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?

    Doh! Arrival!

    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

    @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

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