Movies That Got Time Travel Right - Men in Black³ (2012) Discussion

[–] pdc-24 11 years ago

How can you do time travel right or wrong when the entire concept of it is theoretical? If it were proven possible then it would be a different story but we're talking about something that most likely will always be just science-fiction..

It is fun to think about I just think to many people let it ruin movies for them. I have a friend who will sit there through any movie and point out all the problems with the time travel scenarios. When did people become experts on this?

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[–] razzzor-1 11 years ago

I just watched the first two Back to the Future's recently, and no they didn't get that right once they got into #2.

The slowly disappearing people in photos was a laugh, seriously was his family walking around in the future with their upper halves vanished?

But in #2 it had Marty go to the future, old Biff then takes the car to change the past. So we now have an original timeline and a newer second timeline where Biff is rich, having used the Almanac. But when old Biff returns to the future to drop the car back, nothings changed? It's still original timeline. The second he gave young biff the almanac, his future would have changed, unless it's multiple timelines.

But when Marty goes back in time, he's now in timeline 2 with rich Biff. Where's timeline 1 gone, the timeline that he actually belongs to? And if there is only one timeline that gets overwritten then when Biff returned to the future it would have been the new future. Original Marty would have disappeared, and in fact there would probably no longer be a time machine or time travel.

#2 was still my favourite in the franchise though.

As for recommendations... how about Fringe? It gets messy with the parallel earth and far too many alternate timelines that then merge again. But otherwise pretty good.

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[–] nekkid_hill_billy 10 years ago

old biff starts to dissappear as he returns to the present timeline do to elaine shooting him in the past. it was shown further but deleted out so you only see a second of it. notice no old biff when doc and marty come back to the car. im not sure if anyone could difference to city in a matter of seconds but there is something with more trash and the lights being out somewhat. there is also a mention of marty noticing a change he gets a odd look on his face. the car being out of time and a capsule isnt affected so old biffs cane piece is still in the car.

bttf prob did it better than any flick except for the picture erasing part. it would be instant i would think and no one would notice the change. however with marty and doc being out of time for example they possibly could see the changes that the rest cant and know the differences. still when they went to the alternate 1985 they should know what has happened in there mind like the butterfly effect did with george dead and doc commited. marty could see his former self he is not going to disappear if he traveled at a future date from the original travel. here is where they messed up old marty would know that young marty was there in his house cause he would have that memory cause they are being created same with old jennifer.

to not see himself in present day marty would have to come back in a slightly future time or the exact time he traveled out of that time line. i get what one poster is saying about two martys not being able to exist but then all the events of the first movie wouldnt have happened. he can exist in two places but he cannot be the same age down the second in two places. so even though its the future for marty its the past.

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[–] awc2388 11 years ago

I didn't take the time to read all the comments, but Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel is one (great) movie that got it right IMO.

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[–] xanadu-16 11 years ago

well, all movies all of you just listed here more or less take soemthing from time-travel theory and more or less they keep also their own time travel theory...

we discuss on theoretically and we speculate, that's fine so let me put my favourite list about time travel movies... just teh first ones that comes to my mind:

Primer
Retroactive
The time tyraveller's wife
Bill & Ted's adv
The Terminator
BttF (no matter about plot&warm holes my choice goes for the 2nd)
the butterfly's effect
timecop
and many more...

I'd like to add Prince of darkness... this movie can't relate exactly to time travel, well non physically but describes the use of tachyons to "bring" back in time (and only back in time) informations, all actions in the movie are made in order to prevent the terrible end of the world and as the movie goes on, we get each time a little bit more of this kind of travelling informations from A future dated 1999... they (possibly and probably) couldn't prevent

last but not least there's also an indie movie called Altitude, curiously takes time-travel as the only possible way to reset things...

I've seen them all many times, more than usually anyone should coherently do, but i'm addict to movies anyway... excuse me I'm easily rambling on it... I remember that was pretty hard to get a copy of Primer in blueray, basically many movies whose are good, extremely good, can't get a good distribution...

anyway,

very nice discussion this one...

ps
forgive my english and my misspelling...

pps
"Why don't you try with cheese????"

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[–] iresheen 11 years ago

Twelve Monkeys doesn't get time travel right.

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[–] Capt-Cupcake 10 years ago

Back to the Future Trilogy.

Carl Sagan praised Back to the Future II for being the most scientifically accurate time travel film he'd ever seen.

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[–] nekkid_hill_billy 10 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107808/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_31

a perfect world. costner setting in car says this is a time machine whats in the front of us is the future whats in the rear view is the past. that is as close to time travel we will ever see.

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[–] nekkid_hill_billy 10 years ago

to add to my bttf post and possibly mib3 maybe the person that has seen both time lines and realizes there was a change doesnt loose the memory. ie one of the people directly affect its change. maybe they keep both or are unaffected like the rest of the world. and im right since this is all major bs anyhow and none this is real. just nice to ponder.

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[–] NotDoakes 9 years ago

Planet of the apes (the classic one)

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[–] Urmelita 10 years ago

No time travel that changes history in any way is ever completely without discrepancies. Some are more obvious than others. Some are needed to make the story work in the first place. The most common of the latter is the people remembering the unchanged history.

The only examples work without discrepancies are the few time travel stories, that are based on the “one timeline theory”.

The only movies I can think of that use that are “The Last Countdown” and “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”. There was also the short lived TV programme “Crime Traveller”.