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Movies Discussion Thread V1: Ratings and Opinions
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35. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
34. 'About Time' (2013) *
33. 'Interstellar' (2014) *
32. ‘Star Trek: First Contact’ (1996)
31. ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court’ (1949)
30. 'The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey' (1988)
29. 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' (2014) *
28. ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ (1986) *
27. 'The Final Countdown’ (1970)
26. ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ (2003) *
25. ‘Somewhere in Time’ (1980)
24. ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ (2012)
23. ‘Army of Darkness’ (1992)
22. ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ (1972)
21. ‘Timecrimes’ (2007) *
20. ‘Back to the Future III’ (1990) *
19. ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ (2014) *
18. ‘Time After Time’ (1979)
17. ‘Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’ (1986)
16. ‘Back to the Future II’ (1989) *
15. ‘Run Lola Run’ (1998)
14. ‘Donnie Darko’ (2001) *
13. ‘Source Code’ (2011) *
12. ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ (1989) *
11. ‘Time Bandits’ (1981) *
10. 'The Time Machine' (1960) *
9. ‘Le Jette’ (1962)
8. 'Looper' (2012) *
7. 'Groundhog Day' (1993) *
6. 'Primer' (2004) *
5. '12 Monkeys' (1995) *
4. 'Planet of the Apes' (1968)
3. 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' (1991) *
2. 'The Terminator' (1984) *
1. 'Back to the Future' (1985) *
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35. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Unlike the third film in Mike Myers' spy spoof trilogy, "Goldmember" (2002), “Spy Who Shagged Me” confronts the paradoxes created by its use of time travel -- often with hilarious results. Powers finds himself traveling back to the '60s, where he discovers just how much his adjustment to the uptight '90s has ruined him for his own freewheeling era. Heather Graham is fun as his 1960s love interest, who makes him realize that neither the past nor the future is that great.
34. 'About Time' (2013)
Writer-director Richard Curtis, who likes to make comedies about impossible romances ("Notting Hill," "Love Actually"), comes up with a particularly tricky example when a young man (Domhnall Gleeson) who comes from a long line of time travelers meets his dream girl (Rachel McAdams). As funny and sad as you would expect.
33. 'Interstellar' (2014)
Yeah, it's not what it was cracked up to be, but Christopher Nolan's tale of an astronaut (Matthew McConaughey) who travels through space and time (via the mysterious properties of a black hole) has some solid tearjerking moments and some awesome -- and apparently, scientifically accurate -- visual effects.
32. ‘Star Trek: First Contact’ (1996)
Captain Picard leads his crew back in time to stop the Borg in the second “Trek” film featuring the “Next Gen” cast. The alien race threaten to assimilate a post-WWIII Earth when the world was at its weakest, therefore preventing “Star Trek” from ever happening. Patrick Stewart delivers a compelling and sympathetic performance as Picard comes to terms with the enemy that turned him into a Borg years ago.
31. ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court’ (1949)
Mark Twain's durable time-travel tale gets a jaunty treatment, with Bing Crosby as the mechanic whose knowledge of modern science allows him to best Merlin at magic. The story has also been the inspiration for movies from "Evil Dead" sequel "Army of Darkness" to Martin Lawrence's comedy "Black Knight."
30. 'The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey' (1988)
Who knew that you didn't have to build a time machine to visit the future? As the 14th-century Brits in this film discover, merely digging a hole through the Earth allows them to emerge in modern-day New Zealand. (And also, to move from black-and-white into color, a la Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz.") Smart, odd, and surreal.
29. 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' (2014)
Mutant Kitty Pride has the power to send Wolverine's consciousness back in time 50 years, in order to prevent an apocalyptic war in the future that threatens mutants and humans alike. Bryan Singer's return to the franchise (his first X-film since 2003's "X2: X-Men United") is a treat for fans of both the original cast and the "First Class" reboot stars.
28. ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ (1986)
Kathleen Turner earned an Oscar nomination for director Francis Ford Coppola's bittersweet fable about an unhappily married woman who faints at her 25th high school reunion in 1985 -- and wakes up back in 1960, with a chance to live her adulthood all over again. Despite letting her hair down in some humorous ways, she's horrified to learn that she'd make the same mistakes all over again. Notable among time-travel movies for coining the analogy that the space-time fabric is like a burrito, curving and wrapping upon itself and enabling you to fill the inside with whatever you please.
27. 'The Final Countdown’ (1970)
The crew aboard a modern aircraft carrier goes back in time to 1941 -- hours before Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Kirk Douglas stars in this fan-favorite that often packs a surprisingly heady and emotional punch.
26. ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ (2003)
So, if Hermione had a Time Turner amulet that allowed her to take on a bigger course load -- oh, and to save a condemned hippogriff and avert a few other dangerous situations -- how come she never used it again in any of the later installments? Couldn't she have traveled back far enough to thwart Voldemort and save countless lives?
25. ‘Somewhere in Time’ (1980)
In "Superman," Christopher Reeve traveled back in time by making the Earth spin backwards. Here, he does it by sheer will. Falling in love with a woman in an old portrait (Jane Seymour), he hypnotizes himself and crosses back through the decades for what seems like a doomed romance. A bit silly and maudlin at times, but "Somewhere" delivers strong performances with its romance-driven storyline.
24. ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ (2012)
There's a lot more talking about time travel than actual time travel in this Sundance hit from "Jurassic World" director Colin Trevorrow, but it's still fascinating talk. Mark Duplass plays a grocery clerk seeking a companion to accompany him on a time-machine voyage to the not-so-distant past, and Aubrey Plaza is the skeptical reporter who answers his classified ad. Part of the film's wry conceit is that your 20s and 30s are not too early to feel deep regret over your life decisions.
23. ‘Army of Darkness’ (1992)
Sam Raimi's third "Evil Dead" movie finds chainsaw-arm’d hero Ash sent back to 14th-century Europe, where his boomstick prove handy in fighting an army of the undead. It's a funny, spooky variation on the "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" idea, with Campbell at his panache-exuding best.
22. ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ (1972)
The film, based on Kurt Vonnegut's popular novel, involves both time and space travel as Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks), a World War II vet living in suburbia, becomes "unstuck" in time. He soon (unpredictably) finds himself in both his past (experiencing the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden) and in the future, where he and porn star Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine) are a zoo exhibit on a strange planet. A visit to a planet whose inhabitants experience -- all at once -- the past, present, and future gives them a wistful, philosophical perspective that this bleak comedy echoes.
21. ‘Timecrimes’ (2007)
This little-seen, low-budget Spanish film is a mind-bender, one that hints darkly that the only way to right the chaos created by time travel would be to commit horrifying acts. The movie's signature visual, of a figure in the woods whose head is completely wrapped in a bloody bandage, will haunt you for days.
20. ‘Back to the Future III’ (1990)
The third and final chapter in Robert Zemeckis’s trilogy sends Marty back to the Old West, for one last -- and really inventive -- adventure with Doc Brown. It’s one of the few threequels out there that comes close to capturing the spirit of the original.
19. ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ (2014)
Vastly underrated and little seen at the time of its release, "Edge of Tomorrow" is "Groundhog Day" meets "Halo" -- with Tom Cruise playing a cowardly military PR man-turned-badass soldier when he’s forced to die the same terrible death over and over again at the hands of an alien threat. Each loop through, Cruise’s character further forges his bond with Emily Blunt’s war hero, providing this inventive action film with a well-earned beating heart.
18. ‘Time After Time’ (1979)
This clever thriller from director Nicholas Meyer (“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”) posits that H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) actually invented the time machine he described in his novel, and that Jack the Ripper (David Warner) used it to escape to modern-day San Francisco. The Victorian author pursues him there, hunting the killer while falling in love with contemporary gal Mary Steenburgen. Memorably smart and scary.
17. ‘Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’ (1986)
"Time After Time’s" Nicholas Meyer also co-wrote one of the best "Trek" films ever made, which centers on Admiral Kirk’s mission to save the future by traveling back to then-present day San Francisco in search of humpback whales. Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and the rest have a hilariously hard time trying to fit in and get along in our comparatively primitive society. As a result, the film is full of sweet, funny, and surprisingly poignant moments.
16. ‘Back to the Future II’ (1989)
Set primarily in 2015, Marty and Doc take a flying Delorean into a future full of functioning hoverboards and Nikes with power laces. (Wish we had these in the real 2015!) The film’s twisted plot, which revisits events from the first film but from a new perspective, lacks the heart of "BTTF," but it’s full of funny and inventive beats that are some of the franchise’s most iconic.
15. ‘Run Lola Run’ (1998)
This very influential film from German filmmaker Tom Tykwer finds its flame-haired heroine (Franka Potente) forced to try to save her feckless lover by speeding across town in 20 minutes. If she fails, then -- like in a video game -- the movie presses reset and makes her start over in the same scenario. But we do get to see flash-forwards that reveal the fate of others Lola meets. A vivid, breathless reminder that cinema at its purest is itself a time machine.
14. ‘Donnie Darko’ (2001)
There's a lot of talk about time travel throughout Richard Kelly's cult favorite, though its relevance isn't apparent until the very end of the movie. Jake Gyllenhaal enjoyed his breakthrough role as the title teen, whose apocalyptic visions and meetings with a guy dressed in a creepy rabbit costume create a rich, bleak universe of adolescent dread.
13. ‘Source Code’ (2011)
Again, "Donnie Darko" star Jake Gyllenhaal must warp time in order to stave off disaster. Here, a computer program enables his consciousness to enter the body of a passenger eight minutes before a train disaster, with the hope of preventing the terrorist attack. He's forced to go back repeatedly, with complications increasing each time. Duncan Jones' follow-up to "Moon" is clever and works as crime thriller, sci-fi tale, and even romance.
12. ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ (1989)
This time-travel comedy centers on two head-banging slackers (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) who are destined to bring about world peace through their music -- but only if they pass high school history. A hipster from the future named Rufus (George Carlin) lends them phone booth-shaped time machine to help them collect various historical figures (Socrates, Freud, Abe Lincoln, etc.) for their history final. So dumb it's brilliant.
11. ‘Time Bandits’ (1981)
Terry Gilliam's fantasy is a funny and surprisingly dark movie, considering that it's ostensibly for kids. A boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) finds escape from his horrible family when a gang of mischievous, larcenous dwarfs take him along as they plunder the riches of the past, aided by a map of the universe that shows all the holes in the space-time continuum. They meet many famous historical figures -- including Sean Connery's Agamemnon and John Cleese's Robin Hood -- who turn out to be nothing like history portrays them. It's all highly irreverent fun, especially a black-comic ending worthy of Roald Dahl.
10. 'The Time Machine' (1960)
Skip the 2002 version -- directed by the great-grandson of H.G. Wells himself -- and stick with this classic, by the great puppeteer/animator George Pal. It stars Rod Taylor as Wells's Victorian scientist, who lands in the very distant future, where the Eloi -- peace-loving surface dwellers -- are terrorized by the intelligent, underground-dwelling Morlocks. Pal's version of Wells's machine is the most beautiful, elegant time machine in movie history.
9. ‘Le Jette’ (1962)
Chris Marker's legendary short is a remarkably beautiful film, considering that it's made up almost entirely of black-and-white still photos. Like "12 Monkeys," the feature it inspired, the French movie is about a man who travels to the past and learns too late the secret of the visions that have haunted him his whole life.
8. 'Looper' (2012)
In Rian Johnson's smart thriller, time travel is a device used by the Mob to send hit victims into the past, where hired killers wait to whack them and dispose of their bodies. But when Joseph Gordon-Levitt discovers that his latest target is his future self (Bruce Willis), things go haywire. Fun and suspenseful.
7. 'Groundhog Day' (1993)
Karma is the device that gets grouchy, arrogant weatherman Bill Murray stuck in a time loop, forced to relive the same day over and over. Learning to make the most of each day and to live in service to others is what finally allows him to move forward. Of course, there's a lot of hilarious self-indulgence and comic petulance along the way.
6. 'Primer' (2004)
Shane Carruth's Sundance-captivating debut isn't big on special effects (he famously made the film for just $7,000) but focuses instead on the practical and ethical issues that arise when two tech start-up guys invent a time machine in their garage. The thriller's plot is fiendishly complicated but rigorously logical.
5. '12 Monkeys' (1995)
Terry Gilliam's second time-travel movie after "Time Bandits" is an expansion of "La Jetee," and it's perhaps the most haunting, bittersweet time-travel movie of all. In a post-apocalyptic future, convict Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back to the 1990s to try to prevent the outbreak of a genocidal plague. There, he meets a beautiful shrink (Madeleine Stowe), who thinks he's crazy, and a political agitator (an Oscar-nominated Brad Pitt), who actually is crazy. The result is surprisingly moving, wistful, and terribly tragic.
4. 'Planet of the Apes' (1968)
Written by Rod Serling, this sci-fi classic still holds up almost 50 years after its release. "Apes" offers a mind-blowing twist ending, where Charlton Heston discovers that he didn’t just travel through space -- but through time.
3. 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' (1991)
In addition to pioneering CGI with its main villain, the liquid metal T-1000 (Robert Patrick), "T2" is also famous for being one of the best sequels ever made. James Cameron’s compelling and action-packed follow-up to his 1984 hit further expands on the original film’s time travel elements -- this time, two killing machines are sent back in time. Arnuld reprises his role as the T-800, who learns how to be more human than machine with the help of both his charge, a teenage John Connor (Edward Furlong), and a ripped Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton).
2. 'The Terminator' (1984)
This sci-fi classic launched James Cameron’s career, using then low-budget effects and incredibly effective character-driven storytelling to deliver one of the genre’s best. Time travel pervades the "Terminator" series, but the first movie makes the most intriguing use of it. There's something wonderfully romantic and tragic about John Connor sending his unwitting father, Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), back in time to insure his mother's (Linda Hamilton) safety and his own conception, with both men knowing that Kyle can never come back to his own time.
1. 'Back to the Future' (1985)
Not only are they hilarious comedies -- with an Oedipal twist that's awfully edgy for family fare -- but they're also the gold-standard for time-travel films. The series boasts the sleekest time machine (that still-cool DeLorean), the most engaging hero (Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly) and the best eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd's Doc Brown).
Unlike the third film in Mike Myers' spy spoof trilogy, "Goldmember" (2002), “Spy Who Shagged Me” confronts the paradoxes created by its use of time travel -- often with hilarious results. Powers finds himself traveling back to the '60s, where he discovers just how much his adjustment to the uptight '90s has ruined him for his own freewheeling era. Heather Graham is fun as his 1960s love interest, who makes him realize that neither the past nor the future is that great.
34. 'About Time' (2013)
Writer-director Richard Curtis, who likes to make comedies about impossible romances ("Notting Hill," "Love Actually"), comes up with a particularly tricky example when a young man (Domhnall Gleeson) who comes from a long line of time travelers meets his dream girl (Rachel McAdams). As funny and sad as you would expect.
33. 'Interstellar' (2014)
Yeah, it's not what it was cracked up to be, but Christopher Nolan's tale of an astronaut (Matthew McConaughey) who travels through space and time (via the mysterious properties of a black hole) has some solid tearjerking moments and some awesome -- and apparently, scientifically accurate -- visual effects.
32. ‘Star Trek: First Contact’ (1996)
Captain Picard leads his crew back in time to stop the Borg in the second “Trek” film featuring the “Next Gen” cast. The alien race threaten to assimilate a post-WWIII Earth when the world was at its weakest, therefore preventing “Star Trek” from ever happening. Patrick Stewart delivers a compelling and sympathetic performance as Picard comes to terms with the enemy that turned him into a Borg years ago.
31. ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court’ (1949)
Mark Twain's durable time-travel tale gets a jaunty treatment, with Bing Crosby as the mechanic whose knowledge of modern science allows him to best Merlin at magic. The story has also been the inspiration for movies from "Evil Dead" sequel "Army of Darkness" to Martin Lawrence's comedy "Black Knight."
30. 'The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey' (1988)
Who knew that you didn't have to build a time machine to visit the future? As the 14th-century Brits in this film discover, merely digging a hole through the Earth allows them to emerge in modern-day New Zealand. (And also, to move from black-and-white into color, a la Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz.") Smart, odd, and surreal.
29. 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' (2014)
Mutant Kitty Pride has the power to send Wolverine's consciousness back in time 50 years, in order to prevent an apocalyptic war in the future that threatens mutants and humans alike. Bryan Singer's return to the franchise (his first X-film since 2003's "X2: X-Men United") is a treat for fans of both the original cast and the "First Class" reboot stars.
28. ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ (1986)
Kathleen Turner earned an Oscar nomination for director Francis Ford Coppola's bittersweet fable about an unhappily married woman who faints at her 25th high school reunion in 1985 -- and wakes up back in 1960, with a chance to live her adulthood all over again. Despite letting her hair down in some humorous ways, she's horrified to learn that she'd make the same mistakes all over again. Notable among time-travel movies for coining the analogy that the space-time fabric is like a burrito, curving and wrapping upon itself and enabling you to fill the inside with whatever you please.
27. 'The Final Countdown’ (1970)
The crew aboard a modern aircraft carrier goes back in time to 1941 -- hours before Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Kirk Douglas stars in this fan-favorite that often packs a surprisingly heady and emotional punch.
26. ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ (2003)
So, if Hermione had a Time Turner amulet that allowed her to take on a bigger course load -- oh, and to save a condemned hippogriff and avert a few other dangerous situations -- how come she never used it again in any of the later installments? Couldn't she have traveled back far enough to thwart Voldemort and save countless lives?
25. ‘Somewhere in Time’ (1980)
In "Superman," Christopher Reeve traveled back in time by making the Earth spin backwards. Here, he does it by sheer will. Falling in love with a woman in an old portrait (Jane Seymour), he hypnotizes himself and crosses back through the decades for what seems like a doomed romance. A bit silly and maudlin at times, but "Somewhere" delivers strong performances with its romance-driven storyline.
24. ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ (2012)
There's a lot more talking about time travel than actual time travel in this Sundance hit from "Jurassic World" director Colin Trevorrow, but it's still fascinating talk. Mark Duplass plays a grocery clerk seeking a companion to accompany him on a time-machine voyage to the not-so-distant past, and Aubrey Plaza is the skeptical reporter who answers his classified ad. Part of the film's wry conceit is that your 20s and 30s are not too early to feel deep regret over your life decisions.
23. ‘Army of Darkness’ (1992)
Sam Raimi's third "Evil Dead" movie finds chainsaw-arm’d hero Ash sent back to 14th-century Europe, where his boomstick prove handy in fighting an army of the undead. It's a funny, spooky variation on the "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" idea, with Campbell at his panache-exuding best.
22. ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ (1972)
The film, based on Kurt Vonnegut's popular novel, involves both time and space travel as Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks), a World War II vet living in suburbia, becomes "unstuck" in time. He soon (unpredictably) finds himself in both his past (experiencing the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden) and in the future, where he and porn star Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine) are a zoo exhibit on a strange planet. A visit to a planet whose inhabitants experience -- all at once -- the past, present, and future gives them a wistful, philosophical perspective that this bleak comedy echoes.
21. ‘Timecrimes’ (2007)
This little-seen, low-budget Spanish film is a mind-bender, one that hints darkly that the only way to right the chaos created by time travel would be to commit horrifying acts. The movie's signature visual, of a figure in the woods whose head is completely wrapped in a bloody bandage, will haunt you for days.
20. ‘Back to the Future III’ (1990)
The third and final chapter in Robert Zemeckis’s trilogy sends Marty back to the Old West, for one last -- and really inventive -- adventure with Doc Brown. It’s one of the few threequels out there that comes close to capturing the spirit of the original.
19. ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ (2014)
Vastly underrated and little seen at the time of its release, "Edge of Tomorrow" is "Groundhog Day" meets "Halo" -- with Tom Cruise playing a cowardly military PR man-turned-badass soldier when he’s forced to die the same terrible death over and over again at the hands of an alien threat. Each loop through, Cruise’s character further forges his bond with Emily Blunt’s war hero, providing this inventive action film with a well-earned beating heart.
18. ‘Time After Time’ (1979)
This clever thriller from director Nicholas Meyer (“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”) posits that H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) actually invented the time machine he described in his novel, and that Jack the Ripper (David Warner) used it to escape to modern-day San Francisco. The Victorian author pursues him there, hunting the killer while falling in love with contemporary gal Mary Steenburgen. Memorably smart and scary.
17. ‘Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’ (1986)
"Time After Time’s" Nicholas Meyer also co-wrote one of the best "Trek" films ever made, which centers on Admiral Kirk’s mission to save the future by traveling back to then-present day San Francisco in search of humpback whales. Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and the rest have a hilariously hard time trying to fit in and get along in our comparatively primitive society. As a result, the film is full of sweet, funny, and surprisingly poignant moments.
16. ‘Back to the Future II’ (1989)
Set primarily in 2015, Marty and Doc take a flying Delorean into a future full of functioning hoverboards and Nikes with power laces. (Wish we had these in the real 2015!) The film’s twisted plot, which revisits events from the first film but from a new perspective, lacks the heart of "BTTF," but it’s full of funny and inventive beats that are some of the franchise’s most iconic.
15. ‘Run Lola Run’ (1998)
This very influential film from German filmmaker Tom Tykwer finds its flame-haired heroine (Franka Potente) forced to try to save her feckless lover by speeding across town in 20 minutes. If she fails, then -- like in a video game -- the movie presses reset and makes her start over in the same scenario. But we do get to see flash-forwards that reveal the fate of others Lola meets. A vivid, breathless reminder that cinema at its purest is itself a time machine.
14. ‘Donnie Darko’ (2001)
There's a lot of talk about time travel throughout Richard Kelly's cult favorite, though its relevance isn't apparent until the very end of the movie. Jake Gyllenhaal enjoyed his breakthrough role as the title teen, whose apocalyptic visions and meetings with a guy dressed in a creepy rabbit costume create a rich, bleak universe of adolescent dread.
13. ‘Source Code’ (2011)
Again, "Donnie Darko" star Jake Gyllenhaal must warp time in order to stave off disaster. Here, a computer program enables his consciousness to enter the body of a passenger eight minutes before a train disaster, with the hope of preventing the terrorist attack. He's forced to go back repeatedly, with complications increasing each time. Duncan Jones' follow-up to "Moon" is clever and works as crime thriller, sci-fi tale, and even romance.
12. ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ (1989)
This time-travel comedy centers on two head-banging slackers (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) who are destined to bring about world peace through their music -- but only if they pass high school history. A hipster from the future named Rufus (George Carlin) lends them phone booth-shaped time machine to help them collect various historical figures (Socrates, Freud, Abe Lincoln, etc.) for their history final. So dumb it's brilliant.
11. ‘Time Bandits’ (1981)
Terry Gilliam's fantasy is a funny and surprisingly dark movie, considering that it's ostensibly for kids. A boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) finds escape from his horrible family when a gang of mischievous, larcenous dwarfs take him along as they plunder the riches of the past, aided by a map of the universe that shows all the holes in the space-time continuum. They meet many famous historical figures -- including Sean Connery's Agamemnon and John Cleese's Robin Hood -- who turn out to be nothing like history portrays them. It's all highly irreverent fun, especially a black-comic ending worthy of Roald Dahl.
10. 'The Time Machine' (1960)
Skip the 2002 version -- directed by the great-grandson of H.G. Wells himself -- and stick with this classic, by the great puppeteer/animator George Pal. It stars Rod Taylor as Wells's Victorian scientist, who lands in the very distant future, where the Eloi -- peace-loving surface dwellers -- are terrorized by the intelligent, underground-dwelling Morlocks. Pal's version of Wells's machine is the most beautiful, elegant time machine in movie history.
9. ‘Le Jette’ (1962)
Chris Marker's legendary short is a remarkably beautiful film, considering that it's made up almost entirely of black-and-white still photos. Like "12 Monkeys," the feature it inspired, the French movie is about a man who travels to the past and learns too late the secret of the visions that have haunted him his whole life.
8. 'Looper' (2012)
In Rian Johnson's smart thriller, time travel is a device used by the Mob to send hit victims into the past, where hired killers wait to whack them and dispose of their bodies. But when Joseph Gordon-Levitt discovers that his latest target is his future self (Bruce Willis), things go haywire. Fun and suspenseful.
7. 'Groundhog Day' (1993)
Karma is the device that gets grouchy, arrogant weatherman Bill Murray stuck in a time loop, forced to relive the same day over and over. Learning to make the most of each day and to live in service to others is what finally allows him to move forward. Of course, there's a lot of hilarious self-indulgence and comic petulance along the way.
6. 'Primer' (2004)
Shane Carruth's Sundance-captivating debut isn't big on special effects (he famously made the film for just $7,000) but focuses instead on the practical and ethical issues that arise when two tech start-up guys invent a time machine in their garage. The thriller's plot is fiendishly complicated but rigorously logical.
5. '12 Monkeys' (1995)
Terry Gilliam's second time-travel movie after "Time Bandits" is an expansion of "La Jetee," and it's perhaps the most haunting, bittersweet time-travel movie of all. In a post-apocalyptic future, convict Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back to the 1990s to try to prevent the outbreak of a genocidal plague. There, he meets a beautiful shrink (Madeleine Stowe), who thinks he's crazy, and a political agitator (an Oscar-nominated Brad Pitt), who actually is crazy. The result is surprisingly moving, wistful, and terribly tragic.
4. 'Planet of the Apes' (1968)
Written by Rod Serling, this sci-fi classic still holds up almost 50 years after its release. "Apes" offers a mind-blowing twist ending, where Charlton Heston discovers that he didn’t just travel through space -- but through time.
3. 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' (1991)
In addition to pioneering CGI with its main villain, the liquid metal T-1000 (Robert Patrick), "T2" is also famous for being one of the best sequels ever made. James Cameron’s compelling and action-packed follow-up to his 1984 hit further expands on the original film’s time travel elements -- this time, two killing machines are sent back in time. Arnuld reprises his role as the T-800, who learns how to be more human than machine with the help of both his charge, a teenage John Connor (Edward Furlong), and a ripped Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton).
2. 'The Terminator' (1984)
This sci-fi classic launched James Cameron’s career, using then low-budget effects and incredibly effective character-driven storytelling to deliver one of the genre’s best. Time travel pervades the "Terminator" series, but the first movie makes the most intriguing use of it. There's something wonderfully romantic and tragic about John Connor sending his unwitting father, Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), back in time to insure his mother's (Linda Hamilton) safety and his own conception, with both men knowing that Kyle can never come back to his own time.
1. 'Back to the Future' (1985)
Not only are they hilarious comedies -- with an Oedipal twist that's awfully edgy for family fare -- but they're also the gold-standard for time-travel films. The series boasts the sleekest time machine (that still-cool DeLorean), the most engaging hero (Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly) and the best eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd's Doc Brown).
Starred means I have watched them. And looks like I have already watched the best Time Travel movies. Also, the writer of that article suggests not to watch The Time Machine of 2002. I say eff him. The 2002 version is good too.
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The movie is Classic! It's not like "Exam" at all. In exam you had no choice and it was a thriller.
Whereas The Man from Earth is mostly pseudo-intellectual. Nobody is forced to be in that room listening to what the Man from earth says. Ok, yes you can argue that it's a thriller in it's own right.
But it's incredible.
ashs1
Padawan
Why would anyone bother making sequels to this crap movie?? One of the gross-est concepts ever.. Yeeeesh
Woa !! There's a third one too. I haven't seen any of them yet.
Ricky
Cyborg Agent
Was an intelligent movie.. kept me glued..
rhitwick
Democracy is a myth
Three Extremes 2 5.5/10
Part 1 had better stories. This is watchable only due to the last story, rest all are bulshit!
404: Error Not Found 6/10
This movie is unfit for bollywood. Such a subject and then how the story curve moves is really commendable.
Negative points that became hurdle in it being in glory are:-
1>Acting: Everyone overacted or hammed.
2>Directing: The director knew the story very well but could not show right track to actors and the end result was hamming (I guess most of the time the actors were just improvising)
3>Speed and length : Very slow movie and having a length of close to 2 hours made it seem even longer.
If you can ignore these, you may just find a good psychological movie.
Part 1 had better stories. This is watchable only due to the last story, rest all are bulshit!
404: Error Not Found 6/10
This movie is unfit for bollywood. Such a subject and then how the story curve moves is really commendable.
Negative points that became hurdle in it being in glory are:-
1>Acting: Everyone overacted or hammed.
2>Directing: The director knew the story very well but could not show right track to actors and the end result was hamming (I guess most of the time the actors were just improvising)
3>Speed and length : Very slow movie and having a length of close to 2 hours made it seem even longer.
If you can ignore these, you may just find a good psychological movie.
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Allu Azad
Time Ruins Everything
Lol that 404: Error not Found movie title. I thought to correct this, when I saw the actual movie name was the same.
You are dumb. We know that
.Movie name is interesting. Will try to watch it.
Trancers - If Kung Fury was too short and you need more of that, then this is the real thing. BGrade 80s camp movie, time traveling cop mind controls some random dude and takes on "trancers" who are early versions of zombies. Ridiculous Dialogues. Electro soundtrack.
yup. It is an incredible set up, have some audacious claims, and then have a group of experts dissect those claims. Just taking it seriously for the duration of the film will have you believing those claims. So had to correct myself several times since watching the movie that no, there is no person who has lived since the stone age, and that the connections made in the movie are all fiction.
It's similar to exam, in the sense the whole movie takes place through dialogues. This one is also like that, but haven't seen it yet. When Time Becomes a Woman (2012) - IMDb Want to watch.
yup. It is an incredible set up, have some audacious claims, and then have a group of experts dissect those claims. Just taking it seriously for the duration of the film will have you believing those claims. So had to correct myself several times since watching the movie that no, there is no person who has lived since the stone age, and that the connections made in the movie are all fiction.
It's similar to exam, in the sense the whole movie takes place through dialogues. This one is also like that, but haven't seen it yet. When Time Becomes a Woman (2012) - IMDb Want to watch.
rhitwick
Democracy is a myth
Found a more interesting movie (poster) when visited this movie page
Victim (2010) - IMDb
Zangetsu
I am the master of my Fate.
Also watch 3G