Top time travel movies of all time:

Time travel has been a staple to Sci-fi for a long time now; everyone seems to love the idea of going through time, putting right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap....sorry, I digress. Anyway, some call time travel a cheap way out of writing a good script, but I think it is hard to do it correctly, and if done correctly, is all that much harder, and shows a much better writer.

So, without any further delay, I present the top 10:
Honorable Mention: The Final Countdown (1980) - This piece of Sci-fi gold star a young Martin Sheen and involves a modern U.S. Aircraft carrier that somehow gets dropped into the middle of a battle between U.S. and Japanese forces in World War II. A truly great movie, with an exciting premise.

10) Deja Vu - Starring Denzel Washington and Val Kilmer, an exciting, action packed time travel movie about a government agency investigating a horrible riverboat tragedy. A pretty decent modern day time travel story.
9) Time Cop - Jean Claude Van Damn at his finest. This movie gets bonus points for special effects, trying to establish rules of time travel, and the fact Mia Sara, Ferris Bueller's girlfriend is nakey.
8) Butterfly Effect - The fact there is an Ashton Kutcher movie on here speaks wonders for the writing, and Amy Smart. The movie established an interesting premise, and established the classic rule of time travel movies: anything you do will have serious repercussions on future events. This movie lost points for the theatrical release, but gained some back for the directors version of the ending.
7) Army of Darkness - Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi...'nough said. This movie was all kinds of awesome and funny. The trilogy was great, but the third incarnation had some great special effects, some fantastic writing and Bruce being Bruce. This movie got some serious bonus points for the ending.
6) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Yeah, yeah, the whale one; shut up, I liked it! Anyway, the movie was fun and campy, and a great ride, which was something different for Trek at the time. This movie established the idea that anyone with a starship just needs to get close enough to the son, and voila! Extra points for Leonard Nemoy's spock saying "one damn minute, admiral."
5) Star Trek: First Contact - Are you noticing a pattern yet? There seems to be a theme of time travel and Star Trek. This one pits the next generation crew against one of the best bad guys the series has ever known; the Borg. The crew goes back in time to stop the borg from ending a flight that brings the vulcans to earth for the first time.
4) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - The break through role for Keanu Reeves. This movie gets bonus points for having the late, great George Carlin as the guy who helps Bill & Ted save the world, and ace their history test. Believe it or not, quantum theorists have said this, despite all others seems to follow the rules of time travel the closest, phone booth or not.
3) Terminator - This series is kinda the reason for the poll. The series had lots of time traveling heros coming back to save the famed John Connor, including the best, Robert Patrick as the T-1000. Arguably the Governators best role, the second, especially, is one of the best movies of all time. This movie gets some special points for innovation, but it loses points because the governator starts out naked.
2) Star Trek (2009) - The movie just came out, so I won't ruin anything for you. I was hesitant to put this movie so high up, for fear people will say it is just because it's new, but this movie does a great job of using time travel as a way of rebooting a franchise without telling you to forget about the last 40 years. Besides the best movie of the summer, this movie handles time travel with ease, and hardly feels the the puzzling McGuffin of other movies.
1) Back to the Future - The name gives it away. This is a trilogy that is among my favorites, whenever it is on, I will watch it. Besides being a great memory from my childhood, this movie has some real staying power with excellent performances from Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox. This movie, through a digital console on the dash of the famed Delorean (which I want so bad due to this movie) keeps the audience well aware of the time of when and where they are, and also deals with alternate time threads (when the timeline skewed into a tangent) and did so with comedy, charm, and a lot of heart.

So, agree, disagree, or did you think of something I missed? Let me know!
Until then, stay cool, movie geeks!