Just saw "Time Machine"

[Elvet]

I don't know what I was expecting - but felt it was a waste of time and money. Saw the original way back when, at the time when special effects were in infancy and I can say I enjoyed the first version more. Maybe its because of the wealth of excellent movies that I've seen lately (notwithstanding 4 viewings of LotR ).
Anyhow, just thought I'd rant in case it's on someone's must see list.

[cee2lee2]

Thanks for your opinion. My husband has been wanting to see it but I'm more ambivalent. We saw the trailer when we saw Fellowship and the special effects looked interesting. We may still go but I definitely won't be insisting on it like I did with Fellowship :D

[Nibs]

I saw the previews and was quite flabbergasted (third time I've used that word today). I read the book a while ago, but I can still recall that there were no interactions mentioned between the Eloi and the Morlocks above ground, except attacks during the night. Also, the Morlocks were nasty little critters with bulging white eyes. The preview didn't reflect any of that. Instead, the Morlocks were more cat-like, aggressive hunters. And I heard it was bad. I don't think I'll see it, especially in the theater.

[HOBBIT]

Is there already a topic on this? I'm not sure....anyways, I moved this from GM to the correct forum. The movie looks stupid.......The first half of the preview trailer looked cute, then it got really bad....... I'll see it when it comes to cable : p

And Nibs, you do realize that no one has any clue what you had just said ;) (unless they read the book or whatever.)

[anduin]

I think he was assuming that people have read the book....I mean this isn't a message board centered around cars or something. :p

[Darth Tater]

I have a feeling Harry Knowles' review is more entertaining then the movie!

[FrodoFriend]

Gah. That movie makes me angry. I haven't seen it, but it's pretty obvious that it's a complete perversion of the book. You know when they make the Eloi talk that you've lost about half the book right there. :mad: The Time Machine is one of my favorite reads too . . . :mad:

[Tessar]

Well the trailer looked cool to me........

[Elvet]

The trailer looked good to me, too. That's why I went.

[aldesign]

well, this is interesting

ill think ill read the book, before it comes out over here in UK.

andy

[elf_princess]

I just got back from seeing that movie. I thought it was ok. Not very good though. The special effects were really good though. It had a lot of unanswered questions in it and parts of it i didn't understand....

[sun-star]

I just had to study the book for English GCSE and I really liked it. I seem to remember the original film was quite different, although it's a long time since I saw it, and I didn't have a clue what was going on at the time.

[Kyote Fields]

I completly enjoyed the film. i thought it was a good little romp and since I haven't read the book i had no expectations. I've made those two little stipulations for myself: 1)If I've read the book, I understand the movie will be nothing like the book, especially my favorite parts 2) I don't haev any expectations when going to see movie any more. I enjoy more movies that way.
I only have, to contradict myself, four "expectation" movies this year. Star Wars, Signs, Spiderman and, of course, LOTR.

[aldesign]

just checking Kyote Fields

u do know what ur Avatar is dont u?

its from a british cartoon band called the Gorrillaz. Thats Russel the Drummer.

andy

[Kyote Fields]

Love thier music. It's very cool. They should be coming around my area on tour. I heard that thier concert is really just a long cartoon with the real band playing behind the backdrop. Do you know?

[afro-elf]

I just a bootleg of the movie here in Saudi and the sound was do do.

what did the uber morlock say to guy pierce about not changing time?

[katya]

ooo i dont want to see the new movie if its going to make me mad for being stupid...im curious though. i read the book just before i saw the movie in school. i kind of liked it. its not my type of movie or book but i liked it. it's kind of depressing though i think.

[Sylvee Estel]

I really liked the movie. Parts of it I didn't understand, but that happens to me in lots of movies, lol. I never read the book though so I dont know how it compares to that.

[Rána Eressëa]

Haven't read the book. Saw the movie. Wonderful. Thoroughly enjoyable for me.

[HobbitChick88]

My older brother made me watch it, and it was okay. The special effects were awesome, too :). I haven't read the book, so those brown things (I can't remember what they're called) freaked me out a whole lot. My brother started cracking up when he saw the look on my face :o.

[katya]

oh my gosh. i just saw the movie...wow....as i have said before, i read the book, and also saw the old movie just after that. is everyone sure that the movie is about the same "the time machine" by H.G. Wells?!?!?! the only things that were at all the same were that the guy makes a time machine, and goes to the future and finds that the human race was divided into eloi and morlocks. and the morlocks eat the eloi. that is about it. the movie i didnt understand at all. it made no sense to me. for a while it did, but...wow...the special effects were pretty sweet though. and i thought the old movie had a few differences!! remind me not to complain about the lotr movies having slight variations. oh something i found interesting:the eloi that "alex" talks to is named mara. very close to maura. oh yeah by the way, the morlocks remind me of orcs. a little. ok well anyway i think i will stick to the old movie with it's not so great special effects, thank you.

[HobbitChick88]

I thought the morlocks were freakier than the orcs!!:eek: :eek:

[katya]

ya me too. since my last post i have watched fotr again and there is that one scene i forgot where and it looks just like under the ground in the time machine, then sauraman i guess is that freaky head morlock dude. hey, they both have scarily straight white hair. the morlocks were very scary.