THE BEST TIME TRAVEL MOVIES/BOOKS/STORIES OF ALL TIME
I know. It is very hard to talk to someone in the past. This website’s blog section seems to be one of the few links that work for doing so. Therefore, I am sending you this article, written by me a long time ago, concerning TIME TRAVEL. Is time travel possible? Sure, it is. But it never works out the way you think, and there are always cusps that come back to bite you in a place you don’t want to be touched. In the end (at the beginning) you have to decide if its all really worth it or not.
You can reach me too. Its easy. Just post your query/comment in the New York Times Classified sectiion on the first day of any month, addressed to Roger Born. I will see these in the archives of the paper, for I have an old copy of all that here on a memory Quebe. I will answer you too, so that by the time you return to this article, you will find your answer already added to the text here. Of course the article will have changed a bit, since the way it was will no longer exist. But that is as it should be. Your life should work like that, but there are no do-overs allowed, even in your time. Sorry.
Ahem. Here is the (current to your era) list of the best time travel books and movies. Sorry, I cannot include new works that are forward of your time. If I did, you would be frustrated and confused by what I am talking about, and any exchange of information between time eras is likely to be a disruptive as an actual visit. Therefore I am NOT going there (have not gone there). Here is the list of works you already know about, which I am sure is able to cause you no end of angst all by themselves (why did he put THAT in this list?).
Oh well, Enjoy!
THE BEST TIME TRAVEL MOVIES/BOOKS OF ALL TIME (void after January, 2010)
H. G. Wells THE TIME MACHINE
None of the movies ever approached the greatness of the book.
R. A. Heinlein TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE
The writer gets it right concerning the time travel device and the yarn it spins.
Keith Laumer DINOSAUR BEACH
In the vein of Van Vogt and Mickey Spillane. Highly entertaining book. OOP
R. Matheson SOMEWHERE IN TIME
The movie, not the book is memorable. The time travel device is amazing.
H. Ramis GROUNDHOG DAY
The device is never explained, but the movie is wonderful. Warning: The content changes after repeated viewings.
J. Cameron TERMINATOR (I and II)
High tension pacing, exacting plot, flawless acting and glorious special effects.
S. Carruth PRIMER
A relatively unknown film that is probably the most realistic time travel movie ever.
12 MONKEYS
One of Bruce’s best acting jobs, and a great portrayal of how time travel works.
FINAL COUNTDOWN
Very underrated, but a fun movie, in which the viewer comes to realize how the present came to be.
TIME RIDER
Time travel on a two-wheeled conveyance, with a bit of the Old West thrown in.
TIMESCAPE
The content of this movie no longer exists. See it while you can.
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
This one really happened. Sorry, I wasn’t supposed to say that [EDIT THIS].
TIME COP
Sometimes you can go home again. But if you never left, it wouldn’t it still be the same?
Ken Grimwood REPLAY
Time travel by heart attack. Good story (recommended by my old boss, Tim)
FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR
Never mind this is Disney. It will be remade, but it is an excellent time travel movie, nonetheless.
STAR TREK FIRST CONTACT
Nothing works in this movie, and the paradoxes never are fully examined or even mentioned.
TIME BANDITS
Fun. A healthy dose of God into the equation never hurts, and it explains a lot.
TIME AFTER TIME
a sleasy bloody kill-fest comedy set in the 1980s. What’s not to love?
THE RETURNERS
Very underrated, but also extemely inventive with a great resolution.
THE LAST MIMZY
This one actually happened too, but that is something you likely won’t believe anyway. Never mind.
MILLENNIUM
Being filmed in the 1980s was enough to almost kill this excellent story.
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
This one shows all the rotten things that can happen when you time travel, regardless of the best of intentions.
ALTERNATE LIST FOR THOSE WHO DON’T LIKE THE FIRST ONE
Time After Time
Time Bandits
The Langoliers
Time Cop
Clockstoppers
The Time Machine
Groundhog Day
12:01
Just Visiting
My Science Projec
t
Run, Lola, Run
La Jette
Replay
Primer
Butterfly Effect
Lake House
Premonition
Next
Timeline
Bender’s Big Score
The Last Mimzy
HTML LIST OF MJY’s LINKS TO TIME TRAVEL MOVIE SITES.**
Terminator
Addendum to Terminator
Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines
Back To The Future
Back To The Future II
Back To The Future III
Millennium
Star Trek Introduction
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: First Contact
12 Monkeys
Addendum to 12 Monkeys
Flight Of The Navigator
Army of Darkness
Lost In Space
Peggy Sue Got Married
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Frequency
Planet of the Apes
Kate and Leopold
Somewhere In Time
The Time Machine
Minority Report
Happy Accidents
The Final Countdown
Donnie Darko
Deja Vu
Time After Time
Time Bandits
The Langoliers
Time Cop
Clockstoppers
The Time Machine
Groundhog Day
12:01
The Philadelphia Experiment
Disney’s The Kid
Black Knight
Just Visiting
My Science Project
Run, Lola, Run
La Jette
Primer
Butterfly Effect
Lake House
Premonition
Next
Timeline
Bender’s Big Score
The Last Mimzy
LINKS TO MJYs TIME TRAVEL RESOURCES (from our pride and joy)
http://www.mjyoung.net/time/science.html
http://www.mjyoung.net/time/timeprim.html
**MJY used to be a popular website, for as long as it existed. It has some great links and insights in your time, however. It never got updated much, because the young man who ran it was almost never around. He was too busy living all of it, and almost never came home. (MJY is my son, along another timeline, which is why I wanted to include him here. PS don’t tell him I said so.)
EXCELLENT ADDITIONAL LINKS TO TIME TRAVEL BOOKS AND MOVIES (are you sure you have time for this?)
http://www.timetravelreviews.com/movies_list.html
http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/time.html
http://www.UltimateTimeTravel.com/?cat=5
REGARDS, AND BE SURE TO WRITE
Roger Born
“sorry, no refunds”
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana”
Void where Prohibited.
Your mileage may vary.
Film at 11.
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