2002 The Time Machine or how I lost my girlfriend, she died and I built a time machine.

[Gingerbread Demon]

I like the movie The Time Machine but I also like to take the mickey out of things......... Hey losing Emma gave him a serious science boner so he built a time machine to undo her death.

Or that's the plot of the 2002 movie The Time Machine. I like this movie but seriously had Emma not died he wouldn't have had his science boner and built a time machine only to find that no matter what he does and how many trips back he does wrecking the timeline Emma always dies and was always destined to die. He then travels to the far, far future, knocks his head on the time machine and keeps traveling far into the year 800,000 or something and decides he can stay there after a chat with a Morlock and a native chick who doesn't give him a science boner but another kind of boner, but not before destroying all the morlocks by reversing the polarity of the time machine with a pocket watch, creating a feedback loop of the tachyon field Anyone familiar with Star Trek will know that last line haha.

This movie would have been a hell of a lot better had they actually shown more versions of his trip back because no matter how many times he travels back in time Emma always dies. She's supposed to die, and nothing he does in any visit changes that.


I think they did an Emma cameo in the movie John Carter. While hiding from the Therns at the start of the movie he snogs a woman dressed exactly like Emma.

 

[The Wormhole]

So you like writing the word "boner" apparently.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

So you like writing the word "boner" apparently.

Hey I was having fun with this .. I just find it a funny word.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I love the broken moon in that movie. That shot will be with me forever.

The rest of the film is forgettable and I mix a lot of details up with the Planet of the Apes movie from around the same time.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I love the broken moon in that movie. That shot will be with me forever.

The rest of the film is forgettable and I mix a lot of details up with the Planet of the Apes movie from around the same time.

The broken moon part is same for me. I suspect when that happened that's when the human race diverged and split into two. There would have been too much surface damage for everyone to survive on top of the ground.

Also that girl he met just before all this on the bike in my head I view as Emma reincarnated

 

[The Wormhole]

I love the broken moon in that movie. That shot will be with me forever.

Supposedly, there was a more extensive destruction of New York sequence done up that was cut on account of the fact the movie was released a mere six months after 9/11.

 

[JD]

I watched this a few months ago and thought it was pretty good. The stuff with the broken moon was a highlight.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

That's early 2000s film crush Sienna Guillory (this, Helen of Troy, Eragon) as Emma!

I think I still have this on DVD somewhere.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

That's early 2000s film crush Sienna Guillory (this, Helen of Troy, Eragon) as Emma!

I think I still have this on DVD somewhere.

It is Sienna Guillory.

But I noticed a woman dressed just like Emma in John Carter too and thought it was some kind of easter egg. He uses her to evade the Therns.

 

[Anwar]

I liked Jeremy Irons in this as the Uber-Morlock, but this and Dungeons and Dragons marked the beginning of him being in more B-Movies than A-List stuff.

 

[Tosk]

Someone has to quote the line eventually, so I'll be the one. Apologies if it's not spot on.

"We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories. Those that carry us forward are dreams."

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Someone has to quote the line eventually, so I'll be the one. Apologies if it's not spot on.

"We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories. Those that carry us forward are dreams."

But it's a good line, and Jeremy Irons is an awesome actor

 

[Markonian]

Didn't see the movie in the cinema but was blown away by it when it aired on TV.

The futuristic space shuttle, seen only briefly, is a cool looking design.
I've read the original book since, and both the text and the film hold up nicely. I'n not sure I would favor one over the other.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Didn't see the movie in the cinema but was blown away by it when it aired on TV.

The futuristic space shuttle, seen only briefly, is a cool looking design.
I've read the original book since, and both the text and the film hold up nicely. I'n not sure I would favor one over the other.

Eh it's a film people will either like it or not. It's no big deal.

I have the original book and that's good, the 1960 version which is also good but I like this one too.

 

[Markonian]

Eh it's a film people will either like it or not. It's no big deal.

I have the original book and that's good, the 1960 version which is also good but I like this one too.

Glad to hear!
Usually, people a quick to jump onto the "the book is better than the movie" bandwagon.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Glad to hear!
Usually, people a quick to jump onto the "the book is better than the movie" bandwagon.

Film adaptations usually are never as popular as the books they came from, but there are exceptions where people love both.

 

[Oddish]

I think my favorite scene from the movie was the "time zooming forward" scene. I also liked the bit with that 800,000-year-old Vox, obviously gone a bit crazy from isolation.

I wonder, though, while converting the time machine into a weapon of mass destruction was a cool concept, did they get all the Morlocks with it? The uber mentioned other colonies elsewhere. Just a thought...

 

[Anwar]

I think my favorite scene from the movie was the "time zooming forward" scene. I also liked the bit with that 800,000-year-old Vox, obviously gone a bit crazy from isolation.

I wonder, though, while converting the time machine into a weapon of mass destruction was a cool concept, did they get all the Morlocks with it? The uber mentioned other colonies elsewhere. Just a thought...

It took out that one colony that was feeding on those particular Eloi. The other colonies are out there, but the implication was that the Scientist, now trapped in the future, would help the Eloi rebuild and fight off the Morlocks.

 

[Oddish]

With Vox's help, I wager. If he can read them Tom Sawyer, he can teach them to forge steel and make gunpowder.

 

[Tosk]

And tell them Star Trek stories.

Edit: This isn't me being like...so random. At one point he does the Vulcan salute and says, "Live long and prosper".