I'm a sucker for time travel stories so I loved, loved, loved the new film Safety Not Guaranteed and I'm eagerly looking forward to Looper which opens this September.
Get back in time with these ten:
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Device: Customized rowboat
Upside: Restore
your belief in love and possibility
Downside: Lose your day job (wait, that’s still an upside!)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Device: a particular Parisian stoop at midnight
Upside: Meet exciting artists and writers from the 1920’s,
Downside: Realize you’re a bland sell-out.
Primer (2004)
Device: Large box
Upside: Make money in the stock market
Downside: Risk coma and death
Time Bandits (1981)
Device: Dwarves with a map full of holes
Upside: Witness great moments in history and steal treasure
Downside: Endlesssly chased by an evil sorcerer
Pleasantville (1998)
Device: Special remote control delivered by Don Murray
Upside: Experience an uncomplicated lifestyle
Downside: Get really, really bored
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Device: An enormous corroded sewer pipe
Upside: Save the future world from a devastating virus
Downside: Get locked up in an asylum
Back to the Future (1985)
Device: Customized DeLorean
Upside: See a
kinder, gentler America
Downside: Get hit on by future Mom
Time After Time (1979)
Device: A pod shaped time machine
Upside: Hunt for Jack the Ripper,
Downside: Risk girlfriend to the maniac
The Terminator (1984)
Device: Time displacement equipment that resembles a jet
engine
Upside: Save humankind from extinction,
Downside: You can only rest when you’re dead
The Jacket (2005)
Device: Combination
of straightjacket and morgue drawer
Upside: Save a young girl from a bleak destiny
Downside: Claustrophobia
1 comment:
Sounds good!
While I wait for this to come out over here, I'll watch the ones I haven't seen.
Actually we've been just wondering what to watch tonight, thanks for the list! :)
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