Best and Worst Time Travel Movies

[That-Guy]

Time travel is something that can either be really awesome in a film or make it completely suck. I'm curious what films people think got it right and which ones got it horribly wrong. Here are a few off the top of my head:

GOOD:

12 Monkeys

Terminator 1 & 2

The Back to the Future series

Time After Time

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Star Trek IV

Timecop (the only Van Damme movie I like)

Army of Darkness

BAD:

The Time Machine (remake was horrible, not a big fan of the original either)

Terminator 3

Kate & Leopold

LOST IN SPACE

Black Knight

Beastmaster 2

Flight of the Navigator

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

 

[SuBe]

The Time Machine (1960) I loved the original. I just watched it last weekend.

Plus, Star Trek: First Contact.

 

[SuBe]

And Planet of the Apes series

 

[Infinity9999x]

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

Blasphemy!

I loved that movie as a kid

 

[That-Guy]

And Planet of the Apes series

Ah, good call. Love the first one. Not too big on the sequels. And Tim Burton's remake was horrid.

 

[SuBe]

Here's a list you might like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._fiction#Time_travel_in_science_fiction_films

 

[That-Guy]

Good ones from that list:

Haha how could I forget Superman, of all movies. Classic film, even if the "earth spinning backwards" thing makes no sense at all.

The Jacket: very interesting movie with strong performances by Adrien Brody and Keira Knightly.

Frequency: a little silly, but solid enough that I enjoyed it.

Bad ones:

Millenium - what a long, boring crapfest with a stupid resolve: IT IS NOT THE END. IT IS NOT THE BEGINNING. IT IS NOT THE BEGINNING OF THE END. IT IS THE END OF THE BEGINNING. lol

Star Trek: Generations, or as I like to call it, Death of a Franchise.

Click: Adam Sandler needs to be stopped before his sh**ty movies cause a rupture in the space-time continuum and negate all of existance.

 

[SuBe]

Good ones from that list:

Haha how could I forget Superman, of all movies. Classic film, even if the "earth spinning backwards" thing makes no sense at all.

The Jacket: very interesting movie with strong performances by Adrien Brody and Keira Knightly.

Frequency: a little silly, but solid enough that I enjoyed it.

Bad ones:

Millenium - what a long, boring crapfest with a stupid resolve: IT IS NOT THE END. IT IS NOT THE BEGINNING. IT IS NOT THE BEGINNING OF THE END. IT IS THE END OF THE BEGINNING. lol

Star Trek: Generations, or as I like to call it, Death of a Franchise.

Click: Adam Sandler needs to be stopped before his sh**ty movies cause a rupture in the space-time continuum and negate all of existance.

Me and my overly zealous Superman Fan of a friend have decided that the world doesn't actually spin backwards (as that would ultimately kill everything on the planet) but Superman is flying so fast he actually travels back in time. Not the other way around.

You know how when you film a cars wheels and it appeers to be going backwords? Same thing, he is going so fast it appeers that the world is going in reverse, but not actually doing it.

 

[That-Guy]

Me and my overly zealous Superman Fan of a friend have decided that the world doesn't actually spin backwards (as that would ultimately kill everything on the planet) but Superman is flying so fast he actually travels back in time. Not the other way around.

You know how when you film a cars wheels and it appeers to be going backwords? Same thing, he is going so fast it appeers that the world is going in reverse, but not actually doing it.

Yeah, I suppose that's a good way of looking at it. Regardless of how he actually does it, I always liked the idea of Superman breaking all barriers and traveling through time to save Lois because it was something that, traditionally, you don't think of Superman doing. You know he can fly, lift giant objects, stop bullets, etc. But directly altering history is something you don't expect him to be able to do.

 

[mcentepede]

I liked Frequency and Butterfly Effect. Deja vu was kind cool for the modern times, and Star Trek:next generation had the famous episode of the ship caught in a "time loop" and exploding 6 times before someone figures it out. Great theme of time travel...keep em coming.

 

[superhero]

My favorite are:
back to the futuer all three
Bill and ted 1 and 2
my scnice project
dasiter in time it old moive. it stars jeff dainles. its timetravle moive. i recommed checking it out.
Master of the univsers
Somewhere in time. it stars christopher reveew.
superman moive the first one
Frquncy

 

[dude stannis]

The good:

The three Terminator films. I love them all. Yes even the third one.

The meh:

Deja Vu. Typical Tony Scott fluff.

 

[Ender Durden]

Kate & Leopold

i actually liked this movie I think it was because i absolutely did not want to see it so my expectations were low, and up until then i hadn't seen Hugh Jackman in anything other then X-Men, and i was surprised on how well his performance actually carried the movie.

 

[BlueLightning]

My favorite would be Back to the Future. I like The Time Machine, and the book is even better. I also like Terminator 1 & 2, need to rewatch the third. And I loved Click, really it was fun and touching. I found the theme of Time Slipping very interesting.

 

[Visceral]

minority report, not really travel but it handles the subject of changing the future, fate and free will

and I hear Prime is a mind ****

I also would like to say that Galaxy Quest's version of time travel, a matter realigner, might actually work. But then again I'm not a quantum physicist, so maybe worm holes would work.

 

[biolumen]

Several of my favorites already mentioned. I'd also add...

"Time After Time" with Malcolm McDowell. H.G. Wells pursuing Jack The Ripper into the 20th century.

 

[dude stannis]

That sounds friggin' awesome!

 

[HulkStomps!]

Best: The Back to The Future Series.

Worse: 1989's Millenium!

 

[Gilpesh]

You want the best time travel movie?

Bender's Big Score.

 

[thedeadite]

you want the best time travel movie?

Bender's big score.

qft

 

[The Squirrel]

Kate & Leopold

Flight of the Navigator

I liked Kate & Leopold. And I loved FOTN as a kid.

 

[The Squirrel]

My favorite are:
back to the futuer all three
Bill and ted 1 and 2
my scnice project
dasiter in time it old moive. it stars jeff dainles. its timetravle moive. i recommed checking it out.
Master of the univsers
Somewhere in time. it stars christopher reveew.
superman moive the first one
Frquncy

Why must you kill grammar?

 

[Arbiter]

best
frequency

 

[That-Guy]

i actually liked this movie I think it was because i absolutely did not want to see it so my expectations were low, and up until then i hadn't seen Hugh Jackman in anything other then X-Men, and i was surprised on how well his performance actually carried the movie.

Yeah, I do have to agree that Jackman was really good in that movie. I just thought the whole "I found a portal into the 18th century" (or whenver it was) was really lame.

 

[xwolverine2]

the first half of the time machine was awesome.... as soon as he goes to that jungle world it gets extremely horrible