Space Time Stories » time machine http://www.spacetimestories.com Space and Time Travel Stories. A Science Fiction Blog By Sean O'Brien Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:24:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 An excellent time travel movie: Timecrimes http://www.spacetimestories.com/fiction/time-travel-fiction/an-excellent-time-travel-movie-timecrimes/ http://www.spacetimestories.com/fiction/time-travel-fiction/an-excellent-time-travel-movie-timecrimes/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:14:31 +0000 Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=408 I watched Timecrimes on Netflix streaming video.  It was excellent.

It met many of my criteria for a good time travel movie:  It had a time machine and they used it several times, there was a time loop and the protagonistic had to work hard to eliminate and prevent any paradoxes.

The middle of the movie was really slow but presented a lot of details which were critical to the ending.

The movie is in Spanish, looks like there will be a new English version in 2011.

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As a time travel story it was excellent, there was a time machine, multiple uses of that machine, time travel was a key element of the story, and there was even a time loop. The overall story dragged at many points, especially when he fell into the trap of anti-Christian ranting.  Then it rushed far too quickly through the climax.

Why is it that smart scifi writers can’t imagine a world where Christians are heroes and live respectable lives? At least the anti-Christian stuff was relatively tame and the rest of the book was good enough to overcome it.  The narrator was well casted, he sounded about 23 and exactly like a physics graduate student.

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Mine says:

Time machine broken, dinosaurs are drooling !

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