movies, was Re: 'The man who wants to take your jobs'

[cdevers at pobox.com (Chris Devers)]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, David J. C. Beach wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 14:48, John Chambers wrote:
> > And, of course, H.G.Wells wrote about this process 120 years ago,  in
> > The  Time  Machine.  I assume everyone here is familiar with Eloi and
> > Morlocks.  If not, let's see ... Yep; here it is:
> >   http://www.gutenberg.net/etext92/timem11.txt
> 
> Yes, but don't see the movie.  :)  For one thing, it actually takes less
> time to read the book...  and of course there's the fact that the movie
> was hideously awful and had very little to do with the book...

Oh, it wasn't so bad -- Rotten Tomatoes gives it an average rating of 79%:

<http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TheTimeMachine-1021500/reviews.php>
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/externalreviews>

Wait, you don't mean the sixties version, do you?

Sheesh, next people will be forgetting that the Al Pacino "Scarface" is
also a remake, and arguably not as good as the original, either... :)


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Chris Devers