i just saw "12 monkeys" on ABC and what was the movie about?

[oranthal]

i thought it was a great movie and all but in the end, the virus still happened because that dude got away. in the last scene, madeline stowe looks over at the kid, who was bruce willis' character, and she smiles; what was that about?

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Originally posted by oranthal
i thought it was a great movie and all but in the end, the virus still happened because that dude got away. in the last scene, madeline stowe looks over at the kid, who was bruce willis' character, and she smiles; what was that about?

That Time is a loop? Hey, if you ever found that out, you'd laugh too, at the folly of it all. I dunno, I don't remember. It's a very trippy movie in the Terry Gilliam style. Ever see Brazil?

[Jedi Knight]

I always thought the movie was about the futility of time travel, or something similar. At the end, Gilliam sends the message that time is unchangeable, and that some things are just destined to happen. Call me stupid, but the way he handled time travel kinda reminded me of "Gargoyles" (the TV show) and how they also state that time is unchangeable. Destiny seems to rule supreme in both scenarios and the answers never lie in the past, but in the present.

[DR. BELCH]

Que buena suerte! I just ran across this link the other day that should help:
http://members.tripod.com/~Bucephalus/index2.html
Time-travel's a mind-frig. Marty McFly learned it in Back to the Future...Homer learned it on The Simpsons...and even Mojo Jojo learned it on The Power Puff Girls.

[Vigo Sprax]

Physicist Stephen Hawkins probably has the best proof the time travel never will (or does) exist:

Simply, if there were such a thing we would be constantly be harrassed by tourist from the future.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Originally posted by Vigo Sprax
Physicist Stephen Hawkins probably has the best proof the time travel never will (or does) exist:

Simply, if there were such a thing we would be constantly be harrassed by tourist from the future.

Maybe time travel is forbidden in the future because some guys came back in time and screwed things up? Maybe George W. Bush is from the future?

[killercroc]

Originally posted by Vigo Sprax
Physicist Stephen Hawkins probably has the best proof the time travel never will (or does) exist:

Simply, if there were such a thing we would be constantly be harrassed by tourist from the future.

I used to feel this way about it, also, but I don't anymore. We can't presume what technology might bring about. Maybe you can only go forward, or can only go 20 years back, or can travel but don't exist as a corporeal being.

Yeah, odds are we'd be visited and notice it but I don't think you can unequivocally rule it out.