time travel entertainment

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Flight of the Navigator (1986) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/
https://movies.disney.com/flight-of-the-navigator

A twelve year old kid is kidnapped by an alien research drone, who experiments on him by stuffing him full of knowledge, and although his brain ends up “leaking”, he is the drone’s only chance to get back home after hitting some power lines and getting shocked.

Though there aren’t many kid-friendly science fiction movies out there, this is easily the best among them. Even ignoring its “present day” time, it’s beginning to show its age. The fact that its “present day” is 1986 will inevitably be its biggest hurdle to accessibility to today’s young. This movie is definitely worth a remake every fifteen years or less.



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Time Trap - (2017 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4815122/
http://www.timetrapmovie.com/

Adventurers find a cave system where time inside is slowed.

All in all it’s pretty weak.



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James vs. His Future Self - (2019 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6739796/

A supernerd’s future self visits him to proclaim a warning of his wasting his life.

Plodding and boring. There are some laughs, but I don’t see why this would be considered a comedy.



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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194499/

A young man, having learned he can travel back in time, tries using his superpower to get a girlfriend.

Slow, awkward, and not particularly funny.



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Volition - (2019 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6385952/
http://volitionthemovie.com/

A man afflicted with precognition thinks that injecting gallium will help him save the people he loves likes.

Movies like this lean very heavily on acting and subtleties of storytelling which this movie simply lacks in enough intensity to make it stand out from a student’s short film. This is a hard pass even for people who like these basic ideas.



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The Umbrella Academy - (2019 show) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1312171/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80186863

A group of superpowered purchased-orphans try to save the world.

Fair at best, but not for me.


A Rebel in Time - (1983 book), by Harry Harrison image

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https://www.michaelowencarroll.com/hh/n24.htm [ 1 ] was http://www.harryharrison.com/n24.htm

A man tails a racist who goes back in time to arm the slavers in the upcoming American Civil War.

Fair I guess. Not particularly time travel or science fiction, but once it gets into things it’s more of a period piece; not my thing.



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The Tomorrow Man - (2002 movie) image

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0153098/

A man’s son’s older self goes back in time to kidnap himself.

It’s not great or anything, but it’s obscure enough that I’m glad to have bought it.



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