Time Travel Night

Tonight's marathon is all about going back in time to alter the course of history, which left unhandled could lead to the destruction of mankind. These scenarios even go as far as to include the XMen in their quest to save all mutants from being destroyed by a powerful new machine called The Sentinals. We have on our menu for this evening:

Back To The Future 1985, Deja Vu 2006, 12 Monkeys 1995, Looper 2012, XMEN Days Of Future Past 2014

This is an incredible lineup for the theme of time travel. As the great John Connor said in Terminator 2 Judgment Day "The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." That's exactly what's happening here tonight. We see the future altered through five different scenarios starting with the timeless class Back To The Future. In this film, Michael J Fox plays a young teenager who gets sent back to the future 30 years earlier in a time travel invention created by his friend Doc Brown played by Christopher Lloyd. His mission is to make his high school parents unite in order to preserve his own existence. Back To The Future is not only one of the biggest movies of the 1980's, but also spawned a trilogy of films. The next film Deja Vu, deals with Denzel Washington playing an ATF agent who travels back in time to save a woman from being murdered, and during the process, falls in love with her. This movie clearly takes inspiration from The Terminator which had the same scenario. The fact that Deja Vu lifted its story from Terminator speaks high volumes about that film. The next film 12 Monkeys takes place in the future where disease has destroyed mankind, sending a convict back in time to gather information about a man-made virus that wipes out most of the human population on the planet. Brad Pitt received a well-deserved Oscar nom for his role, with this remaining one of Bruce Willis finest performances. He also stars in the film that comes after titled Looper, this time set in the year 2074 with the mob trying to assassinate someone. The target the mob is after gets sent into the past with a hired gun awaiting him. The lead character Joe learns that one day, the mob wants to close the loop by sending his future self back for assassination. Does Bruce Willis love this time travel stuff or what? The final film of the evening is XMen Days of the Future Past, hands down the greatest XMen movie ever made. In this film, the XMen are being overrun by Sentinals and wiped off the face of the Earth. To ensure their own survival, they must send back Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent a historical event that results in doom for both humans and mutants. Besides T2 Judgment Day, there is no better climatic ending to this marathon that shows the wonderful effects of altering the past for a better future. The film is an amazing finale, and a wonderful retcon of the trainwreck that was XMEN 3.