films: Favorite Time Travel Movies...

[smotpoker]

What are your favorite films with a time travel plot?

My top three would be:

1. Timeline (The movie actually isn't that good but it's about modern people going back to the 1300's which is a really interesting concept)
2. Just Visiting (Middle Age Knight and Peasant accidentally travel in the future to the year 2000, hilarity ensues)
3. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (c'mon, you know you loved it)


So what are yours?

 

[Mazey]

The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087910/
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984


Forever Young (1992)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104291/




A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment

 

[morphene]

I love scifi - without a doubt my favorite time travel movie is "Primer". Was an indie made for only $10k or so, took the guy like 3 years to edit by himself, but it blows away most big budget films. In fact I'd say it's one of my favorite films across all genres. The budget doesn't detract from it much at all.

"The principal characters are Aaron (Shane Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan), two engineers who create a device which will allow an object or person to travel backwards in time. The pair initially use the device to cheat on the stock market, but are ultimately unable to resist the temptation to meddle with every aspect of their lives. Through recklessness they create increasingly complex paradoxes, and ultimately their newfound power begins to destroy their friendship."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

Check it out, you won't be sorry.

 

[JoeTheStoner]

primer is a good one, as is timecrimes.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Back to the Future
The Time Machine
Twelve Monkeys

 

[Max Power]

 

[EA-1475]

Time Bandits

 

[AfterGlow]

Without a doubt... The Time Travelers

Watch it on youtube.

 

[mariacallas]

Pleasantville
Back to the Future
12 Monkeys

and the Langoliers

I really wanna watch Primers and Time Bandits too.

 

[junctionalfunkie]

Time After Time

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080025/

Closely followed by Time Bandits

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/

 

[clip']

does the butterfly effect count?

 

[Belisarius]

1.) The first Back to the Future--still the best general time-travel flick, IMO.
2.) Star Trek: The Voyage Home. Sue me.
3.) Kate and Leopold--my favorite romantic comedy, though that's a very short list indeed.

 

[Web]

top 5
5. 12 Monkeys
4. Back to the Future II
3. The Philadelphia Experiment
2. Back to the Future
1. Somewhere in Time

 

[artaxerxes]

Time Bandits and 12 Monkeys. The Navigator was pretty good too IIRC.

 

[junctionalfunkie]

does the butterfly effect count?

Sorry, anything with Ashton Kutcher is automatically disqualified.

 

[EA-1475]

 

[Arnold]

 

[morphene]

as is timecrimes.

Neat movie, just watched it. I love those time paradox plots. Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I had never heard of it!

 

[panic_the_digital]

Army of Darkness?

 

[theotherside]

Star trek 4 and back to the future are my favorites.