Predestination

POSTED BY: ecgordon
UPDATED: Friday, June 26, 2015 06:12
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ECGORDON

Thursday, June 25, 2015 11:34 PM

I thought I had already started a thread on this, but couldn't find it. I did review the movie earlier this year.

http://templetongate.net/predestination.htm

I still haven't bought the DVD, it's not streaming on Netflix yet, and Amazon is only selling the HD version, not renting.

But, perusing TV listings this morning I noticed it will be on Syfy, Wednesday July 8, at 9pm Central.

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Friday, June 26, 2015 6:12 AM

How many time-travel movies are there?

The answer is 1,538 with Predestination at #14

www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=time-travel

How many time-loop movies are there?

The answer is 129 with Predestination at #3 just behind my favorite: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=time-loop

I don't think there has ever been a movie that even half-heartedly tries to follow the real physics of how a time machine works. See Paul J. Nahin, Time Machines – Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction, Second Edition. www.amazon.com/Time-Machines-Physics-Metaphysics-Science/dp/0387985719/

Also see Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel Paperback – February 7, 2011 www.amazon.com/Time-Travel-Writers-Science-Plausible/dp/1421400820/
Chapter 7 When General Relativity Made Time Travel to the Past Honest starts with a poem: The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on; nor all your pity nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly