Perhaps Alexander and the unnamed Time Traveler corresponded to share ideas on time travel.Īs remakes/re-adaptations go, I think the 2002 version was pretty well done. Most fan interpretations say that Wells was one of the friends who heard the unnamed Time Traveler’s story that night. How does Alexander find himself in a future with Morlocks and Eloi somewhat like the ones in Wells’ book? In the future Vox knows of the novel, the 1960 film and a musical (fictional one does not exist in real life) But Hartdegen never returns to his time to pass on his story. Consider it an alternate timeline.Īlexander’s home has a picture of HG Wells. You could almost view this as a separate story within the future world Wells created. It took me a while to realize something, with so many changes to the ending and characters names. An actor who I am a fan of before and after this movie. Without that we are much more distant from Guy Pearce’s character. We heard of his excitement of first using his machine, his emotional reactions of seeing the wonders and horrors of the future. In the first film the voice of Rod Taylor narrates the whole story. By having the Time Traveler tell his friends about his adventure in time we get his perspective. The biggest change from Wells’ book and the 1960 film is the lack of frame story which weakens the main character. Though it’s grown a lot on me over the years. That and I seem to recall the logic at the end being contradictory, though it's been so long that I can't recall the specifics.Īs a huge fan of the 1960 film I was mostly disappointed in this when this first was released. My biggest problem with the new one was the whole "he can't save the girlfriend" thing as if there was some external force killing her to ensure she died on that day. I was probably seven years old or something, and had to beg my parents to let me stay up to watch it.
I had never heard of it, it just sounded cool.Īnd it was one of the greatest movies I'd ever seen. I remember hearing a station announcer say something like "stay tuned after the nightly news, tonight's movie, "The Time Machine". I remember the local CBS affiliate would often times show movies after the news.The Late Movie, The Late, Late Movie, etc before going off the air. I love those old 60's Victorian era sci-fi films like this and First Men In The Moon. Not the best quality, but here's the whole movie:īut the original is still my favorite and still one of my top five favorite movies. Didn't care for the intelligent Eloi or their light saber daggers. I thought the computer and the time travel FX (the time stream fx I guess you'd call it) were cool. The last version had the best FX, the 70's version I liked as a kid because.well, we didn't have much sci-fi in those days, so we tended to appreciate the stuff we had.
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