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BEST & WORST MOVIE TIME MACHINES

POSTED BY rosco8 | THURSDAY JUNE 4 AT 11:12 PDT 
Land of the Lost

On Friday, Land of the Lost hits theaters. Somehow, Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, and Anna Friel are hurled back in time. We here at Screen Junkies decided to take a closer look into movie’s most iconic time-traveling devices. Truly, any time machine is pretty cool, but given a huge selection of methods, we’ve pinpointed our favorites.

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What is your preferred time traveling device? Give your position a voice, so that we can help push the inventors into the right machine for adventures into the time-space continuum. If you don’t travel in time in style, boy, you aren’t travelin’.

Oh and for those of you pissed we didn't include TARDIS... maybe because it's TOO SOON, MAN!

 

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  1. Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 10:14 am TARDIS!!!
  2. Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 10:47 am I second the TARDIS
  3. Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 11:06 am The machine in Primer
  4. Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 03:15 pm Where's the Tardis? You can't get better than that... Time AND SPACE!!
  5. Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 03:40 pm I find out lack of TARDIS puts this whole thing into question
  6. Buckminster Schumacker III Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 04:50 pm

    But wait... has there ever been a proper Dr. Who movie released in theaters?  I suppose we could have gone with it if ones counts the TV movies... I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Bill & Ted's phone both was cooler than TARDIS.  Why?  Because you could ride it with the doors open and seven historical figures hanging their heads out the doors like a sunroof.  Until Dr. Who turns TARDIS into an interdimensional convertible...

  7. Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 05:31 pm What about Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine??
  8. Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 06:32 pm What's a Tardis? You guys are 'Tard-ed.
  9. Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 08:12 pm what about the machine in Timeline......that was cool
  10. Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 09:55 pm Tardis wins. It's a phonebooth, yes. As someone mentioned, it does time _and_ space. Plus, you can fit an entire steampunk museam in there, and have room left for a few planets. Oh, and it makes cool screachy sounds.
  11. Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 09:57 pm no doctor who movies yet but they are all excellent, except for the first twelve
  12. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 01:11 am There's also that never seen time machine which can only transport organic material and some steelcrafted terminators…
  13. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 01:22 am TARDIS! And the USS Enterprise should be on that list as well... at the bottom.
  14. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 01:36 am TARDIS FTW
  15. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 01:50 am There were a couple of Dr Who movies in the sixties (one had Peter Cushing as the Doctor) and there is one on the way so I hear which will have David Tennant in it. Tardis rules ok!
  16. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 01:54 am I really can't take this seriously without the TARDIS.
  17. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 01:57 am Doc Brown chose the DeLorean because it was made from stainless teel which was ideal for flux dispersal.
  18. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 02:03 am Time And Relative Dimension In Space
  19. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 02:32 am "The machine in Primer" +1
  20. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 02:35 am TARDIS. Why are we even discussing this?
  21. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 02:36 am The Tardis has to be the coolest and Doctor Who had a TV movie. I think the Time Turner was very cool too. Would you rather have some big strange looking gadget or something you could hide under your shirt? I'll hide the time turner inside the Tardis and see if it warps time and space.
  22. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 02:39 am Sorry but you guys instantly lost all credibility as a "movie junky" site by not including the time machine Kip bought off the internet in Napolean Dynamite. This perfectly fits on the bottom of your graph.
  23. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 02:58 am TARDIS!!! Hello! Jomar Hilario from the PHilippines
  24. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 03:01 am And of course Jack Harkness's Wrist Strap.
  25. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 03:08 am "the machine in primer" +2
  26. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 03:11 am @Patrick : Capt Jack manages to travel ON the Tardis. That's a bit better than just sticking your head out the door (tho his quasi-immortality might have something to do with how he survived it)
  27. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 03:30 am TARDIS stands for "Time And Relative Dimension In Space." The Delorean is cool, but the TARDIS makes the it look like a Pinto.
  28. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 03:31 am "The machine in Primer" +3
  29. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 03:48 am The TARDIS was in a couple theatrical releases n the mid-60's. It was in Dr. Who: Invasion of the Daleks and Dr. Who: Invasion Earth which were based on TV episodes. As someone pointed out, Peter Cushing played the Doctor. I would love to have it just for the floorspace and indestructibility.
  30. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 03:50 am what about Buckaroo banzai? And the Tardis? Any list without the tardis is not a worthy list!!!
  31. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 04:06 am Were is the f'ing TARDIS??????
  32. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 04:06 am Where is the f'ing TARDIS??????
  33. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 04:19 am "The machine in Primer" +4 Came here to say that, seems a few people agree with me!
  34. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 04:26 am Go back in time and try again. and add a TARDIS. It's an acronym so it should really be in uppercase. Just saying.
  35. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 04:33 am Are you kidding? Back to the Future totally ROCKED! RT www.online-privacy.vze.com
  36. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 04:44 am Needs more TARDIS.
  37. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 05:11 am TARDIS...
  38. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 05:21 am Tardis of course, but like mentioned before the U.S.S. Enterprise. What about Max from flight of the navigator.
  39. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 05:36 am Not to beat a dead horse but... TARDIS!!!! Everyone forgets that there were two theatrical movie versions of Dr. Who which included the TARDIS, so TARDIS counts. Jack Harkness' wriststrap? No. That was TV only. But TARDIS??? TARDIS totally rocks. As for worst time machine? That FAX machine monstrosity from "Timeline" that hurts like crap and puts your body back together all willy-nilly. Why travel like that when you can totally travel in style in a... TARDIS!!!
  40. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 05:56 am asshats... TARDIS?? anyone??
  41. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 06:02 am There are Doctor Who movies (they are really bad; but they exist) so the TARDIS! Travel anywhere in time AND space, and as a bonus it's bigger inside than outside.
  42. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 06:18 am The time machine in Napoleon Dynamite was epic!
  43. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 06:20 am Britfag here. WHERE THE HELL IS THE TARDIS!?
  44. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 06:21 am TARDIS! There are two Dr. Who movies with Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin for you Star War geeks) playing the Doctor in big screen remakes of the first two Daleks series. So I go with the TARDIS... and it wups Bill and Ted's Phone Booth 'cause it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, therefore can carry many more historical figures than said Phone Booth. The lack of the TARDIS in the original article seriously calls into question this site's geek cred.
  45. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 06:26 am primer!!!
  46. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 06:33 am There was a 90's TV movie for Doctor Who featuring the only appearance of the eighth doctor. It was set in Los Angeles, T.A.R.D.I.S. FTW! Peice of crap Delorean needing to be scrapped, say what?
  47. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 06:34 am This list is bogus if it doesnt have the TARDIS! as the coolest time machine in all history
  48. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 06:45 am Tardis?
  49. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 06:49 am Where's the freakin starship enterprise! heck, there's enough time travel in star trek for it to have an entire list just about its own time travel!
  50. Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 06:52 am btw, to the person who said enterprise belong at the bottom, heck no. it belongs right below the tardis that belongs right below the delorean. all deloreans and the enterprise both have so much recognition most of the planet knows what they are, and tardis is, well, known to most of the geeks at least.
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