Bad Movie Beatdown: The Time Machine (2002) (REVIEW)

=Originally uploaded October 1st, 2009; Re-edited for KZbin=
Film Brain takes a trip back to the dark days of 2002 to review the abysmal remake/adaptation of H.G. Wells' masterpiece! Season 1, Episode 14.
#TimeMachine #HGWells #TimeMachine2002 #GuyPearce #JeremyIrons #SamanthaMumba #OrlandoJones

[@kingdomjacko]

Mars Needs Moms? Holy shit that guy could not get a break.

[@jeffreyshaw4037]

This film critic is shit. He has forgotten about entertainment. So many bad movies are entertaining 😅 🙃 😬 8

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

@@jeffreyshaw4037 you’re a moron

[@devinharbert6071]

I enjoyed Mars Needs Moms I Thought it was pretty good and Simon Wells Time Machine Remake

[@devinharbert6071]

Prince of Egypt is probably is last big hit

[@mixwidman5458]

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.”

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

Oh poor, 2009 Film Brain, you had no idea that Mars Needs Moms would make this adaptation look like a goddamn masterpiece.

[@PhantomShadow224]

TheNumnutRandomness this episode is truly a time capsule.

[@devinharbert6071]

I thought Matthew was too hard on Simon Wells Time Machine because it had a good story and good special effects

[@GatorRay]

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"

[@ignaciaandreavallevivar9442]

It is a masterpiece tho

[@etrules100]

You do have to admit that the music in this film is amazing.

[@makegainz4218]

The film is a masterpiece.

[@chaz5256]

@@makegainz4218 this review says otherwise

[@makegainz4218]

@@chaz5256 Because it wasn't accurate to the book? Who cares, overall the film is very enjoyable.

[@kbanghart]

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.

[@kadejito1]

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.

[@JRHainsworth]

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.

[@TeamKuukiFoodGames]

I loved this movie lol it had its own very nice nostalgic value.

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

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]

What does that line mean? Like, we all have our own motivations, desires etc?

[@LastRenegade]

@@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."

[@kbanghart]

@@LastRenegade Ahh ok thanks

[@RichLux713]

It was a good move but the ending was bad left so many questions

[@samuelbarber4154]

What? Because in Back to the Future they actually did change the future.

[@edisonmichael6345]

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)

[@makegainz4218]

I agree with this.

[@bboss7874]

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

[@makegainz4218]

@@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.

[@edisonlima4647]

@@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.

[@Alejandroigarabide]

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.

[@Headbanger142]

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.

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

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

[@ThePreciseClimber]

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.

[@edisonmichael6345]

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.

[@andyrihn1]

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

[@flamingfist5267]

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.

[@otaking3582]

Also, time paradox wouldn't exist because it would splinter off into branching pathways.

[@vanheath5382]

Love the Steins Gate reference! Amazing Anime!

[@KatKaleen]

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."

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

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

[@DarksideEXE]

So, out of curiosity, did you find this movie at a garage sale?

[@FilmBrain]

+DarksideEXE I wish. I did take a long drink of orange juice after watching it, though.

[@Dim4323]

+Film Brain the dom from lost in adaption would could've cover this

[@Obiwan1994Kenobi-iv4jf]

what the........

[@jamesb.8940]

DarksideEXE Or even, maybe, at a yard sale, like this atrocity ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWHUqKiJhNBpl7s

[@buddha4tw]

I loved the original movie as a child, watched it so many times, Rod Taylor was great in the lead, great aussie actor :).

[@Thane3999]

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.

[@graemesmith6721]

The George Pal version managed to adapt the novel without action sequences or explosions.

[@delavalmilker]

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.

[@jessaminehaak8253]

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!

[@mb2000]

I’ve always wondered what Jeremy Irons as a Wraith from Stargate Atlantis would look like...

[@MichaelAarons1701]

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.

[@randycrawford4921]

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.

[@FilmBrain]

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.

[@randycrawford4921]

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.

[@raymondleggs5508]

@@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

[@ladybirdscreatures]

@@randycrawford4921 is this version shared anywhere? would love to see the alternative ending

[@TreClaire]

I feel so bad for all you Blip users having to reupload literally EVERYTHING somewhere else

[@michaelkeha]

To be fair they had to have seen the writing on the wall long before Blip went belly up.

[@polk-e-dot8177]

TreClaire so what happened?

[@michaelkeha]

Nicholas Polkey Blip just shutdown

[@polk-e-dot8177]

oh. Thanks ^^

[@HarryBalzak]

Just like KZbin nowadays. You never know when they will put your videos in youtube jail.

[@A1ml33y]

Hey its Aldrich Killian from Ironman 3 ( Lol )

[@lynngreen7978]

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.

[@kbanghart]

As you probably know, his point was that, why live on the cliffs? And not just flat land?

[@kbanghart]

@Bear that's a Dave uh no It wasn't obvious, you weirdo.

[@kbanghart]

@Bear that's a Dave relax bro, try watching some other movies for a change.

[@MythicSuns]

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.

[@DreFromMaine8472]

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!

[@blapis-blazuli]

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.

[@GatorRay]

Funny. I thought Eggman roboticized the part of the moon he blew up. And we never saw that side ever again in the games.

[@KraigFang]

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!

[@matto8o9]

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

[@supoa9489]

That's not legitimate critique stop crying.

[@ColonelCarnage]

A lot of his critiques are dumb and he’s not funny at all.

[@rosita.handle]

i totally agree i love this film and no one will change my mind :)

[@florinivan6907]

'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.

[@shala6541]

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.

[@C4L4CE]

Song in the background ?

[@tyshekka]

But Prince of Egypt is excellent.

[@makegainz4218]

😂

[@miatijerina4435]

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

[@alexanderramsbottom4796]

Most underrated animated movie ever!

[@cassthea18]

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.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

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.

[@ddstellito]

Thank you for explaining. I was very confused when watching.

[@Monkey-D-Lukas]

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.

[@ThePreciseClimber]

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.

[@Monkey-D-Lukas]

@@ThePreciseClimber also good idea.

[@MegaIkedog]

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!!

[@majorgear1021]

What is up with the background noise in this video? I couldn’t focus on the content because of it.

[@FilmBrain]

Because it is super old and recorded on MiniDV, that's tape and camera noise. This is before I was cleaning up the audio.

[@vladimirpopoviclipovac9606]

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.

[@nolanolivier6791]

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...

[@hgwells1899]

It's a force-field designed to protect him from invaders from Mars. Though what are the chances of that ever happening

[@redjirachi1]

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?

[@FilmBrain]

Time After Time

[@devinharbert6071]

Jeremy irons looks like the prince in hell boy the golden army.

[@michaeldavis2001]

If Alex goes back to get Mara, wouldn't the Uber Morlock be there, as he dies in Mara's future?

[@prismaticbeetle3194]

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

[@DeaconTaylor]

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 :)

[@jamesmc04]

I need my fix of Film Brain :)

[@mesousagaby740]

8:16 Cause Eggman lazer pissed in it.

[@blapis-blazuli]

Dang it, I didn't realize somebody already made this joke! At least I wasn't the only one thinking it.

[@christallh24]

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.

[@kenrivers9757]

I was trying to rem the ending theme....quantum leap😀😀😀 loved that darn show...it needs to come back

[@iKillerZombie]

8:12 Post apocalypse within the next 15 years… yeah, I can buy it

[@hollywoodnoticias9508]

IS Science Fiction!!! HELLO!!!

[@ManEaterFromReading]

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.

[@gardian1701]

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.

[@samuelbarber4154]

Thank god they changed it to New York so he missed the War of the Worlds.

[@MythicSuns]

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.

[@mangenkiou]

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...

[@vinnyc.1265]

Love this movie!

[@vinnyc.1265]

@RandomUser Sure it's not good, but still fun lol

[@thinkingoutloud675]

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.

[@dragon22214]

This is a shallow action movie that looks a sci Fi movie

[@John-oq2ed]

The time machine was an awesome movie in my opinion

[@mesousagaby740]

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?

[@1BrknHrtdRomeo]

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.

[@jamesb.8940]

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.

[@makegainz4218]

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

[@spandexraygun5325]

What have you ever animated??

[@jeremyusreevu237]

I don't find Orlando Jones annoying in this movie.

[@valley_robot]

I like this version more than the 60s one

[@MortalWarz]

This is the best movie in human history, hands down. I could watch it every night. Oh wait, i do.

[@GatorRay]

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)

[@bobwalsh3751]

Did you SERIOUSLY just say "meh" about Balto?!?!

[@sharonpereira4501]

Film Brain you are great.

[@alicedarhk9790]

The Dom and Film Brain. Two Brits for the price of one

[@Dim4323]

Domanic nobel needs to do a Lost in adapation review

[@marias_music]

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.

[@devinharbert6071]

Review the time travelers wife

[@jeremyusreevu237]

15:16-15:20 my reaction to articles that frame electronic addiction as the worst thing ever.

[@Larkinchance]

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...

[@destructivecriticism5842]

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

[@mrflipperinvader7922]

Welp now a new tale is going to happen

[@klbax63]

The Eloi were not hunted they were treated like cattle

[@supoa9489]

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.

[@StaffsTransport]

Guy looks and sounds like Cliff Richard for most of the movie.

[@Brawler_1337]

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.

[@gabrielvicente4193]

Thanks. I will use this for my term paper. Nice theory ❤

[@jonathanaustinstern1]

I think it was pretty good overall

[@voicevitality7197]

The date says 635 million, not 365 million. Good grief. Someone should review your review.

[@morsmagne]

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.

[@captainexcabier]

Oh man, did you have to neuter your opening theme for KZbin? :(

[@simbaking6338]

Actually i like the 2 different takes on both movies.

[@stevencorey7623]

I didn’t think the movie was that bad. I haven’t seen it in so long. I will be hunting this movie down lol. Could it have been better? Sure!

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

Everything you pointed out through the course of this review was DEAD on, most of it hadn't even occurred to me, as I found the film 'OK'...now I REALLY dislike it, LOL...except for your ...well, odd pronunciation of 'Eloi'...Ee-oh-lie? I had always though it was 'Ee-loy'...but various 'how to pronounce' audios online ALL say it differently...so maybe you are correct on this point as well!...;)

[@CiraxMusic]

What does everyone think of the film, The time travelers wife?

[@dragon22214]

It's basically a movie about grooming and the main characters a pedo

[@TheSefirosu200x]

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.

[@grayscribe2125]

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.

[@PluemzazaChanel]

But I like The Time Machine (2002)

[@Dracounius]

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 ;)

[@wisdomleader85]

Dracounius I like this movie a lot, but I also accept his reasonable criticism. Open-mindedness should work both ways.

[@gracekim25]

Don’t care

[@kbanghart]

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.

[@gracekim25]

I just realised I’ve seen this

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

8:17 What caused this is still unknown to this day.

[@Leofwine]

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.

[@ilyaakadishtungha7337]

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

[@ihno45]

Published in 1895, not 1885...

[@jamieriley8444]

Is it just me, or do the Eloi sound Irish?

[@jonathansefcik473]

9:10 It's 802701, not 820701. 16:41 It's 635427810, not 365427810

[@KraigFang]

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

[@cameronstone4495]

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!

[@garymussell6543]

So, I am unclear. Did you like it or not?