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The Full TIME MACHINE Trailer
Harry here, I just don't like any of this TIME MACHINE stuff.... Not really sure why, just don't care for it. I get a bad vibe off of it. Well, I know why, I had such a bad experience with the script... that I just don't trust the film. However, Moriarty loved that same script... so go figure.... This trailer just looks cheesy though I think. For some reason the film texture sort of has that bad TV sci-fi lighting.... and that's just annoying. Hope that's just a trailer thing....
Hey Big H...
the Time Machine Trailer: CLICK HERE NOW
enjoy.
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Strange. I don't feel any different. Being first is... well, it's kinda lonely. In fact, it sucks. I'll never be first again! WHERE IS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don't know. I think I'm probably going to see it anyway. I loved, really loved the original, and after the Planet of the Apes remake, I tell my self there's no way a remake , or re-imagining could be worse than that one.
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All I want for XXXMAS is Samantha Mumba!
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Everyone is waiting. 8 more days.
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no other films seem to hold any interest for me atm, i just listened to the soundtrack and the waiting has become unbearable!
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This movie will bomb BIG time.
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This movie will bomb-BIG time! Still, Guy Pearce should be Daredevil instead of Affleck!
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Oh. My. God... Did THAT suck. Almost Mummy Returns sort of effects. Granted, the crack in the moon was sort of cool. But that's not gonna save this turkey.
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The fact that everything is "clean" through the whole trailer. Nothing looks used or abused. Even the hottie chick looks like she's not had a bad time in the future. It looks like mankinds downfall was at least tidy????
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This movie is gonna be good, it's not going to bomb I assure you! Harry you just can't admit you were wrong about it, so you have to just justify it by saying you have a "bad feeling" That statement is what's cheesy, not this trailer (And it's very childish, I'm surprised it came from the so-called "great Harry" some reviewer you are Harry) . The effects look good, Samantha's hot, what's to complain about??? I'm still looking forward to the movie! The scene with the moon really looks cool, and Guy Pearce looks like he's chalking up another good job to his resume. Thing is all the bad mouthing you guys gave this film makes you look bad now, because it appears none of it was justified. This trailer looks as good as any trailer I've seen this year!
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Can't wait for the real thing! The music sounds good too! Wow!
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Actualy the music is taken from Stargate. For some reason they just love to use the Stargate theme in every sci-fi trailer they make. Anyone else ever notice this?
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Dec 11, 2001 11:02:41 AM CST
It's a very ethnic Christmas, and in case you didn't hea
by mc lovecraft
I've seen the future and I have to paraphrase Blazin' Saddles, "Where's all da white wimmins at?"
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"Bad Vibes" indeed! How in the hell does a trailer give you bad vibes?? Come off your lofty big studio driven ass and LOOK at the trailer and THEN tell us why you don't like it!!!!! Lighting...complaining about lighting in a trailer....instead of commenting on the story, characters, or CGI effects-WTF is wrong with you man??????????
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Yeah - saw this thing before "Ocean's Eleven" and my first thought? Goddamn, it's that 7UP guy (which is probably a compliment to Orlando Jones, considering the majority of his work is the same black joke worked over more times than Jenna Jameson in a high school locker room). Watching this thing makes me wish that Pearce had of gotten the Daredevil part. After Queen of the Deser, Ravenous, LA Confidental, and Momento he does this cheese? And don't anyone pick on Ravenous - the most fun you'll ever have in a film about cannibals and/or Civil War era vampires. This just another "my wife (or whatever she was, because I don't really care, it's merely melodramatic setup for the type of movie that needs melodramatic setup) was killed, one man on a mission must somehow change things" movie in Pearce's belt - but does he really need another one? Except this one is about as warm as those two day old mozzarella cheese sticks my stupid aunt makes every year for the family Christmas party that you can't even get off the fuckin' plate. And that's where this story should have stayed, on the plate, untouched, and feared - preferably covered with a napkin. It was fun seeing Rod Taylor terrorized by guys in cheap plastic Morlock outfits - but Guy Pearce? Hell, Rod Taylor attacked by anything is entertaining (ie, the Birds). And then Pearce has that other "classic" re-making on the line, "The Count of Monte Cristo" and to my knowledge, the only adaptation I've seen of that is the TV mini-series of it starring Richard Chamberlain(and if that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what does - maybe Scooter Wars every Wednesday and Thursday nights at Electroshock Rest Acres, the local oldperson's home). Pearce better not fade after this - but it sure as hell isn't a good sign (oh yeah, like I said a month ago, cast this Aussie in Mad Max 4 - PLEASE!!!). Again, he better not end up making the Thorn Birds 6 (DEATH TO RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN!)...and i'm done...
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I reckon this film could actually be alright. Guy Pearce looks pretty cool and it looks as though they've done a good job of creating Victiorian England. Also, I like the way the trailer shows more of the future - one thing that was wrong with the original was that we jumped straight through a little war to the Eloi and Morlocks. I think it would be great if we could see more of the destruction, thereby giving the protagonist more motivation to try and change things. If you saw what was going to happen to mankind, wouldn't you try and change it? C'mon, this could be a ildly intelligent sci-fi. It could be the merger of intellectual themes and special effects that some of us have been waiting for. I agree about the Morlocks though - they do look turd.
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Dec 11, 2001 11:32:36 AM CST
I like this: Harry has a "bad feeling" about this movie...maybe
by smugbug
c'mon - I'm a big Guy Pearce fan. But he chose this tripe over the possibility of being Daredevil? It was really cool seeing the Time Machine itself at the 2001 San Diego Comic Con, it's really an impressive prop. But other than that, I will be passing this flick by..........
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But the Black chick is a hottie.
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There can be no substitute. Guy Pearce is perfect for Matt Murdock, but the "powers that be" don't know shit from shinola. The "Time Machine" remake will be a tuna.
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Here's the Eloi Village in the new Time Machine movie:
(halfway down the page)
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/302367p1.html
Here's the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center, designed by Renzo Piano, in New Caledonia:
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Uncapie every one doesn't agree with you about Rod Taylor. That was the stiffest, emotionless performance I've seen in a sci-fi movie. Here's something else:
"The Time Machine was a George Pal production, and therein lies its problem. Pal may have been - along with his sometime associate Ray Harryhausen - one of the fathers of special effects (for which I can offer only a very tempered gratitude), but he couldn't direct actors, and had little talent for pacing or cutting. The Time Machine looked great the first time I saw it, but that's because I was seven. Thirty years later, I just groaned for 103 minutes. Which is why I'm looking forward to the forthcoming Guy Pearce version - another Aussie, in the footsteps of the original's squandered Rod Taylor. It's directed by Simon Wells, grandson of HG who, because of the familial link, will probably feel a greater need to get it right this time. (Perhaps next he could do The War of the Worlds, also brutalised by Pal and his pals".)
My words?? Nope, those are taken from an article by John Patterson in "The Guardian". So unlike you there are people who don't feel George or Rod got it right. -
I'm praying that they did'nt go a screw-up one of my favorite films of all time...(no pun intended).
80% of it looks good. Will they ultimately get my dollar?...yes.
But what is the deal with Orlando Jones?...the "Make 7-Up yours" guy.
Think we need to see a second trailer closer to the release to make an honest assesment. I want to like it. Listen, time travel pics always rock for the most part. The thought of seeing someone's vision of the future is always titillating. -
After your rave review of Godzilla a few years back, I think you've lost all privledges of using the word cheesy in anything other then your natchos. Seems like every movie that gets rumors or every trailor that comes out, most TBer's claim it will be a bomb. Almost as if you hope it will jut to say your right. And if there's a positive review, PLANT!!! Ya'll eat crow so much you probably shit beaks for weeks.
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It's taken me three attempts to write a talkback for this trailer, because the first two tries were just gut reaction, emotional outbursts.If I just scream "This is a giant fucking turd!" without backing it up with evidence, then I'm only inviting a score of flames. So... I'll point out the reasons why *I* think this is going to be terrible. You may not agree, but this is my opinion. #1. The movie seems to take place in America. Do we have to Americanize EVERY story? It wasn't good enough, taking place in England? #2. The Time Traveller wanders a futuristic museum and encounters Orlando Jones' "Cyber-guide". Jones appears to exist solely as a plot device, so that The Traveller can encounter him in "Future New York" where it appears the Cyber-guide will explain the Morlocks to him (later in the trailer). #3. The Cyber-guide references the book by H. G. Wells, The George Pal film, and the musical. This is "The BIG COPOUT" so that the filmmakers can say, "See? This isn't based on the book, because the book EXISTS as fiction in this universe!" Well... there are a whole lot of coincidences between the book and the future of this film, so there had BETTER be some kind of explanation as to why H. G. Wells could predict so much. (I'm sure it'll be something like, at the end of the movie, we learn that the Traveller is telling his story to H. G. Wells...) #4. The Traveller wants to change time to save the woman he loves. Of course. Because scientific curiosity isn't a worthy motivator for invention and exploration. #5. The Eloi are PUMPED. These are not the fragile, sexless, cherubim of the book. In the scene where the Traveller attempts to rally the Eloi to fight, it looks like any one of these big guys could take on a Morlock. #6. The Eloi speak English. Yeah, yeah. I know. It's an American movie, and it's too much to ask of an American audience to sit through a film where none of the characters except the protagonist speaks English. (Speaking of Stargate...) #7. Kain. Ok, so he just *looks* like the vampire from The Legacy of Kain. In actuality... well, I don't want to post any possible spoilers, but there's a shot in trailer featuring a close-up of this guy (hint, hint) right before a close-up of the Traveller. Again, it's an American movie, and I suppose American audiences NEED a villian. #8. Morlocks are running around in the daytime. In the book, a lit match keeps them at bay. Besides, they're much creepier if they only move in the dark. #9. The Traveller gets arrested by the Thought Police? I'm guessing that he's being dragged out of the museum, after trying to use the time machine. #10. "He Became... A Hero For The Future". According to Wells, the Traveller didn't give a damn about saving the Eloi, because the Eloi weren't worth saving. It's no use trying to change the past to change that future, because how can you possibly track, never mind ALTER every single event that would affect the course of time in 80,000 years!? So... That's 10 reasons why I don't think this movie will be any good, based on this particular trailer. Oh, and one more reason, for good luck. #11. We probably won't see the far, far future of an unrecognizable Earth, a place warmed by the glow of a Red Giant and populated by giant crabs and the like.
P.S. If you'd like to read the "The Time Machine", you can do so for free, online, at Project Gutenberg. www.gutenberg.com. -
Dec 11, 2001 2:09:51 PM CST
I loved The Time Machine, The Time Machine and I grew up togethe
by wardog
AND THIS AIN'T IT! God-DAMN Hollowood for fucking up another classic with their imbecilic penchant for "improving" it, making it relevant for today's audiences, or just plain flashing it up for our short-attention-span youts with SFX and beautiful people stars. But I guess you couldn't ram good literature turned into decent films down the throats of moviegoers if they didn't get any kind of appreciation for quality when they were in school. God this movie's gonna suck. It looks really cool, IF you're completely unfamiliar with the original by H.G. Wells. What's next, another version of War of the Worlds?
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I dunno about most of you guys but that trailer looked pretty sweet to me. Like a fun sorta action flick. I'd buy that for a dollar
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The first teaser spoofing car commericals was kinda on the clever side, though the tagline was kinda goofy. I like the look of this movie, though. The director is part of the Wells family, so it's not like he'd purposely screw the project over...it's a legacy for him. Stan Winston's versions of the Morlocks look ok...not excellent, but ok. Sam Mumba is looking good as always, and Guy Pearce will hopefully have a broader range as far as looking astonished and surprised at the wonders of the future then what was shown here.
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Hi all,
Long time lurker, first time poster here.
Just downloaded the trailer. Looks like a fun flick, but I doubt I'd pay to see it in the theatre- I agree, looks a tad on the cheezy side. Probably a renter.
Anyone else here love the classic one? I think it came out in the early sixties? Hmmm, who was the lead in it? Was a famous actor (whose name escapes me at the moment)- anyone remember who he was/is?
Anyone know if HG Wells' "Food of the Gods" was made into a movie? I seem to recall it was, but cannot bring up any mental images of it.
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...but I think think the trailer looks pretty good too. Might be a little cheese in this danish, but it looks like it may be fun!!
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Liked that line...
Not bad.
I got worried about this flick when I read Harry's first reports.
And when my picture of the time machine from San Diego Comicon didn't come out.
And when I heard that the Morlocks ain't cannibals (which pisses me off to no end!)
But it looks good (if that means anything anymore).
Also sick of that damn Stargate music.
And good Got, was that really Jeremy Irons?!
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Yeah, it's "Stargate", which means that they haven't recorded and/or mastered the soundtrack for the movie yet. But, as long as David Arnold is getting his royalties from it, not such a big deal. Hell, I saw the Bryan Brown movie, "Confidence", in a test screening and they were using John William's "Ark" music from ROTLA for one sence because they hadn't signed a composer yet. It was so blayent, the audience booed and hissed at the scene. Might as well have played a batch of porn rock.
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The music should be a little darker and more fast paced, but besides that, it looks way better than Harry says. Sorry Har, but I really want it to be good.
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Rod Taylor is a charasmatic actor and a nice guy in person. He delivered the goods in "The Time Machine." You can't tell me that when he asks the Eloi for help and no one will come to his aid he takes it upon himself to go out and take them all on isn't a great scene. Also, the Morlocks are cannibals. in this version, they aren't. Probably the reminants of tofu eating, latte drinking, self-absorbed liberals. Just because Simon Wells is directing this flick(Who had a nervous breakdown and couldn't finish it.) doesn't mean he knows how to tell a story like his great grandfather did. Are you doing what your great grandfather did? What did he do? If its shoveling shit, you're doing just fine. As for George Pal, his storytelling still holds up in today's world of wanna-be Michael Bay's. The "Puppetoons", "7 Faces Of Dr. Lao", a great and simple alagorical tale on people and many others. Granted, "Doc Savage" sucked, but Ron Ely at least looked the part of the character. At least with Pal's version, he made the film look authentic in the Victorian age without having to leave M-G-M's Culver City backlot. Galaxy Films, didn't have much money to invest in the project, so they relied on creativity and storytelling and it paid off. Now, we have a $50 million dolar or so sci-fi flick with a machine that looks like a cross between Skylab and a telescope from an observatory. So go ahead and part with your $9.00 for two hours of mediocrity and try to remember what you saw. I'll stick with my $19.95 investment on the original and enjoy it much more for many years to come.
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Dec 11, 2001 7:49:28 PM CST
another trailer, another bullshit "re-imagining", another wasted
by tommy5tone
in a word: FUCKTHISSHIT!!! why is hollywood continuing to return to the same lame fucking template over and over again? "we have to fight"? jeebus, if i see another fucking hero-from-another-place-rallies-the-natives-to-revolution turd, i'm gonna start firebombing! 'the time machine' has a couple of pros: guy pearce can't go too far wrong, and samantha mumba is a little sizzler. but look at everything else! i like orlando jones but what da fuck is his role in this? i really like jeremy irons but is he actually TRYING to shipwreck his career? and while i can see the logic in bringing simon wells on board as director (sure, he wouldn't want to fuck up the family reputation), wouldn't it have made more sense to trust a cool-sounding project like this one to a director with (a) some experience in live-action (to the best of my knowledge, wells has only made 'the prince of egypt') and (b) a semi-decent track record? oh, that's right: no one HAS a decent track record in hollywood any more!!! no one looks at the body of work any more, it's all how much cash your latest flick made on its opening weekend. so we can look forward to the cool-sounding projects being doled out to the directors of 'the fast and the furious' and 'legally blonde'. merry fucking christmas, motherfuckers! goddamn it, are we gonna have to get peter jackson to direct EVERYTHING from now on if we want a little quality and imagination to go with our popcorn and coke? or will we have to settle for good-but-not-great number-crunching company men like chris columbus? can't the fucking suits see that movies mean so much to so many people? that it would mean so much to us if we could go to the movies with hope and excitement, rather than a nervous feeling of "gee, i hope it don't suck too hard"? i'm tommy five-tone and i just want my movies to be GOOD, for christ's sake. more 'amelie', less 'the mummy returns' is my new fucking motto.
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If I see another LOTR review I'm going to barf a hobbit. For all you fanboys out there, NO, LOTR will not eclipse Star Wars (or Titanic for that matter). It will open big and die big, just like Harry Potter. This Time Machine will probably suck just like all the other movies coming out- speaking about other movies, how about some news on Spider-Man? Or Episode II? Has anyone been able to grad some shots from Blade 2? For a while there, I thought this website was changing to AintItCoolLOTRNews. Sorry to rant, Harry. I love the site, I just needed to let off some steam.
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As I said those words were quoted from a magazine called The Guardian. The point is that EVERYBODY doesn't agree with YOU, even if feel you are the final word on everything and nobody can have a different opinion than you. Rod Taylor was too stiff and that's because George Pal was not able to bring out the emotion that was needed for the time traveler. The effects for the 60's version are so WAY outdated. That is MY OPINION. You can take your 19.95 or whateva and do what you want, and I'll take my 9.00 and do what I want. I don't need your approval for anything that I like or do, thank you very much. I'm not the kind of person you are, Uncapie, I don't feel the need to personally attack someone because their opinion is different from mine. So you would NEVER be a person I'd seek exceptance from. As you'll notice I didn't come back here and attack or abuse anyone who disagreed with me. I'm too much of an adult for that.
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But I have to admit, I don't get what Harry has against this trailer. This movie looks like glossy fun, and seeing the trailer IN THE THEATER actually gives it more of an exciting feel. I think this will be worth watching...although I suspect it won't be faithful to Wells.
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Please have a camera around; seeing someone barf up a hobbit has gotta be one hell of a sight. As for your bitching about LOTR, want some cheese to go with that whine? Frankly, I could give a shit if it eclipses Star Wars, or Titanic (for the record, it'll probably clobber the former, but not the latter.) But LOTR is undeniably an incredibly cool movie. If you're not into it, you're in the wrong place, go elsewhere. The vast majority of readers on this site can't wait.
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I never read the book, so I have no expectation. And hey, I like loose Wells adaptations (I liked Island of Dr. Moreau, so sue me)
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...quack...quack...quack...you gonna' quack all day little duckie or lay an egg? Who cares if you're an 80 year old man or on an 8 year old kid? You have no taste. George Pal did a great job with his actors. Check out the nonchelant arrogance of the first Eloi George tries to converse with. George emotes curiosity and an eagerness to learn about mankind and how it has changed. The Eloi are eating and could give two shits and a fuck about George. They're bothered because he asks many questions. These cattle want to graze. They don't care about anything else or who this man is. When the Eloi takes him to the area where the books are stored and George discovers that the knowledge of man has disintigrated just as the books he crumbles in his hands is a great scene. George realizes that there is no hope for man and that he's set in his ways. Watch Taylor's face in disgust. And you say George Pal can't handle actors? Most of the posters that are pro for this flick are like the Eloi. Being led into the theater just like the Eloi going to the Morlock slaughterhouse. The only thing that is missing are the wailing klaxons. Yes, I'll enjoy the better version with Rod Taylor you go ahead and throw away your $9.00 like a fool and his money. Its idiots like you that allow idiots in the marketing division to come up with their facts and demographics to make movies like this. Crap like "Josie And the Pussycats" and remakes like "The Haunting" and "13 Ghosts". By all means, go pay your $9.00 and support their feeble attempts at creativity. Just like the marketing genius at NBC which thought it would be a good idea to schedule "Suddenly Susan", "Caroline In the City", and the other two girl shows against "Monday Night Football" thinking that the majority of women that were "football widows" would boost their ratings. They tanked. Better yet, there's the John Beck version you should check out. You might like that one even better. Even with the calume light sticks that the Morlocks carry, binking and bonking the poor little Eloi on their heads so they can eat them. A classic.
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Dec 12, 2001 2:33:11 AM CST
i agreed with everything you said, uncapie...ALMOST everything
by tommy5tone
how could you disrespect 'josie and the pussycats' like that, man? it's damn funny, and puts a cool spin on the whole media-marketing-manipulation conspiracy theory for the kids. and anything that takes the piss outta boy bands as well as du jour's 'back door lover' deserves its props.
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Dec 12, 2001 2:43:04 AM CST
Hey, y'all, the Time Traveller has a beer and cheets on a Mo
by kingkrypton
Sorry, I couldn't help myself. And yes, THE TIME MACHINE looks like it's gonna be lousy.
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Dec 12, 2001 2:51:45 AM CST
Don't worry Uncapie, the George Pal Time Machine movie is a
by blooddonorman
It totally blows my mind when talkbakers put down that brillant film. I bought the DVD a few months ago and it still sends chills down my spine. I'm not some old fogey, and the classic special effects don't bother me at all. There's just something about that premise-a Victorian gentlemen who's way beyond his time jumping in a machine of his own making and setting off to the future, seeing time whiz by and leaving his friends and home behind forever. Then ending up in a paradise and setting up with a gorgeous babe-this is the ultimate geek pipedream film! Rod Taylor's acting is fantastic! I love it when he gets pissed about the ultra-laid back attitude of the Eloi and when he decides enough is enough and goes down below to kick Morlock bootie! Great stuff! Though I think the George Pal adaptation is fantasic, I'd like to see a version that completely sticks to H.G. Wells original story.
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Dec 12, 2001 2:53:48 AM CST
loveaduck, Simon Wells won't be doing THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
by kingkrypton
Timothy Hines is directing a $40 million version of it for Pendragon Pictures. And even that version is going to be significantly changed (it's planned to take place in a modern-day Seattle dependent of Victorian-age tech). Besides, even if Pendragon wasn't making the film, Wells couldn't have gotten a hold of it. Jeff Wayne's holding up the official film rights, demanding that any movie based on WOTW be an adaptation of his crappy musical version. Pendragon seems to be doing this film on the sly, or at the very least making enough changes as not to incur Wayne's wrath.
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I thought the beginning was ok, but the whole PlanetoftheApes-thing in the and kinda ruined it for me... oh well.
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Orions angel, your a retard.
Trailors have been using other movie scores for a very long time.
Half of every movie trailor that comes out does it, unless it's a black movie then they usually have some crappy rap shit on it.
How many times have we heard the Aliens theme, or the Crimson Tide theme. Hell Starship Troopers, and Alien Resurection used the same exact music in their trailors and now another new movie trailor is using it (I cant remember what movie though). -
Dec 12, 2001 10:55:06 AM CST
Snake Plissken Has a Beer and Cheets on Bernard Herrmann and Wen
by the feral kid
You motherfuckers thought that unoriginality and warmed over jokes were dead? Hell no. But whatever...point ---> here it is (?I think?) ---> since we are talking about film scores, a lot has been made in previous talk backs about whether Williams and Goldsmith and Zimmer (as of late at least) are hacks or genious. All this controversey arising from what some believe to be a lackluster score by Howard Shore for "FOTR." So...what do I think is the true definition of a film score? Alright, you asked for it. John Carpenter's themes from his horror/western "Trilogy" - "Assault on Precinct 13," "Halloween" and "Escape from New York." Yep, that's right. I know it's a bunch of synth chords and shit that most people find very aged but if you watch those films, it's the scariest fuckin' music ever. This is the type of scores that's honed to a specific film and if you watch Carpenter's use of "group movement" (best seen in the initial assault on the old station in "Assault") or the lack there of (the singular unstoppable madness of Michael Myers), you'll see that instead of something "sweeping" that is meant merely to hook the viewer instead of relaying a thought or mood, this is the approach more composers should take. Like anyone cares...I'm going to see how long I can hold my head underwater in the bathtub...
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I think the link is broken/expired. Does anyone know where I can grab this trailer?
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Dec 12, 2001 11:16:34 AM CST
This trailer looks great and Uncapie-You're such an old fart
by loveaduck
How old are you-180? Why can't we send YOUR ASS TO 802,701?. I'm so sick of coming to TB and seeing the same old tired "give me the old classics and if anybody disses them they will answer to me crap"! Who really gives a shit? You can take that 19.95 you paid for "The Time Machine" back in the day and stick it up your tired old ass for all I care. Too too glad that Hollywood does not have to depend on sick old know it all cronies stuck back in the day like you! If it were left up to you and your cronies stuck back in the day with you on this board we'd be watching silent movies until the end of time. "The Time Machine" of 60's fame needs help. You can preach about all these classic acting scenes that Rod Taylor supposedly had in the movie until you're as blue in the face as those Morlocks were but you'll NEVER convince me. It was good for then but not for now. It's special effects were great then but they will greatly benefit from updating and rekindle interest in not only the 60's movie but the book as well. That movie has become a chore to watch for more than 10 minutes. IT HAS NOT STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. NEITHER HAVE YOU. Oh, and since you're SO against updating old movie classics don't forget to diss these classic remakes:
Ben-Hur (boy, the technology advances in movies really helped that chariot race, didn't they?. Titanic. The highest grossing movie of ALL time. Was worth the money just to see the fantastically realistic sinking of the ship(but then your poor old ass don't care about money, right?
BTW, let me give you a quick rundown of some classic old movies that are well loved but are remakes: A Place in the Sun, Gaslight, Beau Geste, and Vertigo (yes, Hitchcock's version is a remake), The King and I,and The Wizard of Oz (1939 version).
some other modern remakes-Fargo is an updated version of Coen brothers own "Blood Simple", The Fast and the Furious and Moulin Rouge. There are too many to cite here. Just think, none of these great movies would have never gotten made were it left up to old farts like you, and the world would be a much sadder place without them. And talkback would be a much happier place to discuss movies intelligently without you! -
Dec 12, 2001 11:57:03 AM CST
LoveaDuck? Calm Down, Use This as Bathwater and Rub-a-dubdub...
by the feral kid
The simple truth is that this does not look like a good film. They (yes, the infamous "They" - "Them" was originally titled "They" starring a cast of giant radioactive movie execs but the director felt that it a little too forward...so he replaced them with giant radioactive ants...see the connection?) took a brilliant idea - a book/film that seriously questions the place that technology should take in society - that was originally portrayed through a totally different type of scenerio and have now turned it into a throw-a-way blockbuster. They don't care about this film, they won't care about this film and that's why it's going to be bad. You are going to forget it the moment you walk out because they've forgotten about it (they have their "bookies" watching the opening weekend results who will then report to the "pushers" who will decide how much publicity the film will then receive post-release). This is not the Time Machine. This is "the Mummy Returns" with a time machine, just like "Planet of the Apes" was "the Mummy Returns" on an ape planet. And of course, "the Mummy Returns" is merely a cheap rehashing of the Indiana Jones and cheap (but fun and thoughtful) B horror flicks. The point of the Eloi has been replaced by black Bedrock barbie, the fact that the Morlocks are Wells' warning against the greed inspired by misuse of technology has been replaced by a reason to use that shitty CGI chop shop work they've been throwing in our faces for the past few years. And no, I don't like George Pal's version that much but it has it's moments - but at least it had some feeling behind it. This is just another hack director and hack scribe with a hack studio (aren't they all) backing them faulting off their six foot phallus of a movie off to the public whose going to be banged for an hour and a half for $9 and then forget - as long as they don't get clamity or some shit like that - and folks, that's what we are working towards - AIDS of the movie industry. Don't pay to see this dredge. I understand not everyone has an art house theatre near by but at least pick films that are less insulting to your intelligence. If you don't stand up for your love of true filmmaking in place of this commercialistic crap, they'll take away your beloved medium away one "the Mummy Returns" at a time. If you care about a film, remake it, see the remake of it - but don't take original material and give us a cheap Happy Meal toy version of it. That's my plea, that's my cry - so where's my medication, anyone seen it? Please, I really really need it...
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i meant..."THEY" are - flaunting - off their six foot phallus of a movie blah blah..
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Did you calm down yet? Hope so. "Cause now I got a few choice words to tell you. I am not dependent on you for permission to see a movie-therefore let it be known from henceforth that I WILL see this movie and I WILL enjoy it. Looks great to me. Save your philosophical rants for something important, this is just a movie.
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Let me say this right before all hell breaks loose.. I meant save your philosophical rantings for politics or other issues like that, we're talking movies here. It's entertainment-that's E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T. Trailer looks good-gonna go see the movie.
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but Universal has just announced-they're remaking the classic "Creature from the Black Lagoon" Get your "how dare they mess with perfection", "those money whores in Hollywood screwing up another classic" and other such choice quotes ready for another rant! lol
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piss all over Wells' legacy. This looks like Battlefield Earth 2. Hey, why not dig up old HG's corpse while you're about it, sodomise it, make a skin-suit out of him and caper about in it?
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... is Samantha Mumba, a very sweet Dublin lass who also has a nice line in pop singing. She's pretty big here in Ireland and in the UK, even though she's only really starting out.
My work here is done... -
Uncapie is unspeakable. Thing about some of you talkbackers is you can dish it out, but you can't take it. You like to call people idiots, stupid, whateva because they disagree with your highnesses. Then if somebody retaliates on your level you get upset. We could get along were it not for the fact that some of you don't know how to respect others.
If you had READ my post you would have seen that I said Fargo WAS AN UPDATE of "Blood Simple". I never said it was a remake. Perhaps it is a stretch to call "Moulin Rouge" a remake but it's not original, this is how IMDB describes it: "The movie was clearly influenced by the successful operas Baz Luhrmann has directed: "La Boheme" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." La Boheme is set in the same time and place as Moulin Rouge, while A Midsummer Night's Dream used the same Indian theme as Moulin Rouge's play-within-a-play". I certainly knew that none of the films earlier films titled Moulin Rouge had anything to do with this. "Vertigo is not a remake, so I quoted wrong info I was given (I can admit when I'm wrong) it's screenplay was based on D'entre Les Morts, authors who wrote the story for the movie "Les Diabolique". Ben-Hur and Wizard of Oz ARE remakes and the technological advances of that time really gave us two memorable movies. I don't know why people think the purpose of this new "Time Machine" is to do away with the other version. That is not possible. George Pal's version will remain a classic always. Typical of an AICN poster, though Orson-you say you hate someone then ask the question "Why can't we all just get along"" For starters, try respecting the rights of others to have a different opinion than yours. Though I would never say I hated somebody, I can truly say it's easier to have a discussion with someone who agrees to disagree.
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http://www.countingdown.com/timemachine/trailers.html
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"Loveaduck reaches China, keeps digging" Your talent in sarcasm surpasses any aspirations I may have. I applaud you.
*loveaduck clapping*
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