[OT] Brain Froze during "Time Machine" help please

[Fenros]

Y'know, I usually pride myself on paying attention during films. But I gotta admit, I just saw the new "Time Machine" movie and during a crucial moment....my brain wasn't functioning.

I think it has to do with only getting at most 3 hrs. of sleep a night for the past 5 nights.

Anyways, I got question to ask those who've seen the movie already.

Dont' read on if you haven't seen it!

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Okay, when the head morlock has a conversation with our time travelling hero, he explains to him why it is that he can't change the past. (Y'know....save his girlfriend's life....)

Okay, I spaced out during that scene......why is it that he can't changed the past again? Does anyone remember the guy's explaination?


Thanks for helping!
Next time I'll get a full night of sleep before heading off to see a movie.

 

[amuller]

disappointed

Actually I was quite disappointed with the answer!


The head Morlock said he couldn't go back and save Emma because the only reason he created the machine was because she died. If she doesn't die, he won't create the machine and thus we have the old, time paradox. Granted this may have been cutting sci-fi a century ago. I guess I have watched to many Star Trek tim travel Episodes and am a bit jaded.

Hope this makes sense -- its 3AM doh I need to sleep

AJ

 

[Berandor]

I can see already, a perfect and true adaption of H.G. Wells' book...

Head Morlock?

Berandor

 

[Wolfspider]

Yeah, head Morlock...

And he's played by Jeremy Irons.

I love how the movie review on Salon.com describes this head Morlock:

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In his tattered bondage gear, death-white skin and straight white hair, he looks like the retirement-home version of Marilyn Manson.

Tee hee!

 

[Berandor]

Movie-executive 1: Now, what can we do for our next blockbuster?
Executive 2: Well, there is this popluar sci-fi book called the "Time Machine"...
Exec 3: ... and there was even a somewhat accepted film version long ago...
Exec 2: ... so we could make a remake! Even better!
Exec 1: O.K., sounds like a plan. But we better not stay close to the book, or it would be too boring.
Exec 2 and 3: Agreed.

Berandor

 

[Darklone]

Duhhooo Time Machines!

Time machines and all those stories and theories and whatever... Hah. And they still find idiots who watch those movies (grin).

Can anyone help me? There was that short story about a guy who invented a time machine and as he tried it (guess how), he went to Golgatha to watch JC die. Yeah Jesus Christ. And when he arrived there, he noticed that everyone else who watched was a time traveller too...

Do you know who wrote that story?

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Well .... I liked the panoramic views of all the times he went to. And I thought Orlando Jones did a good job.

And that's it. WOW what a crummy primary actor (I have evicted his name from my memory). One of the first things they teach you in drama is "react before you act". That is to say, you should be responding to what the other actors are saying and doing. This guy didn't do that. He only started to act when -he- was saying something. Ack. Awful.

 

[Phanboy]

Yeah, head Morlock...

And he's played by Jeremy Irons.

I love how the movie review on Salon.com describes this head Morlock:

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Tee hee!

Oh! I thought it was Edgar Winters!
I could barely contain myself from going "Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duuuh" When I first saw him!

 

[Hand of Vecna]

I thought it was Saruman, sitting on his throne in Isengard... oh, wait, wrong movie...

Oh, and Jeremy Irons is credited as portraying the "Uber-Morlock"...

 

[Fenros]

ah, thanks everyone for the responses.


Yeah, this latest version of 'Time Machine' wasn't ground breaking. But I knew that going in. So I wasn't heavily disappointed. It was predictable, and forgettable....but at least it wasn't "The Musketeer" .

Thanks Amuller for the clarification.

I didn't have a problem with Jeremy Irons' Psionic Master Morlock. In fact, weird as it sounds, when I saw him I thought to myself ....." Hmmm, an Elric movie is do-able." I don't know what I find odder. The fact that I didn't find the Head Morlock silly, or that I my thoughts were straying while watching what was suppose to be a pivotal scene. Heh heh.