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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell

Can anyone name a film about time travel where the plot isn't full of flaws?. I personally can't think of any (well apart from "back to the future 1"

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By *ockman and ThrobbinCouple
over a year ago

Ilford

The time travellers wife

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Time Bandits.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden


"Can anyone name a film about time travel where the plot isn't full of flaws?. I personally can't think of any (well apart from "back to the future 1" "

Being an actual time traveller I find even Back to the Future 1 is flawed. If you erase someone from your timeline their faces don't fade out of photographs.

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"The time travellers wife"

Nope that's flawed the daughter could of saved the dad

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Let me just go back and check.

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Can anyone name a film about time travel where the plot isn't full of flaws?. I personally can't think of any (well apart from "back to the future 1"

Being an actual time traveller I find even Back to the Future 1 is flawed. If you erase someone from your timeline their faces don't fade out of photographs."

Thank you for your expert opinion

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Time Bandits. "

I haven't seen it but will definitely give it a watch

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By (user no longer on site)
Forum Mod

over a year ago

Superman

He saved the world!

Thats flawless....absolutely flawless

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Time Bandits.

I haven't seen it but will definitely give it a watch "

What the f...

How can you no......

Just a fu.....

GO AND SIT IN THE NAUGHTY CORNER RIGHT NOW!

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

Deja-vu?

Although there may have been something, I'd have to see it again...

Mr ddc

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By *hetalkingstoveMan
over a year ago

London

It's pretty much impossible to make a 'logical' time travel film, because time travel creates paradoxes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Source code.

Good film, i would recommend it even if it did have plot holes.

Deja vu.

Action movie, also good. Bit cheesy and probably got plot holes.

Primer.

Omfg, no idea if this film has plot holes or not, left me very confused and bored but you might like it.

Time lapse.

Mediocre probably, but i liked it, not really travelling but they do bend time. There is a free version online right now, probably all these films you will find free versions and not have to dign up to anything, even if virginmedia have blocked free sites.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There was a brilliant and very accurate film called "Back to 2015" made in about 25 year's time...

Have you seen it yet...?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If anyone is a particular fan of the time travelling genre, I'd recommend Los Cronocrímenes (literally, Time Crimes). It is a spanish film, and subtitled, but pretty easy to follow.

As far as plot holes are concerned, it's pretty tight and clever.

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

1201 the film is called

its roughly revolves around a day

some like groundhog day i find it crap

time machine new and old one as well

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Superman

He saved the world!

Thats flawless....absolutely flawless"

Hmmm that isn't the one where he Flys round planet earth to save Louis is it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Donny darko has elements of time travel to it. And he discusses it with his science teacher. Its a brilliant film to.

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury

Men in Black 3......love the comparison of the 1960's characters to the current day....

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire


"It's pretty much impossible to make a 'logical' time travel film, because time travel creates paradoxes. "

That's why Deja-vu almost works. The paradoxes are always there, they just get explained as they happen in the future/past whatever.

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Source code.

Good film, i would recommend it even if it did have plot holes.

Deja vu.

Action movie, also good. Bit cheesy and probably got plot holes.

Primer.

Omfg, no idea if this film has plot holes or not, left me very confused and bored but you might like it.

Time lapse.

Mediocre probably, but i liked it, not really travelling but they do bend time. There is a free version online right now, probably all these films you will find free versions and not have to dign up to anything, even if virginmedia have blocked free sites."

I don't think source code is considered a time travel movie & I'm not sure about deja vu. I will give the last two films a go though, thanks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

HG Wells the time machine

Can't be surpassed

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Men in Black 3......love the comparison of the 1960's characters to the current day...."

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Donny darko has elements of time travel to it. And he discusses it with his science teacher. Its a brilliant film to."

Is that one with jake gln.....(put surname here) where the plane crash just misses him?

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

time cop and edge of tomorrow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Interstella

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Primer. Awesome film, felt like my brain had been dragged through a hedge afterwards!

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By *wistedtongue0220Man
over a year ago

Swansea

Always thought twelve monkeys was a decent film...and definitely time bandits as the funniest

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"time cop and edge of tomorrow "

Time cop maybe but while edge of tommorow is a really good film the ending is flawed

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Interstella"

What a disappointment of a film & filled with stupid flaws

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All of them are false, I have a deal with my children that they will inform their children and on down the line to come back to 1984 and tell me about time travel... didn't happen

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Always thought twelve monkeys was a decent film...and definitely time bandits as the funniest"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"HG Wells the time machine

Can't be surpassed"

That I agree as The Time Machine has always been my all time favourite time travel movie

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"All of them are false, I have a deal with my children that they will inform their children and on down the line to come back to 1984 and tell me about time travel... didn't happen "

Maybe they forgot or time travel hasn't been invented yet

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

another one is the langoliers of what could hsppen to time after its been and gone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sleepers with Woody Allen is hilarious...when he hits the future sugar is actually a beneficial health food !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hot tub time machine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Can anyone name a film about time travel where the plot isn't full of flaws?. I personally can't think of any (well apart from "back to the future 1"

Being an actual time traveller I find even Back to the Future 1 is flawed. If you erase someone from your timeline their faces don't fade out of photographs."

There are in fact a number of flaws in Back to the Future.

For example, in BTTF3 Doc quite rightly explains, when they discover the alternate 1985, that they can not simply go back to 2015 and stop Biff from obtaining the Almanac as the 2015 they would find would be a continuation of the alternate time line - however, he then shows Marty that in that alternate 1985 he has been committed - this of course, would render him completely incapable of creating the time machine, thus making it impossible for Biff of the future to steal the Time Machine and travel back to 1955 in the first place.

It is what is referred to by Scientists as the Grandfather Paradox - the example being that if you were to travel back in time and murder your own grandfather (before he became a father) you yourself would cease to exist.

There is a fundamental flaw with all time travel stories, and that is that wherever a time traveller goes back in time, any events (however insignificant) that he / she is involved in will have already have happened.

Here's another example. Let's say for example, I were to invent a time machine, and decide to travel back in time and leave myself a note of the lottery numbers for a particular draw.

I would already have won the lottery. The event will have already happened - regardless of when I were to build my time machine. I would have already been affected by the event.

Right, off out to spend my winnings

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some where in time

Best ever made

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Time Bandits.

I haven't seen it but will definitely give it a watch "

...WHAT...You haven't seen time bandits lordy lordy

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Donnie Darko is probably the best example as it's been dissected to death! Taken as a single entity without looking into the time travel/alternate universe aspects, it's a brilliant film but when you start reading the theories it becomes a complete headfuck!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loved Time Cop - but a lot to do with the fact that the young Jean Claude Vandamme was so gorgeous he made my knickers damp in the cinema!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stewie griffin has a time machine.

Ohhhhhhhh you like that don't you, you bitch

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By *enny PR9TV/TS
over a year ago

Southport

Have a watch of Predestination (2014) the only time traveling film that I know that features a transsexual.

Jenny xxx

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By *enny PR9TV/TS
over a year ago

Southport

Have a watch of Predestination (2014) the only time traveling film that I know that features a transsexual.

Jenny xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Safety Not Guaranteed

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By *olly RogererMan
over a year ago

Braintree

Its all flawed because time travel is impossible

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By *wistedtongue0220Man
over a year ago

Swansea


"Stewie griffin has a time machine.

Ohhhhhhhh you like that don't you, you bitch "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tron?

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By *oconut2Woman
over a year ago

Nether regions of the back of beyond


"HG Wells the time machine

Can't be surpassed"

Would love to be like the Eloi and be oblivious to all the bad things lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Its all flawed because time travel is impossible"

I've only ever seen theories that say time travel backwards is impossible.

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By *olly RogererMan
over a year ago

Braintree

If you were to time travel forwards then that means the future has already happened

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

so many to pick from.

Escape from Planet of the Apes

The Philadelphia Experiment

Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure

Bill & Teds Bogus Journey

Star TrekIV: the Voyage Home

All very plausible

My favourite though is probably Midnight In Paris

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you were to time travel forwards then that means the future has already happened "

Well we're already travelling forward (or so it seems anyway), but if we ever create the technology to bend time and space gravity then we should be able to travel to whatever time we want to.

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

They're all flawed. Time travel is bunkum according to Stephen Hawking.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What about looper?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Can anyone name a film about time travel where the plot isn't full of flaws?. I personally can't think of any (well apart from "back to the future 1"

Being an actual time traveller I find even Back to the Future 1 is flawed. If you erase someone from your timeline their faces don't fade out of photographs.

There are in fact a number of flaws in Back to the Future.

For example, in BTTF3 Doc quite rightly explains, when they discover the alternate 1985, that they can not simply go back to 2015 and stop Biff from obtaining the Almanac as the 2015 they would find would be a continuation of the alternate time line - however, he then shows Marty that in that alternate 1985 he has been committed - this of course, would render him completely incapable of creating the time machine, thus making it impossible for Biff of the future to steal the Time Machine and travel back to 1955 in the first place.

It is what is referred to by Scientists as the Grandfather Paradox - the example being that if you were to travel back in time and murder your own grandfather (before he became a father) you yourself would cease to exist.

There is a fundamental flaw with all time travel stories, and that is that wherever a time traveller goes back in time, any events (however insignificant) that he / she is involved in will have already have happened.

Here's another example. Let's say for example, I were to invent a time machine, and decide to travel back in time and leave myself a note of the lottery numbers for a particular draw.

I would already have won the lottery. The event will have already happened - regardless of when I were to build my time machine. I would have already been affected by the event.

Right, off out to spend my winnings "

He did stipulate in the op that it was only back to the future 1... I'll be having those winnings thanks!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Safety Not Guaranteed"

I loved that film, such a nice indie film

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By *icolehertsCouple
over a year ago

Milton Keynes


"Always thought twelve monkeys was a decent film...and definitely time bandits as the funniest"

Love 12 monkeys although watched it at the cinema and had the Mrs rabbiting all the way through about " is that now"" is that from before"" what time are we in now" Grrrrr !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not time travel as such but Interstellar is fantastic, it explores the idea of space time above 2D, it has been praised for its "accuracy" as much as it can be and in my opinion is one of the greats

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By *arold_n_maudeCouple
over a year ago

preston

I dare anyone to pick holes in the most excellent Bill and Ted....69 dude

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Not time travel as such but Interstellar is fantastic, it explores the idea of space time above 2D, it has been praised for its "accuracy" as much as it can be and in my opinion is one of the greats"

............ We must be thinking of two different movies with the same title because that Christopher Nolan movie is dog shit & a complete utter waste of potential

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"I dare anyone to pick holes in the most excellent Bill and Ted....69 dude"

I'll have to re watch it brought

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Can anyone name a film about time travel where the plot isn't full of flaws?. I personally can't think of any (well apart from "back to the future 1"

Being an actual time traveller I find even Back to the Future 1 is flawed. If you erase someone from your timeline their faces don't fade out of photographs.

There are in fact a number of flaws in Back to the Future.

For example, in BTTF3 Doc quite rightly explains, when they discover the alternate 1985, that they can not simply go back to 2015 and stop Biff from obtaining the Almanac as the 2015 they would find would be a continuation of the alternate time line - however, he then shows Marty that in that alternate 1985 he has been committed - this of course, would render him completely incapable of creating the time machine, thus making it impossible for Biff of the future to steal the Time Machine and travel back to 1955 in the first place.

It is what is referred to by Scientists as the Grandfather Paradox - the example being that if you were to travel back in time and murder your own grandfather (before he became a father) you yourself would cease to exist.

There is a fundamental flaw with all time travel stories, and that is that wherever a time traveller goes back in time, any events (however insignificant) that he / she is involved in will have already have happened.

Here's another example. Let's say for example, I were to invent a time machine, and decide to travel back in time and leave myself a note of the lottery numbers for a particular draw.

I would already have won the lottery. The event will have already happened - regardless of when I were to build my time machine. I would have already been affected by the event.

Right, off out to spend my winnings

He did stipulate in the op that it was only back to the future 1... I'll be having those winnings thanks! "

Thank you for correcting the mistake

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"What about looper?"

Oh yeah I forgot about that one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Safety Not Guaranteed"

I caught this on Netflix a few months ago. What a lovely film.

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By *lashheartMan
over a year ago

shrewsbury


"Always thought twelve monkeys was a decent film...and definitely time bandits as the funniest"

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

the one spielburg made in 2016 was pretty accurate whadya meen you aint seen it thought everyone had

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By *lashheartMan
over a year ago

shrewsbury


"What about looper?"

Looper had a terrible flaw that really irritated me at the time.. But can't remember why

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Even though time travel is very fascinating, I seriously doubt it will ever be possible because the future does not exist.

The reason why is because if the future were to exist, it would mean whatever we do or say is already written making our own free will an illusion. If this were to be true, we would just be automated robots doing and saying what is predetermined in the future.

Also if the future were to exist, there would be no such thing as chance or luck meaning gambling would be non-existent.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's pretty much impossible to make a 'logical' time travel film, because time travel creates paradoxes. "

And time travel will NEVER be discovered in the future. Because if it will be then it already has been!

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By *lashheartMan
over a year ago

shrewsbury

Pulp fiction ... Not time travel as such but the way the plot went was similar

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Even though time travel is very fascinating, I seriously doubt it will ever be possible because the future does not exist.

The reason why is because if the future were to exist, it would mean whatever we do or say is already written making our own free will an illusion. If this were to be true, we would just be automated robots doing and saying what is predetermined in the future.

Also if the future were to exist, there would be no such thing as chance or luck meaning gambling would be non-existent."

But, if there is going to be a future then it is possible that we can travel to it. In 2005 it wasn't 2015, now (albeit 10 years later) it is 2015. We have travelled in time to the year 2015, in the usual way.

Time is a dimension, as we see it. We take it as linear because that is how we perceive it as we travel through it at this time, things always age so we presume we are going through time in one direction (things don't get younger they always age). If we can manipulate time, if we can figure out a way to bend the dimension of time then it is possible to travel through it, using gravity, because gravity does effect time and how fast or slow it goes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

Gambling is just chance anyway, it can have some predictability though. Luck hasn't been proven either btw.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You can do time travel today! They know how to do it in theory! That's time travel backwards not forwards.

Now the question is they can travel backwards in the future, why haven't we met them.

Well how do you know we haven't, all those aliens that keep getting reported could just be more evolved humans traveling backwards!!,I mean who's to say humans will look like humans in 5000 years?

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Even though time travel is very fascinating, I seriously doubt it will ever be possible because the future does not exist.

The reason why is because if the future were to exist, it would mean whatever we do or say is already written making our own free will an illusion. If this were to be true, we would just be automated robots doing and saying what is predetermined in the future.

Also if the future were to exist, there would be no such thing as chance or luck meaning gambling would be non-existent.

But, if there is going to be a future then it is possible that we can travel to it. In 2005 it wasn't 2015, now (albeit 10 years later) it is 2015. We have travelled in time to the year 2015, in the usual way.

Time is a dimension, as we see it. We take it as linear because that is how we perceive it as we travel through it at this time, things always age so we presume we are going through time in one direction (things don't get younger they always age). If we can manipulate time, if we can figure out a way to bend the dimension of time then it is possible to travel through it, using gravity, because gravity does effect time and how fast or slow it goes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

Gambling is just chance anyway, it can have some predictability though. Luck hasn't been proven either btw."

I like your theory

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"You can do time travel today! They know how to do it in theory! That's time travel backwards not forwards.

Now the question is they can travel backwards in the future, why haven't we met them.

Well how do you know we haven't, all those aliens that keep getting reported could just be more evolved humans traveling backwards!!,I mean who's to say humans will look like humans in 5000 years?"

Very good points

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hot tub time machine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The same. We'll look the same in 5000 years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And easily Army Of Darkness as the best time travel film... Totally scientifically and historically sound too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Halfway through watching 'I'll follow you'. Not a bad film, and also about time travel. Focuses slightly on quantum physics- if anyone likes that sort of thing.

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By *wned EmCouple
over a year ago

nuneaton


"Some where in time

Best ever made"

I was thinking of this one. Love story surpassing the sci fi angle which is unusual in this genre.

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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago

Shropshire/Midlands

I was going to say timecop until someone beat me to it. lol

One, which has yet to be mention is Millennium. I thought it has a brilliant plot, in which people from the future go back in time to pinch air passengers from planes that are going to crash to repolulate the earth in the future. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_(film)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"HG Wells the time machine

Can't be surpassed"

I have the Time Machine on my back...literally

Well, erm not THE exact one but a 2D copy

I digress....

All time travel films have flaws coz forward time travel is possible (and we do it every day) but travel backwards is impossible...well according to that Einstein geezer innit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Time after Time was fun

Hammer film....old school, heaving busoms etc

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"I was going to say timecop until someone beat me to it. lol

One, which has yet to be mention is Millennium. I thought it has a brilliant plot, in which people from the future go back in time to pinch air passengers from planes that are going to crash to repolulate the earth in the future. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_(film)

"

Hmmm that does sound interesting

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By *icky999Man
over a year ago

warrington

Wasn't this thread done next week?

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By *isterTease OP   Man
over a year ago

Chigwell


"Wasn't this thread done next week?"

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

if anyone pulls apart the classic that is "hot tub time machine"... i am going to seriously have to have words....

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

About time.

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By *ulfilthmentMan
over a year ago

Just around the corner

How about Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Butterfly Effect?

Not sure if it's full of flaws. Engaging film though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Time Bandits. "

Classic film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No mention of La Jetée? For shame.

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By *om1962Man
over a year ago

Brighton


"How about Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel?"

That's a great, light hearted film, with the added benefit of starring the sexy Anna Ferris!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Loved Time Cop - but a lot to do with the fact that the young Jean Claude Vandamme was so gorgeous he made my knickers damp in the cinema!! "

Peed yourself then, laughing?

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By *HaRiFMan
over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

Did quantum leap ever get made into a film

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over a year ago


"Donny darko has elements of time travel to it. And he discusses it with his science teacher. Its a brilliant film to.

Is that one with jake gln.....(put surname here) where the plane crash just misses him? "

Or hits him?

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over a year ago


"Can anyone name a film about time travel where the plot isn't full of flaws?. I personally can't think of any (well apart from "back to the future 1"

Being an actual time traveller I find even Back to the Future 1 is flawed. If you erase someone from your timeline their faces don't fade out of photographs.

There are in fact a number of flaws in Back to the Future.

For example, in BTTF3 Doc quite rightly explains, when they discover the alternate 1985, that they can not simply go back to 2015 and stop Biff from obtaining the Almanac as the 2015 they would find would be a continuation of the alternate time line - however, he then shows Marty that in that alternate 1985 he has been committed - this of course, would render him completely incapable of creating the time machine, thus making it impossible for Biff of the future to steal the Time Machine and travel back to 1955 in the first place.

It is what is referred to by Scientists as the Grandfather Paradox - the example being that if you were to travel back in time and murder your own grandfather (before he became a father) you yourself would cease to exist.

There is a fundamental flaw with all time travel stories, and that is that wherever a time traveller goes back in time, any events (however insignificant) that he / she is involved in will have already have happened.

Here's another example. Let's say for example, I were to invent a time machine, and decide to travel back in time and leave myself a note of the lottery numbers for a particular draw.

I would already have won the lottery. The event will have already happened - regardless of when I were to build my time machine. I would have already been affected by the event.

Right, off out to spend my winnings "

But the paradox to that is that if you did leave a note you then wouldn't have to travel back because you'd already be rich and not need the lottery numbers, meaning you'd be living 2 alternate lives 1 rich 1 poor at the same time

This is why we know no matter how far in the future time travel is invented nobody goes back and kills Hitler because we know about him

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This is why we know no matter how far in the future time travel is invented nobody goes back and kills Hitler because we know about him"

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Kills who ???

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

Still love Déjà vu, and still think it works.

Time travel, predestination, romance, techy-stuff n geeks: what's not to love?

"What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?"

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over a year ago


"If you were to time travel forwards then that means the future has already happened "

But you will have only travelled in time, relative to the observer, outside of your vehicle. You haven't really travelled in time, per set, what you can do is alter time for yourself relative to the outside observer.

I'll prove it to you. Tomorrow I'm going to set of on a return journey to Betelgeuse at or greater than the speed of light. We will both set separate stopwatches as I leave. Mine will have clocked up less time than yours, upon my return. If your still alive. And that's proven.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

The other quote from Déjà vu which I like is Denzil W is about to go back in time:

"You know you don't have to do this."

"What if I already have?"

Which is why it's clever, all the unexplained bits only make sense once you realise that he always went back...he had to have done.

And of course how they resolve the otherwise anomoly as to how there would always be two of him...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has anyone seen primer?

12 monkeys drives me nuts! The massive plot hole in the ending ruined it for me. However its been made into a TV series that is very good and turns the plot hole into a vital story telling tool

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over a year ago


"The Butterfly Effect?

Not sure if it's full of flaws. Engaging film though."

Was going say this amazing film, go you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Always thought Timecop was a good premise for a movie, shame the movie itself was crap though. Someone should remake it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Er, pretty much all time travel films are flawed, technically speaking

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By *entaur 9Man
over a year ago

Warwickshire


"Hot tub time machine "

Hot tub time machine 2

I saw it this March on my travels

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Minority report, not so much time travel in essence but still a cool film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One film I feel is seem less is .......

Donnie Darko !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can I just add that the terminator series probably has the MOST flaws

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The stereo trek reboot was brilliantly executed

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