Time Travel

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Best Time Travel

Quick list of time travel movies and television, from best (at least, my favorite) to worst. Know any others?

1. Back to the Future
2. Groundhog Day
3. Midnight in Paris
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. Back to the Future II
6. Donnie Darko
7. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
8. Safety Not Guaranteed
9. Primer
10. Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
11. Predestination
12. Interstellar
13. Army of Darkness
14. Terminator 2
15. 12 Monkeys
16. "White Tulip" episode of Fringe (TV)
17. Source Code
18. Flash season 1 (2015)
19. Paycheck
20. Avengers: Endgame
21. Looper
22. About Time
23. Girl Who Leapt Through Time
24. Time After Time
25. Edge of Tomorrow
26. Terminator
27. The Adam Project
28. Deja Vu (2006)
29. Project Almanac
30. X-men: Days of Future Past
31. Lost season 5 (TV)
32. The Time Traveler's Wife
33. Somewhere in Time
34. Peggy Sue Got Married
35. Back to the Future III
36. "Bloodlines" episode of Young Justice (TV)
37. Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
38. Triangle
39. Clockstoppers
40. Kate & Leopold
41. Butterfly Effect
42. Hot Tub Time Machine
43. Time Bandits
44. Timecrimes

The two theories of time travel

1. You can change things. (free will; Back to the Future)
1. There is one timeline, that changes.
2. There are multiple or infinite timelines.
2. You can't change anything. (destiny; Terminator)

The four methods of time travel

1. Anything (aka people) travels (Back to the Future; most movies): duplicates possible
2. Consciousness only travels (Groundhog Day): no duplicates because you inhabit your younger self
3. Information only travels, such as viewing another time (Paycheck)
4. Maybe it was all a dream (Midnight in Paris, Connecticut Yankee)

Cool article that explains Donnie Darko. In summary, there was no way to figure it out from the movie alone.

Great artwork by Glen Brogan:

And by Thomas F. Wilson: