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  1. How Time Travel's 'Bootstrap Paradox' Could Explain Destiny

    Time Travel Movies Rely on the 'Bootstrap Paradox.' ... This results in a "closed causal loop," in which some event or object is a key player in its own origin and couldn't exist without ...

  2. Predestination (2014) Explained

    The movie also presents an example of a Bootstrap Paradox, a temporal phenomenon in which a time traveler (person, object or information) is a self-created entity existing within a closed loop in time. In this movie, for example, John is the cause of his own birth and has to travel back in time and have sex with himself (Jane), who then gives ...

  3. Best Time Travel / Time Loop Movies

    Best Time Travel / Time Loop Movies. these are the best of bests. 1. Back to the Future (1985) PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi. Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

  4. List of films featuring time loops

    This list of films featuring time loops in which characters experience the same period of time which is repeatedly resetting: when a certain condition is met, such as a death of a character or a clock reaches a certain time, the loop starts again, with one or more characters retaining the memories from the previous loop.: 207 The list provides the names and brief synopses of films in which ...

  5. 12 Most Complex Time Travel Movies Executed Well

    12 Monkeys. 12 Monkeys is too close to the COVID-19 virus epidemic for comfort. This time travel movie sees a dystopian future trying to identify the original strain of a virus that took out most of the living beings on the planet. The scientists of the future rely on time travel to identify the source of the infection.

  6. Movies Featuring Time Loops & Time Travel

    The most complete list of movies in which time traveling or time looping are a prominent plot device. Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, generally using a theoretical invention known as a "time machine". Let's face it, the time traveling concept was always an preoccupation in literature and ...

  7. Time travel/loop movies

    Three college friends hit the biggest party of the year, where a mysterious phenomenon disrupts the night, quickly descending into a chaos that challenges their friendships - and whether they can stay alive. Director: Dennis Iliadis | Stars: Rhys Wakefield, Logan Miller, Ashley Hinshaw, Natalie Hall. Votes: 8,395.

  8. 25 Time Travel Movies to Watch in 2022

    12 Monkeys Official Trailer #1 - Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt Movie (1995) HD. Watch on. After a deadly virus destroys humanity in 1996, survivors are forced underground. Decades later, prisoner James ...

  9. Terminator: Dark Fate and the Franchise's Complete Timeline

    This movie rejects the notion that the time travel in the Terminator franchise happens in a closed loop, despite the fact that that closed-loop time travel logic is integral to the plot of the ...

  10. 5 Bizarre Paradoxes Of Time Travel Explained

    1) Closed Causal Loops, such as the Predestination Paradox and the Bootstrap Paradox, which involve a self-existing time loop in which cause and effect run in a repeating circle, but is also internally consistent with the timeline's history. 2)Consistency Paradoxes, such as the Grandfather Paradox and other similar variants such as The Hitler ...

  11. Looking for time traveling movies with absolutely no plot holes

    Wikipedia article on the Heinlein short story (which the movie follows very closely) has a timeline diagram to help you ponder and understand the time travel paradoxes present in the story. Heinlein published an earlier similar time travel story in 1941, the novella "By His Bootstraps," which I haven't read. And Predestination is excellent ...

  12. 'Looper' Time Travel Explained

    In Kansas of 2074, a mob syndicate utilizes a kill system whereby they send victims back in time to Kansas 2044 to be eliminated by hitmen called "loopers," who are trained and instructed by a future mobster (Jeff Daniels). The anonymous victims pop back in time hooded and gagged, and are promptly shot by the waiting hitman, who then disposes ...

  13. Time loop and time travel movies

    A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack. Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes. Votes: 413,097 | Gross: $150.37M. 10.

  14. 10 Time Travel Movie Rules, Ranked Worst To Best

    Donnie Darko. Cast. Jake Gyllenhaal , Holmes Osborne , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Daveigh Chase , Mary McDonnell , James Duval. Runtime. 113 minutes. The Jake Gyllenhaal-led title is a movie with more philosophy than time travel, and naturally, its core message is delivered brilliantly in Donnie Darko 's dark ending.

  15. Temporal paradox

    A temporal paradox, time paradox, or time travel paradox, is a paradox, an apparent contradiction, or logical contradiction associated with the idea of time travel or other foreknowledge of the future. While the notion of time travel to the future complies with the current understanding of physics via relativistic time dilation, temporal paradoxes arise from circumstances involving ...

  16. Loop in Time with a Paradox

    The Open-Closed Hybrid Loop. An innovative variation in time-travel stories combines open and closed loops. The broader timeline is closed, but the time traveler gets stuck in an alternating, repeating loop until they can arrive at that closed-loop outcome. Example #1: Groundhog Day (1993)

  17. Looking for good time travel movies that use a split/rewriting ...

    Looking for good time travel movies that use a split/rewriting timeline concept, NOT closed loop ... The trouble with time travel stuff is closed loop is really easy to write so it's what almost everyone does. I have the same annoyance at the lack of cause and effect, particularly how that stops characters from having agency in the story. ...

  18. Exploring Causal Loops in Cinema

    Today we discuss one of my favorite topics: Time Travel. Specifically, causal loops and how they are mistreated in most time travel stories. We deal with eve...

  19. Top 100 Time Travel Movies

    1. Back to the Future. 1985 1h 56m PG. 8.5 (1.3M) Rate. 87 Metascore. Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

  20. Closed Loop Time Travel Is Cool, Even When The Movie Isn't About It

    I think that closed loop time travel is a good plot device, even when the movie isn't about it. It only requires one sentence to explain (something like: We can't change the past, because it already happened). Yes, there are paradoxes, like the bootstrap paradox. But unlike the other forms of time travel, they don't really interfere with the ...

  21. What Tom Cruise's Weirdest Sci-Fi Movie Gets Wrong About Time Travel

    Edge of Tomorrow features Major Cage (Tom Cruise) as an experienced soldier stuck in an absurd time-loop scenario involving aliens. Warner Bros Pictures. As a movie that explores the concept of ...

  22. Time Loop Movies

    2. 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. 3. Groundhog Day. A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day. 4.

  23. Dark: How Time Travel Works in the Netflix Series

    Published Jun 19, 2019. Netflix's German sci-fi drama Dark relies on the mind-bending concept, "The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning," a mantra that permeates the series as it focuses on how time travel has affected the small town of Winden. Season 1 kicks into high gear in 2019 with a kid, Mikkel, going missing at a cave in ...