Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: ARCO

I, uh...yeah, totally let the fortnight-and-a-half get away from me, so enjoy this review of the animated family film, "Arco".

France's entry into the 2025 Carnal Olympics—I mean, Best Animated Feature Oscar is about the okayist of okay flicks to ever be presented as a child's Saturday AM feature. There were only two youngsters in our showing and one of them left about two-thirds of the way through. He was probably around seven years old, and I salute him for hanging out that long.

No, it's not bad, really. I suspect the current 7.5 IMDB score will normalize closer to 7 because it's just not very remarkable. It's as unsurprising as an episode of "Law & Order".

The story is that in that far-flung future, a ten-year-old boy (Arco) who lives with his sister and parents in a word of floating cities, gets antsy to use their flying/time-travel suits, which is forbidden until he's twelve. He wants to see dinosaurs, though, so he puts on his sister's suit in the early morning and jumps of the edge of his city. Since the suit wasn't designed for him, he crashes to the ground and dies instantly.

No, of course not. Can you imagine? Cue the fan theories that that is what actually happened and the rest of the movie is his dying brain's last dream.

Youngsters might enjoy the sort of time paradox nonsense that have been nourishing lazy writers for decades.

Because he's an idiot, he can't make it back to dinosaur days but instead goes to the year 2075 A.D. where everyone lives in a house with their robot (who does all the work) and a girl and her baby brother are visited periodically by their parents, who work in the city and can only come home on weekends. The houses in 2075 are covered with domes, to protect them from the rain and constant fires.

It doesn't spell it out, but I can only presume this is a world where Global Warming has finally taken its toll.

Anyway, hero girl gets bored in class (all classes taught by robots) and makes up an excuse to leave and while she's out, sees Arco come crashing to the earth. She runs out to find him, and manages to steer away a menacing trio of brothers who are apparently looking for Arco.

Can I pause for a moment and say, living in an Arcology and naming your son "Arco" is like living in a bungalow and calling your son "Bungo"? I can't? Well, never mind, then.

The faces are very reminiscent of Ralph Bakshi ca. "American Pop".

Anyway, this all plays out more-or-less exactly as you'd expect, and isn't especially clever or aesthetic. (Last year's Flow was superior on both counts.) Again, it's not bad. But the only really standout part is the three brothers, who are weirdos, not really bad guys, but also vanish from the film about three-quarters of the way through. Even they're not that original, but their backstory (that they saw a rainbow from one of these time-travelers, and no one will believe them) is kind of cute, and gives the movie its only not-super-slick feel.

I think the movie is hand-drawn, which is fine, can be good, but the look didn't really grab me. Again, it's not bad, just not that interesting. Same with the voice casting: It's an all-star cast with America Ferrara, Jake Gyllenhaal, Flea, Mark Ruffalo, Andy Samberg—honestly, the only voice I "heard" was Will Ferrell's. Actually, Arco himself was played by newcomer Juliano Valdi. All fine. It's fine, I tell you!

The Boy liked it more than I did, though he really just wanted to go see any movie, and we're in the pre-awards muck.

Do I recommend it? Sure, I guess, if you need to kill ninety minutes. It won't make you mad, probably, unless you're sick of the climate change propaganda. I will give it points for suggesting we're going to find our way out of the current mess, but I'll dock it some for 1970s-style "We'll build arcologies!"

I don't know. This still looks...less than fine, tbh.

Other films I saw last month:

28 Years Later: The Bone Palace: Even wackier than its predecessor and largely nonsense, the Boy and I rather enjoyed it. Hard to recommend unless you liked its predecessor or have a serious Ralph Fiennes thing.

Send Help: Sam Raimi doing his horror thing. You'll probably like it if you liked, e.g., Drag Me To Hell. We had a schizophrenic guy laughing and yelling like Max Cady through the whole show, unfortunately.

Iron Lung: The Boy enjoyed this one more than I did, but he also knew a little more about what was going on. I had a hard time hearing the exposition at the beginning over the rest of the soundtrack, and I had a hard time understanding what the significance of anything was. I didn't hate it, but I couldn't get it into it much. The Boy really dug it.

I also saw the classics: Hard-Boiled, Tombstone and Strangers on a Train. The last, the Barbarienne and I saw at the Old Town Theater in El Segundo, which was an experience in itself, and fascinating because the older couple sitting next to us left at the end of second act becuse they were SHOCKED to find the movie had MURDER in it.

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1 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 07, 2026 07:32 PM (rbKZ6)

2 Three weeks speed by.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 07:32 PM (asXVI)

3 I just watched A Bridge Too Far again. Great cast, cinematography, editing, it's Attenborough. Might be my favorite WWII film other than The Longest Day.

Posted by: mot at February 07, 2026 07:35 PM (fIPNY)

4 12 o'Clock high is the greatest movie ever

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 07, 2026 07:37 PM (jrgJz)

5 "Final Descent" (1997) Dumbfoundingly stupid airline disaster movie, a perfect archetype of corny TV-movie style. (Its YT commenters ask "why don't they make good movies like this anymore?" Seriously, WTAF? No link for this one.)

"Ten Nights In A Bar Room" (1926) 63 mins. Just nominated to National Film Registry. It held my interest; I enjoy the juicer genre genre-lly. I suggest muting the modern musical score, since it misinterprets the mood of the story.
youtube.com/watch?v=cWj76idYnhY

"Invasion USA" (1952) Selfish taxpayers balk at defense spending, and then pay for it with their lives when The Enemy, sensing our stinginess, attacks the USA. Oh wait! It was all a dream.
youtube.com/watch?v=o1Btb4pO9-A

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 07:38 PM (N8ZBc)

6 I remember "Bridge" as a disappointment, but I should watch it again. (I saw it when it came out.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 07:38 PM (asXVI)

7 "The Drag-Net" (1936) Cute actresses. imdb does not know the name of the actress who plays "Miss Perry," which gives me the sadz.

"Mulholland Falls" (2001) Plenty of beautiful LA location shots, and special attention given to color design throughout. The thought of Jennifer Connelly boning Nolte and Malkovich is revolting, but I give major kudos to the costumer who came up with her outfits: OMG, those are MAJOR kudos she's got!

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 07:38 PM (N8ZBc)

8 "The Drag-Net" (1936) Cute actresses. imdb does not know the name of the actress who plays "Miss Perry," which gives me the sadz.

"Mulholland Falls" (2001) Plenty of beautiful LA location shots, and special attention given to color design throughout. The thought of Jennifer Connelly boning Nolte and Malkovich is revolting, but I give major kudos to the costumer who came up with her outfits: OMG, those are MAJOR kudos she's got!

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 07:39 PM (N8ZBc)

9 This sounds like the kind of movie I would never watch. But what do I know, I'm going to watch "The Gorgon" tonight on Svengoolie.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2026 07:39 PM (vFG9F)

10 Ooops sorry for duplicate comment.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 07:40 PM (N8ZBc)

11 Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man deserved an Oscar!!!

"He's gonna take my girl, I'm gonna take his bike."

It's better writing than that James Cameron teen angsty garbage 'Titanic'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 07, 2026 07:40 PM (BW+Gb)

12 ARCO is a gas!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 07, 2026 07:41 PM (Cqx++)

13 "Mayor of Kingstown" TV series, 4 seasons so far. Prolly the most depraved, violent, black-pilled TV series I've ever seen. Taylor Sheridan yet again; the guy is a machine. The women in this one are less annoying than those in his "Yellowstone" and "Landman." The worst lady, the party-pooping, uber-woke, hates-everything, AWFL mom/teacher, gets killed off soon enough. The first season has bare titties galore, but S2-S4 have near zip.

Story: A stumpy little ex-con in a suit, copiously fueled by brown liquor, drives incessantly through Kingstown, bossing everybody (LE, gang leaders, DAs, wardens, etc) around, making promises he can't keep, purposely betraying some folks, screwing up everything he touches, all resulting in a truly massive body count; yet, after forty eps, everybody still does what he says, and nobody thinks to tell him to just fuck off, or simply shoot him. (I mean, he IS a very tiny target, but c'mon gangsters!) Show is on hiatus because the dinky star actor got et up by his own snow machine IRL. Maybe 8 eps still to come, the rumors portend darkly.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 07:41 PM (N8ZBc)

14 "Ooops sorry for duplicate comment.
Posted by: gp"

A comment so nice
We posted it twice

Posted by: The hampsters at February 07, 2026 07:42 PM (vFG9F)

15 12 ARCO is a gas!
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Should've been named "Unleaded".

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 07:45 PM (asXVI)

16 Kudos mean elbow?

Noltes hat squad and the sleezy scientist by played by malkovich

In the chinatown vein

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 07:45 PM (bXbFr)

17 The author didnt know at the time That anthony blunt had leaked the arnhem war plaj to the germans

Why because he a tosser

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 07:49 PM (bXbFr)

18 I liked Mulholland Falls. Mmmmm, Jennifer Connelly. I never quite got the appeal of Melanie Griffith. She's cute and all, but as an actress, meh. MG was all cute and nekid and possibly underaged in a Gene Hackman movie from the 70s: Night Moves. It was pretty good, as I recall. Gene Hackman was a great actor. Even mediocre scripts improved when he was the lead.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 07, 2026 07:50 PM (BW+Gb)

19 Behind bridge

It was the last of the old fashiondd ensemble war movies with caine connery olivier et al

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 07:50 PM (bXbFr)

20 I also saw the classics: ... ~~Strangers on a Train~~. The last, the Barbarienne and I saw at the Old Town Theater in El Segundo, which was an experience in itself, and fascinating because the older couple sitting next to us left at the end of second act becuse they were SHOCKED to find the movie had MURDER in it.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:30 PM

That movie is decades old. How could you NOT know the movie features murder?

It makes me wonder at what kind of bubble that "older couple" lives in.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 07, 2026 07:52 PM (pJWtt)

21 I am not a fan of the look of that animation.

Piggy faces.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 07:54 PM (bss/y)

22 The war plan was kind of bonkers but it wasnt just that

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 07:55 PM (bXbFr)

23 The Boy enjoyed this one more than I did, but he also knew a little more about what was going on. I had a hard time hearing the exposition at the beginning over the rest of the soundtrack, and I had a hard time understanding what the significance of anything was. I didn't hate it, but I couldn't get it into it much. The Boy really dug it.
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I just saw it today, and while I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would, I had many of the same Olds issues. I sort of understood what was going on, but the gaggle of teen boys next to me really grokked the situation. Presumably they played the video game. Me, I had to read a summary to understand the VERY ABRUPT ending. I would suggest waiting until it streams and you can use subtitles.

The lead guy, who looks like a lumpier Keanu, wasn't bad at all, and I liked that he bypassed the studios and got funding, distribution, wrote, acted, and directed, and his three million dollar picture is making gobs of money for an indie.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 07, 2026 07:55 PM (kpS4V)

24 That movie is decades old. How could you NOT know the movie features murder?

It makes me wonder at what kind of bubble that "older couple" lives in.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 07, 2026 07:52 PM (pJWtt)

They probably had just never heard of the movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 07:55 PM (bss/y)

25 Never really been into war films, I view them as horror adjacent, which is another genre I don’t care for.

There are exceptions though. Stallag 17 and Life is Beautiful, which are really war adjacent films.

I really don’t know what my point is, but when I finish this Gimlet, maybe one will come to mind.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2026 07:55 PM (XV/Pl)

26 "It makes me wonder at what kind of bubble that "older couple" lives in."

Santa Monica?

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 07:55 PM (N8ZBc)

27 If you're going for the anime aesthetic, you can't go halfway. If you do widely-spaced eyes, you also have to do the oversized hyper-expressive eyes.

Otherwise, you've got a whole cast of Down Syndrome kids.

Be Better, French animators.

Posted by: mikeski at February 07, 2026 07:56 PM (VHUov)

28 Otherwise, you've got a whole cast of Down Syndrome kids.

Be Better, French animators.
Posted by: mikeski at February 07, 2026 07:56 PM (VHUov)

Heh. The eyes are black holes where their soul should be.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 07:57 PM (bss/y)

29 Stalag and life is beautiful are at opposite ends with the greae escape somewhere in the middle

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 07:57 PM (bXbFr)

30 Why do anime film come off better than most live action

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 07:59 PM (bXbFr)

31 12 o'Clock high is the greatest movie ever
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 07, 2026 07:37 PM (jrgJz)

That is such a great movie. A great portrayal of how combat takes its toll on unit commanders.

I saw a Youtube commentary that claimed that the initial plans were to film in color, but the studio decided to use black-and-white, partly because they could use WWII gun camera footage and it not contrast with the movie.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 07, 2026 07:59 PM (pJWtt)

32 29 Stalag and life is beautiful are at opposite ends with the greae escape somewhere in the middle
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 07:57 PM (bXbFr)

Interesting Juxtaposition. One is wallowing in the horror. The other is treating it as a problem to be solved.

I prefer the range of Great Escape to Stalag.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:00 PM (bss/y)

33 The story is that in that far-flung future, a ten-year-old boy (Arco) who lives with his sister and parents in a word of floating cities, gets antsy to use their flying/time-travel suits, which is forbidden until he's twelve.
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Wait a minute...

A twelve-year-old boy gets to use a time-travel suit?

And no one sees a problem with this?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2026 08:00 PM (ESVrU)

34 Wait a minute...

A twelve-year-old boy gets to use a time-travel suit?

And no one sees a problem with this?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2026 08:00 PM (ESVrU)

I wonder how many people have tried to kill baby hitler?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:01 PM (bss/y)

35 Yeah what could go wrong watch out for butterflies

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:01 PM (bXbFr)

36 That new movie with Sam Rockwell, "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" looks like it will be fun. Per IMDB, a "Man From the Future" arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 07, 2026 08:01 PM (kpS4V)

37 "I wonder how many people have tried to kill baby hitler?"

Every time somebody tries, baby hitler flees in his own time machine.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:02 PM (N8ZBc)

38 As much as the cast the score by hermann sells the film

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:02 PM (bXbFr)

39 It makes me wonder at what kind of bubble that "older couple" lives in.
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They were in their 70s, easily. And yet somehow were shocked (shocked!) to find that Alfred Hitchcock had made a movie featuring MURDER!

I wonder if they're just regulars at that theater and otherwise ignorant of cinema. Because if you scroll down the Old Town Music Hall's schedule, you see very little murder in the Hitchcockian sense.

https://tickets.oldtownmusichall.org/all-shows

Some westerns. "White Heat". You gotta scroll all the way down to, like, "L.A. Confidential" on May 30th, to get anything close.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:04 PM (asXVI)

40 36 That new movie with Sam Rockwell, "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" looks like it will be fun. Per IMDB, a "Man From the Future" arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 07, 2026 08:01 PM (kpS4V)

https://tinyurl.com/z7j35dc7

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:04 PM (bss/y)

41 I wonder how many people have tried to kill baby hitler?

It’s all the time-travelers trying to kill him that turned him into the monster he became!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 07, 2026 08:05 PM (dhHpw)

42 I just saw it today, and while I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would, I had many of the same Olds issues.
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Yeah, I thought it might be an Oldy Olderson thing.

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Presumably they played the video game.
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My son had seen a play-through.

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The lead guy, who looks like a lumpier Keanu, wasn't bad at all, and I liked that he bypassed the studios and got funding, distribution, wrote, acted, and directed, and his three million dollar picture is making gobs of money for an indie.
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Markiplier is apparently a Big Name On You Tube. Wrote, directed, starred--and gave first and biggest credit to the video game maker.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:05 PM (asXVI)

43 If Sam Rockwell doesn’t dance in the film, can it be said it’s a Sam Rockwell film?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2026 08:06 PM (XV/Pl)

44 "In honor of Black History Month", our theater showed previews of upcoming melanin-rich movies, which, hey, fine, but the host of the segment was the most queerfabulous twink imaginable. S/he had a beard and lots of pink lipgloss and flapped her little hands as s/he squealed.

The young folks were laughing at it. Everybody is over this crap.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 07, 2026 08:06 PM (kpS4V)

45 Marvel did ruin the multiversw didnt they

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:06 PM (bXbFr)

46 31 12 o'Clock high is the greatest movie ever
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 07, 2026 07:37 PM (jrgJz)

That is such a great movie. A great portrayal of how combat takes its toll on unit commanders.

I saw a Youtube commentary that claimed that the initial plans were to film in color, but the studio decided to use black-and-white, partly because they could use WWII gun camera footage and it not contrast with the movie.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 07, 2026 07:59 PM (pJWtt)

Combat taking its toll on unit commanders? Holy hell, you could not tell from the monotone dialogue by EVERYBODY. I saw it and…no. 12 O’Clock High is grossly overrated. And I know as a USAF vet this is blasphemy, but there it is.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 07, 2026 08:07 PM (hJH5n)

47 It’s all the time-travelers trying to kill him that turned him into the monster he became!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 07, 2026 08:05 PM (dhHpw)

THAT would be a great Twilight Zone.

'In trying to stop him, they created him.'

*takes long drag off lucky non-filter*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:07 PM (bss/y)

48 The last, the Barbarienne and I saw at the Old Town Theater in El Segundo, which was an experience in itself, and fascinating because the older couple sitting next to us left at the end of second act becuse they were SHOCKED to find the movie had MURDER in it.

Heh. "Older couple."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:07 PM (fhCge)

49 45 Marvel did ruin the multiversw didnt they
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:06 PM (bXbFr)

At it's heart it never was a good idea- even when done in the comics. Early on they tried the 'what if' which were cool. As soon as they did the 'alternate reality' thing and made it real somewhere, it reduces stakes down to nothing. Does not matter if someone dies, or the world dies or whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:08 PM (bss/y)

50 I'm just picturing Baby Hitler in a Jetsonsesque scooter shaking his chubby little fist at his pursuers and vowing baby revenge.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 07, 2026 08:09 PM (kpS4V)

51 Eris, yeah, that Sam Rockwell movie will at least have Sam Rockwell in it. The trailers...I don't know...I hate to have hope but maybe they are getting better?

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A twelve-year-old boy gets to use a time-travel suit?

And no one sees a problem with this?
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I excuse this and a lot of ARCO's issues on the basis of: It's a kid's movie, and so certain unrealistic things have to be allowed in order for there to be any room to tell a story.

It tasks me, however.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:09 PM (asXVI)

52 THAT would be a great Twilight Zone.

'In trying to stop him, they created him.'

*takes long drag off lucky non-filter*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:07 PM (bss/y)
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It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I vaguely remember something similar happening in Looper.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2026 08:09 PM (ESVrU)

53 I wonder how many people have tried to kill baby hitler?

It’s all the time-travelers trying to kill him that turned him into the monster he became!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 07, 2026 08:05 PM (dhHpw)

I picture Baby Hitler running like a quarterback through the waves of time travelers that come back to destroy him. Hell, he'd probably barely have time to eat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:10 PM (fhCge)

54 Terminator is a reverse killing baby Hitler movie.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2026 08:10 PM (XV/Pl)

55 Markiplier is apparently a Big Name On You Tube. Wrote, directed, starred--and gave first and biggest credit to the video game maker.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:05 PM (asXVI)

I am actually listening to the EFAP on Iron Lung in the background right now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:10 PM (bss/y)

56 We've had like 30 seasons of baby hitler already: Stewie Griffin.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:11 PM (N8ZBc)

57 I picture Baby Hitler running like a quarterback through the waves of time travelers that come back to destroy him. Hell, he'd probably barely have time to eat.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:10 PM (fhCge)

Instead, like the opening training montage of conan, he turns into this bulked out monster who is ducking knives, bullets and flying wild animals.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:11 PM (bss/y)

58 Well there was that, but also not enough diversity of universes

Yes loopsr showed rian johnsons promise that he squandered in the last jedi

The telepathic baby which becomes uber gangster

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:11 PM (bXbFr)

59 Heh. "Older couple."
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Older than 29!

I couldn't tell if they were actually 80 or if they were just hard-won 70s. (People in their 70s now were young adults in the 70s, and that was a hell of a time.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:11 PM (asXVI)

60 Tried watching from Here to Eternity again. Still don't like it. Not a flattering look at the military or humans .

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:12 PM (cwGMH)

61 Instead, like the opening training montage of conan, he turns into this bulked out monster who is ducking knives, bullets and flying wild animals.

Don't forget the cute little toothbrush mustache.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:12 PM (fhCge)

62 True, gp. Stevie even had a time machine in one episode!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 07, 2026 08:13 PM (kpS4V)

63 I started Clarkson’s Farm 4. Usual stuff from Clarkson.
Soon baseball…
Last movie I watched front to back in one sitting was probably Bad Grandpa.

Posted by: Accomack at February 07, 2026 08:13 PM (/Chlc)

64 You know the industry is rigged when all of the voice casting is done by union hacks.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Flea, Mark Ruffalo, Andy Samberg, really?

Nobody gives a fuck about these hacks. This is why Hollywood is failing and will continue to fail.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 07, 2026 08:14 PM (xFfhU)

65 62 True, gp. Stevie even had a time machine in one episode!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 07, 2026 08:13 PM (kpS4V)

To escape from teething. The first two season were great. When it got canceled and came back, I never could get into it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:14 PM (bss/y)

66 Yeah, time travel is stupid.

Posted by: Accomack at February 07, 2026 08:14 PM (/Chlc)

67 Yeah, time travel is stupid.
Posted by: Accomack at February 07, 2026 08:14 PM (/Chlc)

You got that right.

Posted by: Back to the Future, Episode II at February 07, 2026 08:15 PM (fhCge)

68 And the simpson ran that scenario into the ground

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:15 PM (bXbFr)

69 The time traveling movie that I hated the time traveling is Somewhere in Time . Kind of liked the movie but still don't get the time traveling.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:15 PM (cwGMH)

70 You got that right.
Posted by: Back to the Future, Episode II at February 07, 2026 08:15 PM (fhCge)

And another example of a movie that had no need of a sequel.
-Matrix, John Wick, etc etc

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:15 PM (bss/y)

71 Yeah after the second one i didnt go to the third

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:16 PM (bXbFr)

72 One of the reasons I like “Throw momma from the train” is that it’s an extremely comical reworking of Strangers on a Train. In fact I like the comedy version better.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2026 08:16 PM (JbyEi)

73 62 True, gp. Stevie even had a time machine in one episode!
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The Family Guy movie had time travel, IIRC. I believe they made it in the interim between being canceled and being brought back.

It was better than the Futurama movies, which were just grim.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:16 PM (asXVI)

74 69 The time traveling movie that I hated the time traveling is Somewhere in Time . Kind of liked the movie but still don't get the time traveling.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:15 PM (cwGMH)

1) He was horny (hard to blame him. Prime Jane Seymour.)
2) He surrounded himself with everything that came from the period he wanted to go. He chanted to BELIEVE he was in the time he wanted to go.
3) ????
4) Time travel.
5) Damn penny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:17 PM (bss/y)

75 Jake Gyllenhaal, Flea, Mark Ruffalo, Andy Samberg, really?

Nobody gives a fuck about these hacks. This is why Hollywood is failing and will continue to fail.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 07, 2026 08:14 PM (xFfhU)

I like Andy Samberg and enjoyed Palm Springs almost as much as Groundhog Day.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:17 PM (cwGMH)

76 That ai trial film with chris pratt didnt really xatch fire

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:18 PM (bXbFr)

77 I hear that the last Indiana Jones movie had a time travel sequence. Nobody can really be sure since no one went to see it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:18 PM (fhCge)

78 Wow.

Posted by: Eromero at February 07, 2026 08:18 PM (LHPAg)

79 The tomorrow war was an interesting one

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:19 PM (bXbFr)

80 Yes that was terrible

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:19 PM (bXbFr)

81 77 I hear that the last Indiana Jones movie had a time travel sequence. Nobody can really be sure since no one went to see it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:18 PM (fhCge)

Last Crusade did not have any time travel.

*meaningful look*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:19 PM (bss/y)

82 I pretend that the series ended with last crusadw

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:20 PM (bXbFr)

83 79 The tomorrow war was an interesting one
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:19 PM (bXbFr)

Yvonne Strahovinsky. One of the few things she did besides Chuck (since I don't watch Dexter.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:20 PM (bss/y)

84 Good evening everyone
Losing badly this Sci-fi game

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2026 08:20 PM (RSUIl)

85 Last Crusade did not have any time travel.

*meaningful look*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:19 PM (bss/y)

Good point. I should have put "Indiana Jones movie" in quotes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:20 PM (fhCge)

86 Terminator is a reverse killing baby Hitler movie.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I read if you watch Jaws in reverse, it's about a generous shark that distributes arms and legs.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 07, 2026 08:20 PM (cxFcK)

87 Heh. "Older couple."
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Older than 29!

I couldn't tell if they were actually 80 or if they were just hard-won 70s. (People in their 70s now were young adults in the 70s, and that was a hell of a time.)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:11 PM (asXVI)

Some people make themselves old. The number doesn't necessarily have much of anything to do with it.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2026 08:21 PM (VN1EE)

88 Skip, just use your Time Machine!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 07, 2026 08:21 PM (kpS4V)

89 Ugh those character designs. I think you insult Ralph Bashki as that character has dead eyes, soulless eyes, shark eyes.

Not seen such questionable character designs since the story "Presence" in Robot Carnival.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 07, 2026 08:21 PM (2GVsD)

90 Lucas could never write meaningful dialogue but then spielberg forgot and the less said about waller bridgr the better

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:21 PM (bXbFr)

91 Kate and Leopold was a good romcom time traveling movie.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:22 PM (cwGMH)

92 Infinity War Thanos time travel was beyond stupid. Same problem X Men had. Gets tedious

Posted by: Accomack at February 07, 2026 08:22 PM (/Chlc)

93 86 lol

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:22 PM (N8ZBc)

94 Mark Ruffalo has one of the most punchable faces in Hollywood. He drowns in the smug. He needs a punch in the nuts too. That would be entertainment.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 07, 2026 08:22 PM (/WQyy)

95 Yes bakshis work had plenty of expression

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:23 PM (bXbFr)

96 Anyone watched the Sam Rockwell movie 'Mr Right'? Any good?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:23 PM (bss/y)

97 I liked the movie A.I.

Posted by: Eromero at February 07, 2026 08:23 PM (LHPAg)

98 95 Yes bakshis work had plenty of expression
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:23 PM (bXbFr)

I thought it was interesting, but it always came off as dirty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:24 PM (bss/y)

99 Edge of Tomorrow and 12 Monkeys two other time traveling movies I really enjoyed.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:24 PM (cwGMH)

100 Mark Ruffalo has one of the most punchable faces in Hollywood. He drowns in the smug. He needs a punch in the nuts too. That would be entertainment.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 07, 2026 08:22 PM (/WQyy)

His nuts would be hard to hit due to their small size.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:24 PM (fhCge)

101 “I read if you watch Jaws in reverse, it's about a generous shark that distributes arms and legs.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 07, 2026 08:20 PM (cxFcK)“

From Ref Dwarf, when they land on the Reverse Time planet: “Santa Claus! What a bastard! E’s the bloke who shows up every Christmas morning and takes away all the children’s favorite toys!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2026 08:25 PM (JbyEi)

102 Anyone watched the Sam Rockwell movie 'Mr Right'? Any good?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:23 PM (bss/y)

I thought it was awesome. I've watched it three times.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:25 PM (cwGMH)

103 66 Yeah, time travel is stupid.

I'll elaborate on this idea, because LOTS of things are stupid, in some sense or another, or are regarded as such by lots of people (e.g. musicals).

Time travel can be done in fun and interesting ways. Like. "The Time Machine" uses time travel just as a device to speculate on the future. "Sound of Thunder" uses it to reflect on the fragility of history. (Which may or may not be true, but it's also a short story, so it's fun.)

Rob Kroese's "Iron Dragon" series uses it as an excuse to build a spaceship in Viking times. Great. In the first "Back to the Future" it's just a gimmick to expose the fraud of elders reflecting on their past.

It actually falls apart here but nobody cares because it's just a fun time.

But if you want to see absolute laziness, watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, where time travel stories are used as an increasingly cheap way to grab dramatic oomph without having to pay for them.

And this, honestly, the usual. "Oh, someone's dead! But not really!" It's okay in "Superman: The Movie", I guess, but even there most people didn't get that was time travel.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:25 PM (asXVI)

104 I described the audience for "Melania" as a bunch of old people, then had to laugh. Yeah, Eris, you are a seasoned dame yerself.

It was a weekday matinee, hence the greyhairs/-beards.

I did love it when one old dame shouted "We love Melania, don't we?" and the audience roared approval.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 07, 2026 08:25 PM (kpS4V)

105 Yes that one was really clever (moebius loop)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:26 PM (bXbFr)

106 “I read if you watch Jaws in reverse, it's about a generous shark that distributes arms and legs.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 07, 2026 08:20 PM (cxFcK)“

From Ref Dwarf, when they land on the Reverse Time planet: “Santa Claus! What a bastard! E’s the bloke who shows up every Christmas morning and takes away all the children’s favorite toys!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2026 08:25 PM (JbyEi)
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Heh. I had the same thought!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2026 08:26 PM (ESVrU)

107 Peacock has Black Phone 2. I liked Black Phone 1 very much. More than Weapons.

Hulu on the other hand has the bio-pic of Bruce Springsteen. I like the actor but just no. No, no, no, no.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 07, 2026 08:26 PM (cxFcK)

108 If time travel is overused, so is the 'non-chronologically-told story' * technique in movies. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it don't.

* somebody here probably knows the technical term for that technique.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:27 PM (N8ZBc)

109 ***what actually happened and the rest of the movie is his dying brain's last dream
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Hanged man when I was about eight was intriguing the I See Dead People with Bruce Willis sucked me in and I was pissed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2026 08:27 PM (ACD6O)

110 69 The time traveling movie that I hated the time traveling is Somewhere in Time . Kind of liked the movie but still don't get the time traveling.

In "Somwhere in Time", the time travel is metaphysical. I dug it, because it's basically "It's whatever year you can convince yourself it is." And beware of anything that might remind you what year it really is.

Not appropriate for science-fiction but definitely on the mark for a romance/fantasy. And it doesn't try to play games with causality or undo drama.

Richard Matheson (who wrote it) did a lot of time-travel using a lot of different ideas. I don't think he was lazy about it.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:28 PM (asXVI)

111 Well there were consequences to the time jump in one of them

But times arrow was sloppy

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:28 PM (bXbFr)

112 I just watched A Bridge Too Far again.

-
My Bridge theory. The final scene is Kate Ter Horst (who allowed her mansion to be turned into a hospital) and her family pull a cart over the horizon at dusk. I think that is a reference to the final scene in Bergman's The Seventh Seal in which the characters pull a cart over the horizon. In addition to just liking this movie because it's good, I like it because it skillfully blends art and realism. Also, I like Maximilian Schell.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 07, 2026 08:28 PM (J+Psw)

113 I thought it was interesting, but it always came off as dirty.

That's just Fritz the Cat.

Then there is Osamu Tezuka's Kleopatra movie which has time travel as the main theme. Plus the questionable US tag line of being an X-rated cartoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp-Am77XTKY

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 07, 2026 08:28 PM (2GVsD)

114 I pretty much like all Sam Rockwell movies.

Just watched Seven Psychopaths again.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:28 PM (cwGMH)

115 I don’t think about movies except to remember certain scenes that replay in my mind.
The other gimmick is the infinite time line.

Posted by: Accomack at February 07, 2026 08:28 PM (/Chlc)

116 For a time travel movie, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is entertaining.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:29 PM (fhCge)

117 >>>Mark Ruffalo has one of the most punchable faces in Hollywood. He drowns in the smug. He needs a punch in the nuts too. That would be entertainment.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

>I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 07, 2026 08:29 PM (xFfhU)

118 I really don’t get Mark Rufalo at all, his acting is sub par, he’s not good looking, he’s not interesting, etc.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2026 08:29 PM (XV/Pl)

119 Chris walken just steals thar whole film

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:29 PM (bXbFr)

120 *** to protect them from the rain and constant fires.

It doesn't spell it out, but I can only presume this is a world where Global Warming has finally taken its toll.
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The liberal's paradox; they have constant fire but are protected from the rain - it must be global warming.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2026 08:30 PM (ACD6O)

121 "Groundhog Day" is a time travel movie without a machine, I guess.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:30 PM (N8ZBc)

122 Also, I like Maximilian Schell.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!

He's so good in Judgment in Nuremburg. I appreciate anyone who can speak a second language like a native.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 07, 2026 08:30 PM (cxFcK)

123 In one Star Trek episode, a couple of temporal anomaly investigators beam aboard the Enterprise and somebody jokes "Right on time!" And the agents roll their eyes, having heard that a dozen times.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 07, 2026 08:30 PM (kpS4V)

124 If time travel is overused, so is the 'non-chronologically-told story' * technique in movies. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it don't.

* somebody here probably knows the technical term for that technique.
Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:27 PM (N8ZBc)

Nothing is overused or underused. It always depends on who's using it.

Sorta like sex. If you participate in a sex act, and the person you are with isn't to your liking (wrong gender, horrendously bad breath, etc), whatever technique they are using is overused.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2026 08:30 PM (uEQTA)

125 For a time travel movie, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is entertaining.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:29 PM (fhCge)

I forgot about that one. I liked it a lot.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:31 PM (cwGMH)

126 Ma, I'm coming Ma, I'll be there.
_J. Cagney

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2026 08:31 PM (ACD6O)

127

The Man Who Was Never Born

https://t.ly/Qv9UW

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 07, 2026 08:31 PM (Cqx++)

128 He really deepsixsd mickey 17

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:31 PM (bXbFr)

129 I think you insult Ralph Bashki as that character has dead eyes, soulless eyes, shark eyes.
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It wasn't quite so bad in the theater, but I think I'm right about the style. I'm not saying it's a good copy of Bakshi only that I haven't seen this kind of style since Bakshi. (Or before, really.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:32 PM (asXVI)

130 If Obama had a son he'd name him Bungho.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2026 08:33 PM (ACD6O)

131 I really don’t get Mark Rufalo at all, his acting is sub par, he’s not good looking, he’s not interesting, etc.

I have to wonder how a guy with as little as Ruffalo has in looks or charisma got tagged to be a "star." The guy should just thank his lucky stars, be humble and STFU.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:33 PM (fhCge)

132 “We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 07, 2026 08:33 PM (EXyHK)

133 I forgot about that scene, at the 22-minute mark; Cleopatra drinks a magic potion she turns red and little jets of steam erupt from her nipples and other orifices.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 07, 2026 08:33 PM (2GVsD)

134 Its curious when they invent as comoelling a character as schells in that film (who didnt really exist)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:33 PM (bXbFr)

135 Regarding "Mulholland Falls," I rewatched it recently too.

Lots to like about it, but the story was the weakest aspect of it. Style over substance.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2026 08:34 PM (uEQTA)

136 "Lots to like about it, but the story was the weakest aspect of it. Style over substance."

Some of the dialogue underwhelmed me.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:35 PM (N8ZBc)

137 They sank a lot of subs in the Bungo straits.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 07, 2026 08:35 PM (Cqx++)

138 Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:28 PM (asXVI)

I get the metaphysical aspect but I don't get how other people are included in it. (How is Jane Seymore character involved in his metaphysical world to confront him later in her life? )

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:35 PM (cwGMH)

139 || Peacock has Black Phone 2.

Worst film I saw last year, I think.

I give them points for trying not to do the same thing over again.

I deduct them all because it's absolute garbage that gets worse with every passing scene.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:36 PM (asXVI)

140 I hear that the last Indiana Jones movie had a time travel sequence. Nobody can really be sure since no one went to see it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

I liked him traveling to Ancient Greece (OK, OK to an ancient Greek city in Sicily) thinking great, just leave him there. He'll be happy and that'll put the final nail into the Indy coffin. But no! He comes back to NYC.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 07, 2026 08:36 PM (J+Psw)

141 Yes the conspiracy didnt really work

That was a roger donaldson film

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:36 PM (bXbFr)

142 Speaking of rewatches, I rewatched "Don't Look Up" yesterday evening.

I've decided it's a damn near perfect film. From start to finish, and this time by the time I was done (before the end credits scene), I found myself feeling profoundly sad. A big reason for that was the juxtaposition of various short clips of life, both animal and human, interspersed throughout the film.

Weakest element of the whole film was Meryl Streep and Jonah Hill. They both seemed to be in a different movie, where their characters were complete farce. Everyone else was more or less playing it straight, even when their characters were behaving absurdly.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2026 08:37 PM (uEQTA)

143 Is Memento a time travel movie?

Posted by: davidt at February 07, 2026 08:38 PM (Q+gd/)

144 137 They sank a lot of subs in the Bungo straits.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 07, 2026 08:35 PM (Cqx++)
The monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga.

Posted by: Eromero at February 07, 2026 08:39 PM (LHPAg)

145 Reincarnation, that part didnt really make sense

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:39 PM (bXbFr)

146 Some of the dialogue underwhelmed me.
Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:35 PM (N8ZBc)

Best line of the film is when Nolte is beating the crap out of the Baldwin who was playing a fed. He says something like "The only thing that will save you is if I can't find you. And I already found you."

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2026 08:39 PM (uEQTA)

147 I think so. And Stargate.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 07, 2026 08:40 PM (/WQyy)

148 Midnight in Paris does raise the great question of what period of time would you consider the best and would it really be better?

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:40 PM (cwGMH)

149 Nice time travel fantasies? The original Twilight Zone -- "Walking Distance," with Gig Young and written by Serling. One of the series' best episodes. The 80s Twilight Zone -- "One Life Furnished in Early Poverty," with Peter Riegert, script IIRC by Alan Brennert from Harlan Ellison's short story (Ellison's story has a darker finish, but TZ's version is still a good adaptation). Jack Finney of Body Snatchers fame did a number of time travel stories that are collected in the book About Time, highly recommended; he also did a couple of novels, Time and Again, and From Time to Time, and I understand people have tried to get a film of Time & Again off the ground for years. The movie Grand Tour, from Kuttner & Moore's "Vintage Season," ain't bad though the novella's better. And see Fritz Leiber's Change War stories too.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 07, 2026 08:40 PM (q3u5l)

150 Is Memento a time travel movie?
Posted by: davidt at February 07, 2026 08:38 PM (Q+gd/)

No. Except in the sense that the character is traveling back in time, due to his rather unique disorder (heh, that word).

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2026 08:40 PM (uEQTA)

151 I deduct them all because it's absolute garbage that gets worse with every passing scene.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)

You just saved me 2 hours which, at my age, I really can't spare.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 07, 2026 08:41 PM (cxFcK)

152 Strangers on a Train
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"Criss-cross!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 07, 2026 08:41 PM (RIvkX)

153 I get the metaphysical aspect but I don't get how other people are included in it. (How is Jane Seymore character involved in his metaphysical world to confront him later in her life? )
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The mechanism is basically spiritual/psychological. (The hitch is, if your spirit could go back, your body wouldn't also. But Isekai ignores all this and it's crazy popular.)

He does travel back in time, so he's there and she's real in her own time. But is travel was reckless and damaging.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:41 PM (asXVI)

154 I've decided that the near perfect popcorn movie is The Mask of Zorro. Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas and the lovely lovely Katherine Zeta Jones.

The cast is pitch perfect and delightfully watchable, the villains are deliberate and evil, the action sequences rock and the score is over the top.

It's sobering to watch something as well-made as this and compare it to the crap that they excrete in Hollywood today.

Okay not sobering, but, you know what I mean.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:42 PM (fhCge)

155 147 I think so. And Stargate.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 07, 2026 08:40 PM (/WQyy)

I've always said the Stargate movie was just a future John Carter on Mars.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:42 PM (cwGMH)

156 Thr twilight zone episodes understood you cant avert disasters like hiroshima or pearl harbor no matter how you try

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:43 PM (bXbFr)

157 Voices of a Distant Star or Gunbuster, time travel or not?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 07, 2026 08:44 PM (2GVsD)

158 If Taylor Sheridan doesn't come out with "Sicario 3" soon, I'm going to sic a cartel assassin on his ass. Take a week off from TV scripting, and do what needs to be done, dammit.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:44 PM (N8ZBc)

159 Hitler had to cut his mustache to fit into a
gas-mask... This is how he looked before:

https://is.gd/YunLBD

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 07, 2026 08:44 PM (dhHpw)

160 116 For a time travel movie, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is entertaining.

I don't like Woody Allen stuff (setting aside all his baggage, even), but I'm going to quote my own review:

https://moviegique.com/2011/07/midnight-in-paris/

|If I were going to write the executive summary for
|Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, it would probably be:
|“This is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for
|nebbishy dweebs who think they’re too good for The
|League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.”

But that's just my opinion. I'm glad other people enjoy it.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:44 PM (asXVI)

161 Time is fleeting. You can only propel forward, not back.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 07, 2026 08:44 PM (xFfhU)

162 Thr twilight zone episodes understood you cant avert disasters like hiroshima or pearl harbor no matter how you try

The Final Countdown made kind of the same point. Another great popcorn movie.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2026 08:44 PM (fhCge)

163 Yeah but how do you top sicario 2

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:45 PM (bXbFr)

164 I thought Maximilian Schell was terrific in the movie from Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions -- his part was one of the best things about the picture. They turned a lot of the story six ways from Sunday (pleasing Brando, maybe? I dunno), but Schell was just fine. Thought I read somewhere that he knew no English at the time it was filmed.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 07, 2026 08:45 PM (q3u5l)

165 Time travel movie?

The Final Countdown

"Splash the Zeroes, I repeat splash the Zeroes."

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 07, 2026 08:45 PM (2GVsD)

166 140 I hear that the last Indiana Jones movie had a time travel sequence. Nobody can really be sure since no one went to see it.
...
I liked him traveling to Ancient Greece (OK, OK to an ancient Greek city in Sicily) thinking great, just leave him there. He'll be happy and that'll put the final nail into the Indy coffin. But no! He comes back to NYC.

The AI/Movie that is begging to be made and worth seeing is for Harrison Ford to Quantum-Leap through all his character movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 07, 2026 08:45 PM (FA9qE)

167 "Yeah but how do you top sicario 2"

Alejandro and his young new apprentice come back and kill that CIA bitch and the deep staters who run her.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:46 PM (N8ZBc)

168 Except for the twist at the end

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:46 PM (bXbFr)

169 Yeah whos really the villain in that one

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:48 PM (bXbFr)

170 O would say alejandro because he kills everybody in his rage

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:49 PM (bXbFr)

171 Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:41 PM (asXVI)

So when did he first metaphysically go back in time ? If he doesn't remember it but Jane Seymour does then he never did it before Jane Seymour triggers him to try. If he never did it then Jane Seymour wouldn't have met him.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:49 PM (cwGMH)

172 Ugh, that sounds like a movie I can miss!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2026 08:50 PM (0yjaw)

173 94 Mark Ruffalo has one of the most punchable faces in Hollywood. He drowns in the smug. He needs a punch in the nuts too. That would be entertainment.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

He's overcompensating for the fact that he's profoundly mediocre and will be little remembered when he dies. He's barely remembered now, and he's alive. I think (goes to the interwebs). Yep, alive.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 07, 2026 08:51 PM (BW+Gb)

174 Alejando is not a villain. He's just a messenger. He said so.

Matt and Forstner die trying to defend CIA Cynthia.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:51 PM (N8ZBc)

175 Thr twilight zone episodes understood you cant avert disasters like hiroshima or pearl harbor no matter how you try
Posted by: Miguel cervantes

I just bought the book Bringing Him Back by Gary Whitmore about a guy who goes back in time to save his grandfather who was a fighter pilot during WWII in the Pacific. Apparently, he also learns you get no free second bite of the apple. (I'm a sucker for WWII air war and for time travel so just STFU!)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 07, 2026 08:51 PM (J+Psw)

176 161 Time is fleeting. You can only propel forward, not back.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 07, 2026 08:44 PM (xFfhU)
I know! Last year I was 76 and now I’m 77.

Posted by: Eromero at February 07, 2026 08:52 PM (LHPAg)

177 Forsing, not Forstner.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:52 PM (N8ZBc)

178 So when did he first metaphysically go back in time ? If he doesn't remember it but Jane Seymour does then he never did it before Jane Seymour triggers him to try. If he never did it then Jane Seymour wouldn't have met him.
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I...haven't seen it in over forty years...I'd have to rewatch. Or maybe read the book.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 07, 2026 08:52 PM (asXVI)

179 >>For a time travel movie, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is entertaining.

Yes, it is. Naturally, the women are all self-absorbed flakes. There's a scene where the camera is focused on Rachel McAdams' butt that's weird.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2026 08:52 PM (0yjaw)

180 So when did he first metaphysically go back in time ? If he doesn't remember it but Jane Seymour does then he never did it before Jane Seymour triggers him to try. If he never did it then Jane Seymour wouldn't have met him.
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:49 PM (cwGMH)

She figured out what had happened after he disappeared (she had the book on time travel in her home and her nurse said she was obsessed with it.) She prompts him to go back, even for a short time.

So, temporal loop. She confronts him, he sees the painting, which prompts him to go back. In the painiting she is smiling at him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:53 PM (bss/y)

181 No good people in Sicario. But I guess when you're dealing with bad people you have to get down close to their level.

I would have killed Benito after his mission.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:54 PM (cwGMH)

182 "No good people in Sicario."

Exactly.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:54 PM (N8ZBc)

183 I've been thinking about trying Midnight in Paris again (saw some of it a few years ago, but did not finish); what put me off was Owen Wilson. For reasons known but to God, Owen Wilson is like fingernails on a blackboard to me. Anaconda is a dumb movie, but it gets points because the snake eats Owen Wilson about halfway through. The remake of The Haunting should earn a sentence in Gitmo for most of those involved, but they did kill off Owen Wilson IIRC, so sentence suspended. I feel much the same way about Chris Tucker.

YMMV.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 07, 2026 08:55 PM (q3u5l)

184 If it wasnt for the bankers like hsbc or deutsch or banamex the kingpins couldnt stay in business

So maybe they are the proper target

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:55 PM (bXbFr)

185 118 I really don’t get Mark Rufalo at all, his acting is sub par, he’s not good looking, he’s not interesting, etc.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

He has other gifts.

Posted by: Casting Couch at February 07, 2026 08:55 PM (BW+Gb)

186 Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:53 PM (bss/y)

Again if he never time traveled until she triggered him ....

There has to be a beginning. Chicken or Egg

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:56 PM (cwGMH)

187 Well emily blunts character

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:56 PM (bXbFr)

188 Again if he never time traveled until she triggered him ....

There has to be a beginning. Chicken or Egg
Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 08:56 PM (cwGMH)

It's the temporal paradox. Grandfather Paradox?

That's why it's called a Paradox.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:57 PM (bss/y)

189 All my forces got killed so heading home. Should be bot over a hour

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2026 08:57 PM (RSUIl)

190 >>I really don’t get Mark Rufalo at all, his acting is sub par, he’s not good looking, he’s not interesting, etc.

This. Whiny, wimpy Gen X soyboy.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2026 08:57 PM (0yjaw)

191 First movie I noticed Mark Rufalo in was Foxcatcher. He seemed OK for the role. Wikipedia sez he's from Kenosha. Somebody warn Grammie Winger.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 08:58 PM (N8ZBc)

192 There was a terrible film that ruffalo did the same year as avengers with gwenith paltrow that dhowed how pathetic he is

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 08:58 PM (bXbFr)

193 I thought a paradox was when Ben Casey meets Kildare.

Hat tip to Allan Sherman.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 07, 2026 08:59 PM (q3u5l)

194 >>>I know! Last year I was 76 and now I’m 77.

Posted by: Eromero

>Excellent. We all wish we can live a full productive life. I see so many, under 29 year olds, being harvested by the reaper, I wonder about our civilization.

Let's fire up the time machine and see what 2050 has in store.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 07, 2026 08:59 PM (xFfhU)

195

Go forward to 802701

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 07, 2026 09:00 PM (Cqx++)

196 "Well emily blunts character"

She signed the paper in the end, rather than die on principle.

I liked her a lot in that role.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 09:00 PM (N8ZBc)

197 162 Thr twilight zone episodes understood you cant avert disasters like hiroshima or pearl harbor no matter how you try

The Final Countdown made kind of the same point. Another great popcorn movie.
Posted by: Cicero

Yep. I really liked that movie. Not perfect but damn entertaining. Plus the soundtrack is a great ear worm.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 07, 2026 09:01 PM (BW+Gb)

198 "Let's fire up the time machine and see what 2050 has in store."

Please let's not. I can wait.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 09:01 PM (N8ZBc)

199 Testing new laptop

Posted by: wth at February 07, 2026 09:01 PM (BT3km)

200 Ruffalo wasn't bad in Collateral.

Posted by: davidt at February 07, 2026 09:01 PM (Q+gd/)

201
I thought a paradox was when Ben Casey meets Kildare.

Hat tip to Allan Sherman.
Posted by: Just Some Guy

Zorba meets Gillespie

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 07, 2026 09:02 PM (Cqx++)

202 Who is really the sicario is it the cartel gunmen or alejandro or the special ops team

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 09:02 PM (bXbFr)

203 That's why it's called a Paradox.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:57 PM (bss/y

There are different paradoxes. Some which are logically contradictory that can't be reconciled and some that contain truth such as the more I learn the less I know.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 09:02 PM (cwGMH)

204 "Who is really the sicario?" CIA.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 09:03 PM (N8ZBc)

205 OK

Posted by: wth at February 07, 2026 09:03 PM (BT3km)

206 Good time travel movie: Edge of Tomorrow!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2026 09:04 PM (0yjaw)

207 96 Anyone watched the Sam Rockwell movie 'Mr Right'? Any good?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2026 08:23 PM (bss/y)

Very entertaining!

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at February 07, 2026 09:04 PM (ZTJjv)

208 199 I think your 'e' key is busted. I got 'Tasting naw laptop'.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 09:05 PM (N8ZBc)

209 182 "No good people in Sicario."

Exactly.
Posted by: gp

Similar to Michael Caine's 'Get Carter'. Brutal, but very good movie. No good guys. Michael Caine's 'Carter' is about as close as it gets and he's a cold blooded, murderous sociopath.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 07, 2026 09:05 PM (BW+Gb)

210 Good time travel movie: Edge of Tomorrow!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2026 09:04 PM (0yjaw)

Emily Blunt in both Looper and Edge of Tomorrow

Bruce Willis in Looper and 12 Monkeys

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 09:05 PM (cwGMH)

211 Foxcatcher
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That movie was jarring for the casting in the same way as Ordinary People. Steve Carrell was awesome against type.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 07, 2026 09:05 PM (RIvkX)

212 211 Concur.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 09:06 PM (N8ZBc)

213 >>Anyone watched the Sam Rockwell movie 'Mr Right'? Any good?

Yes. Rockwell is fun to watch, and Anna Kendrick is great in it, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2026 09:07 PM (0yjaw)

214 Mark Buffalo was pretty good in Zodiac. But, mostly, I am not a fan. He's the kid at my school that tried way too hard to fit in, and always had a stream of spittle on the corner of his mouth. And smelled like beef barley soup.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 07, 2026 09:07 PM (0aYVJ)

215 Its the source material

Also if you live in that state of nature you cant be good and live

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 09:08 PM (bXbFr)

216 Loved the movie but did anyone else dislike both protagonists in Whiplash?

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 09:08 PM (cwGMH)

217 Since I enjoyed Westminister Dog Show (the only awards show where the winners know their job is to be cute and happy and never preach about politics) I am thinking of watching "Best in Show" this week. I didn't know Catherine O'Hara was in it until I saw the clip they showed during Westminister. Always enjoyed her work, especially in "Beetlejuice."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 07, 2026 09:09 PM (JuSDn)

218 216 I think the message is that great art requires suffering.

Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 09:09 PM (N8ZBc)

219 216 I think the message is that great art requires suffering.
Posted by: gp at February 07, 2026 09:09 PM (N8ZBc

I hate that message.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 07, 2026 09:10 PM (cwGMH)

220 Yeah someone willing to kill himself for the teachers approval

But it is a powerful film that chazelle hasnt topped since

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 07, 2026 09:10 PM (bXbFr)

221 Also, thx to those who responded to me in the earlier thread re: my crazy and potentially dangerous nephew.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 07, 2026 09:11 PM (JuSDn)

222 >>I didn't know Catherine O'Hara was in it until I saw the clip they showed during Westminister. Always enjoyed her work, especially in "Beetlejuice."

Here character in Best in Show is a piece of work, lol!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2026 09:11 PM (0yjaw)

223 Also, thx to those who responded to me in the earlier thread re: my crazy and potentially dangerous nephew.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 07, 2026 09:11 PM (JuSDn)

I read thread late. God bless your family. I hope he gets the help he needs.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 07, 2026 09:12 PM (/WQyy)

224 Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy were bottled lightning. "Best in Show," "A Mighty Wind."

Amazing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 07, 2026 09:13 PM (0aYVJ)

225 There has to be a beginning. Chicken or Egg

According to Novikov’s self-consistency hypothesis, if you could time travel, you could not make temporal contradictions: like killing your grandfather so you were never born. Instead you can only do things that are self-consistent: that is you can do things that make the future happen, exactly the way things turned out. So you can have a Worm Ouroboros effect: no beginning, no end, just self fulfilling cause and effect. Novikov came up with this hypothesis when he tried to simulate time travel on a pool table and tried to set up collisions that would prevent the ball from falling into the pocket that leads to the past and sets up the future collision. He couldn’t do it. All he could get were collisions that set up time travel to make the collision that does sets up the time travel, etc. Eventually he did the collisions in quantum mechanics in case classical physics was deficient for modeling time travel. Same result: only self-consistent atemporal collisions could occur.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 07, 2026 09:15 PM (dhHpw)

226 Yes. Rockwell is fun to watch, and Anna Kendrick is great in it, too.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2026 09:07 PM (0yjaw)

They make such a good pair, it's astounding to me her career isn't bigger.

Rockwell it seems has made a conscious choice to not be the lead character in most of his roles, but when he does, he's wonderful. "Box Of Moonlight" is a quirky gem worth seeing.

As for Kendrick, I would watch her doing the proverbial phone book read. Adorable is the only word that makes any sense.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2026 09:16 PM (RNgUH)

227 The thing that bugged me about Sicario was the lady FBI agent who is shocked - shocked, I tell you! - to find out her federal LE agency is corrupt.

It ruined the whole movie for me, because suspension of disbelief can only go so far.

The FBI is so notoriously crooked that it's simply impossible to pretend an agent working for them would somehow not know, or be an idealist. It's the freaking FBI. The most corrupt police agency in the country.

This would be like a movie about the Aztecs where a priest was like " whoa, we're sacrificing WHAT, again? I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 07, 2026 09:16 PM (BI5O2)

228 Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy were bottled lightning. "Best in Show," "A Mighty Wind."

Amazing.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 07, 2026 09:13 PM (0aYVJ)

I didn't realize until earlier today that she had died.

RIP to a wonderful performer.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2026 09:18 PM (RNgUH)

229 My son told me he watched A BRONX TALE, either on his phone or laptop. I was surprised because most of his generation (high school) like You Tubers and the like and don’t seem to watch full movies. Nice to see he can watch a film pre 2020.

Posted by: Lex at February 07, 2026 09:18 PM (y4H1r)

230 The O'Hara clip they showed at Westminister was of O'Hara getting ready to take her dog out on the floor and tripping over her platform shoes and spraining an ankle. That sold me right there. Theres a reason all those lady dog handlers wear flats, even when they're all dressed up.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at February 07, 2026 09:20 PM (JuSDn)

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