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After Dark: Favorite Time Travel Movies, Films That Changed Our Perspective on Life

🕑 Added 2024-06-20 17:00:06 +0000 UTC

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Jesper

100% agree!

Jesper

True but also not true. We as human spieces has NOT gone through any thing as rough as what is ahead ever. We are quickly changing the planet into a temperature range that humans aren't adapted to live in. We are entering a stage of the planet that we have never experienced before. And that's just from an environmental perspective. People truly don't understand the gravity of the situation. You don't even need to consume some dystopian fiction. Just read the latest IPCC-report and the publication "Global Resource Outlook 2024" from the UN Resource Panel to understand that's it's bad. To paraphrase one of the authors behind the later report "We either change by design or disaster. I prefer design. But make no mistake, we are going to have to change."

Jesper

I would recommend the totally opposite, everyone should read more of the news. Your proposed strategy is equivalent to putting your head in the sand. The bad things in the world doesn't stop existing just because you refuse to know about it. As the saying goes: "The only thing needed for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing." We have climate change whose effects are really starting to show up now in a big way and it's mathematical certainty that it will get worse and worse than that if we don't get our act together. Speaking of birth rates, it's to low (below replacement level) which means it's also a mathematical certainty that things will get really tough in society in 20 - 30 years just because the population pyramid will almost be upside down. Not saying that we should force women to have kids or take away any kind of rights that they have but it is a fact that low birth rates will mess up society. From the perspective of climate change it's good that the birth rates are low though. So yeah, we are going into some tough times ahead and your approach will make sure it's miserable because you won't be either prepared or do enough to stop it from happening. Not saying that you have to change but you can't claim ignorance in the future.

Amanda

My favorite time travel/time loop movie is Happy Death Day 😅

Prince Davis

But if we're talking tv series, 12 Monkeys again

Prince Davis

Looper, 12 Monkeys...

J Hay

Could you explain that somewhat more? For example, are you saying one can travel through time (forward and backwards?), but you can’t move to another place??

Joshua Johnson

I’d recommend to Devindra to stop reading/watching the news. For years I was a news junkie and it started to make me feel like Devindra. I pretty much cut all that out of my life and I’m in a much better place mentally. Bad things will continue to happen whether you read about them or not. If you go back a year from now or better yet 5 years from now and read headlines from that time, almost everything that people are worked up about turned out to not be a big deal. Go enjoy your life and stop worrying about everything.

Mads Olsen

I will highly recommend The Forever War by Joe Haldeman which specifically deals with the theme Dave was talking about regarding experiencing time differently when traveling at light speed.

Hank Patton

100% agree with this

Kai Ellis

Truly!! An amazing time travel show!!!

Peter Tribe

It’s that Dave Chen podcast.

Zion Brock

I just want to give Divendra a big hug! It’s gonna be all right man. The world has gone through a lot of shit before and it will go through a lot of shit again you get to choose whether or not to be fatalistic.

mson

DARK on Netflix

SundayBacon

Speaking of time travel movies, Dave should check out 1984’s Trancers. Would fit nicely into Dave’s B movies.

James Atkinson

Pretty sure it's on Peacock now. I saw it at a festival last year.

Papool Chaudhari

As to movies that changed perspective, I'm surprised nobody on the show mentioned any documentaries! An Inconvenient Truth comes to mind for me. Also Super Size Me, despite it being flawed and deceptive, still had plenty of things that opened my eyes. Also Bowling for Columbine.

MikeM

Like Jeff I haven’t read this is a long time. But I remember it really had fun with the BTTF idea that you can change future events.

David Esposito

L O S T

Omar Jacobs

I was expecting it the whole time and was like oh man these guys are gonna be salty when they realize they forgot Looper. That movie’s portrayal of time travel is so damn cool. They just appear. No flashy sci-fi bs. Then BLAM! Love that damn movie.

Kai Ellis

Anybody watched The History of Time Travel on Amazon Prime? It's a "documentary" about the invention of time travel during WWII but every time someone uses the machine the timeline changes which causes the history being depicted in the documentary to change as well. It's fucking brilliant.

Kai Ellis

Have always meant to watch this! Gotta add it to the list now

Kai Ellis

Agree!!! Looper!!!!

Kai Ellis

Second both of these! AMAZING time travel books. How You Lose in particular is one of the most imaginative and emotionally rich stories I've ever read.

Kai Ellis

Will have to check out Time Addicts! How did you watch it?

Kai Ellis

Will have to check out this Dean Koontz novel! What do you love about it?

Kai Ellis

That's really cool way of seeing it!

J Hay

Regarding the hellhole this country — and much of the world — has become, and which seems to be going even deeper into oblivion: Since corporations, our politicians, and many of our fellow citizens are incapable or unwilling to change their courses, WE must change our own behavior, in hope that others may follow. When it comes to climate chaos, the one thing we can do — as individuals and as families — is to go VEGAN! I am as sincere about this as anything in my getting-long life . Most urban Americans (and many Canadians and Europeans, etc.) have the means to quit consuming animal products, but often refuse to. Why? Often it’s because of “tradition”, habit and/or addiction to meat and dairy products. These people tend to be ignorant or delusional about the impact their choices cause. The massive cruelty of factory farming alone should be enough reason to stop, but adding the destruction of the entire planet might be what we need in order to change. Perhaps it’s time for David, Devendra and Jeff to refresh their discussion on consuming animals, from a Patreon segment months ago, as I recall.

DarmineDoggyDoor

I meant that in the sense that global corporations have obviously been willing to do horrendous things to maintain the bottom line, from pollution to espionage and whatever else. Personally I highly doubt such entities would draw the line at contract murder and I bet they'd be pretty capable of engineering plausible deniability (they'd certainly have the resources for it). We know for a fact corporations have been willing to kill their customers (cigarettes, opioids, roundup/glyphosate) and have suppressed research on the dangers of their product; they've been willing to accelerate climate disaster for short-term profit (Exxon's own scientists predicted the climate crisis 40 years ago, they ignored it), I could go on and on. In the face of this I find it pretty absurd to suggest that a corporate murder is a naive premise. But I for one did not say it was "likely," please don't mischaracterize, I said it was more plausible to me than the typical conspiracy drivel. Basically I don't claim to know either way but if it WAS found to be corporate murder I'd be completely unsurprised.

J Hay

I worked on “Looper”. It’s the best movie I ever worked on. As the guys repeatedly mentioned time loops, I was sure that would lead them to mention “Looper”!

J Hay

Dave could go back in podcast time to refresh his memory of time travel movie discussions.

Sacha Greif

> it would be naive to think that a 108 billion dollar corporation wouldn’t be capable of such a thing I think it's a lot more naive to think that it would happen, honestly. How many examples are there throughout recent history of a major corporation ordering the assassination of someone, especially in the U.S.? My quick research couldn't turn up a single example of that happening, yet somehow we've convinced ourselves that it's a likely scenario…

Adam Schabow

I was about to say something similar. Looper is one of the bests!

Danny Champlin

I like to think that time travel cannot escape the rules of relativity. Yes, you are traveling through time, but the effects of the gravitational pull of earth will result in your physical position being unchanged relative to the earth's.

Branden Cancino

About Time is an all time favorite. I would say one of (if not thee) best romcoms to come out of this side of the 2000s

Grant McConnaughey

I always look forward to my weekly episodes of whatever this podcast is called.

MikeM

Wow I never thought I would hear anyone reference Dean Koontz’s Lightning! Great story. Really got me thinking about time paradoxes. One other recommendation: Time Lapse is a great movie as well, not talked about enough!

DarmineDoggyDoor

I’m not generally a conspiracist, and I share your concern about conspiracy culture. That said, the Boeing stuff is pret-ty pointed! (One of the whistleblowers specifically warned friends & family he wasn’t suicidal…then supposedly offs himself in the middle of a deposition…) And in my opinion it would be naive to think that a 108 billion dollar corporation wouldn’t be capable of such a thing. Seems a lot more plausible to me than most conspiracy stuff making the rounds. Anyway remember, this is the After Dark, nobody listens to this 😉

DarmineDoggyDoor

Jeff’s take on Captain Fantastic makes me want to rewatch it with his thoughts in mind. Did not land very well with me the first time. I appreciated certain elements but I couldn’t escape the feeling that it was shameless bait for the NPR crowd (of which I am a member), kinda like giving good liberals permission to pat themselves on the back? Again, I am liberal myself but I get suspicious when it feels like I’m being told what someone thinks I want to hear. I realize that’s cynical but it’s the impression I had at the time

Sacha Greif

In the grand scheme of things I think that between the death of two whistleblowers and the rapidly growing conspiracy mindset and distrust in experts and authority, I know which one I’m personally more worried about…

Sacha Greif

I’m not saying I’m an expert on the Boeing situation, but in the age of Joe Rogan and other similar podcasters with little qualms about spreading unfounded conspiracy theories, I think you guys should’ve probably exercised a little more caution about how you approached that whole topic.

Bmac

Any podcast that exists without Dave’s knowledge exists without his consent

mepotts

There’s some good anime time travel stories. The Girl Who Lept Through Time and Steins;Gate come to mind.

Garry L

I don’t get the ribbing of Jeff for not remembering the name of the podcast. It’s no different than talking about a movie but not immediately remembering the name of the movie.

James Atkinson

You guys have to check out Time Addicts! Its a recent Australian film about two time traveling crack addicts, it's a blast, clever and hilarious. Also Benson and Moorhead films like Synchronic, Something In The Dirt and The Endless.

Lane Jacobson

Two great time travel books are This is How You Lose the Time War and The Gone World. TIHYLTTW is an epistolary novel told through the alternating letters from agents on opposing sides of a never ending war across space and time. Originally they leave the letters as taunts but eventually they grow into something more. Gone World is akin to True Detective Time Cops. Has some grisly crime scenes and is fairly dark, but I really really loved the way that time travel works in that book - pretty unique!

Omar Jacobs

Rian Johnson listening to this time travel segment: “Ouch, guys”

Brian Deaton

One great time travel movie that has been forgotten is Time After Time starring Mary Steenburgen, Malcolm McDowell, and David Warner. Jack the Ripper escapes to the future (1979) in HG Wells’ time machine and Wells goes after him. Underrated!