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.
I forgot how bad this movie is. The previous version of the movie from 1960 is definitely better.
I have always loved how he tries to save his girlfriend once and then says he could try a thousand time and watch her die a thousand ways. 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.
This movie is...odd.
The story in itself has a good basis, a men suffers the death of her beloved then builds a time machine to try and fix it
the problem is that the film has an odd way of telling the story and the pacing felt strange.
This movie is 1 hour and a half, which was normal for the 00's but these days movies usually are 2 hours long, i feel like this movie would have greatly benefitted having 30 more minutes to it
the first part of the movie feels really rushed, the death of the girl, the construction of the time machine and the realization that "i cannot change the past" all happen in like 5 minutes of the movie.
One scene the machine is just a couple of numbers on a whiteboard, one minute later it's done and working
he literally tries to save the girl a single time in the movie and he is instantly convinced that he can't change the past, i feel like i would have tried just a bunch more
After that he goes to the future, the sequence at the library with the AI felt really clunky and just far from reality, but this was the 00's concept of the future i guess so i can't really complain about it
the fact that 800 thousand years in the future the only thing that really changed is where the soil is just funny, yes they tell us that humanity has evolved in 2 branches, one of slaves and ones of weird cannibal monsters, but that seems just silly. 800k years of evolution would probably do a bit more than that
i would also expect plants to be different, and animals too, only chameleons and bats are shown but still it feels odd.
At the end of the movie the protagonist is told 2 really important informations:
1) you can't change the past. if you were to change an event that means that you would not create time travel to change that event, which means that you would not travel back to change it, which means it would change. And if it didn't change, you would create time travel and so on and so forth. So changing the past is impossible because it would put you in an endless loop, cool
2) alexander travels to the future (like 635 MILLION YEARS MORE into the future holy crap) and notices that the cannibal monsters have transformed the earth in a wasteland.
given these informations, he goes back to the 800k something (so in the "future present") and destroys his machine to also destroy the monsters and save the "human slaves"
which really does nothing, since as we know changing the past doesn't change the future so the monsters will still end up ruling over the earth somehow but i guess it does help his tribe to live a happier life, since they won't need to worry about the monsters anymore.
So when the movie ends, he stays in the future with this new girl he met (which felt just really wrong, since this whole journey started because he wanted to save "the love of his life" at any cost) and that's it
It's not that bad of a movie honestly, I somewhat enjoyed it, it just felt quite rushed in many parts and the story doesn't really make sense to me in many ways (why stay in a primitive future? why even bother to change something that it's going to happen 635 million years in the future? why literally nothing evolved except a branch of humans? i could go on but you get the point)
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.
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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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.