by John Constantine
Time travel is simultaneously the most useful and the most destructive tool in the storyteller’s arsenal. Need to bring someone recently and unexpectedly deceased back to the land of the living? Bam! Just go back and save them. Say it’s magic, say it’s a wormhole, say you have a time machine. It’s fantasy, man — you can do whatever you want.
Another classic example: you’re a human-hating artificial intelligence named Skynet and have been enjoying world domination for fifteen lovely post-apocalyptic years. The only problem is this dingus named John Connor. You can’t seem to get your army of robotic Terminators to kill him. Your solution? Send a robot into the past to kill his mom! Wait… that doesn’t make any sense at all. If you already have a time machine, why not just send back all kinds of Terminators to 1862 and have them take over then? That’s the problem with time travel: it never, ever makes any sense. The "Terminator" series, right up to this week's "Terminator Salvation," is one of the worst offenders in this category, creating an entirely new continuity with each new movie. Here are five others that warp the mind. Read More...
Tags 13 going on 30, back to the future, bill & ted's excellent adventure, donnie darko, southland tales, terminator salvation, the time machine
Last week’s sad death of Michael Jackson has all of us in the MTV newsroom working overtime these days, for obvious reasons. We already ran a story on MJ’s direct influence in movies and TV including “The Wiz” and “The Simpsons.” What’s even more impressive is the movies he inspired without even appearing in them. 
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Wackiest Time Travel Movies That Don't Involve A Naked Terminator
Posted 5/22/09 4:00 pm EST by MTV Movies Team in Commentary
Time travel is simultaneously the most useful and the most destructive tool in the storyteller’s arsenal. Need to bring someone recently and unexpectedly deceased back to the land of the living? Bam! Just go back and save them. Say it’s magic, say it’s a wormhole, say you have a time machine. It’s fantasy, man — you can do whatever you want.
Another classic example: you’re a human-hating artificial intelligence named Skynet and have been enjoying world domination for fifteen lovely post-apocalyptic years. The only problem is this dingus named John Connor. You can’t seem to get your army of robotic Terminators to kill him. Your solution? Send a robot into the past to kill his mom! Wait… that doesn’t make any sense at all. If you already have a time machine, why not just send back all kinds of Terminators to 1862 and have them take over then? That’s the problem with time travel: it never, ever makes any sense. The "Terminator" series, right up to this week's "Terminator Salvation," is one of the worst offenders in this category, creating an entirely new continuity with each new movie. Here are five others that warp the mind. Read More...
Tags 13 going on 30, back to the future, bill & ted's excellent adventure, donnie darko, southland tales, terminator salvation, the time machine