Diego Unchained

In the words of Bruce Willis "I don't want to talk about time travel, because if we do, we'll be here all day making little diagrams with straws."

Seriously, no one knows HOW time travel would work. Does this make sense AT ALL? No, of COURSE NOT! But neither does The Terminator, Bender's Big Score, Star Trek: The Voyage Home, Men In Black III, or Prince of Persia! Until someone actually figures out how to travel through time, we'll be stuck with mere speculation.

Feb 21 - 12:23 PM

The Doctor

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

Feb 7 - 09:18 PM

Alex Nunn

If people are going to dismiss this movie over something as silly as "Un-realistic time travel" than the'll have to dismiss EVERY other sci-fi movie/show. Doctor Who (pseudo science at best), any superhero movie with powers (Super heroes would have to eat more than a metric ton of food to burn the calories necessary to power flight, Superman's invulnerable skin and muscles would be so dense they could not function), Star Trek (you mean to tell us that by some random chance majority of sentient life in the universe just HAPPENS to be bi-pedal humanoids? also, you mean to tell me that you can manipulate gravity yet all you do with it is simulate earth on a ship!?), Firefly/Serenity (in a universe with no FTL established the trip to other planets alone would outlast the crew). None of these are bad franchises really, but there is no way you can pick on this movie without pointing out other movie's mistakes.

Feb 3 - 05:35 AM

Tallulah Robinson

If you're going to debate the time-space continuum, you're gonna have to do it in English, mate.

Jan 30 - 04:26 PM

Alex Ball

cengiz mate, dont worry about it its not important, good film though.

Jan 21 - 08:11 PM

Steve Ebert

Time-space continuum doesnt work that way? Neither does this movie.

Jan 20 - 12:38 PM

Greg Dinskisk

There is a line near the beginning of the movie, where Abe said, "This time travel shit, it fries your brain." He later says that he cannot kill young Seth, because that would mess up many things.

Young Joe, in the café talking to Old Joe, starts asking about the conversation that they're having, and where it's going. Old Joe essentially says, "No. Fuck this. If we were here talking about time travel, how we're even having this discussion, we'd be here all day, making diagrams with straws." That shows that Rian Johnson wasn't too concerned with the physics aspect of the film so much as some people, like Shane Carruth's PRIMER. The time-travel concept wasn't even the main part of the movie, or the focus, so in honesty, that doesn't even matter. What matters is the relationships between Joe and Sarah's characters, Joe's life in generally (I mean the mains parts, the reflection his new life has with Old Joe's), the human aspect, not the science aspect.

Completely dismissing a film due to some quantum physics mess-ups is ridiculous. If this was 'completely' scientifically true, there would no way for time travel, in this sense, to exist, taking away much of the film's strong motifs and themes.

Jan 19 - 08:25 AM

James Phoenix

I have a question that no one here seems to be asking: WHO THE HELL CARES? Honestly, it's a fucking time travel movie, it's gonna have plot holes. You know why? Because as smart as you think you are, you don't know how time travel works and neither does anybody else. That's why movie maker have to get creative. It's called creative license. Bitching about the space time continuum is about as pointless as questioning why the DeLorean was able to go back in time.

Jan 15 - 01:42 PM

Nicolas Woo

The film acknowledges that at the beginning there is a possibility of infinite time travel loops, but by the end of the movie the director got bored with life on the farm, and forgot postulate terms of his own. So we have this boring illogical movie that people admire.

Jan 9 - 02:30 AM

Cengiz Ünver

What a lame excuse for defending movie's structure with idea of time travel's
abstract concept that cannot connected to any reality,so everything counts and legit
and no physics can be applied eh,of course who can't develop an idea even about
a story no doubt can't comment anything about time travel itself.

Jan 7 - 05:42 AM

Alex Maverick

And how the hell would you know how that shit works? Oh right, You don't.

Jan 6 - 07:49 PM

Nyn Tut

That's how YOUR Space-Time Continuum. How do we know how Time Travel works?

Jan 5 - 12:48 AM

John Michael

Yeah, right... next you're going to try telling me Marty McFly had nothing to do with the birth of Rock N Roll

Jan 4 - 11:28 PM

Cody Halpert

What an idiotic post. It's like trying to explain why lightsabers would not be able to be different colors or some other pointless shit like that.

Jan 4 - 07:52 PM

hollis mills

dumb asses

Jan 3 - 12:26 PM

Cengiz Ünver

When Joe travels back in time breaks his time-space continuum,this means if young Joe kills himself only kill himself(doesn't vanish in to thin air),because old Joe not at the future anymore, so he can't effect by his past now, while just living in another past.
So closure part really doesnt make any sense, not convincing and beliavable anyway to convey how the idea of loop working as persistent one.

Jan 2 - 01:45 PM

Matthew Martino

You've gotta just shutdown your scientific mind in order to enjoy most sci fi movies. In this case, time travel with the concept of being able to permanently change the past.....cause......couldn't someone else just go back and unkill you?? And if you did kill your former self.......you wouldn't have existed in the new version of the future to even go back to kill your younger self........thus you weren't killed and you will exist......securing you the opportunity to go back and try.......but you can't complete it, cause then no future self to do it.....yeah........whatdya know......Its a loop, haha. Just enjoy the damn movie!!! I scream at the logic centers of my brain

Dec 31 - 06:34 PM

Joe Hendricks

It's a movie sport, and time travel is (shhhhh) not real

Dec 28 - 01:25 AM

Alex Maverick

Dude, you can't think about plotholes in a time travel movie. Every time travel movie has them, and it just takes the enjoyment out of them. P.S. you can't say "time-space continuum doesn't work that way" because I don't think you know that either.

Dec 21 - 09:46 PM