tomasino3d ago

Help me out. I'm trying to think of the quintessential films that demonstrate the different types of theoretical time travel.

  • Back to the Future
  • 12 Monkeys
  • Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure or Predestination

    • What else? I'm thinking Primer is a 12 Monkeys type, but maybe it needs another category. And what about multiverse? What's the best choice there?

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    Doh! Arrival!
    Apr 10 at 9:18pmWeb
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    Update:

    • Back to the Future, mutable timeline
    • 12 Monkeys, fixed deterministic
    • Primer, recursive overlap
    • Groundhog Day, time loop
    • Arrival, deterministic block universe, non-linear perception
    • Frequency, mutable via communication model
    • Star Trek (2009), branching timeline
    Show threadtomasino3d ago
    • Interstellar, relativistic forward-only

    I guess as well

    Show threadxrvs3d ago
    @tomasino real life, travelling to future at rate about 1 second per second
    Show threadTommy Harris3d ago
    @tomasino was going to say (since I now mostly watch kid movies) that Disney Pixar's "Lightyear" is one, but I think Interstellar covers this kind of time dilation 😋
    Show threadMonroe3d ago
    @tomasino I'm just here to recommend Timecrimes by Nacho Vigalondo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecrimes
    Timecrimes - Wikipedia

    Show threadMike Dank3d ago

    @tomasino maybe The Jacket (2005), it’s sort of a temporal consciousness time travel thing?

    Edit: I’ve had to correct this sentence like 3 times.

    Show threadDavid Reed3d ago
    @tomasino I _think_ Predestination (2009) is the same species as 12 Monkeys, but it's arguably a more explicit example of a time loop with an ontological paradox in it.
    Show threadAndreas Wagner3d ago
    @tomasino Tenet? multidirectionality ("synchronous" and susceptible of interacting)
    Show threadAlex Schroeder3d ago
    @tomasino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper_(2008_film) had an interesting idea in that you could jump back and change the present. So criminals do it a lot. As far as the idea itself, however, I guess it’s Back to the Future style (or I’m misremembering the details).
    Jumper (2008 film) - Wikipedia

    Show threadtomasino3d ago
    @kensanata can't believe i forgot that one. I built the website for the film release.
    Show threadAlex Schroeder2d ago
    @tomasino the world is unbelievably small, some times 🤯
    Show threadTrebach3d ago

    @tomasino Star Wreck In the Pirkinning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GOoMowFpZs yes, they put the whole film on YouTube because it was originally distributed on BitTorrent) works on the mutable timeline model.

    If anyone watches it and doesn't speak Finnish, use subs. They're actually good because one of the actors (Antti, who plays Info) did the English ones and fans did many of the others based on his and a translation guide from the cast to try to maintain the same puns/jokes in their own translations.

    Unfortunately, the English translation had to be edited to remove the swearing as there's quite a lot of it in Finnish and it'd get the film age blocked otherwise

    Star Wreck In the Pirkinning (2005) Original Release High Quality

    YouTube
    Show threadJocelynephiliac 3d ago
    @tomasino Terminator, Looper, Predestination