3. Primer (2004): Aaron and Abe
I'm going to take a guess here and say that most of you haven't seen this film (if you haven't and you are a fan of science fiction and time travel then definitely rent this, even out of curiosity) and while it isn't the greatest film in the world, its use of time travel is in my opinion the most realistic and plausible use of time travel in any film before or since. Very basically, the film centres of two main male protagonists in their late twenties who create a time machine and mess around with it (it gets a lot more complex and quite confusing by the end.) The problem this film has is that the only real thing it has going for it is its crazily intelligent science fiction ideas. The dialogue isn't that great, the filming clearly had a very low budget, the acting is just about passable, and the film had almost no emotional connection to the audience, and as much as the film kept my interest, I couldn't have cared less if either of the protagonists had lived or died. If they had been a couple perhaps, at least then there would be a new emotional and interesting dynamic to a film desperately needing at least one. The film was so low budget and so little seen that introducing a homosexual theme probably wouldn't have had any effect on its profit taking - in fact it could have even given it more buzz and introduced it to a large group of viewers who may not have considered watching the film before. I think that had the film had a homosexual relationship between its two central characters, the film would have been more interesting and certainly more memorable for it.