The premise of time travel movies is a person being able to be present at a different time to their original timeline. So I guess you could say a Groundhog Day type of movie is a subgenre of the time travel genre.
Okay, maybe sub-genre is the proper phrase I was thinking of. Thanks!
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Edge of Tomorrow.
Plot - Earth is invaded by aliens. Tom Cruise gets a power where if he dies, the day starts over. So, he keeps pushing forward in the warzone, and if he dies, he knows how he’ll get attacked and adapts to it.
It’s a pretty decent movie too.
My wife relented on her “no Tom Cruise movies” stance because he dies 200+ times in it.
Imagine if you could retcon all his movies to do that 🤣
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“No, we have Sean Bean at home.”
Sean Bean at home:
Yes. Except for the last 1/4.
It’s essentially a single player shooter game from the perspective of the player character
I’m confused, do you think this is a request for time loop movies?
Yes?
Edit - Oh, sorry, I completely mis-read it. OP just means to ask if they are called time travel films or not.
Here’s a list of films featuring time loops.
excellent list. Not on the list but really enjoyed was a movie with Kurt Russel “Touchback”. But more time travel vs time loop
I say yes. It’s one of my favorite genres (if you can call it one) and definitely includes loop-based plots like Groundhog Day and Primer. But I also enjoy the Terminator Series and Back to the Future and others that don’t really loop that way. I suspect most fans are similar. It’s hard to imagine enjoying one premise but not the other.
Also: https://xkcd.com/657/
predestination
time crimes
triangle
caddo lake
add those to your list
Time travel
Looper
Donnie darko
Next
Bill and Ted
Time loops
Source code
Palm springs
hadn’t heard of some of these, will have to check them out thanks
Here’s one: where do you put things like The Long Earth where it’s not time you step through per-se, but all the possible futures starting from the beginning of the universe?
I really want to see someone make that series into a movie.
That’s a parallel worlds story. There are many movies and shows about travel through parallel worlds. Sliders is the first that comes to mind.
Constellation
Well, when the loop takes place there is a travel in time taking place… but not as in the standard time travel films.
I think is important to point out that in the Groundhog time loops the travel is only of the memories or the information, there is no energy-mass traveling (though information is a kind of energy, let me skip physics here), and the traveler at the beginning of the loop has not carried anything from the future but the memories of the previous loop, did not age or suffered physical modifications (there may be exceptions, sure).
So I think that is a kind of time travel, but a sub-genre where the travel is less material than in the typical time travels.
Infinite Isekai
Netflix categorizes them that way…
I mean, time-travel stories typically involve traveling by way of some mechanism be it a spell, wormhole, tear in spacetime and etc. The end goal is usually traveling from one point to another with a purpose. Characters can travel back and forth. Everyone usually remembers each encounter.
Time-loops, like in Groundhog’s Day or Edge of Tomorrow, usually cause people to get “stuck.” Some plot device is then introduced to eventually “unstick” them. Only the people stuck in the loop are usually aware that anything is happening.
Naked (2017)
Plot - Rob is caught in a time loop as he keeps waking up naked in a hotel elevator on the day of his wedding. This is a remake of the 2000 Swedish film Naken.
Not a great film, though.
The question is whether a time loop is a form of time travel.
Are they actually going back in time? Or is time itself looping back on itself? These aren’t the same cause, though the effects can look the same
So I suppose, conventionally, it can be thought of as a subform of time travel. But from a technical perspective, it may or may not be
