Top 10 Time Travel Movies
10.
Butterfly Effect
“Nothing’s all better, okay?
Nothing ever gets better!”
A college
student (Ashton Kutcher) discovers a way to travel back in time to his troubled childhood
as himself at that age.
His goal is to change his life by changing painful events from his childhood.
He finds that a very small change from his childhood will dramatically change his life
today.
He is not pleased with the results of his first trip back, so he makes another trip
to change another bad event, hoping for a better life.
Unfortunately, he must return to his childhood many times, because his alternate future gets
worse with each trip.
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9.
The Time Machine (1960)
“If that machine can do what you say it can do, destroy it, George!
Destroy it before it destroys you!”
From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it
to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic
one living underground.
His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten)
to return to his own time.
8.
Time Bandits
“If I were creating the world I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils.
I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, Day One!”
A young boy’s wardrobe contains a time hole.
Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their
master, the supreme being.
They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the
Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness
where they confront Evil.
7.
Returner
The fate of the world is a matter of time.
After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named
Milly , travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid
of skilled Tokyo gunman to discover and prevent the start of the war.
However, trouble ensues when the two protagonists are forced to deal with a Japanese mafia boss
who is somehow involved in the start of the war by keeping the first alien spaceship and
its alien pilot captive, while our two heroes race against the clock to find a way to stop
the oncoming destruction from the vengeance-seeking alien invasion fleet on its way to Earth.
6.
StarTrek – First Contact
“Brave words.
I’ve heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since
long before you were created.
But, now they are all Borg.”
It is the 24th century, and a collective of part humanoid, part machine beings face the
Federation in what would be the biggest battle of all time.
This collective, called the Borg, lose, and desperately attempt to go back in time to
April 4th, 2063, to stop Earth’s First Contact with an alien species (the Vulcans, to be
precise).
Captain Picard, and the crew of the Enterprise-E (NCC 1701-E) go back in time to make sure
that Zefram Cochrane makes his warp flight.
The Enterprise runs into unexpected trouble, however, when they start to assimilate the
Enterprise.
5.
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
“As you can see, Genghis very much enjoys Twinkies because of the excellent sugar rush.”
Ted “Theodore” Logan and Bill S. Preston esquire won’t graduate if they don’t do
well in their history presentation.
This would be both bogus and uncool ! A dude called Rufus comes from the future in a telephone
box to help them, as their lives are apparently rather important to the future of mankind
! They travel through time doing some interesting research for their history presentation, and
generally being excellent to each other !
4.
12 Monkeys
“Look at them.
They’re just asking for it.
Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out.”
An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996.
Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground.
A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather
information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious
“Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists
can study it.
Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested
and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist,
and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.
3.
Star Trek IV – The Voyage Home
“C’mon Spock, it’s me, McCoy.
You really have gone where no man’s gone before.
Can’t you tell me what it felt like?”
The most acclaimed Star Trek adventure of all time.
It’s the 23rd Century, and a mysterious alien power is threatening Earth by evaporating
the oceans and destroying the atmosphere.
In their frantic attempt to save mankind, Kirk and his crew must time travel back to
1986 San Francisco where they find a world of punk, pizza, and exact-change buses that
are as alien to them as anything they’ve ever encountered in the far reaches of the
galaxy.
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy return as Kirk and Spock, along with the entire Star
Trek crew.
2.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
“Can you learn stuff you haven’t been programmed with so you could be… you know,
more human?
And not such a dork all the time?
“
It has been ten long years since a Terminator failed to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn
son, John.
Now, Skynet has sent back another Terminator.
This one being more advanced than the last one.
John Connor, who is now ten years old, is the target.
The future John sends back a replica of the Terminator that tried to kill him back in
time to 1995.
It’s Terminator vs. Terminator.
1.
Back To The Future
“Wait a minute, Doc.
Ah…
Are you telling me that you built a time machine…
out of a DeLorean?”
The year is 1985 and Marty McFly is your everyday teenager, except for one problem.
He is stuck in 1955.
After his good friend Doc Emmett Brown is gunned down, Marty ends up sending the DeLorean
back thirty years into the past.
Now, he must find the Doc and convince him that he is from the future, in order for the
Doc to send him back to the future, but this is the least of Marty’s problem.
After accidentally getting in the way of the important meeting between his future mother
and father, Marty must get them back together before he changes time forever, and destroys
his own existence.