I don't think the time loop has to start somewhere. I find the idea of a causal loop just as plausible (or more plausible) than multiple timelines. 

Isn't the whole point of the movie that John Connor specifically sends Kyle Reese because John knows who the father is?

T1's hole comes from viewers overcomplicating time travel. 

maybe in T1 but the rest of them dont seem to fit that.

metl, yeah fair point, it works on the causal loop interpretation. I just dont like that theory on TT :) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8w95xIdH4o

this from now on. 

haha yeah, there's even a line similar to that in bttf2 where marty tells doc they have to go back to 1955 and doc says that either 1955 is like some blah blah scientific sounding nexus of time or it's just a huge coincidence. :P 

time travel movies I saw this year: timecrimes and triangle. both of them seemed to make more sense than the average movie which tries to handle this stuff. 

really want to see that! 

is fucked up. It sort of made sense, but the part where there were hundreds of bodies and the lead character had only seen 2 or 3 rounds kinda broke it for me. Having said that it was very deep for a movie. And quite disturbing. Reminded me of the feeling you get when you wake up from a real nasty nightmare where you loose all you love. 

saw that a few weeks ago. Good film.

But I didnt really see it as a time travel movie even though it was presented that way.




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I thought it was more of a purgatory at sea movie. Aeolus (name of the ship) had a similar punishment when he tried to cheat death (infinitely pushing a boulder up a hill). One of the characters also has a line about the name of the ship which is a hint. And Charon shows up at the end too :)

Ricky, my take was that the movie starts in the middle of a loop. The number of bodies indicates that there has been many many loops previosuly(probably since she first crashed the car and killed herself and her son).

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Will look into Timecrimes, sounds good. 

wow nitin that is a good point, the amount of bodies at that point doesn't really make sense, yet at the time (and still now) I think that single frame of all the bodies - "she always goes here to die, she never realizes it until she sees herself dead" - even the differing levels of decay and flesh tones in the bodies - that was one of the most effective frames in horror I've seen in the last few years, counting other more explicitly horror type movies like the descent, altered, antichrist, etc. 

Maybe it's partly because I've never had this type of situation happen to me, but I just didn't find this movie funny at all really, and it just seemed to drag on and on. Pretty FORGETTABLE (FUCKING LOL) if you ask me. 

great scene it was. The movie as a whole is a lot more satsifying than most horror thrillers. The vibe was very neatly pulled off. 

I found it moderately funny, which is more than I can say for most Hollywood 'comedies'. I thought it was about Hangover funny. 

I think you're mixing up Aeolus and Sisyphos. Aeolus is the god of the winds in greek mythology, if I'm not confused. 

my greek mythology is rusty so using the help of wiki, I was indeed mixing them up.

Sisyphus was the son of (the first) Aeolus. 

I thought it was Sisyphus who fit that scenario, but I don't know Greek myth really so I wouldn't know. That said, this entire idea (if Triangle indeed uses it) of infinitely trying to perform the same task - was used by Phillip K Dick in "A Little Something For Us Tempunauts," the story which was selected as last, final, in a 600+ page anthology of the best horror stories ever called THE DARK DESCENT. Now I found lots to disagree with in the selection, classification and etc criteria, but having this type of idea - manifested in that exact shot from triangle - the idea that the laws of physics can fuck you in a way you can't even understand - that, is horrifying. 

now i'm curious... but there's like 50 movies names Triangle on imdb... can you guys tell me which one you're talking about? 

I mean the semi-recent one, specifically this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_%282009_film%29 

with melissa george! 

yeah see my post, Sisyphus was the boulder pusher :)

But he was the son of Aeolus (so the link is still there). 

http://tv.gawker.com/5675779/movie-fail-back-to-the-futures-most-obvious-mistakes 

Is anyone here on Criticker? 

TV series. First episode is a bit like 28 Days Later with a slight L4D vibe. The guy even met the horde at the end. Will watch more, perhaps it's like that British zombie mini series - gory fun, more serious though. The lawn zombie looked cool. 

THE WIRE - jesus, I had previously had DEADWOOD and CARNIVALE as favourites - amazing as they are - yet the tragedy of the wire is so much more potent since it is the tragedy happening right the fuck now due to, basically, American ignorance. Jesus. Second of all started watching BREAKING BAD and found it hilarious. Some parts sad, some parts interesting, but mostly a funny take on the ridiculous situation. 

In-deeed.