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Topic: Movies about time paradoxes (Read 13151 times)
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Lucas
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Or weird paradoxes in general ; any genre. Yeah, I'm a sucker for them  ; ok, well, beside Back to the Future, are there more "obscure" one you recommend watching? On the top of my head: - The Butterfly Effect (I LOVE it) - The Machinist - Umm...The "Final Destination" series ? - Groundhog Day, of course Err, probably I've seen others I can't remember at the moment. |
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Ingmar
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Timecop, obviously.  EDIT: Time After Time, if you want to see Malcolm McDowell playing HG Wells chasing Jack the Ripper around in a time machine. I can't actually remember if this movie is good or not. Time Bandits.  Primer |
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HaemishM
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Primer was good.
Donnie Darko.
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Ingmar
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
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Lucas
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Primer was good.
Donnie Darko.
Duh, I've seen Donnie Darko twice, actually  ; "cult movie", yeah, but...I don't know, it's a little dragged out, IMO Primer sounds quite interesting (looked it up on Wikipedia) ... |
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tazelbain
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>Time Bandits.
What was the paradox?
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Lt.Dan
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Back to the future - duh
Twelve Monkeys
Would you also count nonchronological narratives like Memento?
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Ironwood
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Time Travellers Wife.
Such a Romantic Story that appealed to my very heart.
(It was Shite.)
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Lucas
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Back to the future - duh
Twelve Monkeys
Would you also count nonchronological narratives like Memento?
Yeah, why not...Memento was quite unique :) |
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Abagadro
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Terminator/T2
Hot Tub Time Machine (if you grew up in the 80s)
The Prestige (sorta)
EDIT: None of these are obscure, but only ones I can think of!
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Surlyboi
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Primer WAS good.
Looper looks like it could be good.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Trippy
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Source Code.
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MuffinMan
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Frequency.
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HaemishM
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Hot Tub Time Machine (if you grew up in the 80s)
Didn't even think about this one, but fuck yeah. That movie was SUPER AWESOME. |
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MahrinSkel
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Next, with Nicolas Cage. Actually not bad, all things considered (it being Nicolas "I'll do any movie that will meet my quote" Cage, and a groaner of a surprise twist).
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Comstar
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The final countdown. The USS Nimitz goes back to the Pacific 3 days before Pearl Harbor.
Unfortunately, hilarity does not ensure, though you do get some F14 Tomcats attempting to dogfight Japanese Zero's.
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Defending the Galaxy, from the Scum of the Universe, with nothing but a flashlight and a tshirt. We need tanks Boo, lots of tanks!
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Ubvman
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The final countdown. The USS Nimitz goes back to the Pacific 3 days before Pearl Harbor.
Unfortunately, hilarity does not ensure, though you do get some F14 Tomcats attempting to dogfight Japanese Zero's.
Nerd alert! Yea, as a young 10 year old, I couldn't understand why the Nimitz (the aircraft carrier) didn't rip Yamamoto (his Pearl Harbor attack fleet) a whole new one... I often wondered how long the IJN carriers (and the Battleship Yamato) would have lasted under attack from 1980's era Intruders with laser guided munitions (no nukes). The answer: not long but the Yamato might take a bit more effort. |
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Planet of the Apes?
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I think we're crossing time travel with time paradox (though really, all time travel movies involve it in the end).
Still, I want to say Jet Li's "The One", even if it's not really correct. I loved that movie for some reason!
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DraconianOne
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Got my issues with this film but yeah, worth watching. Disasgree with pxib though - Triangle isn't that terrible and is worth watching for the Time Paradox element. Others (of varying quality - for you to judge) Flight of the Navigator Les Visiteurs (original french version, not the 2001 US remake) The JacketFrequently Asked Questions about Time Travel (a low budget British comedy with Chris O'Dowd) Nothing Left To Do But Cry (Non ci resta che piangere) by Roberto Begnini - but good luck getting hold of it! Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen film - sort of time travel) Timescape (directed by David Twohy) A Sound of Thunder (terribly bad and inadvertantly funny film by Peter Hyams based on a Ray Bradbury story - RIP.) Trancers (fond memories of this from the 80s) The Langoliers (Stephen King mini-series) Millennium (aka the mystery of Cheryl Ladd's hairdo) Timeline (Richard Donner directs a Michael Crichton story - not great but okay) Edit: yeah, not all involve paradoxes at centre of the plot but whatever |
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Ironwood
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I liked Triangle.
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DraconianOne
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I liked Triangle.
We're talking Chris Smith's time travel film, not the 80's BBC soap opera set on a North Sea ferry. |
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Ironwood
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I know. It had Angel in it. She's lovely.
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Arthur_Parker
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Got my issues with this film but yeah, worth watching. I have my issues too, it's one of the best time travel movies I've seen, I really enjoyed, but I'll never watch it again. |
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Bunk
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Primer certainly, really good example of how low budget scifi can still be effective.
Memento if you somehow haven't seen it - isn't about time travel, but it fits the feel of paradox movies.
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Khaldun
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Time After Time is in fact good. Worth seeing.
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DraconianOne
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I have my issues too, it's one of the best time travel movies I've seen, I really enjoyed, but I'll never watch it again.
Funnily enough, I was just thinking I wouldn't mind seeing it again. Noticed it was on late night on Film4 recently or something - wish I'd recorded it. |
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Zetleft
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The Philadelphia Experiment. Though to be honest haven't seen since I was a kid so can't speak for the quality.
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Fuck you. I just lost 2 hours of my life to that link. |
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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MuffinMan
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Did you lose 2 hours because you time traveled?
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