Your Top Five 'Time Travel' movies. by lwaves

Cheers Lwaves

OK top five:

Back to the Future.
Timescape
Terminator
My Science Project
The Time Machine (1960)

And right on the cusp - Groundhog Day.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:45 AM

STORYMARK

Star Trek: First Contact
The Terminator
Time After Time
12 Monkeys
Primer

Honorable mention: The Butterfly Effect (which pains me, 'cuz I hate Ashton.... but it's a solid flick).

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:20 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Honorable mention: The Butterfly Effect (which pains me, 'cuz I hate Ashton.... but it's a solid flick).

I don't like him either but I do like time travel movies. So is Butterfly Effect worth watching? I've always avoided it because of him.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:47 PM

STORYMARK

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Originally posted by lwaves:

I don't like him either but I do like time travel movies. So is Butterfly Effect worth watching? I've always avoided it because of him.

I would certainly recommend it. It's a very dark movie (especially if you watch the director's cut), which presents a take on time travel you don't really see in other films.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 3:50 PM

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12 Monkeys
Terminator
Time Bandits
Slaughterhouse Five
Somewhere in Time

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:

Timescape

If by that you mean the film that is also known as "Grand Tour: Disaster in Time," that was filmed for Showtime in 1992 and stars Jeff Daniels, that would be in serious contention for at least honorable mention. I do like it a lot, but I am prejudiced because it is based on one of my most favorite short stories of all time, "Vintage Season" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:42 PM

HKCAVALIER

Idiocracy

Déjà Vu

Groundhog Day

Slaughterhouse Five

The One

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Lake House

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Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:31 AM

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Time After Time
Somewhere in Time
Donnie Darko
12 Monkeys
Time Bandits

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 3:30 AM

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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Idiocracy

Déjà Vu

Groundhog Day

Slaughterhouse Five

The One

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Lake House

Thank you for introducing Groundhog's Day into the thread but yikes! The Lake House is one of my all time least favorite time travel movies and I have to say that The Time Traveler's Wife was a sad remnant of a much greater worker.

I would have to go with:
Groundhog's Day
12 Monkeys
Back to the Future II
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek IV

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure gets an honorable mention.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 3:34 AM

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If we open it up to TV episodes then I have to say, "Yesterday's Enterprise" trumps any movie from my list. One of my favorite bits of filmed science fiction ever. It takes a great show like Firefly to compete with that glorious bit of filmmaking.

"Let's make sure history never forgets the name ::pause for dramatic effect:: Enterprise."

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 6:29 AM

ecgordon:

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If by that you mean the film that is also known as "Grand Tour: Disaster in Time," that was filmed for Showtime in 1992 and stars Jeff Daniels, that would be in serious contention for at least honorable mention. I do like it a lot, but I am prejudiced because it is based on one of my most favorite short stories of all time, "Vintage Season" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.

Yep. Thats the one. I caught it quite by accident years ago and I was really impressed with the pacing of it. Daniels is good in it, and I liked the concept. I don't know anything about the short stories though. Does it even credit the short story do you know?

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:17 AM

ECGORDON

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
ecgordon:
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If by that you mean the film that is also known as "Grand Tour: Disaster in Time," that was filmed for Showtime in 1992 and stars Jeff Daniels, that would be in serious contention for at least honorable mention. I do like it a lot, but I am prejudiced because it is based on one of my most favorite short stories of all time, "Vintage Season" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.

Yep. Thats the one. I caught it quite by accident years ago and I was really impressed with the pacing of it. Daniels is good in it, and I liked the concept. I don't know anything about the short stories though. Does it even credit the short story do you know?

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Yes, I just checked my DVD and the story is credited. However, it says it was written by Laurence O'Donnell and C. L. Moore. O'Donnell was one of the many pen names used by Henry Kuttner, and sometimes it was used on collaborations by him and Moore. She was his wife, and they wrote many stories together as well as separately. Robert Silverberg once wrote a sequel story to "Vintage Season" entitled "In Another Country," and in the introduction to the collection it is in he credits the original story to Moore alone. I have read several sources that say it is difficult to distinguish a lot of their stories as to the true authorship.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:29 AM

ZZETTA13

I think my all time favorite, #1 time travel movie would be “ Planet of the Apes” 1968 with Charlton Heston. Why, you ask?

Because It doesn’t qualify! You say!

Yepper it does. Within the first seven minutes Commander George Taylor suggest that the time period he and his crew have spent out in the vastness of space does not equal the time period back on Earth That Was! So the conclusion =TIME TRAVEL.

What would our planet be like if we were to venture away for ten years? I’m hoping that we would return to a civilized culture that could teach us something instead of the other way round.

Other TT movies that are really good!

Somewhere In Time, an excellent date flick. Enjoyed it very much. Christopher Reeve, what can I say…… RIP my friend.

Terminator(s) excellent time travel movies. JC knew what he was doin.

Time Banbits, love the scene where John Cleese tells the small bandits that the treasures they’ve stolen will be appreciated by the poor.

Déjà Vu …….excellent movie and a real tear jerker about lost/found love.

I’m sure there are lots of other time movies that haven’t made the list purely because they have not been thought of.

Still, a good list……Z

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:40 AM

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
ecgordon:
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If by that you mean the film that is also known as "Grand Tour: Disaster in Time," that was filmed for Showtime in 1992 and stars Jeff Daniels, that would be in serious contention for at least honorable mention. I do like it a lot, but I am prejudiced because it is based on one of my most favorite short stories of all time, "Vintage Season" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.

Yep. Thats the one. I caught it quite by accident years ago and I was really impressed with the pacing of it. Daniels is good in it, and I liked the concept. I don't know anything about the short stories though. Does it even credit the short story do you know?

Hey, I have this one too. It was definitely called Timescape in the UK because I had an old VHS tape of it and then I had to get the DVD from the US which had the Grand Tour title.
I really liked it as well, the idea of why the travellers were there and the impact Jeff Daniels had on them and how it all played out was great. Very underwatched film that is good for adults and kids. Plus it features my fave classical piece of music - Fur Elise.
I think I'll dig my copy out and give it another watch.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:54 PM

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Originally posted by lwaves:
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
ecgordon:
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If by that you mean the film that is also known as "Grand Tour: Disaster in Time," that was filmed for Showtime in 1992 and stars Jeff Daniels, that would be in serious contention for at least honorable mention. I do like it a lot, but I am prejudiced because it is based on one of my most favorite short stories of all time, "Vintage Season" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.

Yep. Thats the one. I caught it quite by accident years ago and I was really impressed with the pacing of it. Daniels is good in it, and I liked the concept. I don't know anything about the short stories though. Does it even credit the short story do you know?

Hey, I have this one too. It was definitely called Timescape in the UK because I had an old VHS tape of it and then I had to get the DVD from the US which had the Grand Tour title.
I really liked it as well, the idea of why the travellers were there and the impact Jeff Daniels had on them and how it all played out was great. Very underwatched film that is good for adults and kids. Plus it features my fave classical piece of music - Fur Elise.
I think I'll dig my copy out and give it another watch.

Hey Lwaves. Y'know what I reckon we probably both watched it on the same night it was aired here in England.

Did you ever see a rare British film called TIMESLIP? It was made in the 50's and it was about a guy who is found in the Thames with a radioactive beam across his body and he happens to be seven and a half minutes in front of everybody else... It wasn't at all bad, and made in that really cool 50's stark black and white style that British cinema used to do so well back then.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:56 PM

Originally posted by ecgordon:

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I have read several sources that say it is difficult to distinguish a lot of their stories as to the true authorship.

I find that really interesting. I like tales like this.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:17 PM

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Originally posted by ecgordon:

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I have read several sources that say it is difficult to distinguish a lot of their stories as to the true authorship.

I find that really interesting. I like tales like this.

Then you need to find a copy of a book called Two-Handed Engine, which is a collection of stories by these two remarkable writers. It includes "Vintage Season," plus my second favorite by them, "Mimsy Were the Borogoves," which was the basis of the film The Last Mimzy, which I believe someone else mentioned up-thread.

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Friday, August 20, 2010 12:10 AM

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Hey Lwaves. Y'know what I reckon we probably both watched it on the same night it was aired here in England.

Did you ever see a rare British film called TIMESLIP? It was made in the 50's and it was about a guy who is found in the Thames with a radioactive beam across his body and he happens to be seven and a half minutes in front of everybody else... It wasn't at all bad, and made in that really cool 50's stark black and white style that British cinema used to do so well back then.

Hi Som, yeah we probably watched the same airing. I always thought that the daughter (Ariana Richards) had potential as an actress. I'd seen her in some of those 'true life' movies before as well as some family films and she could be really convincing. Then she was cast as Lex in Jurassic Park and she disappeared from acting shortly after that.

I don't remember Timeslip the movie, but I do vaguely remeber Timslip the TV series, from the early 70s I think. We watched it at primary school and it was about a couple of kids who went through a 'time wall' to different periods. It was one of those fun educational shows they used to show kids.

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Friday, August 20, 2010 3:42 AM

Arianna Richards was in TREMORS. Did you ever see that? That is a good film.

She probably became rather fed up of being cast a 'child chased by a monster' after her performances in that and Jurassic Park... actually come to think of it she must be about 30 or so now!!!! Woah does that make me feel old....

Timeslip the TV series eh... Nope don't remember that one... Sounds like Time Bandits ?

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Friday, August 20, 2010 11:28 AM