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TIME MACHINE pictures from Comic Con!!!
Hey folks, Harry here with news coming out about THE TIME MACHINE from San Diego. Our salty seaman friend is supposed to sit down and chew the surf with Stan Winston at somepoint, but right now we got a picture of the Time Machine itself from the floor of the San Diego Comic Con... Here's Mim with the story and the pic by way of my old buddy Chuck Rozanski... I still remember him dropping by my house when I was just 5 and 6 years old, now he's Mr Comics! If you see Chuck, tell him "HI" from Harry Knowles!!!
Hey, Harry!
Don't know if you can use this or not, but I thought you might like to see it.
I am on an e-mail newsletter list from Mile High Comics, written by Chuck
Rozanski, the President of Mile High Comics, Inc. (It's a great, informative
and very personal newsletter written by someone who seems to be a really nice
guy.)
Anyways, he included this photo in the latest newsletter he sent from the San
Diego Comic-Con. It is a photo of the time machine prop itself from the
up-coming "The Time Machine" starring Guy Pearce. Pretty farkin' cool, eh???
Call me "Mim".
Meanwhile this next pic comes from CHUD where they have additionaly pictures of the Morlocks. I still prefer the classic George Pal versions of the characters... green... glowy eyes... white hair... overweight... Somehow I aspired to be a Morlock at the age of 75 feasting upon human bones... sounded like a lifestyle... I like cold dark places... as well as warm wet ones, but hey, no need to put y'all through all that....
>Click here to see the other fantastic CHUD pics from THE TIME MACHINE!!!!
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Jul 19, 2001 10:16:21 PM CDT
Harry, for the last damn time, keep the pictures of your concept
by you ate sand?
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What was that movie with Malcolm McDowell as Wells again? I really liked that time machine..looked a bit more 'victorian' then this..but the Morlock was cool.
Eh.
Hope this movie doesn't suck. -
and I jumped into the giant time machine to about a year from now, and found out that yes, this movie does suck.
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Jul 19, 2001 10:28:47 PM CDT
Wow... that *does* look pretty snazzy. But since we're talking
by llghtst0rmer
Um... not to be too blunt, but... could y'all muhfuggas learn to DRIVE, PLEASE?!?! It's the first day of the convention and all downtown is already full of people who should really be WALKING the streets, not clogging them up in their cars, either rented or driven from wherever they're from. Folks, I really do hope you enjoy your stay here in SD, but could you all please, for the love of all that is holy, PLEASE park the cars and walk a little? The weather's great this week! Take a walk! If you're at the convention, you're by the water... enjoy it! If walking's not your thing, there are places not too far from the Convention Center that rent bikes. There's also they guys and women who taxi people around in bicycle-driven taxis. I think their number is, like, 1-800-BIKEMAN. (Don't necessarily use regular taxi cabs though, please... they have no idea how to drive, either!) Go shopping at Horton Plaza, hang out at the beach, do whatever, but PLEASE do as much of it as possible on foot and, as Greyhound says, leave the driving to US! I really don't mean to bitch at people, I'm just pleading, I'm begging you to stay off the streets as much as you can! (Spoken on behalf of all local residents, workers, and specifically MESSENGERS in Downtown San Diego.)
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...if you DO check out Horton Plaza, go to Mervyn's and ask for Halsey. Ask him why he always calls Stanley Kubrick an overrated hack. Snoogins. heheheheheheh
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I made the mistake of attending a film festival in San Diego a couple of years ago, and parked at the mall, where the festival said to park. Three movies later, I left, and it cost me THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS! So, whatever you do, don't park and walk in San Diego, keep driving. If you do park at the mall, throw your ticket away. The lost ticket charge is far less than the extortion they charge you to park in their scum-sucking mall.
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Looks very cool. I admit to a fondness and a preference for the George Pal Victorian look, but this one is really original. It does look "singularly askew," and has the characteristic described in the book of parts of it looking somewhat unreal, and not clear to the eye. I wonder if large parts of it move and spin when operating.
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Oh, wait, he didn't.
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Jul 19, 2001 10:50:54 PM CDT
It Looks Like Two Wind Machines Doing The Ol' Hard Drive...
by buzz maverik
But if that's what gets ya through time, that's what gets ya through time.
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Nicholas Meyer. Good stuff.
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Jul 19, 2001 11:38:50 PM CDT
It looks like a Rancor chewed up and swallowed C-3PO then passed
by mayhem ensues
Is that thing SOLAR powered or what? It doesnt look even remotely Victorian ...and the Morlock looks like it stepped out of "The Mummy"
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...eh. Who cares? Old joke anyway. I just wanted to be the first one to bring the punchline. Of course, by the way the TB order gets more convoluted than a David Lynch film, I'm sure my little punchline gag will most likely be placed before the setup post anyway.
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Jul 19, 2001 11:57:50 PM CDT
"Meanwhile this next pic comes from CHUD where they have ADDITIO
by jungle-face-jake
i hope there's a scene where the three musketeers and zorro gaybash the scarlet pimpernal. along with the fine melodic rap stylings of DMX and Marshall Mathers
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Jul 20, 2001 12:19:31 AM CDT
The only thing I remember form the older Time machine movie
by otis von zipper
was that scene at the end when he watches the dead Morlock disintegrate. Cool stuff, it would be nice if that moment is in the new version. P.S. Why would anyone need to drive or park around downtown San Diego? The light rail line is very convenient.
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This is what was needed in JP3, as someone pointed out in the talkback there - cavemen! Imagine how cool that would have been, none of this modern man versus dinosaur nonsense, but primal man fighting his only real prehistoric predator - the terrible lizards themselves! Yes! I'm very excited about this!
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Why hasn't there been more about this on the news and stuff. Man shouldn't it be scientists that go back instead of that guy from LA Confidential? I mean, I like his movies, but what if he fucks up. Dude, what if hhe accidentally kills my grandad or some shit? Also, has anyone noticedd how the letter W is double-U. Man, that is so cool
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is this what we will evolve into after centuries living in caves suffering radiation sickness?.........sign me up baby.........
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I'm going to go to this so-called 'comic convention', and steal that bad-boy. I will then return to the jurassic period and prove once and for all that cavemen lived with the dinosaurs. I've sen those Harryhausen Documentaries. Just because they are black and white, doesn't make them untrue.
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I can't believe none of you guys are more worried. this is a chance to rewrite history. you could go back and meet gandalf. does anyone else get dizzy when they read?
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The original TimeMachine film starred Australian Actor Robert Taylor (doing a pseudo American Accent of course!)as the Scientist. Now we have another Aussie namely Guy Pearce playing the same role in the new version.
I watched the original film not long ago and while it looks crappy by todays standards I still think it was one of the better Sci-fi films of/at that time. -
Looks like the machine design was based on a Victorian lighthouse Fresnal lens (you can see a few examples at http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/lens/lensinv.htm), so chances are the rest of the design is the sort of button velvet, brass and leather seen in the Rod Taylor original.
How much is the world of this movie influenced by books like 'The Difference Engine' d'ya reckon? -
I agree with Harry that the old Morlocks looked cool. They scared the crap out of me when I was a kid and saw the movie on tv.
Don't get me wrong though...these new ones look great. Hey Harry, is it me? Or do they look like something out of a Richard Corben Comic? You know how he always crosses demons and apes to make his villians? That close-up on CHUD.com looks like one of the creatures from his fanzine comic "Monsters Rule." Eh...I only expect Harry and Father Geek to remember anything about them old comics. I hope this movie's good. Hey...who plays Weena?? -
Jul 20, 2001 5:19:12 AM CDT
Taking the piss out of Harry's spelling is like slating Episode
by pupkin
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I watched some of the filming of this movie in Albany, NY. It looks like crap.
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http://www.darkhorizons.com/news10/time1t.jpg
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news10/time2t.jpg
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news10/time3t.jpg
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Ignore the previous post - those were thumbnails. Go to the darkhorizons.com main page (but it was loading slow). Or, just take the last t out of the urls above...time1.jpg, etc..
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...the original Time Machine is still the best.
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Jul 20, 2001 7:49:25 AM CDT
That's the "time machine"?! Isn't that just a sliced and diced
by pizza the hut
I have nothing more to say.
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I recently saw the teaser-trailer for The Time Machine and this doesn't look like what I saw. It was a brief look as the Time Machine passed overhead and away from the camera, but it looked a lot more like the George Pal version than this one does. Just wondering.
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Alan Young rules
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The original movie Morlocks, in all their 1960's-camp glory, were more terrifying. This new version looks like supermodel Kate Moss after a month of her publicized heavy-alcohol & NO-food binges!
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I thought the Morlocks described in the book were more like upright albino rat , primate combinations.Being very pale would make sense because they live underground.This looks more like a shaved baboon!
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chandelier. How big is the dining room table it's gonna be over?
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There is video of the time machine and Morlocks at www.13thstreet.com. Don't know how to link to the video--sorry.
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Jul 21, 2001 11:47:01 PM CDT
Hey - "Time After Time" is THE best time machine type movie made
by smugbug
can you say "WHOOOOOO!" My god! What a mind bender! Saw this thing - looked cool. BUT, I was TOO busy getting to the Lord of the Rings presentation, and stayed through the Joss Whedon Q&A, Planet of the Apes, John Carpenter - but alas, had to leave to get to a Dark Horse Portfolio 101 conference and miss Sam Raimi/Spiderman. Anywhoos - San Diego kicked major ass this year! I'll be there again come August 1-4 next year! This time as a Professional!
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something eerily Liberacean about it!!!!!
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Looks like "Attack of the Chandiliers" or "Revenge of the Jalousie Windows." Geo Pal's machine was much better as was the one from "Time after Time" and the one from the Classic Comics cover. Like someone said this is a bunch of cutup freshnel lenses. It looks like this would flap itself apart like some of those "drunken bird" early attempts at helicopters. Too large and flimsy for the Morlocks to drag into the sphinx. Morlocks look closer to Wells book than those from Pal's movie. I think this version of the story has been "improved" until it's totally FUBAR. I'm still waiting for a Victorian "War of the Worlds" with walking Tripods.
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the machine looked like a pregnant guppy.
(favorite line: "Back then I was a freak, here, I'm just an amatuer")
I'm was not impressed by the machine.
This one looks like a Christmas Tree ornament (nice Jewish boy like Speilberg keeps doing that, remember the ship from "E.T..."and the mother ship from C.E.3rd K?)
Why didn't they just offer the current owner big bucks and a screen credit to use the original.
Neil
P.S.
Harry, how's the transcription going on the Lisberger interview?
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