Tag: time travel
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#2)
Back to the Future (1985) Marty Mcfly (Michael J. Fox), Travels back in time and accidentally alters the natural timeline that directly impacts him and his family. He must right his wrongs, before he ceases to exist. When: 1955 & 1985 Best part: Mcfly and his rock and roll moments were worth the entire price…
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#5
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Arnold returns in the 2nd (and best) installment of the Terminator franchise, but rather than being the baddy, Arnold is the protector of John Conner. When: 2029 & 1991 Best part: Robert Patrick is perfect as the T-1000. He is creepy, cold, and seemingly unstoppable. Worst part: T3 See…
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#6)
#6 Back to the Future 2 (1989) Marty McFly must travel back and forth in time in his pursuit to save his kids and a less than stellar future. However, lots of things go wrong which alters his home time in 1985. When: 2015, 1985, and 1955 Best part: Till this day I STILL dream…
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Time Travel in Early Heroic Mass Media
Time travel takes on a lot of forms, and comicbook/superhero writers have certainly done their fair share in broadening the tradition. This article covers some of the earliest instances of time travel concerning comics and superheroes. The Shadow (radio series) Chronologically, this old-time radio episode of The Shadow is the first instance of time travel…
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#7)
#7 Planet of the Apes (1968) Planet of the Apes is about an astronaut crew who crash-land on a strange planet in the distant future. At first the planet seems uninhabited, but soon the humans discover a civilization where apes are the dominate species, while humans are nothing but animal like servants. When: Distant…
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#8)
#8 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) “Ted” Theodore Logan & Bill S. Preston, Esquire are two metal headed slackers who end up time travelling, meeting some of history’s most famous individuals, and give one of the best school reports of all time. In the process, they shape the entire future for the better and…
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#9)
#9 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Bones take off with the rest of the Original Star Trek crew to the past in order to bring back a humpback whale to save all humanity. If that isn’t a sci-fi premise then I don’t know what is. When: 1986…
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#10)
#10 #10 The Time Machine (1960) Rod Taylor’s character travels into the future to see how his world turns out. At first he sticks to the not too distant future, but due to an accident he travels more than 800,000 years into the future. When: 1917, 1940, 1966 and finally 802,701 Best part: This was…
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EPISODE 2 – “What if You Could Go Back … to the FUTURE”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhy are time travel stories so compelling? What is it about the idea of traveling through time that captures our imagination? What do time travel stories teach us about ourselves? About God? Why are they just so much fun? In our second episode, we explore one of our…