The Stealth Hippopotamus: 1. Time Bandits


I'm good with this.

Fricknmaniac: I opened the link thinking "Time Bandits better be on the list." And I got more and more angry as I went through the list... then it was a nice rush of relief to see Time Bandits at #1.

Though, I've seen 7 out of the 10 movies, which honestly is quite unusual for me on a movie list to have such a high percentage. I guess it's time to go look up Primer

But... Time Bandits is about time travel. :\
It's about fairy tales, and how different things look from the omniscient view of a child versus the view of the playthings themselves. I thought. Once you see it from the playthings point of view, you become more responsible for those playthings -- it's not all about you anymre, and responsibility equals growing up.

I personally think the best time travel movie is that movie that came out with Wil Smiths Great-Great Grandkid in it..

Wait. What year is this!?

I've said too much.

He's pretty much seen it all.

This one gave us the future Wilfred Mott.

Time Bandits is NOT about time travel (oy!)

List sucks without "Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910554/

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBV340x3GcA

Not a movie, but :



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Harry_Seldon: Worst ever...

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I had that on betamax when I was a kid, loved it. But I'm sure it sucks now.

Also, they should have made an Atari 2600 game based on the movie. The artwork was already done for them.

excessive machine: No love for Flight of the Navigator?

Came here to say that, and see I was beat to it. So I'll be leaving now.

Malivon: Since we're on the subject of science fiction and time travel.

Anyone have any good recommendation on episodes in the Star Trek Universe related to the stuff?

Time's arrow part 1 and 2... they meet mark twain... my favorite TNG episodes

DrPainMD: Almost forgot "The Thirteenth Floor." On Netflix streaming.

Not time travel. Maybe I'm being too picky though.

mdking09: DrPainMD: Almost forgot "The Thirteenth Floor." On Netflix streaming.

Not time travel. Maybe I'm being too picky though.

Yeah I wouldn't call that time travel. It was really cool though.

snowshovel: BKITU: I'm pleased that "Time After Time" got a mention. Watching Malcolm McDowell stumble through 1979 as H. G. Wells is just brilliant.

I've been on a 1970's film kick with Netflix recently, and I just finished this movie, and well, the concept is fun, but the romance part of the movie just didn't work for me, at all...of which there is a large swatch of time dedicated to the relationship between McDowell and Steenburgen. I don't know if it's the 70's sensibilities that make it seem really dated, or just badly conceived.

I mean, the whole H.G.Wells stumbling around trying to get his bearings and realizing his vision of the utopia of the future was completely wrong pretty great, and Jack the Ripper's little speech about how "this more violent time is the perfect place for him" was nice.

But I just couldn't see how any woman would fall for geeky Wells that quickly, especially Steenburgen's kind of swingin' women's lib character who seems to be ditzed out on painkillers for large chunks of the movie.

Ironically, Steenburgen and McDowell got married after Time After Time. I think they were married about 15 years or so. Something was going on there... =]

Shostie: I don't care what anyone says. I thought Hot Tub Time Machine was f*cking hilarious.

I agree. It was way better than I thought it would be.

Then again, I like anything with John Cusack in it.

Znuh: Now if you want time travel, Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars.

Buh? No "time travel" at all, there, except for the virtual-reality kind, and the pedantic "FTL travel necessarily implies time travel" kind. Certainly nothing to do with paradoxes or alternate histories.

wont_eat_bugs: No love for TNG's "Yesterday's Enterprise"? I enjoy it because it deals with the ramifications of time travel.

Not very well, it doesn't. Some things they did right, like having Worf replaced by Tasha Yar in the alternate timeline.

But (sorry, ), Wesley Crusher shouldn't've been there. And I don't just mean that no young teens should've even been on the ship, let alone in positions of military rank, in a war timeline. I mean that the Wesley Crusher that we knew shouldn't've even existed in that timeline. The odds of him being even conceived would be, well, astronomically against!

Think about it: both his parents were connected to Starfleet, and his conception was years after the divergence event, long enough for the ramifications to have already altered their lives at least somewhat. The chances of the same sperm meeting the same ovum would be nigh impossible.

Sure, they may well have had a son anyway, and maybe were even planning on naming their firstborn son "Wesley," but he'd be no more than a "brother" to the Wesley of the main timeline.


Mr. Potatoass: The Flexecutioner: Mr. Potatoass: Not a movie, but Futurama's "Roswell That Ends Well" is better than a couple of these.

i dont remember the name of it, but i really liked the episode where they could only go forward in time. it was of course funny but weirdly touching.

The Late Philip J. Fry

And (spoiler warning − drag between arrows to view): ⇒ Permanently killed off the entire main cast except for Fry, the Prof., and Bender. Every time we've seen those characters since, they've been the versions from two whole universal cycles later. The Leela, Amy, Hermes, Brannigan, Pres. Nixon, even Nibbler, etc. that we knew for all those seasons and movies previously are now long since dead, decayed, and even their component leptons and quarks absorbed into the universal singularity and re-emitted in the Big Bang, twice − plus, from their PoV, Fry & Co. were gone forever, and never came back in their lives − and, of course, the Fry, Prof., and Bender of the now-current universe are also dead, accidentally slain by their counterparts from two universal cycles ago) ⇐

But since we're bringing up cartoons, how about the time-travel episodes of Gargoyles (involving the magical item known as the Phœnix Gate) or the Justice League Season Two episode written by the sadly late, great Dwayne McDuffie, entitled "Hereafter" (the title is a pun − see if you can figure it out without looking it up)?

Apos: Angry Buddha: Shostie: I don't care what anyone says. I thought Hot Tub Time Machine was f*cking hilarious.

I agree. It was way better than I thought it would be.

Then again, I like anything with John Cusack in it.

Anything? Even The Raven?

I haven't seen it, but I'll like it no matter how badly it sucks.

Old enough to know better: Shame its not a Top 11 list.

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Yeah I know, its sappy, and girly as hell, but I still love it.

I was wondering that myself. Great movie featuring Christopher Reeves.

/not a girl, I just checked to make sure
//yup, all there.

This is a bookmark.

/why lie?

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Nobody actually travels through time but it's still a kick ass movie.

We covered this extensively earlier. As far as time travel? Maybe not, but not definitely some time warping going on in this sory.

Michio Kaku says we are all time travelers.

List is an abysmal pile of steaming shiat for omitting HG Wells' The Time Machine.

Your Average Witty Fark User: List is an abysmal pile of steaming shiat for omitting HG Wells' The Time Machine.

The article is about time travel movies. No film adaptation of The Time Machine has yet lived up to the book, IMO. Same with War of the Worlds.

Joey Jo Jo Jr Shabadu: lisarenee3505: List fails without A Sound of Thunder

I think that kind of trolling only works if people have actually seen the film.

To see the film, is to be trolled.
If only we could go back and prevent that movie from ever being made...

Oh wait

redsquid: Idaho Transfer- 70's classic

I wouldn't go so far as to call it a classic. It could have been, perhaps, with a rewrite as there were some interesting ideas in there that didn't get much attention and quite a lot that didn't go anywhere.

As it stands it seems to me to have been a decent short film stretched out to be a feature.