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Has there ever been a time travel movie that kept the logic straight?

Kind of hard to do when its all theory anyways isnt it? We dont know if its even possible.

Although i just saw Looper the other day and was pleasently surprised.
 
I don't think it is even possible for a time travel movie to keep it's logic straight. Time travel leads to paradox, and paradox by definition is not logical.
 
Primer seemed to take the premise more seriously, and treat it in a more plausible way, than anything else I've seen. While the movie is confusing it is, I think, internally logical and coherent.
 
Bird222 said:
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No.

Why? Because time travel is movement in the 4th dimension. Only way to "work" in the movies is to tack on "time-space travel". Which the calculations behind that.... are way too complicated to even guess where the planet earth in the solar system, where the solar system is in a spinning galaxy, and where in the universe is said galaxy located?

Because the planet is always spinning. The planet is always rotating around the sun. The solar system is always moving around the center of the galaxy. And the galaxy is speeding away from the "big bang" point ever increasing/accelerating.
 
SMOGZINN said:
I don't think it is even possible for a time travel movie to keep it's logic straight. Time travel leads to paradox, and paradox by definition is not logical.
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Not if you just always time travel forward (barring time-space travel).

Because that would cause no paradox.
 
KeithTalent said:
Primer.

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I was going to suggest Primer, but it's hard to be sure they keep it completely straight. It takes about a dozen supercomputers working in unison to keep the timelines in Primer sorted out and the average viewer has no chance in hell of knowing exactly who is where and when. You just kind of go along for the ride because it all sounds so cool.
 
Back to the Future

Beer fueled Delorean -> Jaws 19 and hoverboards

It's just as logical as any other time travel movie.
 
diesbudt said:
Not if you just always time travel forward (barring time-space travel).

Because that would cause no paradox.
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If the ability to time travel forward exists, surely they'd figure out in the future how to time travel you back, therefore creating the paradox. Fast forward enough to the time that you do...or ultimately fast forward to a time where you get killed. You then alter the future, because you are not around in the present to live out what happens in the future, right?
 
RagingBITCH said:
If the ability to time travel forward exists, surely they'd figure out in the future how to time travel you back, therefore creating the paradox. Fast forward enough to the time that you do...or ultimately fast forward to a time where you get killed. You then alter the future, because you are not around in the present to live out what happens in the future, right?
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The minute you time travel backwards is when a paradox can exist.

However forward doesn't matter. Because when you time travel forward, the time between you leaving and coming you "do not exist" thus if you were to time travel forward, and die it wouldn't affect anything as you didn't affect the past any.

Also forward time travel is actually really possible. It is just rather impractical, expensive, and the person in the time travel will not experience an instant jump from A-->B.

Hence if you travel really fast. (such as space shuttle) Time distorts itself a bit, and you come back about 7? minutes younger than you would have been if you never left the earth at that exact time.

Basically you jumped 7 minutes into the future. But look at the time, energy and pricetag to do it?
 
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RagingBITCH said:
If the ability to time travel forward exists, surely they'd figure out in the future how to time travel you back, therefore creating the paradox. Fast forward enough to the time that you do...or ultimately fast forward to a time where you get killed. You then alter the future, because you are not around in the present to live out what happens in the future, right?
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Time travel only happens when traveling at the speed of light or getting close to a black hole afaik. It's not like you push a button and transport to a different time. Time just slows down for you but the rest of the world operates in normal time.
 
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