I just finished watching ‘Bodies’ and we have to agree on one thing:
Timecrimes is the only proper time travel movie ever made.
Spoilers below…
Every other movie either tries to take time travel seriously (Primer, Minority report, Travelers) and fails by creating paradoxes or takes it lightly (Back to the future, Hot tub time machine, Groundhog day) and is not a real SciFi movie. Timecrimes is the only perfect loop and hence the only movie that avoid paradoxes. And what a loop at that. The reveal is just perfectly timed giving away each detail step by step. You basically figure it out together with the protagonist and watch him change his decisions as he realizes what’s going on. The loop is the entire point of the movie and that’s the only proper way to do it.
Bodies was close but of course they had to add a happy ending there and break the loop in the last episode which was pretty weak.
Timecrimes forever.
That’s all I had to say. Thank you.
You’re sleeping on 12 Monkeys
They break the loop in the very last scene, right? The scientists is on the plane if I remember correctly.
Yes, one of the future scientists is on the plane in the (second to?) last scene. Why does that break the loop though?
The entire point of the movie was that they didn’t knew who started the pandemic and were travelling back in time to try and figure it out. The scientists on the plane next to the guy who created the virus means that they did figure it out now, right? Or was is supposed to just be a huge coincidence?
I really liked the way Predestination tackled the topic.
This movie almost ruined my relationship with my then girlfriend/now wife. I saw it and thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. So I super recommended it to her and she… Did not agree :P It’s a very weird movie though, so I get it.
I really liked the movie but I have yet to have anyone else like it. Same thing happened with The Thin Red Line.
Not a movie, so maybe not a counter point, but I rather liked the show Dark on Netflix. I think they handled the subject matter well, without getting spoiler-y.
> Back to the future, Hot tub time machine, Groundhog day) and is not a real SciFi movie.
Dem are fightin words.
Those are all good, fun movies but Marty slowly fading away while playing guitar is not really ‘science’.
As opposed to the very real science of time travel? Marty fading was an excellent visualisation of how Marty’s altering the past, and hinted that there’s a level of housekeeping the timeline does to keep the world consistent. It’s just one of many theories about time travel that have been depicted in film, even if it’s not your personal favourite theory.
Essentially anything that isn’t talking about stable time loop have to be either be written by the greatest sci fi writer ever or never be written at all. Humans really need causality.
