Somewhere in Time is the Reeves time travel movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_in_Time_(film)
Havent seen it in years though.
Has anyone seen Land of the Lost yet? Is it any good?
Worst Time Travel Movies!
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Somewhere in Time is the Reeves time travel movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_in_Time_(film)
Havent seen it in years though.
Has anyone seen Land of the Lost yet? Is it any good?
I'll throw my hat in the ring to defend Trek 4. I loved it as a kid and I still love it now. The humor was really well done and we got to see our beloved actors in a very different setting than the previous couple of films. It reflected a lot of the adventure and humor of TOS in my opinion and did it well. It also had a "message" (environmentalism etc.), like many eps of TOS. And the scene with the Enterprise reveal? To this day I treasure the memory of seeing the Enterprise appear and a theater of over 300 people jumping to their feet screaming with joy. 
I also think it's a cheat to use "The One", though even the author admits that. I found it to be a fun film. If you know the premise, you expect a certain amount of silliness, and the martial arts were fun to watch.
I also think it's a cheat to use "The One", though even the author admits that. I found it to be a fun film. If you know the premise, you expect a certain amount of silliness, and the martial arts were fun to watch.
Aw, you give that lovely defense of Star Trek IV and then also praise "The One"?!? 
I despise that movie. It was one of the last movies I saw without knowing anything about it in advance and one of the reasons why now I always make sure I know something in advance before I see a movie. It was so bad. Terrible acting, terrible writing, terrible everything. A complete waste of Jet Li.
He was better in "Lethal Weapon 4". That movie may have been mediocre, but at least it didn't make a total ass out of Li by sticking him in a laughably preposterous story where he plays one of the most dull 'heroes' ever.
I despise that movie. It was one of the last movies I saw without knowing anything about it in advance and one of the reasons why now I always make sure I know something in advance before I see a movie. It was so bad. Terrible acting, terrible writing, terrible everything. A complete waste of Jet Li. He was better in "Lethal Weapon 4". That movie may have been mediocre, but at least it didn't make a total ass out of Li by sticking him in a laughably preposterous story where he plays one of the most dull 'heroes' ever.
They criticise ‘Time Travellers wife’ for having a bad premise when I didn’t think the idea behind it was that bad, it was just poorly executed and could have been much better with a few minor additions.
It did too much telling instead of showing and concentrated too much on the woman at times, when they could have given us a brief glimpse of Eric Bana’s character.
It did too much telling instead of showing and concentrated too much on the woman at times, when they could have given us a brief glimpse of Eric Bana’s character.
Like others "Millenium" was the first thought I had. I remember wanting to really see that movie back in the day....then renting it and realizing that all the "cool stuff" (terms used loosely) was literally in the preview. Aside from the stupid timequake shit....the acting was just so goddamn horrid. It was more wooden than a Wood movie. Kristoffeson (sp) cannot act for shit.
That had to be the best time travel movie ending of all time. It matches what happens to your brain if you actually try to reason out what could/would happen if most any time travel movie situation were real.
I actually liked the entire movie because of that.
As far as the time travel element in a movie, one of the worse executed is probably Donnie Darko.
It remains an excellent film, but the time travel plot is virtually impenetrable, and when you do finally penetrate it, it still makes no sense.
P.S.: The One was a good B-movie.
It remains an excellent film, but the time travel plot is virtually impenetrable, and when you do finally penetrate it, it still makes no sense.
P.S.: The One was a good B-movie.
I agree that "The One" is a good b-rated action flick, but not a time travel movie, considering its about parallel dimensions, also the "The Time Travelers Wife" is just a romance/drama film with a slight sci-fi twist. I still say that "A Sound of Thunder" is the worst Time travel movie, but one that i love although not well made and cheesy is The Time Bandits" I love that movie!!!!!!
MeanJoePhaser
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It was stupid but that was expected.
Also,
It's not really a time travel movie, as it turns out to be Martin Lawrence's character's dream.
Either I have blocked out his millennnium movie or I have never seen it...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295725/
"Time changer"
A Bible professor from the late 19th century comes forward to modern times to observe what he can only understand to be the apocalypse. It's an extremist orthodox christian movie, with some out there views on morality and science.
Worst movie ever.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295725/
"Time changer"
A Bible professor from the late 19th century comes forward to modern times to observe what he can only understand to be the apocalypse. It's an extremist orthodox christian movie, with some out there views on morality and science.
Worst movie ever.
Was the movie Millenium anything like the John Varley novel? I can remember reading the book back in the eighties and not minding it..
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
I read the book too but the movie dried it out so it wasn't entertaining.
It's one of those ones where they do everything pretty much "by the book" meaning they follow it...but there's just something mising.
It was like the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still I think...the pieces were all there, but the whole wasn't any good.
Oh, and whats with Trek IV getting bad remaks? I never would've guessed in a million years I'd go to a board about Trek and see thread upon thread defending Trek V and Nemesis and people wondering if Trek IV was really any good!
Agreed!
A copy of this was sitting in my parents house a few years ago. I guess right after it came out. They where borrowing it from a friend at church.
As an all around time travel nut it caught my interest
....even as an Atheist. So I borrowed it.
More than anything I was struck by how dismissive and judgmental the Professor from the past was of the modern world. Which he barely understood or even tried to. But maybe that's a perfect metaphor for Orthodox Christians!
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
Yeah but we're talking about the worst time travel movies.
I think the list posted by the OP is one of the worst I have seen lately. Normally I expect a list like this to have some questionable inclusions, but that is normally attributable to differences in taste. Including ST:IV and Timecop, and to varying degrees Hercules, the One, and Time Traveler's Wife, make me shake my head.
ST:IV: As other posters have said, just because you can come up with alternative solutions for the problem of the whale probe doesn’t mean the movie is bad. The solution was logical and the movie was fun, what else do you want.
Timecop: not the best time travel story, but good action, a charismatic lead, some campy dialog and a sense of fun. Again, a decent movie.
Hercules: Just because the gods are still wearing togas and it’s 1980s in New York doesn’t make it a time travel movie.
The One: alternative dimensions, not time travel.
Time Traveler’s Wife: the article writer and some others (sorry, Kibbin) seem to be focused on the title but forgetting that it is the time traveler’s WIFE. The movie and the book it is based on are really a romance story where instead of work or friends or money being a barrier between the couple, time travel is (it’s a stand-in for emotional separation). Not the greatest movie, but adaptations of larger works often fall short because they were not originally written to fit 125 pages and 90-120 minutes.
Putting these movies on the list of worst time travel movies ever makes me question the article writer’s ability to understand words like “worst”, “time travel”, and to read more than the blurb on the back of the dvd case.
Relatedly, I just watched “Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision”. Also not one of the worst time travel movies ever. A lot of the beats in the movie (differences in the “present” that the hero cop is surprised by when he returns from a mission, and the return of previously dead characters to the hall’s of the timecop facility) are pulled straight from the first movie. While the production budget is much lower, the story is a little obvious, and the time travel logic a little less sound (though the launch chair is better in this one), the movie still works well as a true sequel to Timecop.
I also watched “Time Bandits” recently after hearing so much good stuff about it, and I was bored enough that I didn’t even finish watching the movie.
ST:IV: As other posters have said, just because you can come up with alternative solutions for the problem of the whale probe doesn’t mean the movie is bad. The solution was logical and the movie was fun, what else do you want.
Timecop: not the best time travel story, but good action, a charismatic lead, some campy dialog and a sense of fun. Again, a decent movie.
Hercules: Just because the gods are still wearing togas and it’s 1980s in New York doesn’t make it a time travel movie.
The One: alternative dimensions, not time travel.
Time Traveler’s Wife: the article writer and some others (sorry, Kibbin) seem to be focused on the title but forgetting that it is the time traveler’s WIFE. The movie and the book it is based on are really a romance story where instead of work or friends or money being a barrier between the couple, time travel is (it’s a stand-in for emotional separation). Not the greatest movie, but adaptations of larger works often fall short because they were not originally written to fit 125 pages and 90-120 minutes.
Putting these movies on the list of worst time travel movies ever makes me question the article writer’s ability to understand words like “worst”, “time travel”, and to read more than the blurb on the back of the dvd case.
Relatedly, I just watched “Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision”. Also not one of the worst time travel movies ever. A lot of the beats in the movie (differences in the “present” that the hero cop is surprised by when he returns from a mission, and the return of previously dead characters to the hall’s of the timecop facility) are pulled straight from the first movie. While the production budget is much lower, the story is a little obvious, and the time travel logic a little less sound (though the launch chair is better in this one), the movie still works well as a true sequel to Timecop.
I also watched “Time Bandits” recently after hearing so much good stuff about it, and I was bored enough that I didn’t even finish watching the movie.
It's been a while since I've seen Star Trek IV, but their solution doesn't seem to really reveal a plot hole. It was Spock, being Spock, who recognized that it was a whale, so no one in the Federation knew to even look for a *.wav or *.mp3 file of a whale song.
And let's say recordings had been made. Spock realized this while on a Klingon ship. Sure it was retrofitted on Vulcan, but did they have access to the Federation database? I'd imagine not. Even if some Federation information was put in, I would think that no one would have thought to put whale songs in the database. And as far as hooking up with Federation servers, again, they were in a Klingon ship, probably not the easiest thing to do. And furthermore, that's assuming those databases weren't in the way of the probe, which was sucking energy and causing disruptions like crazy.
A better argument would have been why did Kirk decide to return in a Bird of Prey? Was he hoping bringing it to the Federation as a spoil of war would alleviate some of their furor over the destruction of Federation property, the disregard for orders, etc.? Wouldn't it be more plausible for either the Vulcans to bring them in a ship of their own, or for them to contact Starfleet, agree to surrender to them, and get escorted home in a Starfleet ship?
And let's say recordings had been made. Spock realized this while on a Klingon ship. Sure it was retrofitted on Vulcan, but did they have access to the Federation database? I'd imagine not. Even if some Federation information was put in, I would think that no one would have thought to put whale songs in the database. And as far as hooking up with Federation servers, again, they were in a Klingon ship, probably not the easiest thing to do. And furthermore, that's assuming those databases weren't in the way of the probe, which was sucking energy and causing disruptions like crazy.
A better argument would have been why did Kirk decide to return in a Bird of Prey? Was he hoping bringing it to the Federation as a spoil of war would alleviate some of their furor over the destruction of Federation property, the disregard for orders, etc.? Wouldn't it be more plausible for either the Vulcans to bring them in a ship of their own, or for them to contact Starfleet, agree to surrender to them, and get escorted home in a Starfleet ship?
Vulcan is a Federation member, so I'd guess yes. Any Federation member world would have full access to that database.
What else would you suggest he do with that ship? Be a bit useless to just leave it sitting around on Vulcan. It was the handiest ship for him to use. And its cloaking device would be an intelligence asset.
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