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Is there a time travel movie that got it right?

posted 9 years ago by !!!deleted!!! (52800787)
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As proven by this article (in which, beware, spoilers abound):

http://www.mjyoung.net/time/almanac.html

Project Almanac gets the time paradoxes completely wrong and has a rather inconsistent ending.

Is there a time travel movie that ever got it right?

I'd like someone who is very knowledgeable about matters of timelines (from the scientific standpoint) to recommend a movie that does get it right. I mean, not just from the standpoint of regular, non-physicist moviegoers, but rather, from the standpoint o someone like this M.J. Young who seems to know what he is talking about.

[–] howard_w13 9 years ago

"12 Monkeys" gets it right. Instead of trying to change the past; the scientists from the future ensure that the past plays out exactly the way its supposed to.

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The movie has a plot hole?!?
EVERY FRIGGIN' MOVIE HAS A FRIGGIN' PLOT HOLE!!!!!

[–] saniainen-748-829141 9 years ago

It depends if there is a movie where they failed build time machine.

[–] JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies 9 years ago

There isn't really anything to get right. Time travel is an incoherent idea given that time isn't really anything like a substance to travel in, so time travel fiction will always be strictly fantasy, not really that different than, say, a film about Merlin doing magic.

[–] georgegliddy 9 years ago

well if u try vry hard u migt b able 2 do it.... bcos u cud move the energes 2 change the time and then u wud b back in time 2 save the world...... but also u cud kill so many peeps bcos u cud b a BAD peep...... so pls do NOT do it ok.......

[–] coldnaps 9 years ago

Wanna try that again in English?

[–] georgegliddy 9 years ago

well ok i spk on AMERICAN ok bcos were here in america NOT dum dum englan were those peep always yell at us and prolly nuc down upon us and even say bad thing 2 us???? so that it ok.....

[–] coldnaps 9 years ago

You're right, this is America, where we also speak English. What you're writing isn't English. It's semi-illiterate gibberish, and is most definitely not even approaching cool.

[–] georgegliddy 9 years ago

well 2day we have such interntets so u cud let ur thouhts flow out ur head 2 all the peeps and theyd all c wut ur saying????? bcos if u try 2 put all ur words 100# correct well then ud 4get wut ur saying ok and then those peep wud not get ur msg....... so u got 2 write ur words vry FAST so the peeps wud c them......... so thats wut u have 2 do on it....... well now u know??????

[–] coldnaps 9 years ago

REiiigggghhhhttt... Hope the special needs home knows you have computer access

[–] georgegliddy 9 years ago

well ok i have a puter i love it vry much n its vry good it has a color scren 2 c and keys i cud typed on and even a mice wich is vry good...... also it cud make good sounds 2......so cud ur puter make good sounds even??? bocs we cud have a contest 4 the best sound 2 win a prize and then it wud b good 2..... well rpolly my puter is btr than google puters bcos those r prolly vry boring wich is BAD so i dont want that/???????

[–] jasonpatrickphipps 9 years ago

You're either an ignorant illegal Mexican or a tard that grew up in the inner city dreaming of being a rapper. Either way, you're an idiot and nobody will take that jibberish seriously, so try spelling out your words.

[–] view_and_review 9 years ago

Back to the Future!!!

Right or wrong it was great.

[–] SpoiLerAleRt_U-die-At-The-EnD 9 years ago

I would say time crimes is the best time travel movie I've seen with the least contrivances. It does a good job at scientifically explaining time travel as a ribbon folding on itself yet continuing in one direction. Check it out

You die at the end!

[–] spank-my-17 9 years ago

Yeah, Time Crimes came to my mind as well. Great movie.
Also Primer, seems to be many peoples favorite time travel movie that "gets it right", even though it's slow and confusing. :)

[–] chuckyhacks2 9 years ago

Doctor Who

[–] josephmramirez 9 years ago

Surprisingly, one good answer to this question is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The extended time travel sequence that makes up about the last quarter of the movie is carefully written, internally consistent, and largely paradox-free. A philosopher named Paul Horwich (I took a course from him at MIT called "Time, Space and Causality") summarized the rigorous view of time travel this way: A time traveler can influence the past, but cannot change the past. The Potter movie adheres to that rule. Of course, Project Almanac does not.

[–] Bladebrown22 9 years ago

Hot tub time machine!

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[–] thebigmouth 9 years ago

There are basically two ways of writing a coherent time travel story. The trick is to avoid logical inconsistency like when you kill your own grandparents.

1. Predestination paradox. This is basically a logically consistent temporal causality loop where the protagonist encounters strange phenomena, then travels back in time and realizes they're the cause of those phenomena. An example would be Timecrimes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/

2. Branching timelines. This is a riff on the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum physics. Traveling back in time creates a parallel "branch" of the original timeline in which events are changed. It's still logically consistent, though, because the original timeline exists in parallel. An example would (arguably) be Deja Vu.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453467/

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