[Kip Russell]

I remember 1960's The Time Machine with Rod Taylor. When he went way into the future, the people there couldn't read the books they had - which were splintering and falling to dust from age and neglect - and they were as dumb as rocks and very compliant, something the feral government would love to see happen.

On the other hand, they did look like this:

So it's not as if it's a total loss.

[Kip Russell]

If you make the movie in the '70s, Weena looks like this:

But if you make it in 2002, she looks like this:

Which is interesting, given that in the original novel by H. G. Wells, they are described as the Eloi are described as being smaller than modern humans, having shoulder-length curly hair, chins that ran to a point, large eyes, small ears, and small mouths with bright red thin lips.