Meanwhile, humans also send back one of their own to protect her. In a war-torn future where humans are locked in a battle with intelligent machines, a cyborg assassin called a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), the woman fated to give birth to the eventual hero of mankind. “Terminator” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1984, 1991) Columbia PicturesĪfter the second (and arguably superior) film, the “Terminator” franchise gets a bit uneven, but James Cameron’s first two installments still hold up, with one of the coolest premises in the time travel genre. While viewers may come to “Time After Time” for the time-hopping cat and mouse chase, as Wells races to stop Jack from killing again, they’ll stay for the sweet romance that blooms between Wells and Amy along the way.
Feeling partially responsible for the harm Jack will inflict, Wells follows him to the late 1970s, where both men set their sights on bank teller Amy Robbins (Mary Steenburgen, who also appears later on this list in “Back to the Future III”), although for very different reasons.
Movies about going back in time serial#
While none of the cinematic adaptations of the prolific works of 19th century science-fiction writer HG Wells are on this list, the writer himself is (or at least a fictionalized version of him) in the time hopping murder mystery “Time After Time.” Malcolm McDowell plays Wells, who takes to his newly invented time machine after realizing that notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper (David Warner) is not only someone he considered a friend, but has also used his machine to travel to the future. Certain characters always got stuck in the past, and the carrier was always present on that day and did not engage the Japanese fleet.Why ‘The Adam Project’ Filmmaker Shawn Levy Embraced Emotion Over Sci-Fi in the Netflix Time Travel Tearjerker “Time After Time” (1979) Warner Bros. This suggests the same "whatever happen happened" theory that Lost would eventually use. TFC also opens with specific character(s) in the limo, one of which made sure Martin Sheen's character was on board the carrier before the jump back in time. Almost like nature is preventing a big change in history from occuring by placing that storm there. Remember also, The Final Countdown is different from BTTF in the fact that the time rift at the end of TFC forces the Carrier to call back it's planes and forget about engaging the enemy en route to Pearl Harbor. What they did with The Final Countdown pretty much ruined it for all other movies, because they smartly explained by Lasky (way before BttF did) the ramifications about changing history and what would have happened had they engaged the Japanese and prevented Pearl Harbor from being bombed.Good point. You know what DVDTalk needs? A book forum. Have you read the Lost Regiment series? I HIGHLY recommend them (I earlier mistyped calling them the Lost Battalion) Sadly, none of these have been turned into movies.I'll have to check some of those out. Oh, and the dinosaurs have a Japanese battleship on their side. So they decide to start the American Revolution a century and a half early.ĭestroyermen - A WWII destroyer gets sucked into an alternate Earth that's inhabited by two intelligent species, one descended from dinosaurs and the other lemurs. There's no military unit per se, but lots of people in the town are ex-soldiers, and their hunting rifles are more advanced than anything around. Essentially the Final Coutndown writ large.ġ632 - a coal-mining town in West Virginia is transported to Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. There are tons of science fiction novels along this line - the subgenre even has a name, "islands in the sea of time".Īxis of Time - a naval task force from the near-future gets sucked back to World War II.