OT: the best time loop ?

[Gryphin]

I like the SG1 episode where some aliens set them up to relive situations from their past over and over and over.

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

The Final Countdown,
U.S.S. Nimitz goes back in time a few days before Dec 7, 1941. We get to see just how good F-14's are against Mitsubishi Zero fighters. And how to take out a helicopter with a flare gun.
If I could go back in time I would not buy Imperium Galactum, or Moo3, and use the money saved to waterproof Atrocities's house.
Yeah I'll second that 12 Monkeys also.

[Narrew]

This is not a time issue, but it is something I have thought about. Total Recall, I wish they had done a sequel because I don't know if he was in the chair the whole time, or if he was a "spy", I think they did a great job of fooling me, well I was caught completly off guard with the Sixth Sense also so maybe its just me.

[tesco samoa]

for me it is the bugs bunny one....

[narf poit chez BOOM]

there was another sg1 time loop one. very funny. ti'lk and o'neal live the same day over and over and over again for 2-3 months. minor spoiler: one second after time loops, ti'lk gets hit in the face with a door.

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Narrew:
This is not a time issue, but it is something I have thought about. Total Recall, I wish they had done a sequel because I don't know if he was in the chair the whole time, or if he was a "spy", I think they did a great job of fooling me, well I was caught completly off guard with the Sixth Sense also so maybe its just me.

I've always wonder if Total Recall really happened, or if that was a fantasy he went through. That flash of light at the end really makes you wonder. I've never heard anything about it; unlike the interview of the director for Blade Runner in which he did admit that Decker was a replicant. As far as Sixth Sense, I too was surprised at the ending.

[dogscoff]

I've always wonder if Total Recall really happened, or if that was a fantasy he went through

Hell yeah, it was a fantasy. The way that the whole film completely fulfilled his wish-list (the athletic, classy, ****ty woman etcetc) did it for me. Also that highly improbable machine capable of making an entire planet's atmosphere breathable in less time than it takes for Arnie's eyes and veins to bulge unconvincingly out of his pLasticised head could never exist in anything other than some crappy, exagerrated, quasi-scifi, adolescent gunporn fantasy.

[David E. Gervais]

Grrrrr, someone had to mention BladeRunner eh? One of my favorite movies, but no longer available in it's Great Original Theatrical release. (With Harrison Ford Narrating) Now the only Version you(I) can find is the stinky, bland, boaring, Director's Cut. That IMHO is but a shadow of the original. I don't mind a Director's Cut Version, but don't remove the original. I'd like to see how sales would compare if the Origial Version was available for sale at the same time as the Director's Cut. I bet the Original would out sell the DC Version by at least 4-1. (That would be very satisfying, to have the director find out his Version sucks, and that he never should have changed a Great movie into a mediocre one.)

Oh well, nuf said.

Cheers!

P.S. BTW My vote goes for Final Countdown, with GHD a close second.

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
there was another sg1 time loop one. very funny. ti'lk and o'neal live the same day over and over and over again for 2-3 months. minor spoiler: one second after time loops, ti'lk gets hit in the face with a door.

Ah, one of my favourite episodes! "What are you smiling at?" *dreaming* "…Nothing…"

[Kamog]

I thought that Total Recall was real and not fantasy. Quail (Schwarzenegger) knew it was real when that psychologist guy came and told him to swallow the pill, but he was sweating with fear.

Has anybody read the Total Recall book by Piers Anthony? I haven't read it, so I don't know how close it is to the movie.