bigass time plothole
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Mandy_Whitsands — 14 years ago(June 02, 2011 03:45 AM)
hey sorry if this topic has been brought up before i havent been on this meesage board before but after the film ended i was sat thinking that doesn't make any sense.
this is mainly because of jean claude van damme. He comes back from the past (where he left himself and his dying wifeafter saving them) and then he returns home and everything is hunky dory.
But if he left himself in the past then surely that version of himself would still be in existence when he returned making him come to an alternate reality where there are 2 versions of himself now he has returned e.g. like in back to the future where he returns after biff changes everything.
its probably thats meant to be overlooked and not thought into that much but just something i needed to point out.
no, when the old Van Damme returns to the time he came from, the young Van Damme stays in the past and has 10 more years to reach the time where his son comes out of the house (final scene). By that time (+10 years) the old Van Damme obviously isn't there any more, but 10 years ahead in time.
They won't ever meet again.
For the same reason you can't catch up in age with your older sister. -
hfctorch — 14 years ago(July 17, 2011 10:34 PM)
I noticed that too.. There would certainly be too Van Damme's when he returns to the present. You'd think he would he realize after 10 years after finally saving his wife she would be alive in the present, but when he gets back he is depressed and doesn't even realize till he sees her. I also love how his home was still blown to smithereens, yet when he returns to the present it's perfect. I guess we could assume it was rebuilt. But it still looks like a real old house. Also you'd think McComb would have killed him before he was born, as soon as he saw him as a threat when they first met, instead of going to his house right before he became a memember of the TEC. Also, they mentioned in the film somewhere toward the middle the only time travel is TEC and the Prototype. So if it is just in the hands of the TEC, and they're only purpose is to protect time. Why have the TEC or time travel device at all? There is a million plot holes, but I still love it.
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Dmp2789 — 12 years ago(October 18, 2013 08:56 PM)
I thought the biggest plot hole popped up within the first few minutes. "We can't go to the future, because it hasn't happened yet."
If that's the case, if you change the past, you change the future, making the future impossible to go back to since you changed it, making it not happen yet. Yeah, fun movie, but man does this have more plot holes than Chicago has pot holes. -
viking-fjord_90 — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 07:15 PM)
If timetravel was possible, it would be more logical to think that they wouldn't be able to go back in time BEFORE the time machine was invented. This mainly because of The Grandfather Paradox, where any change made in the past could destroy the timeline where the machine was invented (and thus cancel the whole destruction of the machine to begin with).
So, you could only go back to the exact same time the machine became functional, in order to be able to interact with the people and the surroundings. This means that it would be opposite from what the movie shows. You'd be able to travel into the future, but not the past. However, it wouldn't be such a smart idea to travel into an unknown future in which the planet could be blown up and you'd die instantly before being able to go back in time. So, unless you're the daring type, if somebody invented a time machine, you'd have to wait 10 years in order to go back 10 years or whatever time within that frame.