This week mark's 40 years of the first Back To The Future movie, featuring one of the most beloved time travel devices in film ever. The 1980's "cool" car a DeLorean with the gullwing doors, transformed into a time machine by one Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). In honor of the 40th anniversary I started thinking about other practical and cool time travel devices, I present to you all 5 of the best time travel devices in film entertainment.
Photo Booth-When We First Met
Cameras of any type, disposal, instant, 360 cameras and more all capture a moment in time. So it is both brilliant and make's sense that a photo booth would be a time machine. That's exactly what one became in the 2018 Netflix film When We First Met. Starring Adam Devine (Pitch Perfect, The Righteous Gemstones), one of those "oh him" actors and Alexandra Daddrio (Baywatch, San Andreas). Devine plays a young man who meets the girl of his friends, falls into the friend zone, and through the magic power of the photo booth. Relives the same day until he get's out of the friend zone.
Turnstile-Tenet
Another brilliant time travel device that actually makes sense. Tenet is a 2020 mind bending film directed by Christopher Nolan (2000's Batman films, Inception). As such it's concept of time travel and how it works can be convoluted and confusing, but one thing they got right in my opinion is the turnstile. Starring John David Washington and Robert Pattison, Tenent deal's with time travel in the concept of time inversion. Meaning traveling subjects can only go back in time, there's a purpose behind it but it's a windy road to get there.
The idea of a turnstile being your entry point into time travel is a freaking genius idea to me.
Rocket Pod-Time Cop
1994's Timecop is one of Jean Claude Van Damme's better films during his 90's action hero run. While all time travel movies can become convoluted and confusing, the rules of time travel in this one are fairly straight forward. In this film time travel is possible and governed by a federal agency, time travel agents use little pod's with rocket jet power to flow through time. And once those pod's kicked off, the occupant was in another period of time in a matter of seconds.
Now the only thing that never made sense was that once they entered the time period they traveled to. The pod was no more and they would appear out of thin air on foot. Very, very confusing but the pod as a travel device was cool as hell.
Hot Tub-Hot Tub Time Machine
Probably the funniest thing to be used as a time travel device because it's so far out there. The hot tub in 2010's Hot Tub Time Machine is one of my favorite time travel devices. Which make's it even more out there, is that the time machine only worked, because the group of friends accidentally doused it with some energy drink. Allowing them to wake up in 1986, as their younger selves to everyone else but still remembering the 20 plus years of their life in the future. They set out to stay on the right track but make some changes for the better.
Phone Booth-Bill & Ted
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