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32 Movies Great Movies About Time Travel With Completely Different Rules

Prepare for some serious stipulations.

Is there ever a bad time to watch a time travel movie? Some of the best sci-fi movies in history have tackled this frequently explored topic, and new wrinkles in the fabric of the concept have made the subject more exciting over time. So why don’t we take a look at the different rules these flights of fancy have introduced? Should you be stuck in a time loop, we apologize if this list is starting to get old.

Back To The Future

Everyone loves to talk about how Back to the Future’s time travel works , but there’s one aspect we take for granted throughout the whole trilogy. Doc Brown ( Christopher Lloyd ) may have given Marty McFly ( Michael J. Fox ) the keys to travel through the past, present, and future; but you seriously need to consider the exact spot you’re traveling to. Otherwise, you might find yourself altering history in some intriguing ways. R.I.P. Twin Pines Mall. 

Time After Time

A novel adventure starring the father of time travel H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell), Time After Time actually introduced an interesting mechanic to temporal transport. Let’s just say that if you don’t use the Time Machine properly, you could find yourself stuck in your final destination. Or worse, falling through the time-space continuum, without a way back home.

The Terminator

The Terminator's time travel will forever be a head-scratcher, as the existence of John Connor is the ultimate ontological paradox. How else can you explain Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) being sent back to the 1980s to save the world…and make sure the person who sent him is born in the first place?

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

The oldest method of time travel in the Star Trek movies, 1986’s The Voyage Home saw Captain Kirk ( William Shatner ) and his crew trying to save the whales through a time heist. This wouldn’t have been possible if it wasn’t for the Enterprise crew using a Klingon Bird of Prey, a slingshot orbit around the sun, and a lot of engineering power to do it.

2004’s Primer is still hotly discussed among time travel aficionados, and it’s not hard to see why. The shenanigans in this test case involve multiple versions of a singular traveler (Shane Carruth) existing in a single timeline, which creates one of the most chaotic timelines ever depicted.

The Adam Project

Story-wise, The Adam Project is pretty cozy when it comes to how it handles time travel. But when it comes to traveling in style, the older Adam Reed ( Ryan Reynolds ) has a Time Jet that’s specifically coded to his DNA! Not many temporal travelers HAVE that, and it prevents so many mistakes other adventures of this sort use for story purposes.

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Avengers: Endgame

How Avengers: Endgame’s time travel works is rather unorthodox, to be honest. Instead of overwriting the past into a more pleasing result, the MCU’s finest are only allowed to use it in the name of stealing/returning the Infinity Stones. Timelines can still create tangent histories, and 2014 Gamora takes over for her slain variant in the films, but you can’t stop “The Snap.”

Lost In Space

If all time travelers had the device Older Will Robinson (Jared Harris) built in 1998’s Lost in Space , they’d have it made. While only one person can travel at a time, exact coordinates in time and space are required; so you can go to a very specific spatial location on the timeline. 

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect's time travel works on rules similar to that of Quantum Leap . Evan ( Ashton Kutcher ) can indeed change history, but it’s only within his own life’s timeline. Unfortunately, thanks to the multiple trips leading to continued alterations to the fabric of events, it all adds up in terms of severe physical wear and tear. 

Hot Tub Time Machine

Hot Tub Time Machine is a very special case when it comes to time travel. To be fair, the comedy ensemble franchise gets points for having its protagonists travel only within their own bodies. As for how one can actually travel with said titular device, apparently you need an energy drink, the right hot tub with the right temperature, and some convenient writing. 

Real-time bodily damage. That’s probably one of the most unique additions to Looper’s usage of time travel , as we see people incur damage in the past, only for it to show up on their future selves. Poor Seth ( Paul Dano ) demonstrated that lesson the hard way in Rian Johnson ’s sci-fi masterpiece. 

Star Trek: Generations

What if you could wish really hard to create an alternate timeline? Or what if you could send yourself back to your best memory, and never leave? That’s what The Nexus from Star Trek: Generations could do, and both Captains Kirk (William Shatner) and Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) got a taste of that sweet life, before ultimately using their new power to stop the villainous Dr. Soren (Malcolm McDowell). 

Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure

If you ever want to bring a figure from history home for dinner in the present, do it in the universe of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure . There are little to no consequences, especially when it comes to our heroes (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) whisking away two medieval princesses to become betrothed in the 1980s. Seriously, how did that not start a war?

The Time Traveler's Wife

“Chrono Impairment” is a seriously rare affliction, but it’s enough of a headache that it prevents Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana’s clock-crossed lovers from ever enjoying a normal life. Such is the nature of The Time Traveler's Wife , which invented that affliction to send Bana’s character Henry on unpredictable trips at unforeseeable intervals throughout his life. 

Indiana Jones And Dial Of Destiny

For Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny's time travel to actually happen, the world of Harrison Ford’s iconic archeologist needed specific hardware. Aided by some very precise calculations to try and take the Nazis to where they were trying to go, it wasn't as simple as jumping into a car and gunning it to 88 miles per hour. 

Star Trek: First Contact

For a franchise that uses temporal transit as much as the Star Trek series does, there sure are a lot of different ways to go back in time. And if you’re not satisfied with The Voyage Home’s method of a slingshot orbit around the Sun, then you can always do what Star Trek: First Contact did. While I wouldn’t personally recommend waiting for a Borg invasion to cause a temporal wake you can just hitch a ride on; you do you. 

Ok, so technically Tenet’s shenanigans involving time is “time inversion,” rather than time travel. Which only makes the journey, and the resulting reality The Protagonist (John David Washington) lives in all the more complicated. It also makes for some classic Christopher Nolan mind melts.

Would this really be a sci-fi party if author Michael Crichton didn’t show up? Timeline’s time travel is a lot of fun, if you consider using a “human fax machine” to send yourself to medieval times “fun.” In which case, try not to abuse it too much, as every trip has the chance to leave you with transcription errors in your reassembled DNA. Again, we’re working with a fax machine here.  

Somewhere In Time

It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for Christopher Reeve fans! Somewhere in Time just had to be on this list, as it's pretty unique in how it sends a person back through the ages. In the case of Reeve’s playwright Richard, all he needs is a really powerful hypnotic focus to zoom back to 1912. 

Star Trek (2009)

It’s kind of fitting that the 2009 Star Trek reboot would use time travel, given that the series has continually danced with that concept on TV and in movies. For this J.J. Abrams-directed venture, the destructive and inexact force of a black hole is what’s used to accidentally alter time so vastly that William Shatner turns into Chris Pine.

Déjà Vu

Tony Scott’s 2006 action-thriller Déjà Vu is a big movie with a relatively limited scope. With intelligence gathering, and ultimately one human transport, that can only go as far back as four and a half days, Denzel Washington’s work was kind of cut out for him on this caper.

The Tomorrow War

The Chris Pratt-starring time travel ensemble adventure The Tomorrow War has some pretty huge stipulations when it comes to recruiting an army for the future. The largest among them was, of course, you had to be dead according to the records of the future hellscape that pitted humanity against some very nasty creatures.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Going from here to there in the then and now in X-Men: Days of Future Past requires a serious amount of power. With Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) going back to his past body, the key to how it all happens lies in the phasing abilities of Kitty Pryde (Elliot Page). So this story uses a very physical, and incredibly vulnerable, method to execute its vision.

Out of all the time travel universes we’ve seen on screen, perhaps the one I feel the most sorry for is the one shown in 12 Monkeys . The basic rule of this Bruce Willis epic’s temporal transit is “hope for the best,” thanks to the method of being shot through time and intending to land in the right place going wrong more often than you think.

Midnight In Paris

Reminiscent of many other vehicular-based time travel films like Back to the Future , any character that travels through time in Midnight In Paris just needs to catch the right ride, at just about Midnight. The experience is bespoke to whoever is traveling, as the period of time that suits them best also dictates the method of transportation provided.

The Final Countdown

Dropping an aircraft carrier from the 1980s into the moments before Pearl Harbor, The Final Countdown delivers a moral dilemma plenty of time travelers have tangled with. But the real difference with this underrated sci-fi movie is the fact that the time-traveling storm that is responsible for the trip is inescapable. You’re going home, whether you want to or not.

Sharing a similarity with the romantic classic Somewhere In Time , Richard Curtis’ About Time allows any potential traveler to jump into the past with merely intense concentration. However, certain caveats are in play, like the recommendation of not traveling past certain life milestones, or the fact that only the men of the Lake family can actually use this gift.

Donnie Darko

Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) can’t exactly travel through time in Donnie Darko , but he does have a special temporal ability that’s kind of funny and kind of sad. With the ability to open a wormhole between the present and the past, Mr. Darko can send objects through time; the skill that gives Richard Kelly’s movie its bittersweet ending. 

Kate & Leopold

Kate & Leopold’s usage of a localized time portal is a method as old as time. However, the big difference with this Meg Ryan/Hugh Jackman rom-com is that the journey Leopold (Jackman) takes to the “future” of 2001 robs us all of elevators. Also, there’s a ticking clock on this specific portal’s usage, which only complicates things further.

Groundhog Day

Perhaps the movie that nailed the time loop into the consciousness of the world, Groundhog Day brought us a charming Bill Murray rom-com mixed with a time travel story. Its misanthropic lead needed to change, even as the world around him stayed the same. The rest was sci-fi history in the making. 

Happy Death Day

What happens if you make a Groundhog Day-style time loop into a deadly game? You get a movie like Happy Death Day , in which our initially unlikable lead Tree (Jessica Rothe) is being stalked through a single-day time loop. The big kicker in this variant is that, unlike your standard time loop, Tree has a finite number of cycles before she possibly dies for good.

Where does one start with director Joseph Kahn’s Detention? Well, how about the fact that the teenagers in play (including a pre- Hunger Games Josh Hutcherson) use a stuffed bear as a time travel capsule? Or the fact that a mother/daughter pair can body swap on a permanent basis, and with no consequences? 

And with that, our supreme sampling of time travel trips has come to a close. Which more than likely has left you with a want to watch some of these movies again, or for the first time. That's totally natural, because this is a subgenre that always leaves us with one question: is there ever a bad time to watch a time travel movie?

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USA Tennis Olympics Qualification Watch: Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Sebastian Korda & Frances Tiafoe secure Paris 2024 berths with Ben Shelton opting out

T he US men's singles lineup for the 2024 Paris Olympics is set to feature Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Sebastian Korda, and Frances Tiafoe. However, American No. 3 Ben Shelton has decided not to participate.

The Summer Games will take place from July 26 to August 12 this year in Paris. The ongoing French Open serves as the final big event for tennis players before the Olympics. All players who have qualified for the grand event have competed/are currently competing at the Claycourt Slam.

Paris 2024 will host the five tennis events: men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with a total of 172 quotas. Eligibility is based on ATP and WTA rankings as of June 10, following Roland-Garros. Additionally, players must have represented their country in the Davis Cup (men) or Billie Jean King Cup (women) in order to qualify.

The singles draw will include 64 players for each competition, and each country (NOC) can enter a maximum of four players for both men's and women's singles. For the USA, the men's lineup includes Fritz, Paul, Korda, and Tiafoe.

World No. 12 Taylor Fritz , the highest-ranked American player, has made it to the fourth round of the French Open and is currently facing Casper Ruud. This year will mark his debut in Games. He mathematically secured a spot before the start of the Major, though.

Tommy Paul, ranked World No. 14, reached the third round of the French Open but was defeated by Francisco Cerundolo. However, he secured a spot on the Olympic roster before his campaign at the Claycourt Slam began, like Fritz. Paul also qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but suffered a first-round exit to Aslan Karatsev.

World No. 26 Frances Tiafoe is the next highest-ranked American on the list. Despite his underwhelming performance at Roland-Garros this year (second-round exit), he has secured a spot in the Olympics, courtesy of his rank.

Sebastian Korda secured his spot in the Paris Olympics last Thursday (May 30) and will join his sister Nelly, the World No. 1 golfer, in representing America at the Games.

Meanwhile, Ben Shelton announced his decision not to compete in the grand event this year even before the French Open started, according to U.S. coach Bob Bryan. As for Christopher Eubanks, he still has a chance to enter the roster if any qualified players withdraw.

Taylor Fritz aims to gain "experience" at the Paris Olympics 2024 before shifting his focus to Los Angeles

Taylor Fritz expressed his desire to gain valuable "experience" at the 2024 Paris Olympics before setting his sights on the Summer Games in Los Angeles in 2028, which will be his home event.

"For me, I just think it's important to kind of get one Olympic experience down," Fritz said during a press conference at the United Cup in January. "Because the next Olympics I'll be 30 and in LA and it might be my last chance."

The American added:

"And it might be -- obviously in LA, kind of feel like a home one, might be my best chance to do something. I think that having one Olympics experience before that might help me. I'm kind of, that's the way I'm kind of looking at it."

Team USA's performance in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics fell well below expectations. With the withdrawals of Serena Williams, Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff , and others, they left the event without a single medal for the first time since 1988.

With players like Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Frances Tiafoe, Sebastian Korda on the men's side, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Danielle Collins, and Madison Keys on the women's roster, America is poised to turn their fortunes around, at least in singles.

How late finishes in tennis affect player welfare and fans’ experience

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You know those nights when you tell yourself that you’re going to be sensible and not stay out too late — but you kind of know deep down that you will?

That’s pretty much how tennis’ Grand Slams feel about ludicrously late finishes.

After the Australian Open’s 4:05am finish last year (and its 3:40am one this time ), and the U.S. Open’s 2:50am in September 2022, Roland Garros said, ‘Hold my biere’ in the early hours of Sunday as it recorded its latest ever finish to a day’s play — 3:06am . The French Open, which didn’t even have a night session until 2021 (and no floodlights until a year earlier),  shattered its latest-ever-finish record by almost two hours when Novak Djokovic beat Lorenzo Musetti, 7-5, 6-7(6), 2-6, 6-3, 6-0, as though it felt left out from this ludicrous club.

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Wimbledon, with its 11pm curfew, is the only outlier among the four Grand Slams. Tennis officials say that they are learning, that they are aware that these are farcical finish times. And yet they continue.

Despite the silliness of the situation, it’s not something that the French Open deliberately engineered. These finishes are a consequence of dysfunction in tennis , but nobody actually thinks they are a good idea, even if the Australian and U.S. Opens have for a long while appeared to treat late finishes as a badge of honour, rather than a serious risk to players’ welfare.

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The events of Saturday night and Sunday morning came about because of the rain that blighted the first week at Roland Garros . Grigor Dimitrov and Zizou Bergs had already seen their third-round match postponed by a day, and needed to get it done ahead of the winner playing again on Sunday.

With rain still falling, the schedulers tried to squeeze it in ahead of Djokovic-Musetti. Dimitrov was two sets up, but Bergs stole the third, and it ran longer than hoped for before Dimitrov triumphed.

Djokovic and Musetti didn’t take to the court until around 10:30pm, having been scheduled for 8:15pm. There was no move possible, because it would have deprived night-session spectators of the match they’d come, and specifically paid, to see. So Djokovic and Musetti waited and waited, the match when it came was an epic, and there we all were at 3am, wondering how tennis found itself in this position, which is so damaging to players.

That kind of finish can mean anything up to a 7am bedtime once a player has completed their post-match commitments.

And it wasn’t just Djokovic and Musetti who finished late on Saturday/Sunday — Casper Ruud and Tomas Martin Etcheverry didn’t get off court until close to 1am, while Taylor Fritz and Thanasi Kokkinakis were done about an hour earlier.

Playing until that late affects players’ circadian rhythms, and can leave them feeling disorientated for days after. There is a reason why sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture. Lack of sleep compromises the ability to think, the immune system, and attention span and reaction time, which are vital for athletes.

Dr Robby Sikka is the medical director for the Professional Tennis Player Association (PTPA) — the organization Djokovic co-founded in 2020 to address, among other issues, working conditions for arguably the most important people in the sport — and takes the view that muscle recovery is only part of the problem.

“There will be neurological consequences too. Neurological recovery takes longer the more you put a player through, and another five-set match would be very tough,” Dr Sikka said.

Those post-match commitments that can go on until sunrise don’t just entail media duty.

“You lose a complete night of sleep and sleeping is part of the recovery, one of the biggest parts. The food, everything we do, treatments, ice baths. All this stuff, and you don’t sleep,” said current men’s world No 18 Karen Khachanov after Russian compatriot Medvedev’s 3.40am finish at the Australian Open back in January.

Medvedev had a series of long matches and late finishes in Melbourne before, perhaps inevitably, running out of steam in the final against Jannik Sinner from two sets up.

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“I definitely think it’s not healthy,” said women’s world No 3 Coco Gauff on Sunday. “It may be not fair for those who have to play late, because it does ruin your schedule. “For the health and safety of the players, it would be in the sport’s best interest to try to avoid those matches starting after a certain time. Obviously, you can’t control when they finish.”

The current Wimbledon men’s champion Carlos Alcaraz, who was the winner of that U.S. Open match that finished just shy of 3am two years ago, also against Sinner, expressed his dislike too; women’s world No 9 Ons Jabeur called it “unhealthy”.

But this is about more than just the players. There is a whole ecosystem involved in running a tennis match: the unpaid ball kids, security personnel, umpires, and myriad other staff involved all have to stay that late, too.

As do the fans.

Women’s world No 1 Iga Swiatek expressed sympathy for everyone who has to go to work after a match, and said matter-of-factly that the reason she asks not to play night matches is because, “I just like to sleep normally.”

Djokovic resisted giving his views on the situation, but 17-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva was not so diplomatic.

Her second-round match against Victoria Azarenka started at around 10:30pm on Thursday, and didn’t finish until after 1am on Friday. “It’s so depressing,” said Andreeva, who was playing on tiny Court 12, in front of barely any fans. “No one is watching, and it’s cold. You are playing, fighting, and no one is there.”

Dr Sikka emphasised his belief that not only is tennis an outlier, but other sports are outliers because they view this kind of situation as ridiculous. “We are watching one of the best athletes at recovering (Djokovic) for 20 years — in any sport, but you would never do that to Tom Brady (in American football) or LeBron James (basketball).”

The implication, and it’s hard to argue, is that it makes tennis feel like a novelty act rather than a serious sport.

Recognising the absurdity of these situations, the ATP and WTA have taken steps to try to redress the balance.

At the start of the year, they announced that matches would not start later than 11pm.

That first reform came after Sinner had to pull out of the Paris Masters in November, after he won a match that started after midnight and finished at nearly 3am. In Acapulco, Mexico, two years ago, Alexander Zverev beat the American Jenson Brooksby at 4:55am — the latest ever finish to a professional tennis match.

Women’s world No 4 Elena Rybakina, who revealed on Saturday that she has struggled to sleep of late, finished a match at the Rogers Cup in August just before 3am. Rybakina said she was “destroyed” by the experience, and drew a pretty straight line from that finish to an injury she suffered the following week in Cincinnati, retiring hurt from her second-round match against Italy’s Jasmine Paolini despite having won the first set.

“It was horrible,” Rybakina said shortly afterwards. “It’s not easy because they (the injuries) are not even because of tennis. It’s really tough to recover when you go to sleep at 5am.”

Rybakina also called out the WTA: “I think it’s a bit unprofessional. The leadership is a little bit weak for now. But hopefully something is going to change.”

The Grand Slams make their own rules, and despite attempts to reform, the Australian Open endured the same old problems this year. Tennis Australia hoped that a Sunday start to the tournament would ease the scheduling burden, and hoped that reducing the number of matches in the day sessions from three to two would mean less chance of the evening matches starting late.

It didn’t work, because tennis matches have gotten so long that these kinds of schedules are no longer fit for purpose.

Research by The Athletic last year showed that men’s matches at Grand Slam level increased by around 25 per cent over a 24-year period. At the 2022 U.S. Open, three hours was almost the average length of a match, rather than the novelty it used to be. Within that context, a four-and-a-half-hour match like the one on Saturday/Sunday is well within the normal range.

A similar length match, for Djokovic’s first-round win over Dino Prizmic at the Australian Open, meant the women’s defending champion Aryna Sabalenka didn’t even get on court for the first match of her title defence until after 11.30pm — comfortably beyond the ATP and WTA cutoff.

Curfews and start time cut-offs feel like the most obvious solutions. And if tennis actually wants to address the root of the problem, it should give serious consideration to making the first weeks of Grand Slams best-of-three rather than best-of-five sets for men’s matches.

Baseball and cricket are evidence that sports can evolve and modernise, even if the Slams can always point to how well-attended their events are as evidence that there’s no real need for them to reform.

Tennis players know that they risk looking entitled by complaining about these sorts of issues. But they are also aware of the risks to themselves and to the sport of allowing the situation to continue.

Speaking in August, seven months on from his initial fury at being made to play tennis at 4am against Thanasi Kokkinakis in Melbourne, Andy Murray said: “Often when the players complain about that stuff, you hear, ‘Oh, shut up and get on with it. Try working in a warehouse from nine to five’.

“I get that. I know I’m fortunate to be playing tennis. It’s just… tennis is also entertainment. I don’t think it helps the sport that much when everyone’s leaving because they have to go and get public transport home and you finish a match in front of 10 per cent of the crowd. You don’t see it in other sports, so it’s clearly wrong.”

In football/soccer, global players’ union FIFpro warned the sport’s world governing body, FIFA , that players would take “matters into their own hands” if nothing was done to address their growing workload. It even suggested that strike action is possible.

But football, as well as other sports such as baseball, has reformed. In the English Premier League , for example, teams can no longer play in the 12:30pm Saturday slot if they’ve played away in continental Europe on the Wednesday night.

The Djokovic-led PTPA will keep making its case to the sport’s governing bodies, which consist of seven different organisations empowered to enact their own rules with little input from active players.

The morning after the night — and morning — before, the vibe at Roland Garros on Sunday was bleary-eyed.

The spectacle of the match had faded, into both tiredness and a kind of disbelief that this is still allowed to happen.

In the cold light of day, it seemed unnecessary for an event that is supposed to be about fun and entertainment to feel compromised like this.

Never again. Until the next time.

(Top photo of Novak Djokovic: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP via Getty Images)

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Charlie Eccleshare is a tennis journalist for The Athletic, having previously covered soccer as the Tottenham Hotspur correspondent for five years. He joined in 2019 after five years writing about football and tennis at The Telegraph. Follow Charlie on Twitter @ cdeccleshare

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