Imagine you are a human being in New York ten years after I write this comment. You had just seen a man in nineteenth/twentieth century clothing on the side of the street. You see that behind him is some sort of chair with several components and wheels, unlike anything you’ve ever seen...”’Bet that makes a helluva cappuccino.”
Especially when you watch his video on John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars. Where he reflects on the failures of Mars Needs Moms and the John Carter film (The former being Disney's biggest box office bomb ATM) by sayimg "We can safely assume Mars is cursed"
The music was great, unfortunately totally overshadowed by the awful writing. Review is correct in some places, for example the AI from the library lasting hundreds of thousands of years? And the big expository part with the main Morlock made little sense. I love the original movie, and really enjoy Guy Pierces acting, so this was a big disappointment for me.
1) The toothbrush bit is meant to be funny, I don't think scientific accuracy was what they were going for. 2) In the books the traveller is a professor of optics, and the clear parts of the machine are fresnal lenses from lighthouses - hence the bright blue lights. 2) Orlando is meant to be annoying in the movie, like that was the idea of the character. 3) Given that the Morlocks come out of the ground to get them, I think the sides of cliffs is the best place to build houses. 4) The Eloi in the original movie did speak English. 5) The moon probably stays in orbit the same way most satellites do. 6) They didn't know what the words meant, other than that they were words. 7) Vox is just as useful as the rings in the original movie. 8) They don't take people in their sleep because (see 3) 9) George in the original movie also stumbles onto Bones, as the shock moment of the movie. 10) I think 800,00 years with no sunlight might make your species have pretty white skin... 11) The Ubermorlock and Alex are meant to both be not-good not-bad characters in their conversation. There was a deleted scene where Alex tries to go back and stop the moon from being destroyed, and ends up causing it, hence the "I am the inescapable result of you." line. 12) the original movie also had a fight scene in the machine, it just wasn't moving in that one. 13) The scientist became an action hero in every other version of this story. 14) Vox was never physically connected to his memory core.
Sad thing is that the "We all have our time machines" line, which is one of the few things Film Brain likes, was not written by any screenwriter. It's a quote attributed to H.G. Wells himself and thus apparently one of the few things they actually carried over faithfully from the source material.
@@kbanghart The full quote is: "We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories, those that carry us forward are dreams."
Hm... it's just an impression I had while watching the movie, or was Iron's morlock leader suposed to be either a future version of the protagonist or another time traveler? Because: 1) he feels weirdly sentimentally attached to the hero's pocket watch. 2) knows stuff about both our protagonist and time travel. 3) despite having a time machine, has zero interest in using it (as if he was done with time travel already or something)
I agree but you didn't mention the part where he said that the time machine was the reason why he can't change what happens to his soon to have been wife and that he himself was the reason why the warlocks and him where the way they were
@@bboss7874 It also makes me think. What he could have done was just travel into the past years before she died, and live his relationship over and over again. As many times as he chooses. It's also entirely possible he could have found a loophole if he kept trying. I mean, the guy invented a freakin time machine. You don't think he could have invented something else specifically for his predicament with his wife? Hell, maybe traveled into the future and cloned her? If cloning was discovered and used in his universe? Hell, travel into the past, make her hop on the time machine with him. Was that not possible? I didn't see him try it.
@@makegainz4218 I mean, since he knows the problem is that he would never have created the time machine if she didn't die, making his grief for her death a fixed point... he could have kidnapped her or faked her death until his past self created the time machine and voilà.
He knows too much because he reads minds. In fact he reads every mind every night so he can call every human by their name while giving them a nightmare designed to subliminally prepare them for being hunted.
I saw the old version when I was little and I was scared but enthralled. It had so much charm to it, somehow. This version I saw in cinema with friends that didn't know the original. There's nothing in there but that one quote you pointed out, and I absolutely LOVE it: " We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back... memories and those that carry us forward... our dreams."
1. Not a protective bubble. Just the separation between norm (relative) time and the accelerated time of the rest of the universe. Though technically he should just have been out of synch with the outside but it was either that or have him pass out on the controls from something he did during his lay over.2. E-LOY. Not E-OH-LIE.
Well, some changes are understandable. Original "Time Machine" book was very little on plot and most of it, consitsts of psychological itnrospection of a character, description of enviroment and philosophical discussions.
Time Machine turns 20 today! I remember seeing it with my dad and my sister Didn't exactly win critics although it did make $56 million and $123 million worldwide This was my first introduction to Guy Pearce and Samantha Mumba's only movie as she was primarily a singer It's an odd mixture of romance drama meets sci-fi/action It did win an Oscar nomination for best makeup effects; I barely recognize Jeremy Irons as the villain The musical score when Alexander arrived 800,000 years later is so moving it’s the most memorable thing in the movie
Psh, that time paradox is so easy to solve. All he had to do was fake his wife's death and keep her hidden until his past self used the time machine. El Psy Congroo.
Or save her but beforehand/afterwards present himself to his past-self and explain that he *HAS* to create a time machine... for reasons. I doubt a scientist would avoid the chance to create such a device if they knew it could be done.
Or just straight up take her with him to the future. Her sudden disappearance will motivate his past self to build the time machine and do the same to another past self ad infinitum
I remember I had to do a report for HG Wells' The Time Machine. The video stores (yeah, video stores) we had didn't have the original movie so I rented this. Suffice to say, it has virtually nothing to do with the original book.
It COULD have been a good movie. I thought some of the music was thrilling, and the design of the Time Machine was cool. But they had to introduce a sappy and silly "love story" that was totally out-of-place. The Time Traveler looks anorexic. The Morlocks are like something out of "Planet of the Apes". (The Morlocks in Wells' novel were far more creepy and disgusting.) The idea of a "moon breakup" was scientifically laughable. The Eloi are like California beachgoers. They had 10x the budget that George Pal had, and infinitely better f/x technology, but still screwed it up.
Holy shit, forget the Borg Queen, Jeremy Irons is a dead fucking ringer for the wraiths from Stargate Atlantis! I don't know which came first but somebody ripped SOMEBODY off!
Anasazi Cliff-dwellers *did* live on the sides of cliffs. Though they lived in well concealed caves built into them. Not funky houses somehow attached to them. So I guess your point is technically valid.
When Directv ran the film on pay per view shortly after it finished it's run in theaters they had an alternate version and ending where Alexander goes back to save Anna and does finally save her and they are skating on ice at the end of the film. It was better version I thought than the original film.
That sounds very interesting: the DVD I had certainly did have that, and it is the first I've heard of it. At the same time, though, that does contradict the very time paradox the film firmly establishes.
I have not been able to find a DVD with that version on it. I may still have it on VHS as I recorded it from pay per view. I thought it was a better ending and filmmaking as the film starts a romance between Alexander and Emma that ends in a tragedy and that tragedy is why he invents the time machine and saving Emma becomes the driving force of the film and as Alfred Hitchcock would say the audience has a vested interest in Emma and to deny the audience the satisfaction of saving Emma leaves the viewer disappointed.
@@FilmBrain It was probably a studio deision not to include that ending, we all know how studios like to change everything even when it hurts the film, Eg: Sucide squad, Fant4stic, alien 3
for me it's one of those movies people love to hate on mainly for "not being the book" (which I get, but I like both the book and the movie for different reasons) despite it being quite good and having several interesting points. I still like it after all these years despite some of it's flaws however, probably been about 3 years since I saw it last so maybe next time i will hate it ;)
7:43 A good rule of thumb for professional writing: don't remind people of something better, and especially don't directly reference the thing you're adapting and/or remaking because that will raise all sorts of questions. 8:16 The aftermath of Eggman pissing on the moon, clearly.
tyshekka right most of those animated movies were. Feifel goes west .. that was a huge part of my child hood and Balto I fuckin loved the hell out of those movies. This dude is trippin calling the price of Egypt trash. One of the best animated movies and musicals of all time
I think with time travel in this movie is like that. He can't go back in time and prevent her death which was a catalyst to create a time travel, coz if he prevent her death his past self wont create a time machine to go back to stop her death. "Its time machine creator paradox". Just like you can't go back in time and kick you father in the balls to stop your self of being born. Coz if your wont be born you wont go back in time to kick your daddy in the balls But if he would first go and talk to his past self and told him 2 things. 1. Give him his notes how to create a time machine and told him that in 4 years he must do this time travel and give him self this note and ask his past self to do what he is doing now. 2. Your girl will die so you must save her. But even if you save her you still must create this time machine and make this travel to secure time machine creation and to save you love one. That way he would create a time loop in which he will have a future with her. Otherwise "time" it self will force him to cerate a time machine by killing his girlfriend.
5:51 I'm someone who actually liked this movie, but even I have to admit that Steins;Gate (a time travel related anime that's worth a watch if you get the chance) handled this kind of scenario a lot better. So erm...spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't seen Steins;Gate, the protagonist at one point in the story ends up in a scenario where he's trying to stop someone he loves from dying by going back in time to prevent the events that lead to her death from happening, but every time he tries to do this she just gets killed at the exact same moment in time but for a different reason, and over time you gradually see the protagonist lose his mind over this. You feel his pain and his sense of futility. The Time Machine just leaves most of it up to imagination and doesn't try to imply that the traveller made multiple attempts to save his fiancé which is why it feels like he only tried it once.
Wait...emma...fiancé...They ripped that off from Jekyll and Hyde! Hell, the 'hero' could just be Henry but into THE FUTURE instead of THE MIND! They're both practically the same guy. The cliché 'I'm an inventor/scientist who'll prove everyone wrong and make a new future thing'. Too bad there's no Hyde. That would've make so much fun.
The 1978 Time Machine is much better than this. I loved the re-run Joe Chill moment that got the plot going in 2002. He can’t use knowledge gained from after an event has happened, to go back before the event, to change it; because to do that would require already having that knowledge before the event. But one cannot exist in a moment before and until one exists in it. He is attempting a self-contradiction.
I love this film, Samantha Mumba is a hunny bunny, Mark Addy is good, Jeremy Irons hams it up brilliantly, not as good as in D&D, but we'll never reach that perfection in cinema again. All in all, it's a great film, some great moments that really capture the imagination, the film is obviously made with a lot of love, which makes up for its cheesiness. Classic family movie material.
If your so freaking smart make your own movie, I always liked this film! I mean explain the way it works really, it is sci fi after all belief is somewhat suspended duh
even if the VOX system was run by some fusion reactor (I doubt it would run for 800 fucking thousand years) ... the matter decay ALONE and the exposure to the elements would ahve fucked it up beyond recognition
It's weird how even in a crappy movie, something can kind of take your breath way. That line about dreams and memories? It...honestly kinda hit me harder than I expected. Literal diamond in the rough.
I thought the director should have made the film more faithful to the original novel's plot. Then he could have added perhaps some additional stuff - like Jeremy Irons. The library hologram should have been played by someone like Sir Ian McKellan. Including the child in the plot was a mistake because children can't cope with parts that require real acting. The first part of this film was too slow and aimed at children, which is a lethal combination that would just about turn everybody off. In addition, the love scenes at the beginning were just naff, so it's difficult to feel sympathetic towards the hero, which is the opposite of the intended effect. All such a big shame - could have been a good film.
It's not a protective sphere, it's his own space-time bubble. It was not designed to protect him. Not that I defend the movie, I found it not so well executed, unfortunately. Lot of potential, though.
It's essentially a stasis field; though not designed to protect him, it functionally would do so, nonetheless. He's kinda both wrong and right at the same time...
Thanks for your review of this, Mathew. I now know that it's not worth bothering with. But I do want to see the original 1960 movie starring Rod Taylor. I never read the original book but I just read it's plot synopsis on Wikipedia. Fascinating!
The 2002 version of The Time Machine is nowhere near as good as the classic 1960 film, but man, what I wouldn't give to have a Blu-ray release of the 2002 film!!
'Pluto Nash does not exist in this timeline' every Apocalypse has a silver lining. Also the Moon breaking up sequence was the only one that worked in my view. It may not be very scientific but it does its job.
Well, Film Brain has never reviewed animated films on his show. The closest he's come to reviewing animated stuff is Monkeybone and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwal.
This maybe a "bad movie" in your opinion, but I fucking love it! I still enjoyed your perspective of it but I have to respectfully disagree about this being bad. Oh, and Orlando, his Vox was my favorite character.
It was 70k+ Years... NOT 700k+ Years lol I had to go back and rewatch the scene where he wakes up in the time machine. But I’m probably not the first person to comment about this. I’m not mad and still like this channel A LOT ;) Keep rocking!
and alan young who was filby in the 1960 version has a cameo in this. alan was also wilbur from mr ed, the original scrooge mcduck as well as haggis mcmutton (which was kind of the same voice anyway) in the curse of monkey island :)
By all accounts Guy Pearce hated the film as well. He'd have a joke with one of the guys on set about what age range it was aimed at. They'd agree on 12 then someone would walk past in a rubber costume and they'd both laugh & say "Nah! more like 8."
7:45 The scene reminds me of the classic short story “Enoch Soames” By Max Beerbohm The story, written in the 19th Century, is incredibly prescient about the degradation of our language !
It certainly says something when I'm inclined to agree with what SCXCR of RiverCityGamers said in the episode for MediEvil 2 in fellow RCG member Blondeguygamer's They Made a Sequel series in regard to the time machine in the all chalice ending of that game. That's supposed to be a reference to the HG Wells story "At the very least this is better than the 2002 movie" (Sorry if I got the quote wrong. Haven't seen the episode in a while)
There's a movie (I forget the title) where H.G Wells goes to the seventies and fights Jack the Ripper. Why couldn't we have had a remake of that movie?
At a year ago...I was honestly hoping this video wouldn't be converted with a potato -.- I can rat out the story on this movie but it's one of those bad movies you have to love. It's the same with Van Helsing...It's just terribly entertaining.
I liked it. Think you've missed a lot of points of this film. Most of what you didn't understand was actually explained in the film, like what the hologram is powered by, the sphere on the machine is the bending of light and only protects against time but isn't an actual forcefield.
What he could have done was just travel into the past years before she died, and live his relationship over and over again. As many times as he chooses. It's also entirely possible he could have found a loophole if he kept trying. I mean, the guy invented a freakin time machine. You don't think he could have invented something else specifically for his predicament with his wife? Hell, maybe traveled into the future and cloned her? If cloning was discovered and used in his universe? Hell, travel into the past, make her hop on the time machine with him. Was that not possible? I didn't see him try it
The 9 bars on the machine does actually make some sense if you consider the fact that he had been secretly working on this machine since before his fiancé died, if you're a scientist building a time machine it never hurts to broaden your horizons a bit. Though you could argue that 9 bars is a bit small given that the universe is many trillions of years old and is expected to last many trillions of years more.
Well,to be fair,english is already an almost world wide known language decades before they fuck with the moon,so I find kinda difficult for people to totaly forgeting it to begin with ,even after a catastrophe...
Watching this review made me want to read the original story by H.G. Wells. Now that I've finished it,.....wow, this film was WAY OFF! And it's even stranger when you find out this was made by a descendant of the same writer! Way to spit on your own great grandfather, Simon!
You didn't even mention that the movie contradicts its own ending. So, Alexander goes to the future, sees a future ruled by Morlocks, goes back and blows up the Morlocks. Well, now when past Alexander goes to the future, he'll see whatever future resulted from future Alexander's actions. So, unless the future didn't actually change, or unless Alexander was feeling particularly genocidal that day, Alexander wouldn't have any reason to blow up the Morlocks. It's a time paradox. The only way the ending works is if Alexander's temporal genocide doesn't actually affect the future, and in that case the happy ending is moot.
No way this is a bad movie my guy I love science fiction and this is top 5 for me idk maybe it's the storyline that did it for me I loved this film I need sequels.
Another example of a new adaptation just being a remake of the original film. The entire screenplay for this film is based on the 1960 version which itself was a loose adaptation of the book. Why make another adaptation if its just gonna be similar to the first film, studio had the perfect opportunity adapt the source material faithfully this time around. I guess updated visuals and small changes or that matter to them in Hollywood.
This is a movie about a time machine.. A Time Machine! not an unrequited love affair ... If you read the book, HGWells himself, was sort of vague about the principles of its workings but it is a good story. He glossed over those major points and went on with the excitement of time travel and that's what we wanted to see... This re-make was a let down...
This review is a bit harsh. The film may be dumb but it is fun and never boring and I absolutely love the book and the 1960 film. Anyway, subbed coz you make me laugh.
lmao... the 'sphere' isn't meant to be protective... its what allows the time machine to move thru time... supposedly, it creates a self contained photon matrix, not linked to the flow of normal time as its riding its own light speed bubble...as a result, it can 'slide' thru time on the differential between its light sphere and the photon stream we know as normal time... and yes, its lame... lmfao
Bro thought he could change the past, however the outcome was still the same- if his fiance, Emma didn't die, Alexander would not have built the time machine- hence the Uber-Morlock says Alexander is an inescapable result of himself by his tragedy, he can't alter the past since the final outcome is constant:Emma dying
2:25 - He's over-ambitious. That's the point. He goes way ahead of himself only for his ego and progress to be shot down. He copes with it and inherits a new outlook 3:41 - Ok... well that was the point. He was obviously overcome with swoon the whole time that this awkwardness kicks in. 3:58 - Are you an idiot? In what circumstances do you ever shout MUGGER or HELP when there's a fucking gun pointed towards you? The gun is pointed at you so you DON'T call for help. Enjoy getting your head blown off when that happens to you. 4:09 - Emma was a stupid bitch because material possessions are more important than safety and companionship according to her. This was the point Alex should've broke up with her. 4:20 - I'm missing the point where that's being selfish...? 5:01 - Is it really needed for questioning? He built a machine that fucking travels through time! 5:55 - This makes sense, but for the sake of pacing, it's fine how it is 6:55 - The sphere is likely meant to preserve real time inside the machine while time is able to accelerate outwards. Alex's hand was undergoing accelerated aging for being outside the sphere is how I took it. I don't see how it would have anything to do with his hand getting cut off. 9:20 - Some civilizations have resided on cliffs historically. Just saying. Look up the Pueblo people as a famous example. 10:36 - The problem is with this movie is that (even though this is somehow easily readable and not eroded after 800,000 years) these stones are irrelevant because virtual Orlando somehow still exists??? The Eloi have all the information they need under the direction of Vox 2037 and prior. Access to languages, texts needed to not only combat the Morlock but to restart where regular humans died off. Too convenient of a plot device. 13:29 - I thought the dialog was interesting, but the biggest fuck up is that they gave good reason to sympathize with the race of what essentially should be considered the villain. They are forced to live underground. Can't interact with the sunlight, so they had to adapt somehow. They rely on Eloi as their nourishment and at least Uber Driver Morlock is being conservative enough to not die out their breed. Then Alex chooses to risk his life picking a fight with this thing he clearly knows little about besides it using the force and having an impressive case of scoliosis. For what? To save some bimbo he met a day ago? I guess picking a timeline to find true love among the couple of thousands of years was too good for him. 16:30 - Already made that clear on the 6:55 timestamp 16:40 - So 300 million years and somehow life still exists, and somehow it's Morlocks. Interesting, it took them 800k to develop Sith powers but they're still building angry face forts millions after, which is seemingly unchanged... but somehow not extinct from going amok on the food source even after 1000 years. You're good at pointing out dumb stuff but I'm surprised that never crossed your mind. This movie was mediocre, not terrible. The futuristic timelines are interesting to perceive and the science does try to work, but the movie started to fall apart by the Eloi/Morlock chapter. Your review was even worse however, you're trying too hard. It's not even worth picking apart because it's a Hollywood polished middle of the road flick and forget, as evidenced by the fact that this god forsaken video was the most popular option.
it should be against the law to remake a movie this poorly. I mean they ruined it. the original is far more superior. this so called remake is just a waste of film and money. its horrible beyond words.
I never understood "The Time Machine" time travel rules. What really irritates me why can't he go back in time to before the creation of the machine. That makes less than zero logical or scientific sense and makes a time machine pretty much pointless.
He can go back in time before he build the time machine. That was clearly shown. He just can't save his fiancee, because if he rescues her, he will not build the time machine. Therefore he can't go back to safe her and to avoid this paradox she dies even if he rescues her.
But Alex DID change the past. Instead of a robber killing the girl, a runaway horse does. Sure she does so there is no paradox… but where and when he got flowers and where and how she die a definite changes. Just sayin
The protective sphere only protects the user from the outside temporal progressions or regressions, not from natural forces: He breaths the same air as anyone around him and he experiences the same atmospheric conditions, but he does not age at the same speed.
Going by the movie, it took him about 20 seconds to get through that, and I believe the breathable air contained inside the sphere is more than enough for him to survive that long
Wouldn't make more sense for the ai librarian to he the thing that kept English alive and taught them things considering it still functioned so far into the future? That way we wouldn't have the dumb explanation that they learned English by reading signs!
Good video. One item that bothered me was that the Uber Morlock told Alexander that he was just one of many colony leaders. So killing him and even wiping out his colony, didn’t save the day nor the even move apocalyptic future Alexander saw. He also destroyed the device that would have allowed him to actually try to save the human race. The ending is actually terribly bleak.
Imagine you are a human being in New York ten years after I write this comment. You had just seen a man in nineteenth/twentieth century clothing on the side of the street. You see that behind him is some sort of chair with several components and wheels, unlike anything you’ve ever seen...”’Bet that makes a helluva cappuccino.”
I loved this movie lol it had its own very nice nostalgic value.
Mars Needs Moms? Holy shit that guy could not get a break.
This film critic is shit. He has forgotten about entertainment. So many bad movies are entertaining 😅 🙃 😬 8
@@jeffreyshaw4037 you’re a moron
I enjoyed Mars Needs Moms I Thought it was pretty good and Simon Wells Time Machine Remake
Prince of Egypt is probably is last big hit
Oh poor, 2009 Film Brain, you had no idea that Mars Needs Moms would make this adaptation look like a goddamn masterpiece.
TheNumnutRandomness this episode is truly a time capsule.
I thought Matthew was too hard on Simon Wells Time Machine because it had a good story and good special effects
Especially when you watch his video on John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars. Where he reflects on the failures of Mars Needs Moms and the John Carter film (The former being Disney's biggest box office bomb ATM) by sayimg "We can safely assume Mars is cursed"
It is a masterpiece tho
You do have to admit that the music in this film is amazing.
The film is a masterpiece.
@@makegainz4218 this review says otherwise
@@chaz5256 Because it wasn't accurate to the book? Who cares, overall the film is very enjoyable.
The music was great, unfortunately totally overshadowed by the awful writing. Review is correct in some places, for example the AI from the library lasting hundreds of thousands of years? And the big expository part with the main Morlock made little sense. I love the original movie, and really enjoy Guy Pierces acting, so this was a big disappointment for me.
This movie definitely did not deserve to be put in the same class as movies like Lawnmower Man 2 or almost ANYTHING Steven Seagal has been in.
1) The toothbrush bit is meant to be funny, I don't think scientific accuracy was what they were going for.
2) In the books the traveller is a professor of optics, and the clear parts of the machine are fresnal lenses from lighthouses - hence the bright blue lights.
2) Orlando is meant to be annoying in the movie, like that was the idea of the character.
3) Given that the Morlocks come out of the ground to get them, I think the sides of cliffs is the best place to build houses.
4) The Eloi in the original movie did speak English.
5) The moon probably stays in orbit the same way most satellites do.
6) They didn't know what the words meant, other than that they were words.
7) Vox is just as useful as the rings in the original movie.
8) They don't take people in their sleep because (see 3)
9) George in the original movie also stumbles onto Bones, as the shock moment of the movie.
10) I think 800,00 years with no sunlight might make your species have pretty white skin...
11) The Ubermorlock and Alex are meant to both be not-good not-bad characters in their conversation. There was a deleted scene where Alex tries to go back and stop the moon from being destroyed, and ends up causing it, hence the "I am the inescapable result of you." line.
12) the original movie also had a fight scene in the machine, it just wasn't moving in that one.
13) The scientist became an action hero in every other version of this story.
14) Vox was never physically connected to his memory core.
Sad thing is that the "We all have our time machines" line, which is one of the few things Film Brain likes, was not written by any screenwriter. It's a quote attributed to H.G. Wells himself and thus apparently one of the few things they actually carried over faithfully from the source material.
What does that line mean? Like, we all have our own motivations, desires etc?
@@kbanghart The full quote is: "We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories, those that carry us forward are dreams."
@@LastRenegade Ahh ok thanks
It was a good move but the ending was bad left so many questions
Hm... it's just an impression I had while watching the movie, or was Iron's morlock leader suposed to be either a future version of the protagonist or another time traveler? Because:
1) he feels weirdly sentimentally attached to the hero's pocket watch.
2) knows stuff about both our protagonist and time travel.
3) despite having a time machine, has zero interest in using it (as if he was done with time travel already or something)
I agree with this.
I agree but you didn't mention the part where he said that the time machine was the reason why he can't change what happens to his soon to have been wife and that he himself was the reason why the warlocks and him where the way they were
@@bboss7874 It also makes me think. What he could have done was just travel into the past years before she died, and live his relationship over and over again. As many times as he chooses. It's also entirely possible he could have found a loophole if he kept trying. I mean, the guy invented a freakin time machine. You don't think he could have invented something else specifically for his predicament with his wife? Hell, maybe traveled into the future and cloned her? If cloning was discovered and used in his universe? Hell, travel into the past, make her hop on the time machine with him. Was that not possible? I didn't see him try it.
@@makegainz4218 I mean, since he knows the problem is that he would never have created the time machine if she didn't die, making his grief for her death a fixed point... he could have kidnapped her or faked her death until his past self created the time machine and voilà.
He knows too much because he reads minds. In fact he reads every mind every night so he can call every human by their name while giving them a nightmare designed to subliminally prepare them for being hunted.
What? Because in Back to the Future they actually did change the future.
I saw the old version when I was little and I was scared but enthralled. It had so much charm to it, somehow. This version I saw in cinema with friends that didn't know the original. There's nothing in there but that one quote you pointed out, and I absolutely LOVE it: " We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back... memories and those that carry us forward... our dreams."
1. Not a protective bubble. Just the separation between norm (relative) time and the accelerated time of the rest of the universe. Though technically he should just have been out of synch with the outside but it was either that or have him pass out on the controls from something he did during his lay over.2. E-LOY. Not E-OH-LIE.
Well, some changes are understandable. Original "Time Machine" book was very little on plot and most of it, consitsts of psychological itnrospection of a character, description of enviroment and philosophical discussions.
The George Pal version managed to adapt the novel without action sequences or explosions.
I loved the original movie as a child, watched it so many times, Rod Taylor was great in the lead, great aussie actor :).
Time Machine turns 20 today!
I remember seeing it with my dad and my sister
Didn't exactly win critics although it did make $56 million and $123 million worldwide
This was my first introduction to Guy Pearce and Samantha Mumba's only movie as she was primarily a singer
It's an odd mixture of romance drama meets sci-fi/action
It did win an Oscar nomination for best makeup effects; I barely recognize Jeremy Irons as the villain
The musical score when Alexander arrived 800,000 years later is so moving it’s the most memorable thing in the movie
Psh, that time paradox is so easy to solve.
All he had to do was fake his wife's death and keep her hidden until his past self used the time machine.
El Psy Congroo.
Or save her but beforehand/afterwards present himself to his past-self and explain that he *HAS* to create a time machine... for reasons. I doubt a scientist would avoid the chance to create such a device if they knew it could be done.
Or just straight up take her with him to the future. Her sudden disappearance will motivate his past self to build the time machine and do the same to another past self ad infinitum
But why would he want his past self to build the time machine if the time machine was created to make sure his wife doesn’t die.
Also, time paradox wouldn't exist because it would splinter off into branching pathways.
Love the Steins Gate reference! Amazing Anime!
I remember I had to do a report for HG Wells' The Time Machine. The video stores (yeah, video stores) we had didn't have the original movie so I rented this. Suffice to say, it has virtually nothing to do with the original book.
I did the same thing in school
Didn’t want to read the old book so I used this movie as a reference
Still had no idea if I got a good grade
It COULD have been a good movie. I thought some of the music was thrilling, and the design of the Time Machine was cool. But they had to introduce a sappy and silly "love story" that was totally out-of-place. The Time Traveler looks anorexic. The Morlocks are like something out of "Planet of the Apes". (The Morlocks in Wells' novel were far more creepy and disgusting.) The idea of a "moon breakup" was scientifically laughable. The Eloi are like California beachgoers. They had 10x the budget that George Pal had, and infinitely better f/x technology, but still screwed it up.
Holy shit, forget the Borg Queen, Jeremy Irons is a dead fucking ringer for the wraiths from Stargate Atlantis! I don't know which came first but somebody ripped SOMEBODY off!
Anasazi Cliff-dwellers *did* live on the sides of cliffs. Though they lived in well concealed caves built into them. Not funky houses somehow attached to them. So I guess your point is technically valid.
As you probably know, his point was that, why live on the cliffs? And not just flat land?
@Bear that's a Dave uh no It wasn't obvious, you weirdo.
@Bear that's a Dave relax bro, try watching some other movies for a change.
When Directv ran the film on pay per view shortly after it finished it's run in theaters they had an alternate version and ending where Alexander goes back to save Anna and does finally save her and they are skating on ice at the end of the film. It was better version I thought than the original film.
That sounds very interesting: the DVD I had certainly did have that, and it is the first I've heard of it. At the same time, though, that does contradict the very time paradox the film firmly establishes.
I have not been able to find a DVD with that version on it. I may still have it on VHS as I recorded it from pay per view. I thought it was a better ending and filmmaking as the film starts a romance between Alexander and Emma that ends in a tragedy and that tragedy is why he invents the time machine and saving Emma becomes the driving force of the film and as Alfred Hitchcock would say the audience has a vested interest in Emma and to deny the audience the satisfaction of saving Emma leaves the viewer disappointed.
@@FilmBrain It was probably a studio deision not to include that ending, we all know how studios like to change everything even when it hurts the film, Eg: Sucide squad, Fant4stic, alien 3
@@randycrawford4921 is this version shared anywhere? would love to see the alternative ending
I’ve always wondered what Jeremy Irons as a Wraith from Stargate Atlantis would look like...
But I like The Time Machine (2002)
for me it's one of those movies people love to hate on mainly for "not being the book" (which I get, but I like both the book and the movie for different reasons) despite it being quite good and having several interesting points. I still like it after all these years despite some of it's flaws however, probably been about 3 years since I saw it last so maybe next time i will hate it ;)
Dracounius
I like this movie a lot, but I also accept his reasonable criticism. Open-mindedness should work both ways.
Don’t care
I loved the original time machine, and I really really tried to like this one, but just too much was strange or didn't make sense for me.
7:43 A good rule of thumb for professional writing: don't remind people of something better, and especially don't directly reference the thing you're adapting and/or remaking because that will raise all sorts of questions.
8:16 The aftermath of Eggman pissing on the moon, clearly.
Funny. I thought Eggman roboticized the part of the moon he blew up. And we never saw that side ever again in the games.
But Prince of Egypt is excellent.
😂
tyshekka right most of those animated movies were. Feifel goes west .. that was a huge part of my child hood and Balto I fuckin loved the hell out of those movies. This dude is trippin calling the price of Egypt trash. One of the best animated movies and musicals of all time
Most underrated animated movie ever!
Hey its Aldrich Killian from Ironman 3 ( Lol )
I feel so bad for all you Blip users having to reupload literally EVERYTHING somewhere else
To be fair they had to have seen the writing on the wall long before Blip went belly up.
TreClaire so what happened?
Nicholas Polkey Blip just shutdown
oh. Thanks ^^
Just like TH-cam nowadays. You never know when they will put your videos in youtube jail.
I think with time travel in this movie is like that. He can't go back in time and prevent her death which was a catalyst to create a time travel, coz if he prevent her death his past self wont create a time machine to go back to stop her death. "Its time machine creator paradox". Just like you can't go back in time and kick you father in the balls to stop your self of being born. Coz if your wont be born you wont go back in time to kick your daddy in the balls But if he would first go and talk to his past self and told him 2 things. 1. Give him his notes how to create a time machine and told him that in 4 years he must do this time travel and give him self this note and ask his past self to do what he is doing now. 2. Your girl will die so you must save her. But even if you save her you still must create this time machine and make this travel to secure time machine creation and to save you love one. That way he would create a time loop in which he will have a future with her. Otherwise "time" it self will force him to cerate a time machine by killing his girlfriend.
But what if he managed to fake his wife's death? He would basically be fooling his past self and tricking him into creating the time machine.
@@ThePreciseClimber also good idea.
5:51 I'm someone who actually liked this movie, but even I have to admit that Steins;Gate (a time travel related anime that's worth a watch if you get the chance) handled this kind of scenario a lot better. So erm...spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't seen Steins;Gate, the protagonist at one point in the story ends up in a scenario where he's trying to stop someone he loves from dying by going back in time to prevent the events that lead to her death from happening, but every time he tries to do this she just gets killed at the exact same moment in time but for a different reason, and over time you gradually see the protagonist lose his mind over this. You feel his pain and his sense of futility. The Time Machine just leaves most of it up to imagination and doesn't try to imply that the traveller made multiple attempts to save his fiancé which is why it feels like he only tried it once.
The time machine was an awesome movie in my opinion
So, out of curiosity, did you find this movie at a garage sale?
+DarksideEXE I wish. I did take a long drink of orange juice after watching it, though.
+Film Brain the dom from lost in adaption would could've cover this
what the........
DarksideEXE Or even, maybe, at a yard sale, like this atrocity ? th-cam.com/video/K0qwuSOk6aY/w-d-xo.html
The Eloi were not hunted they were treated like cattle
Wait...emma...fiancé...They ripped that off from Jekyll and Hyde! Hell, the 'hero' could just be Henry but into THE FUTURE instead of THE MIND! They're both practically the same guy. The cliché 'I'm an inventor/scientist who'll prove everyone wrong and make a new future thing'. Too bad there's no Hyde. That would've make so much fun.
The 1978 Time Machine is much better than this. I loved the re-run Joe Chill moment that got the plot going in 2002.
He can’t use knowledge gained from after an event has happened, to go back before the event, to change it; because to do that would require already having that knowledge before the event. But one cannot exist in a moment before and until one exists in it. He is attempting a self-contradiction.
I love this film, Samantha Mumba is a hunny bunny, Mark Addy is good, Jeremy Irons hams it up brilliantly, not as good as in D&D, but we'll never reach that perfection in cinema again. All in all, it's a great film, some great moments that really capture the imagination, the film is obviously made with a lot of love, which makes up for its cheesiness. Classic family movie material.
If your so freaking smart make your own movie, I always liked this film! I mean explain the way it works really, it is sci fi after all belief is somewhat suspended duh
That's not legitimate critique stop crying.
A lot of his critiques are dumb and he’s not funny at all.
i totally agree i love this film and no one will change my mind :)
even if the VOX system was run by some fusion reactor (I doubt it would run for 800 fucking thousand years) ... the matter decay ALONE and the exposure to the elements would ahve fucked it up beyond recognition
It's weird how even in a crappy movie, something can kind of take your breath way. That line about dreams and memories? It...honestly kinda hit me harder than I expected.
Literal diamond in the rough.
I thought the director should have made the film more faithful to the original novel's plot. Then he could have added perhaps some additional stuff - like Jeremy Irons. The library hologram should have been played by someone like Sir Ian McKellan. Including the child in the plot was a mistake because children can't cope with parts that require real acting. The first part of this film was too slow and aimed at children, which is a lethal combination that would just about turn everybody off. In addition, the love scenes at the beginning were just naff, so it's difficult to feel sympathetic towards the hero, which is the opposite of the intended effect. All such a big shame - could have been a good film.
It's not a protective sphere, it's his own space-time bubble. It was not designed to protect him.
Not that I defend the movie, I found it not so well executed, unfortunately. Lot of potential, though.
It's essentially a stasis field; though not designed to protect him, it functionally would do so, nonetheless. He's kinda both wrong and right at the same time...
It's a force-field designed to protect him from invaders from Mars. Though what are the chances of that ever happening
Thanks for your review of this, Mathew. I now know that it's not worth bothering with. But I do want to see the original 1960 movie starring Rod Taylor. I never read the original book but I just read it's plot synopsis on Wikipedia. Fascinating!
The 2002 version of The Time Machine is nowhere near as good as the classic 1960 film, but man, what I wouldn't give to have a Blu-ray release of the 2002 film!!
'Pluto Nash does not exist in this timeline' every Apocalypse has a silver lining. Also the Moon breaking up sequence was the only one that worked in my view. It may not be very scientific but it does its job.
I wonder why Film Brain hasn't reviewed Mars Needs Mars. That movie is truly horrible. I'd love to hear him rip it to shreds.
Well, Film Brain has never reviewed animated films on his show. The closest he's come to reviewing animated stuff is Monkeybone and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwal.
This maybe a "bad movie" in your opinion, but I fucking love it! I still enjoyed your perspective of it but I have to respectfully disagree about this being bad. Oh, and Orlando, his Vox was my favorite character.
It was 70k+ Years... NOT 700k+ Years lol
I had to go back and rewatch the scene where he wakes up in the time machine.
But I’m probably not the first person to comment about this. I’m not mad and still like this channel A LOT ;)
Keep rocking!
and alan young who was filby in the 1960 version has a cameo in this. alan was also wilbur from mr ed, the original scrooge mcduck as well as haggis mcmutton (which was kind of the same voice anyway) in the curse of monkey island :)
By all accounts Guy Pearce hated the film as well. He'd have a joke with one of the guys on set about what age range it was aimed at. They'd agree on 12 then someone would walk past in a rubber costume and they'd both laugh & say "Nah! more like 8."
Source?
Love this movie!
@RandomUser Sure it's not good, but still fun lol
7:45
The scene reminds me
of the classic short story
“Enoch Soames”
By Max Beerbohm
The story, written in the 19th Century, is incredibly prescient about the degradation of our language !
It certainly says something when I'm inclined to agree with what SCXCR of RiverCityGamers said in the episode for MediEvil 2 in fellow RCG member Blondeguygamer's They Made a Sequel series in regard to the time machine in the all chalice ending of that game. That's supposed to be a reference to the HG Wells story "At the very least this is better than the 2002 movie" (Sorry if I got the quote wrong. Haven't seen the episode in a while)
There's a movie (I forget the title) where H.G Wells goes to the seventies and fights Jack the Ripper. Why couldn't we have had a remake of that movie?
Time After Time
Jeremy Irons was iconic in his role as the Uber- Morlock
At a year ago...I was honestly hoping this video wouldn't be converted with a potato -.-
I can rat out the story on this movie but it's one of those bad movies you have to love. It's the same with Van Helsing...It's just terribly entertaining.
Did you SERIOUSLY just say "meh" about Balto?!?!
I liked it. Think you've missed a lot of points of this film. Most of what you didn't understand was actually explained in the film, like what the hologram is powered by, the sphere on the machine is the bending of light and only protects against time but isn't an actual forcefield.
What he could have done was just travel into the past years before she died, and live his relationship over and over again. As many times as he chooses. It's also entirely possible he could have found a loophole if he kept trying. I mean, the guy invented a freakin time machine. You don't think he could have invented something else specifically for his predicament with his wife? Hell, maybe traveled into the future and cloned her? If cloning was discovered and used in his universe? Hell, travel into the past, make her hop on the time machine with him. Was that not possible? I didn't see him try it
The 9 bars on the machine does actually make some sense if you consider the fact that he had been secretly working on this machine since before his fiancé died, if you're a scientist building a time machine it never hurts to broaden your horizons a bit. Though you could argue that 9 bars is a bit small given that the universe is many trillions of years old and is expected to last many trillions of years more.
Well,to be fair,english is already an almost world wide known language decades before they fuck with the moon,so I find kinda difficult for people to totaly forgeting it to begin with ,even after a catastrophe...
this film is pretty good.
Watching this review made me want to read the original story by H.G. Wells. Now that I've finished it,.....wow, this film was WAY OFF! And it's even stranger when you find out this was made by a descendant of the same writer! Way to spit on your own great grandfather, Simon!
Yeah I think it was a huge gamble, and failed miserably unfortunately.
H.G Wells has a lot of great-grandchildren (he was quite the Casanova). They can't all inherit his talent
I need my fix of Film Brain :)
You didn't even mention that the movie contradicts its own ending. So, Alexander goes to the future, sees a future ruled by Morlocks, goes back and blows up the Morlocks. Well, now when past Alexander goes to the future, he'll see whatever future resulted from future Alexander's actions. So, unless the future didn't actually change, or unless Alexander was feeling particularly genocidal that day, Alexander wouldn't have any reason to blow up the Morlocks. It's a time paradox. The only way the ending works is if Alexander's temporal genocide doesn't actually affect the future, and in that case the happy ending is moot.
Thanks.
I will use this for my term paper.
Nice theory ❤
I was trying to rem the ending theme....quantum leap😀😀😀 loved that darn show...it needs to come back
Jeremy irons looks like the prince in hell boy the golden army.
8:16 Cause Eggman lazer pissed in it.
Dang it, I didn't realize somebody already made this joke! At least I wasn't the only one thinking it.
Don't think another reason for why this remake was a bit action oriented was also because of the writer from Gladiator doing the screenplay?
No way this is a bad movie my guy I love science fiction and this is top 5 for me idk maybe it's the storyline that did it for me I loved this film I need sequels.
This is a shallow action movie that looks a sci Fi movie
9:10 It's 802701, not 820701.
16:41 It's 635427810, not 365427810
Jonathan Sefcik I had to mention that also. Of course after posting it I thought, “I should look and see who else heard that right”. Lol
Another example of a new adaptation just being a remake of the original film. The entire screenplay for this film is based on the 1960 version which itself was a loose adaptation of the book. Why make another adaptation if its just gonna be similar to the first film, studio had the perfect opportunity adapt the source material faithfully this time around. I guess updated visuals and small changes or that matter to them in Hollywood.
This is a movie about a time machine.. A Time Machine! not an unrequited love affair ...
If you read the book, HGWells himself, was sort of vague about the principles of its workings but it is a good story. He glossed over those major points and went on with the excitement of time travel and that's what we wanted to see... This re-make was a let down...
This review is a bit harsh. The film may be dumb but it is fun and never boring and I absolutely love the book and the 1960 film. Anyway, subbed coz you make me laugh.
If Alex goes back to get Mara, wouldn't the Uber Morlock be there, as he dies in Mara's future?
lmao... the 'sphere' isn't meant to be protective... its what allows the time machine to move thru time... supposedly, it creates a self contained photon matrix, not linked to the flow of normal time as its riding its own light speed bubble...as a result, it can 'slide' thru time on the differential between its light sphere and the photon stream we know as normal time... and yes, its lame... lmfao
Thank you for explaining. I was very confused when watching.
Well, Alex is a positive character who basically attacks the villain for no reason and murders him. Wow, what a hero!
Well am pretty sure he did it impulsively.
@@aaronbarlow4376 he did not kill a genocidal psychopath. No more genocidal then modern humans are for eating meat
This just made me realize that Steins;Gate is inspired by The Time Machine. And that I could be watching that instead.
This is the best movie in human history, hands down. I could watch it every night. Oh wait, i do.
Bro thought he could change the past, however the outcome was still the same- if his fiance, Emma didn't die, Alexander would not have built the time machine- hence the Uber-Morlock says Alexander is an inescapable result of himself by his tragedy, he can't alter the past since the final outcome is constant:Emma dying
8:12 Post apocalypse within the next 15 years… yeah, I can buy it
2:25 - He's over-ambitious. That's the point. He goes way ahead of himself only for his ego and progress to be shot down. He copes with it and inherits a new outlook
3:41 - Ok... well that was the point. He was obviously overcome with swoon the whole time that this awkwardness kicks in.
3:58 - Are you an idiot? In what circumstances do you ever shout MUGGER or HELP when there's a fucking gun pointed towards you? The gun is pointed at you so you DON'T call for help. Enjoy getting your head blown off when that happens to you.
4:09 - Emma was a stupid bitch because material possessions are more important than safety and companionship according to her. This was the point Alex should've broke up with her.
4:20 - I'm missing the point where that's being selfish...?
5:01 - Is it really needed for questioning? He built a machine that fucking travels through time!
5:55 - This makes sense, but for the sake of pacing, it's fine how it is
6:55 - The sphere is likely meant to preserve real time inside the machine while time is able to accelerate outwards. Alex's hand was undergoing accelerated aging for being outside the sphere is how I took it. I don't see how it would have anything to do with his hand getting cut off.
9:20 - Some civilizations have resided on cliffs historically. Just saying. Look up the Pueblo people as a famous example.
10:36 - The problem is with this movie is that (even though this is somehow easily readable and not eroded after 800,000 years) these stones are irrelevant because virtual Orlando somehow still exists??? The Eloi have all the information they need under the direction of Vox 2037 and prior. Access to languages, texts needed to not only combat the Morlock but to restart where regular humans died off. Too convenient of a plot device.
13:29 - I thought the dialog was interesting, but the biggest fuck up is that they gave good reason to sympathize with the race of what essentially should be considered the villain. They are forced to live underground. Can't interact with the sunlight, so they had to adapt somehow. They rely on Eloi as their nourishment and at least Uber Driver Morlock is being conservative enough to not die out their breed. Then Alex chooses to risk his life picking a fight with this thing he clearly knows little about besides it using the force and having an impressive case of scoliosis. For what? To save some bimbo he met a day ago? I guess picking a timeline to find true love among the couple of thousands of years was too good for him.
16:30 - Already made that clear on the 6:55 timestamp
16:40 - So 300 million years and somehow life still exists, and somehow it's Morlocks. Interesting, it took them 800k to develop Sith powers but they're still building angry face forts millions after, which is seemingly unchanged... but somehow not extinct from going amok on the food source even after 1000 years. You're good at pointing out dumb stuff but I'm surprised that never crossed your mind.
This movie was mediocre, not terrible. The futuristic timelines are interesting to perceive and the science does try to work, but the movie started to fall apart by the Eloi/Morlock chapter. Your review was even worse however, you're trying too hard. It's not even worth picking apart because it's a Hollywood polished middle of the road flick and forget, as evidenced by the fact that this god forsaken video was the most popular option.
Thank god they changed it to New York so he missed the War of the Worlds.
I still like the movie though, however the 2002 version is so underrated
What does everyone think of the film, The time travelers wife?
It's basically a movie about grooming and the main characters a pedo
I watch a alot reviews of movies and this was the worst. I will never watch this person again.
Sorry you hated it, I admit it's not my finest hour. I recommend you watch something considerably more recent of mine than a video from 11 years ago.
I actually remember liking this movie, but then I'm not familiar with the source material.
it should be against the law to remake a movie this poorly. I mean they ruined it. the original is far more superior. this so called remake is just a waste of film and money. its horrible beyond words.
I liked this movie. It wasn’t perfect but good adventure movies are hard to come by
there's nothing wrong about 2002 Time Machine
I never understood "The Time Machine" time travel rules. What really irritates me why can't he go back in time to before the creation of the machine. That makes less than zero logical or scientific sense and makes a time machine pretty much pointless.
He can go back in time before he build the time machine. That was clearly shown. He just can't save his fiancee, because if he rescues her, he will not build the time machine. Therefore he can't go back to safe her and to avoid this paradox she dies even if he rescues her.
But Alex DID change the past. Instead of a robber killing the girl, a runaway horse does. Sure she does so there is no paradox… but where and when he got flowers and where and how she die a definite changes. Just sayin
The protective sphere only protects the user from the outside temporal progressions or regressions, not from natural forces: He breaths the same air as anyone around him and he experiences the same atmospheric conditions, but he does not age at the same speed.
Going by the movie, it took him about 20 seconds to get through that, and I believe the breathable air contained inside the sphere is more than enough for him to survive that long
What is up with the background noise in this video? I couldn’t focus on the content because of it.
Because it is super old and recorded on MiniDV, that's tape and camera noise. This is before I was cleaning up the audio.
15:16-15:20 my reaction to articles that frame electronic addiction as the worst thing ever.
Wouldn't make more sense for the ai librarian to he the thing that kept English alive and taught them things considering it still functioned so far into the future? That way we wouldn't have the dumb explanation that they learned English by reading signs!
The Dom and Film Brain.
Two Brits for the price of one
To be fair, in the OG Time Machine the guy becomes an action hero out of no where as well. lol
Actually i like the 2 different takes on both movies.
I don't find Orlando Jones annoying in this movie.
Good video. One item that bothered me was that the Uber Morlock told Alexander that he was just one of many colony leaders. So killing him and even wiping out his colony, didn’t save the day nor the even move apocalyptic future Alexander saw.
He also destroyed the device that would have allowed him to actually try to save the human race.
The ending is actually terribly bleak.
If you actually looked, the entire time distortion went through the entire cavern system all over.