Welcome to Yesterday

[klen7]

Not sure if this is the next "Chronicle" or the next "Butterfly Effect".. but it looks like it has potential

[jellydonut25]

I see what appears to be two girls bathing one another in the image...i feel as though i've seen that movie before but you know, shot with like a crappy handheld camera and with way worse production value

[klen7]

yeh... thats a heck of thumbnail... but i guess thats what it takes to get the youtube clicks

[Benjamin Haines]

I know I shouldn't be looking for any logic in this if for no other reason than that "from producer Michael Bay" card, but there's a contradiction in this movie's time-travel story mechanics on display just in the trailer and it irks me.

The trailer suggests that time in this story is both a closed-loop and an open-loop continuum. First, when the dude sees his older self on the home video of his seventh birthday party, it implies that whatever they do when they travel back in time is already a fixed part of the past even before they do the actual time-traveling. That's a closed-loop continuum.

But then the rest of the trailer suggests an open-loop continuum by making it clear that these kids can change things by traveling through time. It's even so explicit as to show the one guy drawing on his yesterday self's neck with a sharpie and seeing the doodle take shape on his current self's neck at the same time. By the logic of the dude seeing his older self on a home video from his childhood even before he's started time-traveling, the neck doodle should have been on that one guy's neck even before they traveled back to the previous day.

I know it's just supposed to be popcorn entertainment and we're not meant to give this any in-depth thought, but I think it's really distracting when a sci-fi story can't make up its mind about its own internal logic.

[Rodanex]

[lhb412]

I wouldn't want to got to yesterday because all my yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

[Gman2887]

It looks like someone watched Primer and decided to remake a far less pretentious, but way below standard, version of it.