Best Time Travel Movies of All Time?

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Posted: 6/4/2019 4:40:40 PM EDT

Here are mine, in no particular order:

1. Thrill Seekers

Thrill Seekers

Apparently in the future, tourists pay to be present at disasters, plane crashes, etc., in the past. But what happens when one of those disasters accidentally gets prevented?

2. The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

The main character's method of time travel is kind of goofy, but this movie more than any I can remember shows how quickly time travel can fuck things up and how hard it is to unfuck them.

3. Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home

Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home

Humpback whales are extinct in the century where the main characters live. They have to go back in time and retrieve two of them to communicate with an alien space probe that is destroying earth because it can't find any extinct whales to communicate with. By far the best of the Star Trek movies with the original cast, and I don't care what anybody says.

4. Edge of Tomorrow

Edge of Tomorrow

A soldier is stuck in a time loop until he can figure out why and how to stop it.

5. Back to the Future

Back to the Future

This would probably be #1 if these were ranked in a particular order. A kid goes back in time and has to be careful to preserve the timeline so he doesn't accidentally prevent his own birth.

6. Twelve Monkeys

12 Monkeys

In a bleak future, a convict is being used as a time-travelling guinea pig to find out why the world ended and to try to prevent it.

7. Source Code

Source Code

An army pilot keeps looping back to the past to try to prevent a terrorist bombing.

8. Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

This is the Charlton Heston version from the late 1960's. No spoilers, but if this film doesn't have the ultimate surprise ending, I don't know what does.

9. The Time Machine

The Time Machine

It's rather tame by today's standards. Still, it was one of the first and best for its time and has to be included.

10. The Terminator

The Terminator

A robot from the future tries to assassinate the mother of the resistance fighter that defeated the robot army years in the future.

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:43:20 PM EDT

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Die Hard

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:43:25 PM EDT

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1. The Time Machine

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:47:50 PM EDT

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If you're counting day loops for time travel, one must always include Groundhog Day.

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:47:55 PM EDT

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If we are counting time loops I would add Groundhog Day.

Edit: Beat by 5 seconds

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:48:07 PM EDT

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That's a movie about Ramadan, not time travel.

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:48:25 PM EDT

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Time Bandits

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Somewhere in Time.

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:48:38 PM EDT

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All good choices, OP, especially The Butterfly Effect and 12 Monkeys.

Honorable mention should go to Primer, as well.

There is only one choice for the all time greatest time travel movie, though...

Predestination

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:49:08 PM EDT

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OP forgot The Final Countdown. Fail.

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:49:42 PM EDT

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Where's The Final Countdown on that list?

beat

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:50:39 PM EDT

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Time After Time

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:50:48 PM EDT

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Time travel movies make my head spin.

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:51:05 PM EDT

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Can always make your own time travel movie, with blackjack and hookers, to make yourself feel better.

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:51:43 PM EDT

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Looper was pretty damn fun, too.

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Time cop

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PRIMER

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Like a rented mule!

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:53:55 PM EDT

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If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting.

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:54:44 PM EDT

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Why no Hot Tub Time Machine?

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:56:33 PM EDT

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Without a doubt, it was To Pass the Time, which debuts in 2087.

Amazing camera work. And it captured the tastes and smells of the locations perfectly. Really groundbreaking stuff.

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:56:39 PM EDT

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FIFY

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:57:18 PM EDT

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Time bandits?

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:58:00 PM EDT

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OP forgot Millennium

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0097883/

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:58:38 PM EDT

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Not a movie, but the miniseries 11-22-63 was very good

Posted: 6/4/2019 4:59:27 PM EDT

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Edge of Tomorrow
Primer
Avengers Endgame

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:00:44 PM EDT

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Attached File

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No love for Time Bandits but you have Star Trek 4? WTF?

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:02:35 PM EDT

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Never said I had no love for anything. I just stopped at the ten I liked best. Time Bandits was a great movie, as was Groundhog Day, and others mentioned.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:02:36 PM EDT

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This is the correct answer.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:06:32 PM EDT

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Somewhere in Time.

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Came to post this.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:09:18 PM EDT

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Without a doubt, it was To Pass the Time, which debuts in 2087.

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/thread. This guy wins.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:12:00 PM EDT

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The End of Eternity

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:14:44 PM EDT

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A sound of thunder. 2005

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318081/

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:15:19 PM EDT

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Time Cop

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[#35]

The Box

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:16:24 PM EDT

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Somewhere in Time.

Came to post this.

Yes. Good flick.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:16:28 PM EDT

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I actually haven't seen this one. I need to go back in time and watch it and then edit my first post.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:16:38 PM EDT

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That is the most 80s movie cover ever.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:17:12 PM EDT

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Without a doubt, it was To Pass the Time, which debuts in 2087.

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It didn't age well, though.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:17:21 PM EDT

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Here are mine, in no particular order:

8. Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

This is the Charlton Heston version from the late 1960's. No spoilers, but if this film doesn't have the ultimate surprise ending, I don't know what does.

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You put the movie in a time-travel list; you just gave away the surprise ending.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:17:23 PM EDT

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"RETURN WHAT YOU HAVE STOLEN FROM ME!"

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:17:47 PM EDT

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Looper was pretty damn fun, too.

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Yeah, I liked this one too.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:18:06 PM EDT

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The first time I saw it, I thought it was a good movie, but I was still confused.

The second time I saw it, it made a lot more sense.

The third time I saw it, I prepped myself by studying a diagram of exactly how the time travel worked.

I really need to see it a fourth time.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:18:48 PM EDT

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Oops. Oh, well, I bet most people have seen it.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:19:02 PM EDT

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Biggles: Adventures in Time

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Posted: 6/4/2019 5:19:06 PM EDT

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Good movie, interesting twist on "The Time Machine"

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:19:31 PM EDT

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The first time I saw it, I thought it was a good movie, but I was still confused.

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I really need to see it a fourth time.

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It's one of the very few movies I finished watching the first time, and then immediately started it up again.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:19:38 PM EDT

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Here are mine, in no particular order:

8. Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

This is the Charlton Heston version from the late 1960's. No spoilers, but if this film doesn't have the ultimate surprise ending, I don't know what does.

You put the movie in a time-travel list; you just gave away the surprise ending.

Well...

I mean, if "Planet of the Apes" is a time travel movie, technically so is every other movie ever made.

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:20:15 PM EDT

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Does Army of Darkness count?

Posted: 6/4/2019 5:20:39 PM EDT

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Paul Walker was an awful actor and the movie was cheesy as heck but I always liked Timeline.

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