Who can forget the time traveling phone booths and George Carlin as Rufus? And then there was Bill and Ted's new buddy, So-crates. Party on, dudes!
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| Rod Taylor as H.G. Wells |
A true classic tracing Wells' adventures through time. Won the Academy award for best special effects.
One of the better sequels from the original Ape movies, talking astronaut apes travel back in time to wreck havoc in the 1970's. A pretty good laugh and never boring!
Bill Murray's character Phil Connors is forced to relive February 2nd repeatedly. How would you like to wake up to Sonny and Cher's I've Got You Babe every morning at 6 a.m.? A huge snub that Punxsutawney Phil was overlooked as best supporting actor!
The darkest chapter of the Back to the Future trilogy where the evil butt-head, Biff Tannen, has altered history for personal gain. But, Marty and Doc Brown save the day.
"Time travel is a reality and a crime." So it was in Time Cop. How could I omit the Belgian Brawler, Jean-Claude Van Damme from this list? Van Damme's Agent Walker saves his wife and the world from an evil U.S. Senator. The plot has a bunch of inconsistencies, but, hey, that's what makes it so goooood!
9. The Final Countdown
A little know flick from 1980 starring Kirk Douglass and Martin Sheen about a modern US Naval aircraft carrier mysteriously transported back in time to the eve of Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Should they splash the Zero's and destroy the Japanese fleet and change history forever, or let the bombing happen? Rent the DVD and see for yourself. It will not disappoint!
Arnold at his best as the Terminator seeking to erase John Connor from existence by killing his mother before he is born. "I'll be baaaaack." A classic!
Marty as Clint Eastwood, The Doc as the Blacksmith and Biff as Mad Dog Tannen, all set in the Old West! What could be better. ZZ Top even makes an appearance. Doc Brown falls in love and Marty finally goes home where all is well. A great wrap up to the Back to the Future series!
Come on, admit it, you love this movie. Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, Superman and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Women, what could be better than that! I know you shed a few tears when Richard was zapped back to the present by a bad penny leaving Elise heartbroken. Pull out the Kleenexes and watch it again.
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| HG and The Ripper |
Another classic romantic adventure through time. HG Wells travels from 1899 London chasing the sadistic Jack the Ripper in modern day San Francisco. Love prevails and Jack is sent to perdition.
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| Spock and Kirk at it again. |
The best of the Star Trek movies that involved time travel. Our heroes go back in time to the 1980's to retrieve a humpback whale to take back to the future to save the world. They accomplish the task in a stolen Klingon Bird of Prey. "Double dumb-ass to you." Thanks again Captain Kirk for the memories!
Arnold is back, no problemo, as a good guy, protecting the young John Conner. Linda Hamilton is impressive as the chiseled Sarah Conner. "Hasta la vista, baby."
One of the most beloved films ever. Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty, but was replaced by Michael J. Fox after 5 weeks of shooting. It's funny how things work out. The flux capacitor, 1.2 gigawatts, the DeLorean, 88 mph, these facts and figures will live on forever. The show stealer George McFly, "Lorianne, you are my density." Whatta great ride!!!
1. Planet of the Apes (1968)
I still remember seeing this film in the theater with my dad and granddad. A perfect meshing of time travel and SciFi. Astronaut George Taylor leaves earth in 1972, crash landing on a distant planet in the year 3878. Much to his shock and surprise he encounters a crazy upside down world where talking apes are at the top of the food chain and humans are mutes, slaves and science experiments. It was a "madhouse! Only in the final scene of the movie does Taylor and the audience realize that he has crash landed back on earth, in the future! "I'm home. You finally did it it, damn it, you blew it all to hell." yells Taylor in anguish as the Statue of Liberty looks on, half buried on the beach. Live on Dr. Zira and Cornelius, the narrow minded Dr. Zaius, and Taylor's squeeze, Nova. I can still hear Charlton Heston's first words in Ape City, "Take your stinking paws off of me you damn, dirty ape!
Well, that's it. Let me know which of your favorite time travel movies I left off the list, and it better not be hot Tub Time Machine!!
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