Time Travel Cinema

So yesterday I mentioned that I'd finished my latest movie-watching project, and I can't help myself,  I gotta start a new one. Not that I need any help getting motivated to watch movies (as you will have realized by now), but such projects lead me to seek out movies I normally wouldn't have, and though there's not guarantee they'll be good, I've made a lot of cool discoveries as well.

One particular love of mine is the time travel narrative. Whether history is rock solid or completely fluid. Whether the characters use a time machine, a set of doors, a block of ice, or the power of dreams. Whether they go to the past, the future, or get stuck in time loops. I just love time travel stories, and I love time travel MOVIES, even if quite a few don't stand up to scrutiny.

Now, that does cause a bit of a problem. I've seen so many (my list on Letterboxd says around 130, and doesn't count most TV shows) that initiating a movie project on the subject would likely lead to a lot of REwatching, not new discoveries. So here's the idea. There are still time travel movies I haven't seen, so there's that. And there are time travel movies I might be very happy to revisit, especially if I never reviewed them on here. But I want to use each one to essentially time travel somewhere else in the cinematic time stream.

In other words, my attempt here will be to do a double feature MATCHING each weekly time travel movie (or TV show, or even book or comic, why not?) to a non-time travel film I haven't seen or feel I need to revisit.

To use famous entries in the genre as examples, one might match The Terminator with Westworld (machines rebel), Back to the Future Part 3 with A Fistful of Dollars (a direct reference, but any western might do), or Frequency and Backdraft (firemen). Could be fun, right? As usual, I'll discuss my progress in This Week in Geek, hopefully on a weekly basis.

Some of the time travel movies and shows I'm thinking of watching or rewatching (if I can find them, of course), include:
7 Days
11.22.63
The 4400
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Ashes to Ashes
Continuum (season 4)
Doctor Who (I'm sure some classic serials will crop up)
El Ministerio del Tiempo
Flight of the Navigator
Frequency (tv show)
Hot Tub Time Machine
Hu-Man
Il Mare
Je t'aime, je t'aime
Lee's Adventure
Lost Highway
Love in the Time of Twilight
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
Nothing Left to Do but Cry
Outlander (season 2+)
Pleasantville
Repeat Performance
Retroactive
Time After Time
Time Bandits
Timecop
Time Crimes
The Time Machine (1960)
Timeless (season 2)
Tru Calling
Young Gun in the Time

That's just off the top of my head and may not reflect just what will happen, week to week, but I'm gonna rev up my TARDIS and give it my best try. And if I fail, I can just go back to this day and tell myself not to make certain mistakes!