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Time Travel Movies That aren't about time travel (with links to Wikipedia. )

Here's a list of movies that are not about Time Travel, but have some element of time travel in them, and tell stories about something other than Time Travel.

  1. Time Bandits.
    This movie is not about time-travel, really. It's about a parent's role in the fulfillment of their child's desires. And about parents with bad listening skills. This film still holds the high-water mark in my book for an otherwise acceptable film with an inexcusably terrible ending.
  2. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
    Not really _about_ time travel, so much as about personal accountability. The one thing that this film has going for it is that it has a rock solid understanding of the impact time travel has on cause and effect. Pay particular attention to Detective Logan's missing keys. They managed to screw this up something horrible in the otherwise superior sequel "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey."
  3. 12 Monkeys.
    Its another Terry Gilliam. What I like about this one is that it doesn't presuppose that "Time Travelers" aren't just "crazy people." What if it's not you who am crazy, it is you who am mad?
  4. Dude, where's my Butterfly Effect.
    This isn't about time travel at all. This is about regret and dispair. It's a dumb movie with a dumb hollywood ending that makes us all dumber that it was ever made.
  5. Minority Report
    There is actually no time travel in this movie. This movie is about precognition, not time travel. And, come to think of it, it's actually about the media and about the danger of drawing conclusions from datasets. DOUBLE GABE FAIL!!

Fancy Nancy Game: Pros and Cons

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The Fancy Nancy Dress Up Stick-Ons Game makes me crazy. Super Crazy.

  1. Colorforms are impossible to stick on something if you have cold little hands.
  2. Colorforms are small and probably going to get lost.
  3. The game shows you where the peices are supposed to go on the gameboard, but in some cases, especially with the wands, there is no way to stick the item in that location on the standee.Lame!
  4. Fancy Nancy is plenty fancy without getting all gussied up with "accessories." But that's not really the game's fault. That's my prejudice about Fancy Nancy and her inattentive, Kings-Crown eatin' parents.

However, G. loves the game. And here are some ways that the game is good:

  1. No dice. And the spinner is built into the box. (Look, there's nothing wrong with dice, but with little kids, dice are one spastic arm shake away from gone forever.
  2. The game can be played to completion in about 15 minutes .
  3. There is no board to move peices around.
  4. Gaia loves it.

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