Twelve Monkeys
...and that's all I can think of. Don't get me wrong, I loved this movie, but I think they left quite a few holes in the time-travel plot. Any others?
Primer
shareThe Lake House got time travel right.
sharewhen i saw ur title i was thinking "this guys better say 12 monkeys" so job well done. lol. although there is actuall 2 now. LOOPER did it just as well as 12 monkeys you should check it out.
shareMine is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
shareThe only way to get around the killing-your-grandfather-paradox is that time might offer endless forks in the time stream. Every time a change is made in the past, a new branch is created. So, well . . . maybe it MIGHT be technically possible since neutrinos might go back in time. So when you return to the present, do you go to the new stream or the old stream? I'm not sure you could ever get back to the new stream, hence nothing in your future can be changed. OK, now I'm totally confused.
There's still the question of the butterfly effect. Stephen King suggested in his book titled 1963 that some sort of force (Just like a big river) makes it hard to change the past/future. So you can take it a little further and say you can alter the past but not paradoxically. With that in mind, it would be impossible to kill your grandfather.
I just wish those future people would come visit us with something useful like a cure for obesity or cheap cable.
Making new branches is just artificially trying to move the past to a branch from the present. Then it's not even traveling back in time anymore. It doesn't really do anything useful.
shareBill and Ted and Twelve Monkeys there the only films that make sense since the time travellers actions were always part of history. There may be other films that have a single fixed timeline but cant think of any
shareI mentioned before The Terminator (1984) is another example of a single fixed timeline done right (the first film). James Cameron likely took the concept of a photograph of a woman in a different time from the film Somewhere in Time (1980), starring Christopher Reeve, another single fixed timeline example.
shareThe Final Countdown about a 1980's US Aircraft Carrier fighting (or not) at Pearl Harbo was pretty neat !
Liberate Tutemet Ex Inferis
I always thought that old TV show "Quantum Leap" made the most sense, because the lead character could ONLY travel to a time before his own birth---- because there can't be "two of you at the same time". It always bothers me when you see a character time-travel to a scene in which there is simultaneously another version of himself.
Of course, time travel itself is paradoxical, but it just doesn't make sense that a human being could physically exist twice at the same time.
you have this backwards. he only could travel to a time that happened during his lifetime on quantum leap.
shareSam could only travel to places IN his own lifetime.
"I stooped to pick a buttercup. Why people leave buttocks lying around, I've no idea."
Harry Potter 3
Time Traveler's wife
The Time Traveler's Wife. It's based on the theory that time isn't linear.
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