Alex Should've Prevented The Moon Cataclysm

You do realize this would cause a big time paradox? If Alex takes the astronaut into the future and they see the broken moon, they will go back and everyone decides not to colonize the moon. Thus, the moon never broke up. If the moon never broke up, then Alex would have no reason for going back in time to warn the astronauts when he went to the year 802,701.

Like the Uber-Morlock said, you can't change the past. Even if Alex tried warning Earth's people, the moon would somehow have to break up by 802,701 in order to give Alex the motivation to go back in time in the first place.

I found this movie to be very depressing because it was set in a post-apocalyptic future where the human race was split in half. I mean it was pretty decent for a remake I kind found it disappointing that in 2037 is the year civilization collapsed and reverted back the stone age thanks to the astronauts screwing up the moon colonization. I mean the original 1960 version made it seem fun and neat while the remake made it sad and depressing

I don't know about the book, but the 1960 version has the Time Traveller stop in 1966 during a nuclear war, and sees the city destroyed. So they only gave humanity another 6 years of life after the movie, at least this one gave us 35 years before we destroy civilization. How is that more "fun and neat?" He still ends up 800,000 years in the future in a "post-apocalyptic" world where humanity has split into 2 races, just like in this movie.

If I remember correctly, Alex gets into the time machine with the world falling apart around him. He is just trying to get out of there to save himself, from falling debris, when he gets knocked unconscious. He wakes up in the Eloi village and gets involved in their world.

If he was to go back and save the Moon, the Eloi would never exist.

He couldn't, because he never did.
Or- if you'll remember how wOwied Al was... at everything... as a proper scientist, he kept his goal, squarely in his sights, undistracted. After all... when you have an 'effin' Time machine... he could go back anytime he wanted.

Problem is... who'd believe him? Who would he tell?

The idea is that things are going to happen no matter what...interference can not alter what is to be. The problem they made with the film is that the Uber-Morlock mentioned that there were colonies of Morlocks and that he himself was one of many (if I recall correctly). All Alexander Hartdegen did was destroy one group of Morlocks when the time machine exploded, freeing one group of surface dwellers from their clutches. When he goes to the future and sees that the Morlocks have devastated everything due to there being no Uber-Morlock to control them, he goes back and changes it. But did he succeed? The machine is destroyed, so he cannot travel time anymore to see the results. The loss of one group of Morlocks is not going to change the world any more than Hartdegen would be able to alter the destruction of the moon. If he somehow had managed to convince the government of the dangers on the moon, something else in history would have resulted in the same thing...just like the death of his fiance. Certain things are GOING TO HAPPEN no matter what. Based on what Guy saw, his girlfriend will always die, the moon will always fall apart, Eloi and Morlocks will result every time, and Morlocks will eventually extinguish their food supply and themselves die. In effect, Hartdegen really didn't change anything in the big picture other than a few present circumstances.

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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

The astronaut would call his government bosses that he has something important to show them. Once the Time Machine was verified to work. The government would take control over it, and murderous government agents would manipulate past, present, and future. Thus the Morlocks of the future would only be vastly worse.


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