Your Top Five 'Time Travel' movies.
POSTED BY: lwaves
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Created because of a comment/request from The Somnambulist in another thread.
Mine:
12 Monkeys
Back To The Future Trilogy (counted as one to get more films listed)
Terminator 1+2
Star Trek IV
Time Bandits
"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall
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Not in order, but:
Star Trek IV
Time Bandits
Terminator
Back to the Future
Time Cop
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-Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
-Back to the Future Trilogy
-Stargate Continuum
-Not really a movie, but Doctor Who's "The Pandorica Opens"/"Big Bang" (the recent two-part season finale). It's actually surprisingly rare that time travel actually gets used as a plot device (it's usually more like the Tardis lands in one time-frame, they have an adventure, the Tardis leaves). This time the Doctor & River's time-hopping ends up being the whole point of the episode(s).
-Also not a movie, but the "Avalon" arc of Gargoyles, where the Archmage meets his future self, gets taken on an adventure which gradually turns him into his future self, then goes back in time to meet his past self (thus closing the time-loop), while the "original" future-Archmage goes on to meet his destiny.
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The Final Countdown.
12 Monkeys
Terminator series.
The Last Mimzy.
STIV.
edit - Last Mimzy was far better. Timeline - early Gerard Butler work, but the book was much better.
I think I'm forgetting a couple, so I may edit later.
I did really like Time Rider, and own it, but it's not better than those 5 - tho the soundtrack is better.
Not on my list, but is Somewhere in Time a time travel flick?
Or Next?
For books, I liked Dean Koontz' Lightning probably the most.
For TV, STNG "Yesterday's Enterprise" with Battleship Enterprise and the only instance Enterprise C is shown on screen.
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5? Um...nope can't get to 5.
Back to the Future
Terminator 2
Back to the Future 3
that is all.
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Timeline - Book was better, or course.
Time after Time ( 1979 )
Somewhere in Time ( 1980 )
Philadelphia Experiment.
The Final Countdown
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1. The Time Machine (1960)
2. Time After Time
3. The Time Machine (2002)
4. Somewhere In Time
5. Star Trek IV
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We agree about one of the Time Machine movies.
1. The Time Machine (1960) www.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/ In the garden shed, built two machines, one miniature, the other full-size of brass and leaded crystal.
2. Star Trek 8: First Contact (1996) www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/ Borg Queen is kinky.
3. Primer (2004) www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/ Make a movie about time travel in your garage!
4. Déjà Vu (2006) www.imdb.com/title/tt0453467/ Because Denzel makes time travel look painful. You never willingly make a second trip.
5. Futurama - The Late Philip J. Fry (2010) www.imdb.com/title/tt1630896/
Fry: "You know, all in all, I had a good life. What do you say to the three of us grabbing a six-pack and watching the Universe end?"
Bender: "That's basically what I do every night."
Fry's toast & question: "To the end of the Universe! ... What was the purpose of Life?"
Professor Farnsworth: "Probably some hogwash about 'The Human Spirit'."
Quote:
"Futurama: The Late Philip J. Fry," wins Emmy for Best Animated Program. Sept. 10, 2011 - www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/article/Paltrow-Timberlake-win-creativ
e-arts-Emmy-Awards-2165075.php
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Cheers Lwaves 
OK top five:
Back to the Future.
Timescape
Terminator
My Science Project
The Time Machine (1960)
And right on the cusp - Groundhog Day.
Cartoons - http://cirqusartsandmusic.blogspot.com
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Star Trek: First Contact
The Terminator
Time After Time
12 Monkeys
Primer
Honorable mention: The Butterfly Effect (which pains me, 'cuz I hate Ashton.... but it's a solid flick).
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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