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We've got to go back Marty! Back to the Future!

*Jumps into Delorean*

*Time-warps into the past in order to steal the OP in this thread*

There will be a poll at a point in the very near future, because I traveled there at a rate of sixty seconds per minute and created it, then warped back to the present.

First Contact.

God DAMN it, I made a typo in the poll question. Unfortunately, I'm unable to repair the past due to a temporal paradox. Sorry all.

Nice list, but you left off this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/)

We've got to go back Marty! Back to the Future!

*Jumps into Delorean*

*Time-warps into the past in order to steal the OP in this thread*

This is ironic. I acknowledge the irony here.

12 monkeys or bttf, army of darkness doesnt make any sense so it gets my vote. Star Trek is just silly with time travel.

Nice list, but you left off this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/)

Dammit. Why do I never think of them all when I make my polls?

The movie I haven't made yet but is already in theaters! Waaaahaahahahahaaha!




I'll go now...

Back to the Future.

Its just a great adventure movie. And the story is quite well done and creative.

Weird. I was just thinking about Bill & Ted when you posted this. I vote Back to the Future though.

i saw a delorean the other day. it was in really shoddy condition but it still looked pretty good parked outside my local chippy.

i vote 12 monkeys though, one of my favourite films.

Weird. I was just thinking about Bill & Ted when you posted this. I vote Back to the Future though.

Oh yes, Bill and Ted should definitaly be on the list.

Weird. I was just thinking about Bill & Ted when you posted this. I vote Back to the Future though.

OK, I probably should have dropped one of the Star Treks for that or Time Bandits, but I didn't think of them at the time.

Of those, I choose The Time Machine, but only if I can go back to when it wasn't a movie.

Not on the list: Primer.

Time Rider

Seriously. Check it out.

If grossly anachronistic military hardware counts, then Deathstalker 2.

I voted 12 monkeys. I like Donnie Darko better, but I'm not sure Donnie travels through time. Instead my understanding is that he's in a sort of parallel "tangent universe" for a period of time, and returns just in time to get crushed by a jet engine in order to keep the universe from being destroyed by the paradox that sets the story off.

Not on the list- Dick with a time machine

Type it into youtube - very funny.

Also try lil hitler! Although no mention of the Brits which I find rather arrogant.

None of the options, those all blow.

Time Bandits is the best time travel movie ever.

If you want to add another crappy time travel movie you can add Timeline to the list. Another book to movie stinker. Michael Crichton must have wanted to cry.

On this list though, 12 Monkeys is hands down the best.

I was going to instinctively respond with the first Back to The Future, and noticed 12 Monkeys on your poll. That movie seriously kicks ass, and I always forget to think of it as a time travel movie. I tend to think of it as a movie about a man who may or may not be insane, with some possible time travel in it.

Of those, I choose The Time Machine, but only if I can go back to when it wasn't a movie.

Not on the list: Primer.

Yes! That's the one I was about to mention!

"Primer" is one of those totally-under-the-radar classics.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/

I hated 12 Monkeys. It offered a logically incoherent version of time travel.

I hated 12 Monkeys. It offered a logically incoherent version of time travel.

So what? Brad Pit was hilarious in it.

The 1960's Version of the Time Machine or Time Bandits

I hated 12 Monkeys. It offered a logically incoherent version of time travel.

Actually, I found their time travel version at least consistent. I got the impression that all time travellers were part of one unbending timeline... in escence, everything was fated to happen, including the actions of the time travellers.

If you're talking about the method... well it's Terry Gilliam, so who knows?

My main beef with time travel movies, is that they keep their time travel theories consistent. I found the Back to the Future movies rather inconsistent.

I thought the first Back to the Future deserved classic status. Its well-made, doesn't take itself too seriously, and has great music.

Actually, I found their time travel version at least consistent. I got the impression that all time travellers were part of one unbending timeline... in escence, everything was fated to happen, including the actions of the time travellers.
That's what I'm complaining about. If the entire plot of the film was irrelavant because the timeline is immutable, I just wasted 2 hours watching this utterly pointless film.

I've seen 12 Monkeys and I don't see how it's winning.

That's what I'm complaining about. If the entire plot of the film was irrelavant because the timeline is immutable, I just wasted 2 hours watching this utterly pointless film.

That's if you look at it as a time-travel movie only. I look at it as a movie about one man's struggle with his sanity and his attempts to make things right. The fact that it turns out that his struggle was doomed to failure, (or perhaps, doomed to succeed?) was part of the tragedy of the film. Not to everyone's taste, but I wouldn't say pointless.

That's what I'm complaining about. If the entire plot of the film was irrelavant because the timeline is immutable, I just wasted 2 hours watching this utterly pointless film.

So you're complaining that 12 Monkeys showed you the truth about all film?

That's what I'm complaining about. If the entire plot of the film was irrelavant because the timeline is immutable, I just wasted 2 hours watching this utterly pointless film.

I think that only the past couldn't be changed. The point was to change the present by gathering information about what had happened.

If you want to add another crappy time travel movie you can add Timeline to the list. Another book to movie stinker. Michael Crichton must have wanted to cry.

I'm sure he was crying all the way to the bank.

Bill & Ted!!!

Bill & Ted!!!

*slaps forehead*

I totally forgot about Bill & Ted, dude! Bogus...

If you want to add another crappy time travel movie you can add Timeline to the list. Another book to movie stinker. Michael Crichton must have wanted to cry.
I'm sure he cried all the way to the bank.
The book itself was trite, predictable and just a rip-off of other people's stuff - but then again, that pretty much sums up all of Crichton's works.

We've got to go back Marty! Back to the Future!
"It's not you, Marty. It's your kids! We have to go back to the future to stop your daughter from marrying a Black man!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM477PLrIKE

The Voyage Home.

I rather liked it.

well good for you.

I'm sure Shatner and Nimoy will be happy to hear someone did.
It remains one of the most popular Trek films, so it ain't just me.

The Voyage Home.

I rather liked it.

The best part of the film was Catherine Hicks' sweater . . .

The Voyage Home.

I rather liked it.
well good for you.

I'm sure Shatner and Nimoy will be happy to hear someone did.

It remains one of the most popular Trek films, so it ain't just me.
Better than 'Wrath of Khan'?
I don't - I can't - believe you!