Yes, that is a reference to that movie. If I cloud visit any time, and could only visit one time, I would visit some murky time of postulation before the first religion was created, and proclaim myself a messiah, sent from the future to teach those backwards inhabitants the error of their ways, and give them some advanced future technology (by which I mean current technology) in the hope that they could advance upon it over time. I would then instill into them a deep and abiding respect for their fellow human, and teach them to treat each other as equals. That way the entire world would become a socially stable and highly advanced utopia. I would of course teach them to be wary of artificial intelligence, lest the robots turn upon their creators. In addition to the awesome future utopia, I would be venerated as a god, and have an entire planetary population to lead into the stars, and later abandon (declaring them corrupt beyond repair) so I could watch them scramble for the scraps left behind in the wake of their deity's absence and tear each other apart in their fanatical zeal to prove themselves worthy of me...
If I could go to more than one place then I'd probably just have fun with it. Think about it. So much to see, so little time...
In chronological order I would: Hang out with the great ancient philosophers of Greece (whom I hear throw great parties), visit the Egyptians with the gift of 80's pop music (yes that song), call Caligula crazy, watch Constantine make his rounds, become a member of a Celtic Tribe, give Charlemange tactical advice, watch the battle of Hastings, crown a monarch as an endorsed saint of the Roman Catholic Church, invent the first gun, tag along with Marco polo, discover America (Seaninania), sail around the world for the first time, invent a foodstuff, become a monarch, abdicate my throne, live in an actual victorian house, avert the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, give the writer of Sherlock Holms a signed copy of his own book, incite world war one by beating the assassin to the punch, join a mafia by passing myself off as 100% sicilian (yes that used to be the requirement), incite the Russian revolution, avert world war two by assassinating hitler and convincing america that their interests were significantly threatened by the axis (warn them of the Pearl Harbor bombing), avert american involvement in the Vietnam war by assassinating LBJ, stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy (before the LBJ thing if I was doing it chronologically), prevent the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and tell everyone (via video recordings) that "No, they dont have weapons of mass destruction..." and for the love of all that is holy, STOP LIVING BEYOND YOUR MEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That last bit was for my own sanity. Also, I would make sure that everyone involved knew who I was and that I was promptly rewarded for all of these things (except the dangerous ones...those would happen secretly....).
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