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Maleniak says...

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3 years ago

Another movie in the genre of "praise of stupidity". The main character does something completely idiotic and we are told it was brilliant.
It is known that Ûber Warlock was ONE OF MANY just as his seat was one of many. Blowing it up DOES NOT CHANGE ANYTHING, except for the other "butchers" to dispose of the sick herd. At the same time, it was enough to go back in time and get the whole thing done when the division was just beginning.
PS. It is a pity to write about numerous illogicalities.

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Jim222001 says...

4 years ago

Since Simon Wells is related to H.G. Wells. You would think that he wouldn’t mess with the material. As much as he does.
The Time Machine is a fun time travel film without being too faithful to the book. Having a leader of the Morlocks is where they went wrong though.

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DRNKMNKY says...

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9 years ago

One of the best sci-fi thrillers I know, although there are some plot holes (Why does the time machine work as depicted? What's the real reason one can't change the past? ...): After the murder of his fiancé, the college teacher Alex Hartdegen builds a time machine and travels into the future only to discover that man managed to nearly destroy planet Earth and that a part of mankind lives in slavery. He then decides to help free the slaves from the grip of the Molocks and sacrifices his only chance of returning to his time: he destroys his time machine so that the Eloi can escape slavery.

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Reply by FishInABottle

8 years ago

"What's the real reason one can't change the past"<br /> Got answered from the Ûber Warlock. He is caught in a loop. He can't go back in time to save his fiancée, because her death is the reason he went back in time in the first place. <br /> Makes perfect sense to me at least.

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Reply by DRNKMNKY

8 years ago

@q11x: Yeah, its the reason he went back. But after going back and changing the past, the events along the timeline would be changed from there on and there would be no reason for him to go back because his fiancé would not be dead, meaning there is no loop, no?!?!

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Narate says...

2 years ago

>"You were right, Philby. We did go too far."

Hmm, this might be my least favorite time travel movie of all time. The beginning is pretty interesting and I was hoping we would focus on that but then it feels like it just falls apart.

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wpafbo79 says...

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2 years ago

I forgot how bad this movie is. The previous version of the movie from 1960 is definitely better.

I have always loved how [spoiler]he tries to save his girlfriend once and then says he could try a thousand time and watch her die a thousand ways.[/spoiler] That seems like some poor extrapolation there. We could have at least had a montage of a few dozen attempts before we leap to the conclusion that it isn't going to happen.

I do love the way the Morlocks pacify the Eloi. Take the ones that fight and the rest learn not to resist. Really quite brilliant. I can't remember if that is in the book or not, but I like it.

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