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Post by Bayne on Feb 20, 2004 21:29:48 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]The Time Machine is my second favourite book, many even consider it a greater work of literature than WotW. I wouldn't go quite as far as saying that, but it is certainly pretty darn close The recent film was IMO... hmmm how can I say it in an understated manner? The single greatest dissapointment of cinema history... but it still has some redeeming points. The Pal film still deviates quite substantially from the novel but most people I know who love the book are quite happy with it. Anyways I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone else on the board thinks. [/glow]
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Post by David Faltskog on Feb 20, 2004 22:53:15 GMT
Well...I thought the recent movie version of the Time Machine was'nt too bad,the design of the machine was damm fine.
But overall it did deviate too much from the book.
The Pal version is still the best.
B-B.
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Post by Charles on Feb 21, 2004 1:36:13 GMT
The best part of Spielberg's "Time Machine" was Samantha Mumba. Too bad she really wasn't supposed to be in there like that, eh?
"Do you understand my words?"
I nearly choked on my tongue.
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Post by Bayne on Feb 22, 2004 22:19:17 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]I didn't mind the changes early in the film, though I didn't think the Traveller needed any motivation other than that in the book. But when they changed the Eloi and Morlocks, well it just plain sucked![/glow]
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Post by Charles on Feb 23, 2004 4:55:09 GMT
How about that fragmented moon, eh?
I really like Orlando Jones, but his roll as the library computer was so contrived, I wanted to scream.
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Post by David Faltskog on Feb 23, 2004 13:21:03 GMT
How did that holograpic whatyer call it last all that time and still have the power to work?.
B-B.
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Post by Rob on Feb 23, 2004 17:33:13 GMT
Thats because me and bayne only have the power to delete posts.
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Post by David Faltskog on Feb 23, 2004 20:34:30 GMT
POWER MAD FOOLS!!!. Cheer's Rob. B-B.
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Post by Thunder Child on Feb 23, 2004 20:48:36 GMT
Hi, I think the Morlocks were pretty cool. But as said on this forum before, the movie missed about every point Wells was trying to give. It took me a long time to explain to my younger brother what the original novel was all about (he is not really a reader . And what the Morlocks actually are... Anyway, I did enjoy the movie when I first saw it, but as a popcorn movie. Nothing more. Greetings, Johan
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Post by Bayne on Mar 12, 2004 21:19:15 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]On a side note, my Grandmother was good friends with Rod Taylor. Unfortunatly she never told me any Time Machine related annecdotes.. small world though huh? [/glow]
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Post by krys666 on Oct 7, 2004 16:53:12 GMT
Sure is! My dad has spoken to, personaly to i think one of the members of an old rock group. He bought something off my dad!!! Yes the Time Machine was very ahed of it's time!! "Of it's time!?!!! ;D"
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Post by Emanuel on Dec 7, 2004 0:54:17 GMT
I feel that this book would make a very good television series as a sequel to a mini-series of the novel The Time Machine. Perhaps on the Sci-fi channel or one of the other networks out there.
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Post by Gnorn on Dec 26, 2004 5:13:41 GMT
No, I don't think so. We have had a lot of those series allready. Of which I think Voyagers! was the best.
Also, I kinda liked the new movie. The fragmented moon looked cool in my opinion, and the library assistant was very funny. The design of the time machine itself was also very good.
-Gnorn
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Post by Bayne on Dec 28, 2004 2:13:34 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]shame that they through away just about everything that mattered from the book though, huh.
I for one would like to see a proper movie or mini series that sticks to the book. [/glow]
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Post by kingofthemorlocks on Jan 19, 2005 0:34:14 GMT
The new Morlocks were a kick in the teeth to this old boy. Moving about in daylight, unhindered by the hated sun? In my mind, the morlocks are stunted, twisted little things, with large, dead-white eyes, as if clouded by cataracts, mostly devoid of hair, and what's left is bleached and stringy. Balding, albino chimpanzees, strung out on heroin and ready to beat your brains in with an ancient wrench and then devour you.
But Jeremy Irons as the Morlock King was really creepy looking. Those little spines projecting from his back, the Dimmu Borgir-esque leather outfit...
Definitely a B-movie, if you ask me.
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Post by malfunkshun on Jan 22, 2005 22:32:57 GMT
it definitely was not a B-movie... it had pretty high production values. however that doesn't give it the excuse to suck, which it did, horribly. this is what scares me when i think about WOTW being done by spielberg.
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Post by Gnorn on Jan 23, 2005 0:41:05 GMT
As stated before, I like this movie. But that may also be acounted to my state of mind at the time I had seen it at the cinema. It was a rather emotional time (won't go into details) but that seems to cloud the brains to some agree.
I say it's not a B-movie, merely a movie based on a suberb novel, but not sending the message intended.
-Gnorn
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Post by Flynn77 on Jan 26, 2005 17:29:04 GMT
Err...it wasn't by spielberg, It suffered really from having the moon sequence cut out of respect for 9/11. Originally parts of the moon were to crash through the city causing a nuclear winter. As it turned out it was below popcorn fare. Unfortunate, it started off ok. Anyway there seems to be enough Spielberg bashing on these boards!! Not sure why, but like I said he had nothing to do with this! ;D
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Post by Gnorn on Jan 26, 2005 21:17:19 GMT
I haven't seen the cut scene, but maybe it wasn't afinished since it was not going to be in the movie anyway?
-Gnorn
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Post by Bayne on Jan 28, 2005 8:15:30 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]I don't think it would have helped much. In my view the changes to the Eloi and Morlocks pretty much cripple the film and the ending rains down the death-blow. The changes to the Traveller's character and the cutting of the journeys to the past and even more distant future were the last nails in the coffin. The Pal movie was great, but a remake should have been more, not less, like the book. For one, audiences these days seem more appreciative of the darker and more somber story and for another the film techniques and spfx required to tell the rest of the story (like the final fate of man are now available. Instead we have a poor rip-off of Planet Of The Apes. [/glow]
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