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).
Favorite Samurai
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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
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.
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.
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.
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