Hey there, welcome to the sixth edition of Thursday Movie Picks! I hope you have been joining us the previous weeks. If you haven't, it's still not too late to join. For new folks, the rules of this weekly meme is simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each. For more information on the meme and future topics please visit the meme's page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Movies about Time Travel
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Time Travel movies are a lot of fun and most will definitely give your brain a lot exercise. For something that may not at all be possible, there are a lot rules to adhere to.
Many of the more popular time travel movies tend to be adventure/action/science fiction movies, most are set in some distant or not to distant future and are about traveling to the past to save the world from some disaster. But for my picks, I'll be picking the more low key time travel dramas with relatively contemporary settings.
As always, my picks in alphabetical order:
The first time I heard about About Time, I thought...Rachel McAdams in another romantic time travel movie (I still haven't watch The Time Traveller's Wife)? I blame it on the poster. Tim is a time traveler. He travels back in time sometimes selfishly to alter events to seek a happier future himself and at times to prevent accidents. But time travel is of course a tricky business which gives rise to other unwanted consequences which we do see here as well. But what I like about About Time was that it also presented time travel as an opportunity to have more time to do things that you love or to spend more time with your love ones. It was also very refreshing to watch a movie that featured a pretty functional family that actually enjoy each other's company.
This I have heard as being the time travel movie to watch. It is certainly one of the more meticulous time travel movies that I have seen that attempts to play by some of those tricky rules. The movie does get a little confusing at times along the way, but I got most of it and Primer is certainly of those movies that would benefit from a second viewing.
Christopher Reeve plays, Richard, a playwright, who is approached by an elderly lady who gives him a pocket watch and cryptically asks him to come back to her. Intrigued yet? Not Richard, not until much much later when an elderly hotel employee believes he looks like a man from his childhood. Realising there must be some kind of connection to the old woman, he seeks for a way to travel back in time to meet her. I'm a fan of period movies and this is a pretty movie. Jane Seymour and her costumes in Somewhere in Time were just gorgeous. I also enjoyed the time travel aspect of the movie which came full circle in the end. Here's a little spoiler so highlight the next line if you want to see...If you remember where it starts, you'd know how it ends, which is the tragedy of this love story.
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Haven't seen any of these, but I do want to check out Primer.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see more participants this week. I enjoyed reading their entries.
Me too. It seems time travel movies are something movie fans like.
DeleteHaven't seen any of these either, but I believe I have Somewhere in Time in my collection, I gotta get around to checking that one out.
ReplyDeleteAlso, like Wendell said, I was impressed with everyone's lists for this week's topic, it was nice not seeing Back to the Future as one of everybody's entry. I, myself thought that one would've been too obvious and most if not everyone has seen at least one of the movies once or twice so I didn't need to mention it.
Oh then you definitely get around to seeing Somewhere in time.
DeleteBack to the Future - yes it's definitely the obvious choice. time travel is even implied in the title. I guess the reason I didn't include it is that it's been at least a decade since I've seen and can't remember enough of it.