Best and Worst time travelling methods in movies

[OmNiExiZt]

Best method: Time Travelers wife style. The daughters version of course.

Worst Method: Peggy Sue Got Married-Peggy Sue faints at a Highschool reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

[maxx]

Best method of time-travel was the FLYING version of the Delorean, by far. The original Delorean was awesome but limited because:

A: Fuel source.
Marty: "Plutonium… Wait, are you telling me this sucker is NUCLEAR?!"
Doc: “No no no, this sucker’s electrical, but it requires a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.”

and

B: Required some tricky timing.

Doc: “Don’t worry. As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88mph the instant the lightning strikes the tower… everything will be fine.”

With the upgraded version, Doc fixed both flaws in the Delorean by making it run on garbage and of course, the classic:

Doc: “Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need Puts on shades roads.”

Yeah the first 2 Back to the Future movies are 2 of my favorite movies, (Back to the Future was the first movie I ever saw in a theater) what of it?

Flying Delorean ftw.

^_-;

lol second back to the future reference ive heard in about a week or so. :lovin:

[Rush_Marine]

I like the Primer method because of the mind fuckery happening underneath it.

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[DudeHack]

Best: Back to the Future/Dr.Who/Bill and Ted
Worst: Star Trek IV/Superman

[Amazing_Funbags]

I’m pretty sure Star Trek has this down.

Agreed.

Is this limited to only movies?

[Rush_Marine]

no…

[Einlanzer]

worst:
The Lake House

[Radiantsilvergun3]

Mailbox.

[fishjie]

flux capacitor wins

[Rush_Marine]

I always felt that the slowly “fading away” effect on Back to the Future was really silly.

[odin]

Superman wins this in the terrible department.
You can go into time by going really fast, but not back in time.
Sorry clark.

[TheEvilChinaMan]

Superman wins this in the terrible department.
You can go into time by going really fast, but not back in time.
Sorry clark.

Clarification, he goes really fast to counter spin the earth. Earth spinning in the wrong direction is what turns back time.

This is still a pretty bad example of time travel.

[Boel]

oh shit,

I think Cher, in her failure to turn back time, might be the worst

[scum_gale_88]

^ brilliant!

-Delorean makes the best time travel machine, realistically. Set the time, drops you off in the exact spot you took off in. Runs the risk of smashing into an object that wasn’t there before though. Sweet fire trails.
-TARDIS is broken.
-Magic School Bus is like TARDIS 2.0

[scum_gale_88]

Timecop, all I remember is the little monorail thing that sends them into the past, I can’t remember how they returned. Anyway thinking about it, it doesn’t make any sense why it would/could happen but the best part was when someone from the future touches their past self causing them to be both destroyed.

The movie was never very clear on that part, they put them on the little jet and fire them through the portal. But any other time people are just kinda casually moving through portals.

It wasn’t so much their past and future selves. It was the exact same matter occupying the same space. A similar thing happened in the Christopher Eccleston Dr. Who series. Rose contacts her past self or interrupts things and it causes a time paradox. When The Doctor tells you “Don’t touch the baby”, he fucking means it.

[angelpalm]

Bil and Ted time travel is so broken that all you had to do was say out loud that you were going to use it to cause something to happen and it did.

[Davidstar]

worst/best: napoleon dynamite

[Riot_Guard]

Black Knight>>>>still better than the average blockbuster comedy (Hangover, Knocked up, etc.)

[BBQ]

Jet Li and Jason Stathom(sp?) in “The One”

IDK about getting torn apart into molecules, looks very painful.

Flux capacitor FTW, sweet looking car that can hover and shit, hell yeah give me 3 Delorians!

[HoneyBBQGrundle]

Superman’s time travel is the best because it doesn’t even try to make sense. Nobody wants to hear an explanation of time travel involving inverting the tachyon submatrix conjugate to the hyperspace manifold. Just spin the Earth in the other direction and you can go to hell if you don’t believe it!

Christopher Reeve was also in some movie where he traveled back in time to meet an old actress he saw in a picture. Actually, he might have just been dreaming or under hypnosis. From what I remember, it wasn’t the greatest movie.