Just put up a podcast reviewing three more or less recent, under the radar, off the beaten track time travel movies, in case that's your cuppa http://paullev.libsyn.com/three-time-travel-movies
Thanks, Paul! Those all sound worth checking out. (And, I'm relieved that none of them have the same plot as the time-travel play I'm trying to finish up.)
ETA: Okay, just watched I'll Follow You Down. Very interesting and well-acted. Not sure how I would've ended it; didn't see that coming.
Well, I'd intended to submit it to the 2nd Annual L.A. Science Fiction One-Act Play Fest, but didn't make the deadline. Hope I find a place for it in 2015.Glad you enjoyed. The other two are each very different. Good luck on your time travel play! I've written short fiction, novels, and songs about time travel, but not (yet) a play. Are there plans to stage it, or are you just writing the play on spec?
Can you share the names of the films for discussion here is this just to promote your podcast?
Well, I'd intended to submit it to the 2nd Annual L.A. Science Fiction One-Act Play Fest, but didn't make the deadline. Hope I find a place for it in 2015.
Sorry my post offended you. The movies are Dimensions, I'll Follow You Down, and 95ers: Time Runners.
I wasn't offended but we have another place for self-promotion; to me (who is no one at all) it seemed more an attempt at driving traffic than an inducement to discussion which is what this forum is for. Thank you for sharing the film titles. Now, I don't feel like I'm being tricked to your podcast and I'll happily check it out.
My favorite, though is an apparently-little-known movie called 'Time After Time." It was one of those movies that came out way better than it should have.
My favorite, though is an apparently-little-known movie called 'Time After Time." It was one of those movies that came out way better than it should have.
I just recently read the novel (Time After Time) by Karl Alexander; the movie's a pretty close adaptation. And, he's recently produced a sequel to the novel, called Jaclyn the Ripper.
Opening this week is a new movie called Predestination. It's adapted from Heinlein's famous short story "...All You Zombies", and is actually getting pretty good reviews.
There's a time-travel movie called Safety Not Guaranteed. The actual time travel is only a small part, but the movie is kind of a different take on it. A guy claims to have a working time machine and needs an assistant, and a team of writers go talk to the guy thinking he's crazy. It was surprisingly good.
There's a time-travel movie called Safety Not Guaranteed. The actual time travel is only a small part, but the movie is kind of a different take on it. A guy claims to have a working time machine and needs an assistant, and a team of writers go talk to the guy thinking he's crazy. It was surprisingly good.
Here's my pet peeve about time travel films: You must follow your own rules.
Time travel, as far as we know, isn't real. It may never be real. It may be impossible. OK. Let's accept that in your time travel movie, the laws of the universe do allow for some kind of travel in time, forward or backward, or both, or whatever.
Great. Because time travel isn't actually real, you get to establish your universe's rules. Once you establish those rules YOU MUST FOLLOW THEM.
You do not get to do a complete rug-pull at the end and change the rules just to save the hero who, by all rights should have died, or to make the ending cool, or to set up a funny joke. LIVE BY YOUR RULES.
If you can't do that, then don't make a time travel movie.
I'm sure you're familiar with the Spanish movie Timecrimes. I wanted to recommend it here as a fine movie; a merciless examination of one of the maddening ambiguities of certain time travel stories.