Random Terrain
Joined Feb 2002
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I didn't think I would like "The New Tom Green Show," but it's pretty good. I guess Tom Green is our newer, wackier David Letterman. He really could do this show (or a version of it) for 20 or 30 years and become even better and more respected as time goes on. I think he has the right combination of intelligence and silliness to keep people interested for many decades.
If you can get past the obvious mistakes and the fact that Russell Crowe sounds like he's doing an impression of Dustin Hoffman as "Tootsie," it's not a bad movie. I loved the surprises. If you haven't seen the film yet, it's worth your time.
Although many people are skeptical about time travel, it might be possible, but just not in the way that it's presented in this movie. The concept of time travel within one timeline is for the simple minded. There are probably an infinite number of timelines that can be slightly or hugely different from each other. Think of it as a more complicated version of the TV show called "Sliders."
If you found a way to go back in time, you couldn't go back within your own timeline because there is most likely a paradox barrier. Even if you weren't blocked by that barrier, there are probably an infinite number of timelines, so it would be improbable that you could ever find your own timeline to jump within. Since the only way to travel in time is to jump out of your own timeline because of the paradox barrier, there's no guarantee what reality you'll find yourself in (unless you know how to return to a reality you've been to before). For example, you may visit a timeline where Abraham Lincoln was never assassinated, he may look like a lizard-man, he may be three feet tall, or he may never have existed in the first place. The earth may not even exist in some timelines. In that case, time travel could be even more dangerous than you would think. You may be able to map as many realities as possible and return to them whenever you want, but new time jumps would be very risky and should be done using some kind of sturdy spaceship that has its own oxygen supply.
It should be clear that no matter how hard you tried, there's nothing you could do to change your own past. Even if you traveled back in time and killed your father by mistake (before he met your mother), nothing would happen to you. There would be no paradoxes because any change you made would effect the people in the future of the other timeline that you were visiting. Since you cannot jump within your own timeline, skeptics are correct when they say that time travel (the way most people think of it) is impossible. Time travel is both possible and impossible, depending on how you look at it.
If you can forget all of that and accept how time travel is portrayed in this movie, it still won't help you much because there is a major flaw from the start. The main character's girlfriend is killed, but he cannot accept this, so he does what most people think is impossible and invents a time machine. He goes back in time to save her and then he stupidly has her stand in a clearly dangerous spot and she is killed again. After that, he is convinced that he could come back a thousand times and she would always die. That's not very "scientific." Only a total idiot would make that assumption.
He was so upset by his girlfriend's death that he bent the forces of time and space to his will, but quit trying to save her life after only one try? That's totally unbelievable. The filmmakers could have made a short montage of him going back and having her die in various ways so that we could believe he would finally quit and look to the future for an answer. If they didn't want to waste money doing that, they could have had him say that he did try a thousand times to save her, but as it is, the movie is ruined because of that one simple mistake. If you want me to believe your messed up version of time travel for the sake of the plot, I'm more than happy to, but at least have a little respect for the story.
I won't bother talking about the rest of the movie too much since so many other people did such a great job ripping it apart. I will say that I wish they would have shown more from the pre-Morlock future because we mostly just saw the library. I'd even rather see more from the main character's own time than that "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome", "Waterworld", "The Postman", etc. looking Eloi world.
One last thing. If you are impressed by the Morlocks and can't tell the difference between the goofy looking "real" Morlocks and the horrible CGI Morlocks, you'll love the werewolf from "An American Werewolf in Paris" and the creatures from "Jumanji."
If you found a way to go back in time, you couldn't go back within your own timeline because there is most likely a paradox barrier. Even if you weren't blocked by that barrier, there are probably an infinite number of timelines, so it would be improbable that you could ever find your own timeline to jump within. Since the only way to travel in time is to jump out of your own timeline because of the paradox barrier, there's no guarantee what reality you'll find yourself in (unless you know how to return to a reality you've been to before). For example, you may visit a timeline where Abraham Lincoln was never assassinated, he may look like a lizard-man, he may be three feet tall, or he may never have existed in the first place. The earth may not even exist in some timelines. In that case, time travel could be even more dangerous than you would think. You may be able to map as many realities as possible and return to them whenever you want, but new time jumps would be very risky and should be done using some kind of sturdy spaceship that has its own oxygen supply.
It should be clear that no matter how hard you tried, there's nothing you could do to change your own past. Even if you traveled back in time and killed your father by mistake (before he met your mother), nothing would happen to you. There would be no paradoxes because any change you made would effect the people in the future of the other timeline that you were visiting. Since you cannot jump within your own timeline, skeptics are correct when they say that time travel (the way most people think of it) is impossible. Time travel is both possible and impossible, depending on how you look at it.
If you can forget all of that and accept how time travel is portrayed in this movie, it still won't help you much because there is a major flaw from the start. The main character's girlfriend is killed, but he cannot accept this, so he does what most people think is impossible and invents a time machine. He goes back in time to save her and then he stupidly has her stand in a clearly dangerous spot and she is killed again. After that, he is convinced that he could come back a thousand times and she would always die. That's not very "scientific." Only a total idiot would make that assumption.
He was so upset by his girlfriend's death that he bent the forces of time and space to his will, but quit trying to save her life after only one try? That's totally unbelievable. The filmmakers could have made a short montage of him going back and having her die in various ways so that we could believe he would finally quit and look to the future for an answer. If they didn't want to waste money doing that, they could have had him say that he did try a thousand times to save her, but as it is, the movie is ruined because of that one simple mistake. If you want me to believe your messed up version of time travel for the sake of the plot, I'm more than happy to, but at least have a little respect for the story.
I won't bother talking about the rest of the movie too much since so many other people did such a great job ripping it apart. I will say that I wish they would have shown more from the pre-Morlock future because we mostly just saw the library. I'd even rather see more from the main character's own time than that "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome", "Waterworld", "The Postman", etc. looking Eloi world.
One last thing. If you are impressed by the Morlocks and can't tell the difference between the goofy looking "real" Morlocks and the horrible CGI Morlocks, you'll love the werewolf from "An American Werewolf in Paris" and the creatures from "Jumanji."