Favorite Samurai

[O'Malley]

Oh, my lord, I love time travel movies and I love Samurai movies. I have to see this.

Time travel stories are tricky. They can be awesome (Netflix's Dark), but they're usually quite meh. That said, that trope is not as bad as the "multiverse", which almost mathematically guarantees that a narrative will suck kolossale *** (the only exceptions I can think of being Everything, everywhere, all at once and Mr Nobody, if that counts).

 

[Gyakuto]

Time travel stories are tricky. They can be awesome (Netflix's Dark), but they're usually quite meh. That said, that trope is not as bad as the "multiverse", which almost mathematically guarantees that a narrative will suck kolossale *** (the only exceptions I can think of being Everything, everywhere, all at once and Mr Nobody, if that counts).

No, no, no, no!

 

[Gyakuto]

All the best Star Treks TOS, are based on time travel-type scenarios: City on the Edge of Forever, A Piece of the Action, Bread and Circuses, Patterns of Force, Tomorrow is Yesterday and of course the perfect film, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

 

[Gyakuto]

Of course the samurai time travel thing has been done before with ‘Samurai Sensei’.There was an interesting twist, if I remember correctly, the time travelling samurai turns out to be….I wasn’t a great film.

 

[Buka]

My favorite time travel piece was a book, Replay by Ken Grimwood.
I don’t know how it would be as a film but it was a really good read.

After an intro to the main character he drops dead of a heart attack at his work desk at 43 years old.

He wakes up in his college dorm room at nineteen. He thinks he’s dreaming. He soon realizes the Kentucky Derby is in a few days and the long shot, Chataguay, is going to win.

Much fun from there. It’s a good romance story, too.

 

[Gyakuto]

The book , ‘Time Traveller’s Wife’ was very good and a real tear jerker.

 

[Stuarto]

All the best Star Treks TOS, are based on time travel-type scenarios: City on the Edge of Forever, A Piece of the Action, Bread and Circuses, Patterns of Force, Tomorrow is Yesterday and of course the perfect film, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

There were a few for TNG as well. The series finale: All Good Things had Picard jumping through time. This was one of those episodes you never really forget, along with other good ones like The Best of Both Worlds.

 

[Gyakuto]

There were a few for TNG as well. The series finale: All Good Things had Picard jumping through time. This was one of those episodes you never really forget, along with other good ones like The Best of Both Worlds.

Yeah…I can’t remember the titles of TNG!