Time Travel Movies

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I was just watching 12 Monkeys, and I think that it is the only movie I have ever seen that makes proper use of how time travel could work. Every other time travel movie, like Terminator 2, Back to the Future etc have big gaping logical holes in them. Does anyone know any other moves that deal with time travel rationally?
 
I would lol so hard if people critically analysed the time travel in Back to the Future.
 
Donnie Darko. Depends on your definition of 'rational.' Do parallel/branch universes count?
 
Groundhog Day? It's difficult to really judge precisely how time travel would work if we've never done it properly before. Anyway, Donnie Darko as mentioned by Viper would be the most consistent time travel film I've ever seen.
 
Zephos said:
I would lol so hard if people critically analysed the time travel in Back to the Future.
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Me too. :D

It's difficult to judge what would be a rational take on time travel, after all, time travel is all theory and hypothesis when you think about.

So, in answer to the question - Timecop.
 
The original Terminator formed a stable time loop.

The sequels threw that out of the window, of course.
 
:laugh: les visiteurs is a good film


best french class ever :D
 
There is a movie called Primer that is suppose to be an intelligent approach to time travel. I have tivo'd it about three or four times now but never got around to watching it. I guess it is fairly short and one of my peeves is short movies. If it isn't atleast 2 hours long I almost don't want to bother. I like my movies long and drawn out i.e. Terrence Malick.
 
Isn't a movie.

There was no movie.

Certainly no movie with half-humans in it.
 
No there wasn't :flame: they never existed just like devil may cry 2 :flame:
 
Don't be ridiculous. Doctor Who movies would have time travel in it. I have seen no "Doctor" "Who" "movies" with timetravel in it.
 
Narvi said:
The original Terminator formed a stable time loop.

The sequels threw that out of the window, of course.
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I disagree. I still don't understand how the story in the first one could have possibly worked. Reese was sent back to protect Sarah from the terminator so that John would still be born and lead the humans against Skynet. Considering that John is their son, how was he born before if Reese was never present? Surely he would be a completely different person had Sarah met someone else (different genes/upbringing).
 
That's why it's a stable time loop, it's self-fulfilling.
 
Sedako said:
I disagree. I still don't understand how the story in the first one could have possibly worked. Reese was sent back to protect Sarah from the terminator so that John would still be born and lead the humans against Skynet. Considering that John is their son, how was he born before if Reese was never present? Surely he would be a completely different person had Sarah met someone else (different genes/upbringing).
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You don't know what a stable time loop is. Essentially, that's how it always has been. Reese was always John's dad.
 
Oh, ok then. It still confuses the hell out of me.
 
Other than proving almost no interesting plot points and completly changing the basic idea and structure of Tiberium into something much less cool and removing most of the cool sci-fi elements, nothing.
 
Anyone heard of the film that Steven Spielberg is working on called interstellar?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/

Plot Outline:
An exploration of physicist Kip Thorne's theories of gravity fields, wormholes and several hypotheses that Albert Einstein was never able to prove.

Thorne was one of the first people to conduct scientific research on whether the laws of physics permit space and time to be multiply connected (can there exist classical, traversable wormholes and "time machines"?). With Sung-Won Kim, Thorne identified a universal physical mechanism (the explosive growth of vacuum polarization of quantum fields), that may always prevent spacetime from developing closed timelike curves (i.e., prevent "backward time travel"). With Mike Morris and Ulvi Yurtsever he showed that traversable Lorentzian wormholes can exist in the structure of spacetime only if they are threaded by quantum fields in quantum states that violate the averaged null energy condition (i.e. have negative renormalized energy spread over a sufficiently large region). This has triggered research to explore the ability of quantum fields to possess such extended negative energy. Recent calculations by Thorne indicate that simple masses passing through traversable wormholes could never engender paradoxes — there are no initial conditions that lead to paradox once time travel is introduced. If his results can be generalised, they would suggest that none of the supposed paradoxes formulated in time travel stories can actually be formulated at a precise physical level: that is, that any situation in a time travel story turns out to permit many consistent solutions.
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