I am always fascinated with the concept of time traveling and I thought Guy Pearce did an awesome job portraying this. Also it was funny how Alexander came up with the greatest invention of all time working with crap technology. He came to the future and that hologram just laughed at him.
I loved the film.
I agree, and I just watched it and bumped it up from a 7 to an 8.
shareI agree, should be higher!
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It wasn't bad but I thought it was a little too much at times like adding the white (very white) bad guy in the end and giving him the ability to read minds as well... You want the laws of physics etc well defined within the first half of the movie not add stuff 25 minutes before it ends
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I completely agree with your topic title. I never heard of Guy Pearce and I had only, prior to TTM, seen Jeremy Irons as Aramis in "The Man in the Iron Mask". Great performances by Pearce, Irons, and all assembled. I was especially thrilled to learn the H.G. Wells' great-grandson had taken up the "family tradition" with sci-fi. Take what the Uber-Morlock says about causality and apply it to "The Terminator" story, Pearl Harbor, the 10 plagues of Egypt, the Holocaust. If none of those events had ever happened, whose to say America wouldn't have gotten into World War II, or that the Hebrews wouldn't still be enslaved in Egypt, etc.?
shareI loved the film as well, and have long been a fan of George Pal's original film (which I saw when it was released) and of the book. Like Pal's, this film very well represented the spirit of the book without treating it like a religious text.
Yes, it left out the sentimental trip back in time to dine with the buddies, as well as exploring with Weena. On the other hand it did visit the future ... in the book, not in Pal's film. The remake of the machine is brilliant ... as is the visit with Jeremy Iron's character and the discussion of destiny ... as is the Eloi culture, Orlando's librarian, and more.
For real TM fans, I recommend Stephen Baxter's 1995 sequel "The Time Ships" ...
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