Good time travel movies?
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This is no time to be arguing about time! We don't have the time!
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I don't think it was established that no one could have changed anything.
Maybe. I don't think that was the intent of the filmmakers though. They were trying to find a cure so in their future they could return to living on the surface.
I had forgotten that part of the plot; in light of that, you're probably right about the implication of the ending. As for the filmmaker's intent (for whatever it's worth), I believe Gilliam hated that part of the ending, but was obligated to leave it in.
they wanted information about the virus to cure it in the future.
They couldn't change the past, and they probably didn't want to at all, considering the narrow margin within which mankind survived and they became so powerful.
They couldn't change the past, and they probably didn't want to at all, considering the narrow margin within which mankind survived and they became so powerful.
There's a great one called The Visitors/Just Visiting, with Just Visiting being an American remake of a French movie. It's a fun little comedy in which an 11th century knight and his loyal servant are transported to modern day Chicago and try to find a way back home, all the while trying to cope with cultural and technological changes. What really makes this work is seeing them react to everything so different to them.
But if you put that side by side with Kate and Leopold?
Kate and Leopold has nothing on it. K&L is simply a romantic drama with sci-fi trappings.
The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey is quite good.
Also, ^^^: Romcom is a genre. Romcom with scifi trappings is still a romcom but it will appeal to people who like the decorating scheme. Most scifi seems to be boys' adventure stories with scifi trappings, but it is perfectly allowable to include romcom. Scifi is pseudorealistic fantastic stuff. Fantasy is supernatural or absurd fantastic stuff. It may be trappings, superficial, but style is "trappings," whether in words or haute couture.
Also, ^^^: Romcom is a genre. Romcom with scifi trappings is still a romcom but it will appeal to people who like the decorating scheme. Most scifi seems to be boys' adventure stories with scifi trappings, but it is perfectly allowable to include romcom. Scifi is pseudorealistic fantastic stuff. Fantasy is supernatural or absurd fantastic stuff. It may be trappings, superficial, but style is "trappings," whether in words or haute couture.
UPN series Seven Days.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167720/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167720/
I am certain that no one here would ever confuse the navigator: A medieval odyssey for Flight of the navigator which are both excellent time travel movies in very different ways..
Ian Keldon
Fleet Captain
"Journey to the Center of Time" (1967) is a good one, if a bit of a downer ending. It's a remake of "The Time Travelers" (1964)
I'm completely surprised no one has mentioned this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timequest_(film)
It's a great film, and you should all watch it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timequest_(film)
It's a great film, and you should all watch it.
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