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Care to list your favorite movies that involve time travel?

Asked by filmfann (52515points) October 24th, 2018

I’ll start with X-Men: Days Of Future Past.

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SavoirFaire's avatar

Back to the Future Part II

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

Gosh, there are so many, and some I haven’t seen.

Three that I never understood: “Donnie Darko”, “Piimer” and “Twelve Monkies”

Hilarious: “Groundhog Day” and “Back to The Future”

Harry Potter: “HP and The Prisoner of Azakabon”

Shocking ending: “Planet of The Apes”

Does “Arrival” count?

Patty_Melt's avatar

The Time Traveler’s Wife is cool.
I haven’t read the book, but apparently it gets far more involved than the movie. The way he meets his wife is wild.
Sometimes he sees himself, and it is disturbing for him.
It is a tissue box movie.

I don’t think there is any better time traveler than Michael J. Fox.

flutherother's avatar

Groundhog Day
Timecrimes
Triangle.

seawulf575's avatar

The Time Machine
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Frequency
The Philadelphia Experiment
12 Monkeys
Idiocracy

Patty_Melt's avatar

Oh! How could I forget Bill and Ted?!?

ragingloli's avatar

Steins:Gate

Zaku's avatar

I have a list of nearly 100 favorite films, which I just skimmed, and I don’t think any of them involve time travel.

However, thinking of such films, some of my favorites of the time travel films I can think of before falling asleep might be:

The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Primer
Safety Not Guaranteed
Donnie Darko
Just Visiting

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Star Trek IV the Voyage home.

anniereborn's avatar

I love “Peggy Sue Got Married” and “Back to the Future”.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Quantum Leap. If I can list a tv series.

ucme's avatar

In no particular order:

Planet of the Apes (1968)
The Time Machine (1960)
Sleeper
Source Code
Terminator I/II

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Time Bandits from 1981.

LadyMarissa's avatar

Back To The Future
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Time Traveler’s Wife
About Time

My favorite TV show on the subject is “Quantum Leap”

ucme's avatar

Will toss in my fave TV shows in the genre…

Doctor Who (Tom Baker/Jon Pertwee era)
11.22.63

anniereborn's avatar

Oh also, even tho it is basically a cheesy chick flick, I love “Blast from the Past”.
Okay, that’s not really time traveling per se, but I am fudging a bit.

filmfann's avatar

Timecrimes and Primer are vastly overrated, in my opinion.
Safety Not Guaranteed was amusing.
Blast From The Past and Arrival aren’t really time travel, but I’ll let it slide.
The Time Travelers Wife was wonderful.
12 Monkeys, Terminator movies, Time Bandits, Donnie Darko, are all great.

mazingerz88's avatar

Somewhere in Time
Back to the Future

anniereborn's avatar

@mazingerz88 Holy cow, how could I have forgotten that, that is my favorite time travel movie of all time!

Somewhere in Time

mazingerz88's avatar

Not strictly time travel but close I think. Lol

I just love the love theme and the plot in the film, Forever Young with Gibson.

mazingerz88's avatar

11/22/63 tried to but failed to capture the appeal of the book by King. To enjoy that time traveling story, I’d rather just read the book again.

filmfann's avatar

Time After Time
Not a movie, but the best Star Trek episode was City On The Edge Of Forever, when Kirk went back to the depression.

LadyMarissa's avatar

@mazingerz88 & @anniereborn THANK YOU for guiding me to Somewhere In Time!!! You gave me a WONDERFUL evening that I won’t soon forget!!! This WON’T be my last tiome watching it either!!!

mazingerz88's avatar

SPOILER ALERT!

^^ That film gets me every time. Every time since the year of its release. I’m pretty sure I tried it in my 20s, travel back in time. Lol

Damn that coin!

anniereborn's avatar

@LadyMarissa I’m so very glad. My mom and dad actually had their honeymoon on Macinac Island where that was filmed and lunched at the Grand Hotel. It’s way to expensive to stay there, but i dream of it. I dunno if they still do, but they used to have a “Somewhere in Time” gathering there every year.

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