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You do have a point on that the fuel could have been syphoned. However, it's more likely that there just wasn't any. When the doc gets back to 1885 with broken time circuits, he first tries to fix it. When he realises it can't be fixed, he buries the car in the mine after first draining it from all fluids. While it is unclear if the car could be dug up, it ...

I think the intention is that it's a lot easier and cleaner to have someone on the other side there to make sure the victim is taken care of, rather than just popping them to a location that they'll die at. Think about it this way. Lets say that they did pop people into a furnace to kill them. What happens if said furnace is down that day and the victim ...

Speculation: Old Biff returns to the changed 2015 (designated 2015A). Doc and Marty "transitioned" to 2015A without noticing. Why didn't they notice? Maybe because they were out on the street when it happened and Hilldale looks the same in 2015A. BTW, time travelers "transitioning" between changed timelines is implied by Doc Brow when he tells Marty not to ...

Film.com has an infographic by Rick Slusher: [click link for a larger image] Timeline A: In Timeline A, the looper hitman Joe successfully “closes his loop” in 2044, executing his time-traveling older self at the prescribed moment, earning his golden payday and proceeding to live out the rest of his life. Regarding the other key ...

I think it's just because the "loop" in which Joe kills himself is that final loop, and something like killing someone is irreversible. But who knows, another Looper that knows Joe could come back and kill Joe before he kills that boy, and so in that loop the boy will live. Basically there are many loops with many different versions of our world, depending ...

According to this Wikipedia list of time travel in science fiction writing, film & tv, the 1949 adaption of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is the first example of time travel in a film or tv sci-fi work. I can't speak to the completeness of the list. Interestingly, that list categorizes Charles Dicken's 1843 A Christmas Carol as sci-fi and ...

There is a total of 2 timelines that we observe in Donnie Darko. Primary Timeline (Primary Universe) Secondary Timeline (Tangent Universe) The primary timeline, is the one we see at the beginning of the film, starting from Donnie waking up in a random location, biking his way back home. We continue seeing this timeline until the night he first sees ...

I think it is a mistake to take the events of Donnie Darko literally, or to look for a logically consistent timeline or timelines. There is a key extra scene on the DVD, in which Donnie is having a conversation with his father and says, "Dad, I'm crazy." Not sure why this was omitted, but it strongly supports the interpretation that the film shows Donnie ...

I've been thinking about this for a while and I think it's best explained by saying time isn't continuous but has lots of branches. At the end, when young Joe kills himself, old Joe ceases to exist in that reality although what has already happened cannot be undone. There will be another timeline in which young joe never existed to come back as old Joe to ...

Based on your question, we're ignoring the fun times around Seth at the start of the film, and focusing on Joe. Having seen the film twice, there are some nuances I missed the first time through, so I'm altering my answer. There are three timelines that matter: First, there's the original timeline where Old Joe is taken, his wife is killed, but then he ...

I've thought about that too. It's not explicitly explained how time travel works except for how Old Joe explained how his memories change and were a "sea of probabilities" until Young Joe formed new ones. My thoughts are it's the infinite worlds hypothesis, there are an infinite number of realities, maybe old Joe only had a 5% chance of overwhelming his ...

There were no changes in Joe B's timeline. His wife WAS shot the first time (as Joe A) but he could do nothing, was captured (as shown when he was shown sprawled across the floor) and sent back and killed. The second time, he managed to over power his captors and send himself back. This was the change in Joe A & B... Also, Joe B knew Joe C would shoot ...

In the Looper universe, the "change" asked about only happens to people who are visiting the present from the future. And the only type of change that happens is that the people from the future will bear the effects of anything that happens to their present-day selves. For example, cutting present-day Joe will result in Old Joe's body suddenly showing a ...

It was a miracle of God intervening in his life. For whatever reason, he was permitted to experience reality over and over and over again, while fully cognizant and fully remembering everything prior. It's like conscious reincarnation, each day being a new life, only with him starting out as a 45 yro instead of an infant. After thousands of days, he had ...

While I like wbogacz's and DVK's answers very much, I humbly suggest they are incomplete. It's about more than overcoming selfishness or solipsism (all about me) or even insufficient solipsism, as keen an insight as that is. For me the answer to the original question comes when the movie is taken as allegorical, an analogy for one of life's deepest ...

Well, the two standard ways of resolving time travel paradoxes are the consistent universe and the split timeline solutions. In the consistent universe solution the time traveller could not have managed to defeat Nixon in the first place, so that can be ruled out. Therefore the split timeline solution would apply. In the many worlds solution, by travelling ...

This interested me a lot too. What happened to Thomas Granger, why did he come back and why does he pass out. Firstly as soon as they discover that Granger has come back they realise it could only have been because of an emergency. It could be argued that since he was financing Abe and Aaron he would have been in the best position to discover or be told ...

Have you ever noticed how feminine Biff's character is in the new 1985? The assumption the audience is being invited to make is that, because he was so completely emasculated in his encounter with George McFly the night of the dance, Biff eventually became a homosexual. This explains why George McFly doesn't consider it a risk to keep him around the house ...

I believe that the movie has nothing to do with time travel and, as Oliver_C mentioned in a comment, the butterfly effect is not an ability, it is just cause-effect gone to extremes("Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?"). The following lines are solely based on my own interpretation of the movie, hence no external ...

The English compound noun cellar door is commonly used as an example of a word or phrase which is beautiful in terms of phonaesthetics (i.e., sound) with no regard for semantics (i.e., meaning). It has been variously presented either as merely one beautiful instance of many, or as the most beautiful in the English language; as the author's ...

Who is to say they DIDN'T notice and comment on it... but we didn't see it? What would they have said anyway? Lorraine: "Wow, you look just like a highschool friend of ours. Honey, c'mere! Look at Marty. Doesn't he look like that friend of yours, Kevin?" George: "You mean Calvin? So he does! How weird is that? If he hadn't had disappeared all ...

I may be completely wrong here, but . . I personally thought that a paradox had been created in that timeline. When Young Joe fell from the fire escape I thought the fall killed him, which would have stopped him living to be old joe, to come back & die, thus negating the need for young joe to go on the run in the first place . . . I took this as the ...

In the original timeline, Rachel is injured or killed at the party. The first Aaron to emerge from the original failsafe box (hooded Aaron who drugs his "innocent" pre-time-travel self) knows this. When he is challenged by the later version of himself, he agrees to leave because the newer copy of himself has already done what he intended (record the ...

When Abe and Aaron first exit the box together, they get into the vehicle to talk about it. The audience is left wondering "where did Abe get the funding to build such a thing?". At that moment, Abe's Cellphone rings, he picks up and says "Hi Rachel". At this point, we dont know how many times the box has been used (once at least, as we saw an Abe clone ...