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[โ€“] Stovetop@lemmy.world 41 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (6 children)

There was this movie I saw once called Time Trap. I definitely would not call it good, but the premise was interesting.

Archaeology professor goes missing while exploring a cave which was once thought to be the location of the fountain of youth. His grad students go looking for him, find the cave, weird things start happening when they enter.

Spoilers below:The cave is revealed to cause some sort of time distortion which grows in intensity the further in you go. The professor who had been missing for days was only in the cave for a few hours. By the time everyone realizes what is happening, months go by, then years. They exit the cave at one point only to find an apocalypse has occurred, with the cave becoming the only safe haven for them to exist in at this point. Without spoiling the rest of the movie, the story plays in to the fountain of youth legend by including a group of Spanish Conquistadors and a tribe of paleolithic cavemen living in a deeper part of the cave, all living as if only days have passed, but in reality centuries/millennia had gone by outside.

[โ€“] RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Hey, I'm upvoting you and all but I gotta ask how do you do the spoiler thing? I'm using Apollo and it made me click to expand your comment so I could see the spoiler part. How did you format it?

[โ€“] Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It took me a few tries, but the format that was recommended to me by SoleInvictus in this comment appeared to work.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/14390647

Ironically it doesn't work as well in my own app because the app keeps trying to change the formatting to its own syntax, but it seems to work for the most people of all spoiler options.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Smaagi@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago

Imo it is way better than what OP made it sound to be, held my attention whole way through.

[โ€“] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Time trap was awesome. The scene when they realize the flickering lights are time passing and then they poke their heads out of the cave to see a complete departure of the old world.

The end got a lil weird tho.

Nonetheless it's a movie that will stick with you for a few days of conceptualizing.

*Time Trap was directed by Ben Foster, which I just discovered. It's also streaming for free (w ads of course) on YouTube.

[โ€“] DarthKaren@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I had a series of 3 stomach surgeries and I delved into some shows I wouldn't watch. I stumbled on this one. I really loved the premise. It is one of those late night SyFy feeling movies. The end did get weird, but I like where they were going with it.

[โ€“] Dragon@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

This was the first thing I thought of when seeing the prompt. I actually love this movie and have seen it several times, but the acting is abysmal.

[โ€“] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The kind of spoiler tag you used is the kind that doesn't work on every Lemmy app. Fortunately, that's not a problem, as I've already seen Time Trap, and despite forgetting its name, do sometimes think about it.

[โ€“] Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks, I actually went out of my way to look up the native Lemmy markdown format for spoilers because I was worried the one I was used to using wasn't universal, but I guess the opposite ended up being the case. I'll try to fix it.

[โ€“] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I believe this is what you're looking for:

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Looks like:

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[โ€“] Stovetop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks! Does that look any better now?

[โ€“] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

It doesn't, it still has some exclamation point action that might be the issue. If it helps, you should be able to copy and paste my example markdown. I gave it a try and it still works.

[โ€“] Stovetop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There, third time's the charm (or 10th, more accurately, since lemmy.world is shitting the bed right now).

I think I figured out what was going on, too. The app I use was automatically re-parsing spoiler formatting into its own syntax, but then was erroneously applying that same syntax to text when attempting to view source. So even the example you posted looked different to me when viewed in app versus on the actual site. I made the edit from the site this time and I think that should be good now.

Looks great, bravo!