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Is Looper the next big SciFi Classic? September 6, 2012

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We’re big fans of Bruce Willis in SciFi flicks here on ShowMeSciFi.

We loved the Fifth Element, Armageddon and 12 Monkeys ..and know it looks like he’s set to star in an instant classic.

Time travel is always a solid SciFi concept, but one that is rarely executed properly. So far as we can tell, the concept behind Looper is a solid one. Time traveling hit men who go back in time to erase their victims from history. But what happens when that victim is supposed to be your future self?

Great idea, great premise and we can’t hardly wait for the official opening on Se

Futurama Bender’s Big Score – It’s real SciFi (kinda) December 7, 2007

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Sure sure Futurama is a cartoon..and it’s funny and insolent.

But i just finished watching the new movie – Bender’s Big Score – and guess what? It’s actually really solid plot wise with a really intricate time travel plot thread that really works.

Time and time paradox have always been a part of Futurama but never in such an intricate and well thought out way.

The comical – doom meter – which measures how likely something bad is going to happen – is a campy – but fun way to explain away the paradox of time travel and multiple instances of person.

Instead of wiping another person from existence or multiple timelines/parallel universes – the doom paradox is simple. Because the paradox person should never have existed they have a higher doom quotient and thus are more likely to have doom hit them and so the universe will fall back into order.

Yeaaah i know the problem is still the causality of it all. Since the new paradox person will impact the timeline in a way that the old timeline hadn’t been impacted..even if doom hits that person.

Still…

Futurama Bender’s Big Score isn’t just funny (and it’s VERY FUNNY) it’s actually interesting SciFi too.