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[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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.

[-] Dragon@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 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.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

might give this one a watch!

[-] DarthKaren@lemmy.world 2 points 4 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.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

I believe this is what you're looking for:

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Looks like:

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[-] Stovetop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

Thanks! Does that look any better now?

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

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.

this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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