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by martryn
Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Time travel movies
Replies: 12
Views: 5974

Re: Time travel movies

34 films across a wide spectrum. Spoilered for space.

[spoiler]Tier 10
12 Monkeys (89)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (89)
Groundhog Day (87)
Army of Darkness (86)

Tier 9
Star Trek (2009) (84)
The Terminator (84)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (82)
Back to the Future (81)
Back to the Future II (81)

Tier 8
Time Bandits (79)
Primer (77)

Tier 7
The Time Machine (1960) (76)
Back to the Future III (75)
Star Trek: First Contact (75)
Slaughterhouse-Five (74)

Tier 6
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (73)
Frequency (72)
Terminator Salvation (71)
Donnie Darko (70)

Tier 5
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (69)
Flight of the Navigator (68)

Tier 4
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (62)
The Jacket (61)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (60)

Tier 3
Paycheck (55)
Lost in Space (54)
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (53)
Kate and Leopold (52)
The Time Machine (2002) (52)

Tier 2
Timecop (49)
Timeline (44)
Black Knight (43)
The Butterfly Effect (43)

Tier 1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (25)[/spoiler]

I think I'm going to watch and enjoy Loopers. I like Joseph Gordon Levitt. I like Bruce Wilis. I like action films. I like time travel. Meh.

On the subject of Primer, it's certainly the most thought provoking time travel film to date, at least that I've seen. It's not a film you watch on your own and half pay attention to. It's something you watch with a group of intelligent friends, take a break, make some notes, and watch it again a second time, pausing and trying to work things out. And then you discuss. And then, when you watch it again a few months later, maybe showing it to your wife or girlfriend for the first time and you attempt to explain it to them, you start to notice things you didn't notice the first two times, and so you watch it a fourth time, on your own, before calling all your buddies again. Then you get together on your front porch over scotch and cigars and you try to explain these new ideas you've had pertaining to things you didn't think were important the first time you watched but now you think gives you clues to the actual plot. Then you all watch the movie again, pausing an analyzing every scene from the very beginning, going over every line and every reaction to a line. And then the debate begins again. Years later no one is happy and five different people have five different interpretations of the events.

It's basically like trying to piece together what actually happened on Lost so that it all makes sense, instead of the more likely explanation that the writers just vomited out a final season.