you’re of a certain age, you watched the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show including Mr Peabody & Sherman. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Another vote for Interstellar, just love that movie 1 Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamPro Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Anyone remember this.....? It's about time, it's about space. Strange people in the strangest place. It's about time, it's about flight. Travelin' faster than the speed of light. Old Sherwood Schwartz TV comedy from the 1960s. The theme song is the thing I remember most about the show. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16251 Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Big fan of TT movies. STNG: Time's Arrow Cause and Effect First Contact Star Trek IV 12 Monkeys 1st Planet of the Apes Men in Black 3 Deja Vu Idiocracy original Time Machine and remake Donny Darko 1 Quote AvantGrand N2 | ES520 | Gallien-Krueger MK & MP | https://soundcloud.com/pete36251 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nievski Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Excellent mentions above! I’ll add: Doctor Who Legends of Tomorrow The Flash (TV and Movies) Avengers: Endgame Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 2 hours ago, JamPro said: Anyone remember this.....? It's about time, it's about space. Strange people in the strangest place. It's about time, it's about flight. Travelin' faster than the speed of light. Old Sherwood Schwartz TV comedy from the 1960s. The theme song is the thing I remember most about the show. Another forgotten 1960s time travel show was The Time Tunnel. It lasted 1 season. Created by Irwin Allen who also did ‘60s TV shows Lost In Space and Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea before huge ‘70s disaster films including The Poseidon Adventure & The Towering Inferno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyPants Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 A few I enjoyed: Primer Safety Not Guaranteed Looper Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel The Time Traveler's Wife (the book is better than the movie or TV series) Somewhere in Time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H. Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Avengers Endgame! Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow plus The Road Not Taken (The Orville). On my mind because I've been rewatching this series on Disney+. My conclusion: The best Star Trek since TNG, and it's not even Star Trek! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherScott Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 In (somewhat) recent stuff, my favorite series is Travelers. If you like that one, more good ones along similar lines are Continuum (the 2012 Canadian series) and the 12 Monkeys show inspired by the movie. Something very different, offbeat, and ultimately quite clever is the low-budget "The History of Time Travel" (Amazon Prime). Unlike the others I mentioned, this is just a single (short) movie, not a series. 1 Quote Maybe this is the best place for a shameless plug! Our now not-so-new new video at https://youtu.be/3ZRC3b4p4EI is a 40 minute adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" - check it out! And hopefully I'll have something new here this year. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Never thought of time travel as a separate category they were just Sci Fi movies that time travel was aspect of the story. One book movie I like that so far no one as mentioned is.....Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Watched that movie many times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod S Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Excellent choices, I'll add two that are missing from my personal List 1. About Time While the time travel aspect is a little wacky, I found it to be a witty, heart warming, wonderful movie. 2. If I hadn't met you / (Si no t’hagués conegut) Wonderful series from Catulinia, Spain, not very well known. More parallel universes than time travel, but I wanted to include it since I enjoyed it so much. Grieving father who lost his family meets an elderly scientist with the technology to travel to parallel universes. Starts slow, but has a profound, touching story . Quote Korg Kronos X73 / ARP Odyssey / Motif ES Rack / Roland D-05 / JP-08 / SE-05 / Jupiter Xm / Novation Mininova / NL2X / Waldorf Pulse II MBP-LOGIC American Deluxe P-Bass, Yamaha RBX760 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokely Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 I'd say my favorite that involves it is a relatively recent one, and the time aspect being a twist I'd like to spoiler it, but am not seeing the option here...if there's some markup that can do it please clue me in. For older ones where it's not a spoiler at all, 12 monkeys was always a favorite. Memento is a really cool concept though the time aspect is how the movie plays out and not "time travel". Overall as a sci-fi fan I find time travel a bit tiresome...it can be a lazy way out. For example while I thought Avengers: Endgame was very well-done, you pretty much knew time travel was going to be involved before you started the movie, because they weren't going to leave half the Earth dead... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoken6 Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Not a movie, but the Red Dwarf episode "Backwards" is clever and witty. Cheers, Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfields Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Chris Marker's "La Jetée"--the inspiration for "12 monkeys", and possibly my favorite movie in any genre. It's an odd little thing--less than half an hour, black and white, almost entirely stills--maybe it'll only appeal to some narrow intersection between fans of science fiction and the French new wave. But I find it really affecting. And, worst case, if you hate it, hey, you've only lost 28 minutes.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H. Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 28 minutes ago, Stokely said: Overall as a sci-fi fan I find time travel a bit tiresome...it can be a lazy way out. For example while I thought Avengers: Endgame was very well-done, you pretty much knew time travel was going to be involved before you started the movie, because they weren't going to leave half the Earth dead... Actually we didn't know that, because we didn't know that Thanos destroyed the infinity stones beforehand. They had to go back in time to get them. Still my favorite time travel movie, my favorite Marvel movie, just about my favorite movie of all time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Kaenel Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Resistance is futile: I must select the movie "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" -- which was my very first date with my wife (we're both such ST nerds!) TOS crew has to travel back to 20th-century San Francisco to collect some humpback whales. Funniest installment in the entire movie canon, and closest in vibe to the TOS TV series. "Where do you keep the nuclear wessels?"; "A keyboard. How quaint."; "Berkeley... a little too much LDS". Classic. 2 Quote Legend '70s Compact, Jupiter-Xm, Studiologic Numa X 73 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artomas Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 It's a series, not a movie, and animated, but I like the way Rick and Morty would have hundreds, maybe thousands, of timelines slopping together, sometimes to the point of ludicrous mundane drudgery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16251 Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Passengers (2008) with Anne Hathaway. It only gets a 19% on RottenT but I liked it. (not Jennifer Lawrence/Chris Pratt movie with same name.) Howard the Duck is another one that comes to mind. Quote AvantGrand N2 | ES520 | Gallien-Krueger MK & MP | https://soundcloud.com/pete36251 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wineandkeyz Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Woody Allen's "Sleeper" sort of fits the bill. 2 Quote Live: Yamaha S70XS (#1); Roland Jupiter-80; Mackie 1202VLZ4: IEMs or Traynor K4 Home: Hammond SK Pro 73; Moog Minimoog Voyager Electric Blue; Yamaha S70XS (#2); Wurlitzer 200A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jazzpiano88 Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Michael Crichton’s Timeline. The movie is ok. The book is fantastic. Read the book. 2 Quote J a z z P i a n o 8 8 -- Yamaha C7D Montage M8x | CP300 | CP4 | SK1-73 | OB6 | Seven K8.2 | 3300 | CPSv.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherScott Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 2 hours ago, Bill H. said: Actually we didn't know that, because we didn't know that Thanos destroyed the infinity stones beforehand. They had to go back in time to get them. Still my favorite time travel movie, my favorite Marvel movie, just about my favorite movie of all time... I really enjoyed the movie, except I hated the deus ex machina that was Captain Marvel. Quote Maybe this is the best place for a shameless plug! Our now not-so-new new video at https://youtu.be/3ZRC3b4p4EI is a 40 minute adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" - check it out! And hopefully I'll have something new here this year. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill5 Posted May 9, 2023 Author Share Posted May 9, 2023 15 hours ago, Jose EB5AGV said: "Back to the future" movies, specially first one Wow can't believe I forgot one of the most obvious! Some other good ones here too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVC Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 6 hours ago, AnotherScott said: In (somewhat) recent stuff, my favorite series is Travelers. I totally agree, it is interesting under several angles (IMO). I am watching the series again and enjoying it as it were the first time. In my list: Captain Nova: I found after a few minutes watching that it was more targeted at teens, but I watched through the end and it is fun, despite the predictable end. The Adam Project: mix of sci-fi and action movie (more action than sci) but still, fun. I like Ryan Reynolds acting. The Tomorrow War: another mix of sci-fi and action, again more action than sci. I also like Chis Pratt acting. Edge or Tomorrow, yet another sci-fi/action mix, with an interesting angle. And it has Emily Blunt. 😍 OT: Somebody mentioned Passengers with Chris Pratt/Jennifer Lawrence. Not a TT movie properly, but it was OK until the spaceship stopped spinning after losing energy just for the sake of the dramatic sequence on the pool. It drives me mad just recalling the scene. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nievski Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 From the 80's - Terry Gilliam's Time Bandit's. Yup, its weird in a Mpnty Python-esque way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H. Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 For those with a few minutes of time to waste here's Marvel's version of time travel explained by Professor Hulk - which differs from the classic model: Here's the closely related sacred timeline described my Miss Minutes: ... and the timeline explained by The Ancient One: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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