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Originally posted by tabuno:
2. Time After Time (1979). A fun, entertaining version of H.G. Wells attempting to save our contemporary civilizations from Jack the Ripper.

Lovely film. It's the first one that comes to mind for me when I think of time travel flicks.

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Posted 25 May 2007 05:19 PM
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Originally posted by tabuno:
2. Time After Time (1979). A fun, entertaining version of H.G. Wells attempting to save our contemporary civilizations from Jack the Ripper.
Lovely film. It's the first one that comes to mind for me when I think of time travel flicks.

It's nice to read a post the externally validates my observation regarding Time After Time. This movie is somewhat unique in that it is one of the few mainstream, popular science fiction movie that combines a number of genres, including romantic comedy, thriller, historical, horror, and science fiction into one movie. Part pure entertainment with a good dash of fantasy-science fiction, this feel-good movie contains some great gems of the juxtaposition of time travel paradoxes and unlike Somewhere In Time (1980), this movie offers a positive spin in a fun, entertaining way a time travel presention.

Oh, by all means, yes. TIME AFTER TIME is a brilliant little classic. It's part sci fi, part romance, part police procedural ... it's one of the first films I can remember seeing that saddled up so many different types of flicks AND delivered in a big storytelling way.

I know it is not a movie but this season of Lost deals alot in time travel. Great show anyways but the Desmond eps. dealing with time travel was exceptionally well done.

Not great by any means but a time travel concept I enjoyed was in Stephen King's movie/story, The Langoliers. The movie is enjoyable for a tv miniseries.

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I know it is not a movie but this season of Lost deals alot in time travel. Great show anyways but the Desmond eps. dealing with time travel was exceptionally well done.

Good addition, though. I'm one of the rare few who've believed that somehow time travel is central to this storyline. Originally, I believed that 'The Bell' referred to in the bunker was actually a perversion of Nazi science, creating a torsion field (sp?) that was actually causing time on the island to travel backward. I still wonder ...

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Not great by any means but a time travel concept I enjoyed was in Stephen King's movie/story, The Langoliers. The movie is enjoyable for a tv miniseries.

It was a good story, but I found it a rather tepid TV mini adaptation.

I forgot Diaster in Time starring Jeff Daniels. Sort of a time travel meets reality TV mix long before reality TV got popular.

I'm bias toward King, so you are probably right on The Langoliers but I enjoyed it anyhow.

I admit to not really getting Primer, either. (One unkind critic of my own time travel novel, The Plot to Save Socrates, compared it to Primer - hey, you can't please everyone.)

The first 3 Trancer movies also belong on any top time-travel movie list.

I just tried to explain the ending of "Deja Vu" to my brother & I couldn't do it because I wasn't able to dumb it down enough for him. He thinks the ending is a cheat because when Denzel Washington saves the girl, he doesn't disappear. Instead he dies in an explosion, which in his mind, tells him that in the future the "other" Washington is going to die the same way. I tried to explain that this is not the fate of the character, but he doesn't seem to understand time paradoxes. I told him because he had changed the future, Time is acting like Death in the "Final Destination" movies. It's fixing the anomaly, that is the time displaced Denzel, by killing him. There can't be 2 Denzel's co-existing in the same time & space. Because of the change there is no need to go back in time to stop her murder because it never took place. In some movies this would have formed a MAJOR paradox & might have destroyed the universe, but in this one? Denzel's character never has any idea that the woman he's talking to was supposed to die. Time goes on.

Being a time travel movie fan, I know that there are several outcomes to changing the future. You have the "Back to the Future" version, where you are just "erased" from existance. There is the "Butterfly Effect" version, where you remember everything. And "The Terminator" version has the idea that the future can never be changed, even if everyone is trying their best to change it. So the characters don't change. Can anyone else help me out in explaining this in layman's terms? Apparently my explanation is just too flippin' complicated!

I didn't wanna create a whole, new thread because I don't see this spawning a ton of responses, but your help is mucho appreciated !

When I first saw this thread, I immediately thought of Primer. Scanning through the posts, I was really surprised to see that no one really cared for it. I absolutely had a blast with this movie. As difficult as it was to decipher, it was a lot of fun and well worth the effort.

my favorite time travel movie would have to bee doctor who the enemy within aka the one with the master.(1996)

I liked Primer. It is a little vague towards the end.

dont tell me nobodys seen the doctor who movie

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dont tell me nobodys seen the doctor who movie

If you're talking about Comic Relief: Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (1999), no.

no im talking a bout the actull movie "the enemy within"

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no im talking a bout the actull movie "the enemy within"

IMDb has this movie listed as a television movie. Most of the references on this site I assume are theatrical releases not television releases so my assumption is that not as many people would have necessarily seen this Dr. Who movie because not everyone who watches theatrical releases watch as much consistent television and may easily have missed this movie, especially those who didn't watch the Dr. Who television series.

well mabay they could wacht it on utube by typing in doctor who movie 1996

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well mabay they could wacht it on utube by typing in doctor who movie 1996

I don't usually immediately, if any, take the advice contained in a post. I'm pretty busy with my own thing. But it's been a holiday weekend so what the hell. Anyway, watched The Doctor: The Movie (1996). I wasn't too impressed in the beginning and neither of the Doctors were really much to speak up in comparison to the more recent incarnations. But, and it took awhile, the time component and the serious plot, death, evil, etc., etc., did contain sufficient time travel ideas that it made an impression. Still I think it could have hadn't both the comedy (what slight bit there was) better and also added a sprinkle of character development (as a movie). Six out of Ten Stars. I enjoyed the movie. It was a nice break. Thanks.

thats okay but it was kinda borin in start but it gets better and i think they should make something that shows the 8th doctor becoming the 9th