Time Travel Flicks

[Hashi Lebwohl]

Time travel can be really weird, possibly even scary. *poof* Your future self shows up and shoots you--but you don't that the shooter is your future self.

They're making this movie. The preview was in the theatres last night.

Really? I just thought of that plotline as I was writing the post--I made it up on the spur of the moment.

All those blankety-blank scriptwriters keep stealing my good ideas. argh!

finn, thank you for reminding me of the movie's name. I simply couldn't recall what it was.

Okay, show of hands--how many of you have actually thought about what you would do if a) your future self comes back in time to meet you, b) you travel through time and meet yourself, or c) some alternate timeline version of yourself shows up? *Hashi raises his hand*.

[sgt.null]

There was a Doctor Who episode with 5 incarnations of the Doctor all turning up, I think it was (imaginatively) called the 5 doctors.

except it should be called the Four Doctors as Baker was being a prig at the time and refused to be in it. so they used stock footage of him trapped in a time freeze or something. the other four were a hoot though.

[Akasri]

Time travel can be really weird, possibly even scary. *poof* Your future self shows up and shoots you--but you don't that the shooter is your future self.

They're making this movie. The preview was in the theatres last night.

Really? I just thought of that plotline as I was writing the post--I made it up on the spur of the moment.

All those blankety-blank scriptwriters keep stealing my good ideas. argh!

finn, thank you for reminding me of the movie's name. I simply couldn't recall what it was.

Okay, show of hands--how many of you have actually thought about what you would do if a) your future self comes back in time to meet you, b) you travel through time and meet yourself, or c) some alternate timeline version of yourself shows up? *Hashi raises his hand*.

I'm thinking it's Looper that Rigel was talking about. Here's the trailer:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kGFyVKmqA0

Looks pretty interesting.

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

Looked for English versions of the film I told about, "Guest from the Future", couldn't find any official translated ones, but turned out there's a subtitled version on a site dedicated to promoting Russian and Soviet videos. The translation appears to be not professional, but quite not bad. Quality is about normal YouTube - it's actually on a Russian YouTube analog, Yandex video service.

video.kylekeeton.com/2010/03/guest-from-future-russian-movie.html

[deer of the dawn]

Okay, show of hands--how many of you have actually thought about what you would do if a) your future self comes back in time to meet you, b) you travel through time and meet yourself, or c) some alternate timeline version of yourself shows up? *Hashi raises his hand*.[/color]

I'm kind of freaking out right now because you reminded me I had an experience at a crux in my life where, well, it's hard to explain, and maybe I better not try.

[Hashi Lebwohl]

Don't forget to go back in time and give yourself good advice.

You should try to explain anyway, unless doing so would divulge details you would rather not discuss.

[Zarathustra]

Don't forget to go back in time and give yourself good advice.

The problem is, most of us know what that advice would be already. "Exercise more. Eat/drink less. Save more money. Take care of your teeth. Wear sunblock."

Of course, there is always advice that is situational, like: "Don't date her! Invest in this! Take this sports almanac and go nuts!"

[Hashi Lebwohl]

Of course, there is always advice that is situational, like: "Don't date her! Invest in this! Take this sports almanac and go nuts!"

That is the kind of advice I mean.

[Cagliostro]

[ItisWritten]

Which raises the fundamental paradox question, "Who bought the watch?"

[Rigel]

I've never been able to decide if I love or hate this film.

[Hashi Lebwohl]

Which raises the fundamental paradox question, "Who bought the watch?"

No one. She had the watch to give to him in the future only because he took it back with him into the past and left it with her. From the watch's point of view, it is caught in an endless loop.

Time travel paradoxes are like subatomic particle paths--a photon (we'll call it a) can be traveling along, run into an electron, convert it to a positron and a different photon (which we will call b), which then recollide and out pops the original electron. Photon b exists only because the electron turned into a positron, traveled backward in time, and collided with the original photon a.

[sgt.null]

[sgt.null]

did i already post this?

[deer of the dawn]

did i already post this?

[sgt.null]

did i already post this?

i think maybe i went back in time...

[Holsety]

Okay, show of hands--how many of you have actually thought about what you would do if a) your future self comes back in time to meet you, b) you travel through time and meet yourself, or c) some alternate timeline version of yourself shows up? *Hashi raises his hand*.[/color]

I would probably attempt to kill my alternate self, unless he was like, a helpless and doddering old man. I don't normally have aggression/dominance/inferiority complex type issues, but if I ran into another version of myself I would probably instantly suspect it of suspecting me of a murderous intent. Know yourself, know the enemy, know victory. I must prove my timeline's superiority.

And if I kill myself in the past and wink out of existence (despite the fact that my existence is necessary to negate my existence), it would still be worth it.

[stonemaybe]

[DoctorGamgee]

Perhaps I missed it, but shouldn't Terminator (and spin-offs) be in this list? As well as Back to the Future (1,2,&3)? I personally loved Time Bandits and Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

And am I just mis-remembering, or wasn't Buckaroo Bonzai across the 4th dimension one too?

My memory is not very good. Sorry.

Doc

[Holsety]

Perhaps I missed it, but shouldn't Terminator (and spin-offs) be in this list? As well as Back to the Future (1,2,&3)? I personally loved Time Bandits and Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

And am I just mis-remembering, or wasn't Buckaroo Bonzai across the 4th dimension one too?

My memory is not very good. Sorry.

Doc

Terminator and Back to the Future are in the OP. Looking at the synopsis of Buckaroo Banzai, it's not about time travel in the traditional sense at least (it's about traveling to another dimension), but I haven't actually seen the movie so hey, maybe it is!