Timeline

Its based on the book by the dude who wrote jurrassic park and the 13th warrior(eaters of the dead). I suggest reading the book(Timeline),because its unchanged and it owns

Michael Crichton, yes.
I enjoyed the Andromeda Strain the most of his books.

Hehe,thats his name, didn''t know how to spell it. And yes, Andromeda Strain is a good book too. :D

He''s involved with ER too.

Prey is his latest(?) I believe. This is one of his best. I have read all of his books except the Jurassic Park duo and maybe 2 others I can''t think of off the top of my head. Sphere was also a very good one.

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The Timeline movie must not be that good; from post 2 on we''ve been talking about every book MC wrote but Timeline

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I found the idea that multiple jumps back and forth through time lead to errors in the anatomy of the person. I thought that was a unique and original twist the the whole time-travel genre.

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Sounds more like a problem with the concept that someone finally acknowledged

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"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight."
-- C.S. Lewis

I think the book was a bit of well-researched genius, to be honest. The book delves quite deeply into quantum theory and multiverse theory, and explains the whole concept of the markers and such much more satisfactorily. He also deals a lot more with the history of how the machine was developed and the origins of transcription errors. Definitely a good read.

The movie was good, but as always it wasn''t nearly as good as the book. Naturally it didn''t get into the physics like the book did, and when the story is cut for the big screen it somehow seems a lot more cookie-cutter than the book. They also over-emphasized the melodramatic "romance," as most movies have a tendency of doing.

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Original post by ApochPiQ
They also over-emphasized the melodramatic "romance," as most movies have a tendency of doing.

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Most American movies. If you take a look at European cinema you''ll find it''s *completely* different from what we get in the US. I don''t think Americans would enjoy European movies though. Most of them have little action and much character development and plot. Not something the American audience is interested in

I havent seen the film, but in the book there is a damn lot of explanation behind how it all works. Its kinda weird to get your head around though.

In the book (from memory) basically there are an infinate number of parallel universes, so therefore there must be one that is exactly like your universe say 400 years ago. It is therefore should be possible to see the past by going to another of these dimensions that is identical to your world 400 years ago.

Now for the bit with the senders and recievers. Basically the theory went that their universe developed the technology to send people to a reciever in the parallel universe that you were travelling to. As there are an infinite number of parallel universes, there MUST be another universe that has developed technology for getting a reciever to the target universe. As a result when you send someone, the other universe that has receiver sending technology will use it at exactly the same time and the person will end up in the reciever that appears there thanks to one of the parallel universes.

Transcription errors come from dodgy encryption

This is all science fiction though so cant be taken too seriously.

- James

I hated that movie more than I have hated any other movie. The book was excellent and had a decent amount of interesting information. The movie cut out everything that made the book good. It sucked!!!! Dont see it, read the book.

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Original post by Witchcraven
I hated that movie more than I have hated any other movie. The book was excellent and had a decent amount of interesting information. The movie cut out everything that made the book good. It sucked!!!! Dont see it, read the book.

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okay. we know. this is a given.