Hypothetical question for you: Pretend for a moment that you have somehow been sucked backward through time. Like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, you find yourself experiencing events that have already happened to you. As a general rule, what’s the one thing you should never, ever do? Anybody? Anybody?
 

Okay, I’ll just tell you: You should never try to tell anybody you’re a time traveler. This should be Rule Number One For Time Travelers, even before the old classic, “Be careful not to meet yourself, or kill your parents, or step on the mouse that’s going to evolve into humankind.” Because if you make the mistake of trying to tell someone you’re a time traveler, they’re going to think you’re crazy, even if you start the conversation, as so many time travelers do, with, “What I’m about to say is going to sound crazy, but….” The next scene will open with you tied to a bed in a padded room as a nurse walks in and begins to feed you a bowl of soft food with a rubberized spoon. Every time traveler who has ever been sucked backwards through the space-time continuum thinks that if he explains calmly and rationally that he’s from the future, or that he can prove it by telling someone what’s about to happen, then naturally everyone will believe him, but they never do, do they? Just forget about telling anyone, no matter how desperate you think you are. There’s no way that’s going to end well for you.

This public service message is brought to you courtesy of yours truly after I ran across a movie teaser on the web the other day that opened with that very scene. Tom Cruise plays the time traveler in a movie called Edge of Tomorrow that appears to be a mash-up of Groundhog Day, Starship Troopers and Band Of Brothers. Although I’m pretty sick of time travel movies and I’m not a fan of Tom Cruise, I’m looking forward to seeing this movie when it comes out on video because that powered armor suit he’s wearing is badass!