# Looking for a different type of "Butterfly Effect" time travel story or movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646 "2023-05-06T00:11:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/41 "2023-05-09T16:39:49Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Or you could just time-travel into the future, to after it’s been written and polished, and bring it back with you. Harry Harrison [would like to have a word with you](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technicolor_Time_Machine). Back on the topic, there was a one season show with this premise (mostly, anyways). > **[Journeyman (TV Series 2007) ⭐ 8.0 | Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948538/?ref_=nm_flmg_c_26_act)** > > 45m ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/42 "2023-05-09T16:57:26Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Harry Harrison [would like to have a word with you](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technicolor_Time_Machine). So would [Bill Watterson](https://web.mit.edu/manoli/mood/www/calvin-full.html). ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/43 "2023-05-09T17:03:42Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I just finished watching “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” In that movie, you get to experience multiple time travel trips all at the same time. I don’t remember there being _any_ time travel in that film. You see multiple _realities_ happening at the same time, but there’s no going back or forward in time. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/44 "2023-05-09T17:03:51Z")
And I just remembered another one. It’s not time _travel_ per se, but communications between past and future are used to affect the future in positive ways. > **[Frequency (2000) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186151/)** > > Frequency: Directed by Gregory Hoblit. With Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell. An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the... ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/45 "2023-05-09T17:42:37Z")
Similar to _Frequency_, there’s _[The Caller](https://imdb.com/title/tt1525890/)_. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/46 "2023-05-09T19:42:33Z")
**Happy Accidents**. A pleasant little romance in which one of the lovers has convinced himself that he’s a time traveler. It’s much better than it sounds. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/47 "2023-05-09T20:15:03Z")
Last episode of Voyager…Admiral Janeway goes back in time and not only changes things for the 'better" But genocides the Borg as well. (Picard spoilers) Man, Voyager sure liked time travelling to make the timeline what they wanted it to be. BITD, on the Usenet C Adams group, it was often argued that by making a new timeline, Janeway killed every person in the universe in the old one. A view I dont hold. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/48 "2023-05-10T02:18:12Z")
I just remembered one - _The Return of William Proxmire_, Larry Niven’s ode to Robert A. Heinlein. Title character goes back in time to give Heinlein antibiotics so that he stays in the Navy; scientist who built time machine to send him back decides he likes the new timeline better. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/49 "2023-05-18T21:15:08Z")
That made me think of another Japanese movie, [Returner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhaBmyIuM0Y). Milly is a time traveler from the future, where humanity is on the brink of extinction because of a war with a race of highly-evolved aliens. She jumps back to the present to try to prevent the war, and enlists the aid of daredevil shootist Miyamoto, who would really rather hang up his guns … until he finds out that his arch-nemesis might be responsible for starting the war with the aliens in the first place! There’s a little piece at the end where Milly (she’s the “returner” of the title, not Miyamoto) gets to do something small, buy ultimately very nice for Miyamoto. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/50 "2023-05-18T21:38:34Z")
Kudo’s to you @psiekier - I actually own that DVD, and while I don’t consider it high art, I always enjoy it. I didn’t know anyone else who was familiar with it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/51 "2023-05-18T23:28:06Z")
Of course the very best Japanese time-travel movie is _Summer Time Machine Blues_. [https://asianwiki.com/Summer\_Time\_Machine\_Blues](https://asianwiki.com/Summer_Time_Machine_Blues) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-different-type-of-butterfly-effect-time-travel-story-or-movie/983646/52 "2023-06-12T20:18:58Z")
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