Movies about time paradoxes

[Ghambit]

The Adjustment Bureau

[SurfD]

The Adjustment Bureau

Dont think that classifies as any kind of Time Paradox movie.  Rather, it is more about Pre-Determined Fate Vs Free Will.

[Hawkbit]

Timecrimes

Don't watch the trailer.

This this this.  It hurt my brain the first watch.

[Ghambit]

The Adjustment Bureau

Dont think that classifies as any kind of Time Paradox movie.  Rather, it is more about Pre-Determined Fate Vs Free Will.

'Course it does.  You just have to change your perspective to the man in charge.

[SurfD]

The Adjustment Bureau

Dont think that classifies as any kind of Time Paradox movie.  Rather, it is more about Pre-Determined Fate Vs Free Will.

'Course it does.  You just have to change your perspective to the man in charge.

I suppose.  I guess that brings up the question: Is it still a time paradox when the reference point is the Present, and changing the present alters the "expected" future, even though the future is not supposed to be pre-determined. 

[IainC]

All movies feature time paradoxes.*



*From the point of view of a n-dimensional observer where n>3

[Merusk]

Nerd.

 

[Ghambit]

Are we even really watching a movie at all?
If not, there really isn't a paradox anyways even if the movie says there is.

[Ironwood]

Well, there was that real life documentary about the time paradox, but by a strange series of co-incidences, no-one saw it but me.

And now it's gone from the timeline.

[Sky]

If we're going with disjointed timelines like Memento, how about Mulholland Drive?

[tazelbain]

Millenium

[Furiously]

Lunopolis

[HaemishM]

If we're going with disjointed timelines like Memento, how about Mulholland Drive?

Don't make me stab you. That fucking movie... if it hadn't been for Naomi Watts getting the girls out, that movie would have made me more stabby than Lost Highway. And I wanted to kill homeless people over Lost Highway.

[Draegan]

Millenium

I remember watching this as a kid. I loved the movie.

[Lantyssa]

Half the Star Trek movies, including the series reboot.

[Ghambit]

Event Horizon

[Ironwood]

Whut ?

[IainC]

Yeah I don't remember a time paradox in that film either.

[Ironwood]

I seem to remember someone posited a theory in the film that the ship had travelled in time, but it kinda hadn't.

It had just, you know, plopped into hell.

Lost in Space, though.  That had a time ship.  And SPIDERS.

[disKret]

Deja vu with Denzel W.

[Ghambit]

Yeah I don't remember a time paradox in that film either.

The ship per the logs did indeed leap outside the known universe (into another dimension) through a gateway in spacetime; that's what the ship was designed to do.  As for a 'time paradox,' it typically occurred in the shipmate's minds due to influence from said twisted dimension.

[Ironwood]

Nah, you don't get that one.

INVALID.

[Ghambit]

 

[Tebonas]

Going insane from jumping into the Warp and being corrupted by the Chaos Gods isn't a Time Paradox, though.  

But even if you don't see Event Horizon as a prequel to Warhammer 40000, the actions there are linear with later action not influencing the previous timeline. Or did I miss something?

[Lantyssa]

Thinking of it that way would have made the movie a lot better at the time of viewing.

[Ironwood]

I loved Event Horizon. 

[HaemishM]

Me too. I thought it was a very creepy horror movie in a sci-fi shell. Never understood why it got all the negative criticism it has.

[DraconianOne]

Because everyone bashes on Paul W.S. Anderson and it flopped at the box office.

I liked it a lot too.

[Lantyssa]

I didn't know it was supposed to be a horror movie.  I loved the creepy sci-fi, then it took a left turn.  I'm not a big horror buff, while I am a sci-fi buff, so it was very sudden and disappointing to me.  Kind of like the ending to ME3, from my perspective.

[Sky]

- The Machinist

Did not enjoy. While there were a few good cinematographic moments, the story was paper thin and self-evident pretty much the whole time. Score was decent but often wandered into obtrusive and at a couple moments was rather annoying, but I prefer minimalist scores.


And I found Bale's thinness to be distracting, though he put in a decent role otherwise. I don't really see how it added anything to the movie, though.

[DraconianOne]

Wait... how did I miss that in the first post? The Machinist isn't a time paradox film, not even close. It's not even told in a non-chronological order.