posted on January 3, 2002 11:47:08 AM new
I have always been fascinated by time travel, thus some of my favorite movies have been "Time Cop", "Disaster in Time" with Jeff Daniels, "Somewhere in Time", and there was another one with Lindsay Wagner where if she put on a victorian dress she found in an attic, then fell asleep, she would go back in time, and found her true love.
Therefore, this weekend, I sat enthralled and spellbound for two hours watching "Kate and Leopold".
Does anyone else remember "Time Tunnel" which premiered the same year as "Star Trek"? Time Tunnel was cancelled after one year whereby Star Trek became the success.
Can someone else name any other time travel related movies?
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[ edited by Valleygirl on Jan 3, 2002 11:48 AM ]
posted on January 3, 2002 12:00:33 PM new
12 Monkeys (1995)
Back to the Future
Sleeper (1973)
Time after Time (1979)
The Planet of the Apes (1968)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
I'll Never Forget You (1951)
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Time Machine (1960)
Time Bandits
The Time Travellers (1964)
posted on January 3, 2002 01:20:08 PM new
How could I forget "Peggy Sue got Married", about my third favorite movie of all time? I enjoyed both "Time Machines", the original and the one with Mary Steenbergen.
posted on January 3, 2002 02:37:39 PM new
A new version of the Time Machine should be opening in the theatres pretty soon.
I still watch the original with Rod Taylor evry chance I get.
posted on January 3, 2002 05:22:54 PM new
Yes, I remember Time Tunnel. An Irwin Allen production I think, the same people who did "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea." A good show, with hokey effects, but hey everybody was high on acid back then anyway.
posted on January 3, 2002 08:01:03 PM new
Certainly, the better Hollywood movies center around Time travel -- it's the only Science Fiction that they can understand (barely). Time Travel to me is more than a mere musing, but rather a hobby. No! Not time travel itself, but working on a hunch that it's already been done sometime in the future. There are tantalizing tidbits of information surrounding us that we are living in an altered timeline. Of note are two time travelers who throughout written history appear and alter current events. No joke! And the descriptions reveal no less than two visitors who show "documentaries" on mechanical devices to the primative leaders at the time. for instance, at Valley Forge, Gen. George Washington was about to throw in the towel -- his troops freezing and starving. Whereupon he was visited by two 'angels' in his tent late one night whoi showed 'visions' of what the world would become like if he gave up as he was about to do. From ancient Summeria and the Hindu Vedas to modern times, two visitors have popped into critical time periods and have altered them. Ceratinly, no conclusive evidence exists of such time travel, but the common explantion of 'visitation by two angels' wears a little bit thin after a while.
posted on January 3, 2002 08:11:05 PM new
The only problem with the two time travelers theory is that if they are altering past events, they would also be changing events that lead to their own existence. That's one of the paradoxs that seems to make time travel unlikely.
posted on January 3, 2002 09:28:13 PM new
You know, I thought of that. I believe that the universe abhors a paradox. I'm no quantum physicist and I certainly do not have any explanations, but it just seems an interesting - if unsupported, interpretation of historical events. It all started with the two angels who came to Lott at the gate and the city vanished in what sounds like a nuclear holocaust (why anyone would care a wit about destroying those two cities, God alone knows!)
Then, I began to read accounts of other visitations by two angels - always male. Funny, but angels are supposed to be sexless. In many cultures and with many events, two angels appear and provide 'visions' to the great person and the person does as they ask. Maybe it's God's handiwork and two angels have been busted by numerous accounts throughout written history. On the other hand, I prefer the alternate explanation that there are two people traipsing around time and trying to alter events to shape our society. I mean, how else do you account for George Bush Jr. to be made President of the USA? And with a Minority Vote!
posted on January 4, 2002 12:57:37 PM new
ooh, I just love Sci-Fi made real.
I was watching a program that showed how many 'imagined' devices in sci-fi movies have been developed into 'real' working devices...you'd be amazed.
They said that what the sci-fi mind makes up gets the engineers working to develop it.
So, time travelers make great stories. I really liked the Time and Again movie with Jack the Ripper having ripped off the time machine. And the Star Trek with the entity of Jack the Ripper traveling through time and space. And, like in Planet of the Apes, I love a good time traveling movie that makes you wonder if you're traveling ahead or back...Star Wars was pretty cool with the past being so ahead of us in technology, and a disaster making mankind start all over again and again until they reach a level of technology where they destroy themselves. Such parables and the complexities of them just get me so stoked.
"Your playing small doesn't serve the world...There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you." ~Nelson Mandela
