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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:35 am 
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Paramount and Pendragon have both been subjected to a lot of scrutiny and criticism for their War Of The Worlds productions and their relation or lack thereof to their source material but really both lock positively puritan when we consider the newish version of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. Now there was a movie that truelly spat on the book. It strayed so far off the track it was meant to follow it actually managed to mention the book by name at one point. This really was the biggest load of tripe ever produced to my mind and I think we should take a moment to admire the sheer crapness of the film because truelly a screw up of this magnitude has to require some sort of talent to accomplish.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:47 am 
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No doubt about that, Leper...


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Yes that was travesty alright.


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If the movies have references to the original book, and are also truely BASED on it, then movies look reasonable for me.


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The only decent thing about this film is the DVD box it came in, I can use it for somthing else :lol:


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The George Pal versoin of the Time Machine is cool though. Yes it deviates. Yes it doesn't go as far as the book. But it has charm. And Special Effects that have been truely laboured over. For me it is a work of art.


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Loz wrote:
The George Pal versoin of the Time Machine is cool though. Yes it deviates. Yes it doesn't go as far as the book. But it has charm. And Special Effects that have been truely laboured over. For me it is a work of art.


yes but thats not the version in question, the version in question is the glistening turd masquerading as a DVD - put it in your player and something truelly awful happens to it and your TV.


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Does it have bad influences? :-s


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The thing that realy amazes me is it was Directed by Simon Wells, the great, great grandson of H. G. you'd think he would want to be faithful to the book :!: :?:


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Leper Messiah wrote:
Loz wrote:
The George Pal versoin of the Time Machine is cool though. Yes it deviates. Yes it doesn't go as far as the book. But it has charm. And Special Effects that have been truely laboured over. For me it is a work of art.


yes but thats not the version in question, the version in question is the glistening turd masquerading as a DVD - put it in your player and something truelly awful happens to it and your TV.


I know. what this thread is about. And I think in a thread about a remake, one should be aloud to talk about the origional. Dear me.


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Being based on the book then it also must follow the story line as the book says.


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Loz wrote:
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Loz wrote:
The George Pal versoin of the Time Machine is cool though. Yes it deviates. Yes it doesn't go as far as the book. But it has charm. And Special Effects that have been truely laboured over. For me it is a work of art.


yes but thats not the version in question, the version in question is the glistening turd masquerading as a DVD - put it in your player and something truelly awful happens to it and your TV.


I know. what this thread is about. And I think in a thread about a remake, one should be aloud to talk about the origional. Dear me.


well, the thread is really more about appreciating the sheer tragic awfulness of the newer version, i feel the older version doesnt have a place in the conversation because the older one was actually quite good :D


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Leper Messiah wrote:
Loz wrote:
Leper Messiah wrote:
Loz wrote:
The George Pal versoin of the Time Machine is cool though. Yes it deviates. Yes it doesn't go as far as the book. But it has charm. And Special Effects that have been truely laboured over. For me it is a work of art.


yes but thats not the version in question, the version in question is the glistening turd masquerading as a DVD - put it in your player and something truelly awful happens to it and your TV.


I know. what this thread is about. And I think in a thread about a remake, one should be aloud to talk about the origional. Dear me.


well, the thread is really more about appreciating the sheer tragic awfulness of the newer version, i feel the older version doesnt have a place in the conversation because the older one was actually quite good :D


Did you just mention the old one then???? I think you did. I'd like to remind you that we are only talking about the newer one here. The one with guy from Neighbours in it.


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I think he's confused now... :lol:


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Loz wrote:
Leper Messiah wrote:
Loz wrote:
Leper Messiah wrote:
Loz wrote:
The George Pal versoin of the Time Machine is cool though. Yes it deviates. Yes it doesn't go as far as the book. But it has charm. And Special Effects that have been truely laboured over. For me it is a work of art.


yes but thats not the version in question, the version in question is the glistening turd masquerading as a DVD - put it in your player and something truelly awful happens to it and your TV.


I know. what this thread is about. And I think in a thread about a remake, one should be aloud to talk about the origional. Dear me.


well, the thread is really more about appreciating the sheer tragic awfulness of the newer version, i feel the older version doesnt have a place in the conversation because the older one was actually quite good :D


Did you just mention the old one then???? I think you did. I'd like to remind you that we are only talking about the newer one here. The one with guy from Neighbours in it.

So now we're talking about Neighbours? :roll:


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everybody needs good neighbours....

god this thread is going Tim Hines as well. Mind you it seems only fitting a thread about a truelly awful film is also going down the pan.


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