That'sAllFolks

Probably my favorite genre. Off the top of my head I have
Time After Time
Millennium
12:01
Grand Tour: Disaster In Time
Timecop
Timecop 2
Primer
Time Machine (1960,2000,2002)

I read an article in EW about Primer and have been trying to snap a copy, but it's OOP ...

Anyone have any other recommendations. There are not a lot of really good ones and the first 4 listed are among my favorites.

Mr. Salty

Back to the Future trilogy
The Terminator, The Terminator 2
12 Monkeys
Army of Darkness
Time Bandits
The Planet of the Apes (original)
Groundhog Day
Looper
Hot Tub Time Machine
Safety Not Guaranteed

kd5

I wish I could find that for a decent price, OOP means I'll pay through the nose for it (but I won't)...


I have:

Army of Darkness
Demolition Man
Freejack
Millennium
The Outer Limits: Time Travel & Infinity Collection
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Returner
The Terminator movies
Time Bandits
Timeline
Timecop
Warlock, possibly Warlock: The Armageddon (I'd have to watch it again). -kd5-

mightysparks

Off the top of my head, I can add:

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
Summer Time Machine Blues

Mountain Biker

Timerider
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

The Cow

The Final Countdown
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

hasslein

Happy Accidents (totally rips off the Star Trek Episode City on the Edge of Forever but still worth a look)

Michael Corvin

A few I like that haven't been mentioned:

Frequency
the Jacket
the Butterfly Effect

And the "good premise but flawed execution" nod goes to the Time Traveller's Wife.

rbrown498

My favorite: Somewhere in Time

DvdClon

Retroactive
Timecrimes
A Sound of Thunder
Army of Darkness
Frankenstein Unbound

JCWBobC

I'm pretty sure there's a time travel thread going in the Movie Talk forum already.

b2net

Philedelphia Experiment

Pizza

I agree with most of the title mentioned. I also love Star Trek 4.

Trevor

There'd be a lot of recommendations in the Quadrennial Leap Day Challenge Thread.

That'sAllFolks

Can't believe I missed the premiere movie from my very favorite movie franchise of all time.

I actually own a lot of these movies. I'll check out a few I've never heard of. Thanks.


I guess when I initially posted this I was thinking of movies that create a situation in which events are changed in the present/future because past events are changed. (I've heard this referred to as a Paradox) Probably the best example is the Star Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever, but Back to the Future, Time after Time and Grand Tour do a pretty good job of it.

I've always been fascinated with that aspect and wish someone would do a really good miniseries with a bunch of complicated twists (all based on actual events in history).

Added:
Day break - the TV series does a pretty good job. Kinda like Groundhog Day with a murder mystery.
Frequency

Ash Ketchum

You need to see KIMAGURE ORANGE ROAD: SUMMER'S BEGINNING (1996), an anime feature that's a sequel to KIMAGURE ORANGE ROAD THE MOVIE: "I WANT TO RETURN TO THAT DAY" (1988). A student in Tokyo gets hit by a car and seriously injured, which somehow propels him three years into the future where he meets his girlfriend and a former girlfriend and learns that his three-years-in-the-future self has just been reported missing while on a photojournalist assignment in Bosnia. It's pretty wild. Best if you see both films. You really don't need to see any of the KOR TV series first.

kd5

I forgot about The Voyage Home. What about First Contact? Wasn't exactly our past, more theirs, but still... -kd5-

jjcool

Many good titles listed. I would add one of my favorites from when I was a kid: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.

hilts

The Valeyard's "Punching Hitler". Can't get enough of it. Classic.

majorjoe23

The best time travel movie is "Steve's Time Travel Orgy." It's a documentary, but it won't be made until 2047.

dishpan

i only saw one person has listed this so far, so i wanted to second it.

and here is a link to the dvd so its on topic for this forum.

http://www.amazon.com/Timecrimes-Kar...rds=timecrimes

Ish Kabbible

World Without End-1956

In Technicolor-must have seen it at least a dozen times on TV as a kid.
Great retro SF with mutants and girls who have never heard of kissing and want to try it out

bboisvert

I haven't seen anyone mention Timequest. It's a little rough around the edges (low budget indie), but I thought it was pretty interesting.

Let me add some additional love for Timecrimes as well...

Michael Corvin

BTW, why is this in DVDtalk instead of Movie Talk?

Mattflix

It's a silly movie, but Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure did some creative things with time travel, namely when they get stuck they make a mental note to come back later and leave helpful props to get out of those situations.


I love time travel movies that use the time travel element for the story, not just for a plot device.

That's one of the things I like about First Contact. It's funny how every single time traveller from the future always seems to choose the late 20th century for their destination. This mixes it up a little bit.

I know this is TV, but also I think there was one Doctor Who Episode that went to a historical event in our future, The Waters of Mars. It makes sense, I mean he visits places thousands of years in the future and only seems to treat events prior to 1965 as being fixed historical events.


Some more Doctor Who creativity -

- The Girl In the Fireplace had the Doctor interacting with the girl several times throughout the episode. From his perspective each meeting was within the span of a few hours. From her perspective though, each meeting was several years apart and the experience was molding her entire life.

- Blink - The villains would send you 30 years in the past if they touched you. They did so to the Doctor and he communicated to a modern-day freind via clues in pop culture, creating an internet meme in the meantime...