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Favorite time travel movie of the 21st century
- Thread starter TissueBox
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All of you talking about Dark...
Have you seen the complete run of 12 Monkeys?
One of the best time travel TV shows IMO.
Or as they just added that to give some purpose they hadn't really thought it through? Which is obviously the case. I'd say from info in the film the more obvious answer in context is the aliens are long lived as assuming they time travel moves outside of any concepts from the film itself and in fact goes against the core thematic of knowing your future and the implcations of that vs time travel which is an entirely different concept.
The one thing the film does better than the short story is have Amy Adams in it! Her performance was fantastic. I did like Arrival and it works pretty well but it's a shame they fluffed what I see as one of the core challenges the short story presents to you. It's falls into what I think of as the Kubrick trap. As he noted having an anti-lynching film where the protagonist is innocent is cheating because of course you'd oppose lynching an innocent. If you really want to make an anti-lynching film that's honest the protaggonist needs to be guily and the viewer challenged to agree that even though he's guilty he shouldn't be lynched.
In the short story the reader is challenged to consider
whether as a parent if they knew their child would die from an avoidable accident from an activity that's core to their character they'd still have the child anyway and not try and change them
Whereas the film cheats and gives the viewer the far less challenging question of
whether as a parent if they knew their child would die from an incurable and unavoidable disease that has nothing to do with their character they'd still have the child anyway
It's shame but at least the core idea of how you'd approach living if your perception was such you knew your and your child's future what that would be like: but it does soft peddle the concept.
One of the things that I appreciated about Arrival is that...
...because it honed the audience's attention on the questions Lurcharound mentions that are more core to the story. Those items I spoilered are fine mysteries or details in prose, but feel needlessly distracting to me in a movie.
...they gave a reason for the aliens to come and that they de-villianized Renner's character...
...because it honed the audience's attention on the questions Lurcharound mentions that are more core to the story. Those items I spoilered are fine mysteries or details in prose, but feel needlessly distracting to me in a movie.
I've watched Primer about 3-4x but I am still no closer to understanding that movie. I think after reading this timeline chart below it made me even more confused.
Maybe I'm just thick....as others have no problems understanding it after 1st watch...I dunno :(
Assuming that The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is referring to the Mamoru Hosoda adaptation, definitely that one.
Donnie Darko's up there, it's just that the time travel aspect of it is so surreal as to not really feel like a "time travel movie" even though it definitely is.
Donnie Darko's up there, it's just that the time travel aspect of it is so surreal as to not really feel like a "time travel movie" even though it definitely is.
I liked this change. I related more to the daughter in the film. She's born to suffer and die -- and so are we all, ultimately
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No mention of Source Code, 'ey. ;p
It's another not really time travel movie that nevertheless employs the time loop mechanic, but it's very decent.
It's another not really time travel movie that nevertheless employs the time loop mechanic, but it's very decent.
It's great it spoke to you; it's still a poor change aligned to the thematic content and shows lack of confidence from the director in challenging his audience. Also we're not all born to suffer (we will all die though) and I'll never understand why anyone wants to cozy up to that outdated concept.