Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Forget the present. Change the future. Kick some past.
Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.
Hot Tub Time Machine keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Men in Black (1997)E11/E13 · Adventure, Comedy
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)E11/E12 · Adventure, Comedy
Space Chimps (2008)E6/E10 · Adventure, Comedy
Avatar (2009)E9/E10/E13 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)E9/E11 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Jurassic World (2015)E4/E10 · Adventure, Science FictionAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
