There was a remake of The Time Machine. Also, The Butterfly Effect. Weird but good.

Bill and Ted.

Back to the Future, such a contained and well done movie.

Primer (2004)

Unfortunately, a lot of really bad time travel films also get produced, because having someone come back from the (briefly glimpsed) future to modern day L.A. is a really cheap way to do a sci-fi movie. I.e., Trancers.

Timecop had an interesting premise.

Patrick Sweeney
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Harry Potter 3.

I actually think that's a great example of how not to use time travel.

If you look at the more successful time travel movies -- Actually traveling through time is SEVERELY limited.

Back to the Future. Terminator. These hinge on time travel and yet, we barely see any time travel. It makes the stakes real.

Part of the problem with the Sarah Connor Chronicles was that -- they could continually send Terminators back in time. There comes a time after so many "attempted" assassinations of John Connor, that the story loses its stakes.

With such rampant time traveling capabilities, why not simply send EVERY Terminator to the original date of the first movie and completely obliterate Sarah Connor. I mean, she nearly died to a single Terminator. Send a hundred and see what happens.

These are the types of problems that occur within time traveling. Your stakes can easily become non-existent.

HEROES has this problem in the character of Hiro. And what have they done every season since the first one? They've effectively taken away Hiro's time traveling ability. Stranded him in feudal Japan, turned him into a 10 year old boy, made him unable to control when he "jumps." Why? Because otherwise he can continually go back in time until things are right. It's one big reset button.

That means there's never anything for the characters to lose. This is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest problem with time travel in movies. A marginalization of stakes.

"13 Going on 30" was a time traveling romantic comedy that totally rocked!

"Planet of the Apes" (1968) was a great time traveling movie.

LOVED watching "12 Monkeys." Good catch, Scott.

- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA

Well, I'm pretty fond of the time travel script I just finished (first draft). The logline was in the top 100 in the Script Shadow contest.

I've been fascinated with time travel since I was a kid. Back then I was interested in the idea of meeting the ancestors I never knew, for instance. As I get older, I find myself nostalgic for my own past.

And yes, it occured to me recently one of the interesting aspects of time travel stories is how many of the Basic Big Plots it can cover. Mine's a FOOW, female buddy pic,a romcom. In a way I almost think of it as a road movie. And the two leads are both protagonists and antagonists to the other.

A lot of possibilities. (But a lot to juggle.)

From television, "Life on Mars".

As stated before: Primer.

No other time-travel movie remotely touches the sheer brilliance of that film.

Frequency (2000) is also worth checking out.

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