{"id":1084,"date":"2013-12-01T19:11:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T01:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2016-10-31T23:13:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T05:13:03","slug":"the-best-time-travel-films-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"The Best Time Travel Films ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a trope in science fiction, time travel allows for virtually any possibility and therefore, it’s the most abused plot gimmick ever. Luckily for us, a few diamonds have turned up in the rough. There are thousands of great time travel stories in science fiction, including comic books and television, but only a smattering of films qualify for this high honor. The great time travel film is not necessarily a scientific one, a logically consistent one, or even a time travel type for morons. They are the ones that succeed in presenting a brand new view of our times, or confessing profound truths about human nature.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Donnie Darko:\u00a0<\/strong>Cult classic, but more about the effects of time travel than the actual adventure itself.<\/p>\n

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Back to the Future:\u00a0<\/strong>Time travel for the masses. Fun 80’s romp, but screws with the order of cause and effect for the sake of narrative impact. Nuh-uh.<\/p>\n

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Time Bandits:\u00a0<\/strong>A young boy’s absolutely wicked and fiendish romp through time with 6 dwarves who stole a map from the Supreme Being. Probably hasn’t aged well over time, so current viewers, beware!<\/p>\n

\"TERMBLU2<\/a>The Terminator:\u00a0<\/strong>A standard time travel yarn turned Arnold into one of scifi’s greatest villains. Somewhat overshadowed by a superior sequel, this original demonstrated the Grandfather paradox quite well.<\/p>\n

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12 Monkeys:\u00a0<\/strong>Possibly Gilliam’s finest – a dystopian future on top of an ecological nightmare wrapped around time travel. A genre film that’s actually about love, death, and the immutability of fate.<\/p>\n

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Primer:\u00a0<\/strong>This low-budget entry is absolutely brilliant in the intellectual application that effectively turns the machine into a modern day Pandora’s Box.<\/p>\n

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Timecrimes:\u00a0<\/strong>Severely underrated film that deliciously exploits the standard time travel loop paradox.<\/p>\n

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Looper:\u00a0<\/strong>Great film, but cheats a bit by switching between two types of time travel – one that allows for multiple timelines, and a single timeline.<\/p>\n

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Steins; Gate:\u00a0<\/strong>An entertaining anime series that turned into a thriller, almost as if it was written for time travel enthusiasts.<\/p>\n

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Groundhog Day:\u00a0<\/strong>Absolutely brilliant in every other sense of the word — but it’s not legitimately time travel. More of a karmic reset button that must be paid before it can be pushed.<\/p>\n

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Source Code:\u00a0<\/strong>Somewhat overbaked use of Phlebotinum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Run Lola Run:\u00a0<\/strong>Excellent attempt at reset or do-overs after Groundhog Day perfected the formula.<\/p>\n

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Peggy Sue got Married:\u00a0<\/strong>Sentimental entry in the romantic category and a subtle paean to fatalism.<\/p>\n

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Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure:\u00a0<\/strong>Funny but hardly memorable, and clearly inferior romp to the Time Bandits.<\/p>\n

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As a trope in science fiction, time travel allows for virtually any possibility and therefore, it’s the most abused plot gimmick ever. Luckily for us, a few diamonds have turned up in the rough. There are thousands of great time travel stories in science fiction, including comic books and television, but only a smattering of … Continue reading The Best Time Travel Films ever<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[306,303,151,312,304],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Af2X-hu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}