io9 lists Every Time Travel Movie Ever, Ranked
"With the release of yet another time travel movie this week (Project Almanac), it's time for us to look back at the great time travel movies of our past. Here are all the major time travel movies ever, ranked. Here are the rules: No animation. No short films. And no movies that where someone is frozen (or something) and then they wake up in the future (so Mel Gibson's Forever Young, Encino Man are OUT)."
Normally I'd just read this and nod and humf at some. But they criminally ranked Timecrimes way too low so I had to take a crack at it:
These are good movies worth seeing roughly in order favorite to least
- Back To The Future (1985)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Primer (2004)
- Back To The Future 2 (1989)
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
- Timecrimes (2007)
- 12 Monkeys (1995)
- Donnie Darko (2001)
- Terminator (1984)
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
- Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
- Looper (2012)
- Interstellar (2014)
- X-Men Days of Future's Past (2014)
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
- Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
These are fine, worth catching on cable or renting:
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
- Time Bandits (1981)
- Midnight In Paris (2011)
- Army of Darkness (1993)
- Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
- About Time (2013)
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) - The games with death make it
- The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
- Men In Black 3 (2012)
- Brigadoon (1954) - this musical really doesn't fit on this list
- Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
I've seen these and they aren't good:
- Back to the Future Part 3 (1990)
- Timecop (1994)
- The Time Machine (1960)
- Final Countdown (1980)
- Somewhere In Time (1980)
- 13 Going on 30 (2004)
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- Kate & Leopold (2001)
- Just Visiting (2001)
- The Butterfly Effect (2004)
- The Lake House (2006)
The Movies I didn't see:
- The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
- Flight of the Navigator (1986)
- The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1998)
- Predestination (2015)
- Deja Vu (2006)
- The Last Mimzy (2007)
- The Jacket (2005)
- Daleks: Invasion Earth 2051AD (1966)
- The Time Machine (2002)
- Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
- Freejack (1992)
- Timeline (2003)
- The Sound of Thunder (2005)
- Click (2006)
- Time After Time (1979) - I saw it, but I don't remember it
2 comments:
Funny, I thought BTTF 2 sucked far worse than BTTF 3.
3 was the western that no one cared about. 2 did all the clever stuff revisiting the timeline that was already being visited. :)
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