I remember seeing a movie years ago, but even with some internet searching, I can't find the title. It was about a couple who stopped to help a man who had just had a rollover accident; I believe the car was a 60s Mustang. I don't remember much about the majority of the movie, but in the end, the accident happens again, and we see that the man (part of the couple) who stops to help, and the man who has the accident, are the same person. He is stuck in a time loop. Anyone seen this movie?
help with movie title
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Groundhog Day?... just kidding...
Sounds kind of familiar, but I can't help. Sorry
Sounds kind of familiar, but I can't help. Sorry
I Googled "movie with flipped mustang in a time loop", and this popped up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_time_loops
Thanks, I had seen this list, but the movie doesn't appear to be there.
That's it! Thanks, Pete!
Just watched it. Quite awful. 
Maybe someone needs to explain it to me...
Maybe someone needs to explain it to me...
Gah! I read the Wiki plot summary, and it sounds atrocious.
For a brain-teasing look at the paradoxes of time travel, read Robert Heinlein's short story "By His Bootstraps".
I prefer All You Zombies also by Heinlein which I believe was also the basis of the movie Predestination.
The standard and simplest time travel paradox is going back in time 15 seconds and shooting yourself before you activate the time machine.
Humm, Gina ...
Nice thought experiment!
The paradoxes are easy enough to come up with; I'm still waiting for a story wherein the paradoxes are resolved in a believable way.
There was an intriguing (to my young mind) short story in an SF anthology I read as a teen - in the near future, they've invented a time machine, and the government raises big bucks by selling dinosaur-hunting trips to wealthy folks. The past has already been thoroughly investigated and the hunters are only allowed to shoot dinos that would have been killed imminently by predators, comets, falling into lava, etc. This would ensure that the hunt did not alter the past in any appreciable way.
As it happens, there's an important election the next day. The odds-on favourite for Terran leader is a fine fellow, facing the evil Klinkhammer or something like that. But the good candidate is a shoo-in anyway.
Back to the hunt: One of the wealthy hunters stumbles clumsily off the temporary pathway into the primordial mud. The safari leaders are furious, but conclude there's nothing for it and that no harm was done.
They return to the present, and everything is ... different. The world is grey and bland, the buildings are all monolithic, and the newspapers announce that Klinkhammer has won the election.
As it turns out, the clumsy hunter had stepped on a butterfly pupa.
I sometimes think I'm stuck in a time warp.
If you haven't seen Source Code you should.
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