| Author | Subject: Re: 2002 TM Movie Soundtrack |
| Jim Macumber | Posted At 19:32:46 04/22/2002
I do not believe ANY filmmaker OR studio would intentionally delete scenes from a film to make the later DVD release of the film sell better !! To do so to the point where the theatrically released film is disjointed or incomplete would be to doom the film to failure at the box office. Even marginally intelligent film producers would KNOW that they NEED to do well at the box office...AND the later released home version will do better in direct relationship to how many of us enjoyed the film to begin with. The biggest problem this film had was the insistance by the studio (& Simon Wells himself) that this was to be the ULTIMATE version of H.G. Wells' original story...forcing us to make that comparison....a comparison which was destined to make the film look very poorly done. Simon Wells did an interview with Starlog which appeared in the April issue in which he makes it VERY clear that this film was NOT intended to be a remake of the 1960 film nor a direct re-telling of his Great Grandfather's story. He claims this was the story he wanted to tell....& felt it his right as the filmmaker to tell the story he wanted to tell. Guess what...he does have that right !! BUT it is a dirty rotten shame he could not have talked like this BEFORE the film was released so we could have been allowed to judge it on its own merits & not have been forced to compare it to "The Time Machine". It should've been entitled "Hartdegen's Odyssey" !!!....it was a very intense story of his pain & obsession and where it leads him...and as such it was enjoyable...but not a story which could stand up to close scrutiny of the science involved or the paradoxes it opened nor did it get into too much study of what the future of the human race might be due to what we have put in motion in our own time. (H.G.'s story was ABOUT what COULD HAPPEN in the future "if this goes on") ... To get back to the original posted point....I too think the soundtrack is WONDERFUL !!! It really evokes the intensity & passion Hartdegen wrestled with in the film's story...it is HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL !!! I DO have the CD & have been listening to it a lot !! |