The 2001 version of the Time Machine?!
Question: Did anyone else think that movie was about as unbelieveable as could be? i know that it was written around 1900, but the movie embellished. It's supposed to be believeable that some scientist in 1902 events a time machine, stops by in 2030 in his wool clothes...and the futuristic people have no idea what it is? Only this neanderthal could make it happen? Also, the photonic librarian: That computer must have had hard drive space that made Data on star trek look like a Commodore 64! He had all of the New York library's books in his memory and 800,000 years later he was still functioning and able to recall ALL OF IT. The final stupid thing was that he was able to pinpoint 800,000 years later where his house and lab was when it should mountains eroding as he was time travelling!
Answers: Did anyone else think that movie was about as unbelieveable as could be? i know that it was written around 1900, but the movie embellished. It's supposed to be believeable that some scientist in 1902 events a time machine, stops by in 2030 in his wool clothes...and the futuristic people have no idea what it is? Only this neanderthal could make it happen? Also, the photonic librarian: That computer must have had hard drive space that made Data on star trek look like a Commodore 64! He had all of the New York library's books in his memory and 800,000 years later he was still functioning and able to recall ALL OF IT. The final stupid thing was that he was able to pinpoint 800,000 years later where his house and lab was when it should mountains eroding as he was time travelling!
Some parts were far from believable, but when H. G. Wells wrote the original novel even those ideas were fairly off the wall, and still are. As for certain aspects of the 2001 remake are a little farfetched but some of it really isn't.
The invention of the time machine by a 1902 scientist, well if this had happened and we don't know about it now, it means the scientist had several things which might have happen to him in his travels, and all ended the same, he never returned home, this is true in the novel and the movie. So as for future people not knowing about it, well that makes since, he may have accidently created it, and nobody else had figured it out and wrote it off as Science Fiction. As for response to his clothing it would be less about what it was made out of and more about what he was wearing, even now wool/cotton/blend is being phased out for manufactured fabrics because they are cheaper and more durable.
The computer technology is actually quite believable, projections are within the next 20 years if technology keeps going the way it is it wouldn't be impossible for a computer to be able to store huge amounts of data in extremely small chips and access it quicker than we can access the small amounts today, the unbelievable part is at the rate the batteries are going it's unlikely that a battery could be built that would survive and continue working for 800k years, even on power down mode.
As for the house being there still, this is probably the most unlikely thing there is, it’s completely senseless, just changes in the landscape over 800,000 would destroy the house, and that’s not even considering the advancements of technology and culture, it’s hard to believe that in 130 that house of his would have still been around, it would have been knocked down to make way for more modern buildings by that time.
What you need to remember about the film is it's just that... a film based on a sci-fi novel which is still very farfetched.
I know what you mean. I didn't think that movie was that great, and it definatly wouldn't happen (more than just the time machine thing) but I dunno. I thought it was sad how he couldnt save that first girl no matter what he did. But, I agree with all you said.
The original with Rod Taylor was so much better than the remake. The remake was awful.