There was a thread a few years back about time travel shows (television I believe), but this refers to movies.

I was watching The Final Countdown again today for the umteenth time. I enjoy the idea of time travel and the possibilities it would offer. That got me to thinking, what are your favorite time travel movies?

The obvious one(s) is/are the Back to the Future series, but besides those what are your favorites? If you're so inclined, give a brief explanation of why it's a favorite of yours.

Sticking with The Final Countdown, for me there's a lot to like. Imagining the firepower of a modern day nuclear powered carrier in 1941, the acting is pretty good overall, and the Tomcats vs Zeros sceen is just awesome. (But the scene I like best is when the Tomcats fly over the senators yacht. They do a pretty good job of showing the disbelief and surprise of seeing "rocket planes" for the first time).

An added bonus for you fans of Naval Aviation (like me) are all the wonderful aircraft that either star in or make a cameo background appearance (F14, A7, A6, RF8, E2, Greyhound, RA5 Vigilante, SH3, KA6, etc....just some great great planes to enjoy.

Ok, what's your favorite and why?

The Time Machine (1960, Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux)

Timecop (1994, Jean-Claude Van Damme)

Time After Time (1979). Fascinating premise, and that is the San Francisco I remember from my youth. Malcolm McDowell and David Warner play off each other really well. Plus, when you're 11 years old and you see a scene with a sliced-off hand in a rated PG movie, it just sticks with you.

It was a great time capsule of the Hyatt Regency's Equinox revolving restaurant at Embarcadero 5. I hear it's finally making a return after all these decades.

I always enjoyed Time Bandits.

Idiocracy.

Mom has been in the hospital and now rehab. We watched Back to the Future. I still like it. It takes me back, so to speak.

I liked Time Cop.

While not a movie, the show 11.22.63 was very good.

My absolute most entertaining time travel movie is a mexican film called "Time Crimes" It is not your "traditional" type of time travel movie. I wont divulge plot points because it's one of those movies that gets better as it goes along as details are revealed. Tremendously fun time travel movie.

I also enjoy "Run Lola Run". Lola is running through town to stop her boyfriend from making a tragic mistake, and they keep re-looping her run, showing how small changes can have huge consequences.

Another favorite is "Primer". Excellent low budget time travel movie that is probably closest to reality in my book. This one is very cerebral, so you have to pay attention to follow all the possible time lines.

The Terminator
Terminator 2
Time Cop
Retroactive
Lots of good action in these movies with people getting killed.

One of my favorite time travel movies is 12 Monkeys

Looper was also pretty good.

Star Trek IV. "Hello Computer...the keyboard...how quaint..."

"Slaughterhouse Five" from 1972. It was a decent adaption of the Kurt Vonnegut novel where Billy Pilgrim goes from the present back to WWII and the Dresden bombing. Most of the present-day scenes are set in upstate NY near Utica.

Singer Holly Near had a small role as his daughter, she appeared at my upstate NY college (SUNY Cortland) a year or so later.

As a kid, I was fascinated by the TV series "Time Tunnel."

Of course Back to the Future and Terminator II are the standard bearers, but for me, Interstellar is an excellent film. I also like Edge of Tomorrow (Live, Die, Repeat), and Looper as well.

Favorite time travel movie: Time Cop
Favorite time travel TV show: The Time Tunnel

Predestination
(based on Robert A's All You Zombies)

Deja Vu (Denzel Washington)

Synchronic

The Jacket (Adrien Brody)

Time Trap

Just a few.

Like various foods, some will like some of them some of them and not others.

I enjoyed them all for the mental exercise, and overlook plot holes and all that jazz because, entertainment.

I am an avid TT story addict.

And detest spoilers...

Fans of Time Travel movies should check out a fairly recent movie called 'Predestination'.

Watching, you may think that you understand what is going on..but you don't. Yet.

Planet of the Apes

I liked Looper for the silver. I've watched Time Machine with Guy Pearce several times. And Interstellar as I'm always learning more, for example, while on Miller's planet, the soundtrack ticking every 1.25 second equals 1 year on earth. Yes, technically not time travel but kinda.

Also, i was reminded of Safety Not Guaranteed and of course, Primer.

The Adam Project is OK. Ryan Reynolds is on the quirky side but I like his acting.

The Age of Adaline is a more romantic sort of time travel flick...in a weird sort of way.