Terminator (first one, a truly genre changing film)
Time travel is one of my favorite scifi subgenres. What contributed to its sucess: I suppose the time-lapse photographic effects of the sun and the moon the future world of canibal, flesh-eating morlocks the plot of saving mankind and the brilliant acting of Rod. G Well got it right here, George Pal directed it well and the acting of Rod Taylor was simply brilliant. I know that this movie stands out from the rest by a mile. However, the movie has something that the rest doesn’t have. Although it was made in 1959,(came out in 1960) the movie didn’t have the best budget to work on (750,000 us dollars) and this reflected in some of the costumes, graphics etc. Wells’ THE TIME MACHINE is the one that caught the right idea of time travel. Star trek (the one with William Shatner was best) didn’t capture the essence
still a good movie though.īack to the future was a bit like a love story. I have to admit thought that the choices wouldn’t have been mine.īill and Ted’s adventure was too much like pantomime. Written by simon Honorable Mention Primer After accidentally getting in the way of the important meeting between his future mother and father, Marty must get them back together before he changes time forever, and destroys his own existence. Now, he must find the Doc and convince him that he is from the future, in order for the Doc to send him back to the future, but this is the least of Marty’s problem. After his good friend Doc Emmett Brown is gunned down, Marty ends up sending the DeLorean back thirty years into the past. The year is 1985 and Marty McFly is your everyday teenager, except for one problem. Ah… Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?” The future John sends back a replica of the Terminator that tried to kill him back in time to 1995.
John Connor, who is now ten years old, is the target. This one being more advanced than the last one. Now, Skynet has sent back another Terminator. It has been ten long years since a Terminator failed to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn son, John. Terminator 2: Judgment Day “Can you learn stuff you haven’t been programmed with so you could be… you know, more human? And not such a dork all the time? “ His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. “If that machine can do what you say it can do, destroy it, George! Destroy it before it destroys you!”įrom the book by H.G. Unfortunately, he must return to his childhood many times, because his alternate future gets worse with each trip.
He is not pleased with the results of his first trip back, so he makes another trip to change another bad event, hoping for a better life. He finds that a very small change from his childhood will dramatically change his life today. His goal is to change his life by changing painful events from his childhood. Butterfly Effect “Nothing’s all better, okay? Nothing ever gets better!”Ī college student (Ashton Kutcher) discovers a way to travel back in time to his troubled childhood as himself at that age. If you have any additional time travel movies, please leave a comment. While all these films were excellent, I wanted to stay true to actual time travel. Likewise, “time loop” films were excluded, such as Groundhog Day and Run Lola Run. I also decided that characters must move through the time continuum and not simply “sleep” through time such as in Planet of the Apes or live through time as in Highlander. So movies like Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery were dropped from contention, because even though Austin travels back in time, the theme of time travel isn’t prevalent in the movie. And when you think of the movie, the theme of time travel must jump to the forefront. The movie must have time travel central to the plot. When I came up with this list of the top ten time travel movies I set some parameters.
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