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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] <blockquote>"A man travels into the future in a time machine he invented..."</blockquote> Not exactly unique to Wells' book. <blockquote>"...and discovers that man's own technology eventually splits the race into Morlock and Eloi."</blockquote> Okay, so they stole one idea and a couple names. And the title. A single plot element does not a story make. Wells' novel: In late-1800s England, a man discovers the secret of time travel and uses it to visit the year 802701. He finds that humans have split into two animalistic groups, a peaceful but stupid race on the surface used as cattle, and a nocturnal, subterranean race of cannibals who are able to operate machinery. After a week, he discovers that the Morlocks are eating the Eloi, he's not pleased w/ what humans have become, and he gets his time machine back and goes forward some more. He sees humans that have become more animalistic, giant centipedes, giant crabs, and the approaching death of the sun. He goes hime, tells his disbelieveing friends, then goes to explore various time periods again. the movie: In early-1900s New York, a man's girlfriend dies, so he builds a time machine to back and save her, but somehow accidentally goes forward to the year 802701, where he finds two groups of relatively un-evolved humans. Fancy visual effects ensue. Actually making a movie out of a novel is one thing. Even borrowing parts of a novel as an homage is okay. But just stealing parts of a book, rewriting the rest of it in your own image, and using the famous name to sell it... that's what's known as a "rip-off". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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