Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

gsfsu The special effects are a bit dated as you might expect from a movie made in 1960 but the story will live forever. One of my all-time favorite movies.

krakatau-48313 This is one of my favorite movies. It is much better than all the next productions, though the effects look a bit funny compared to today's multi-million blockbusters. But the idea, the idea of the film is much more influential than today's frivolous comics. A grim future ... maybe already present!

higherall7 Nothing but admiration for this film, which won an Academy Award for Special effects back in 1960. While it is a moot point whether or not we can all be trained scientists or inventors and technocrats, the beauty of THE TIME MACHINE to my mind is that anyone can understand it. This is not a dumbed down version of H.G. Wells masterpiece of Science Fiction, rather, it is a literate and jaunty romp through concepts about Time and Space and Cultural Development in a thoroughly entertaining way. Such a cinematic work as this stimulates thought for all ages and genders and gives us fascinating cultural perspectives regarding the Past, the Present and the Future.Earlier, I suggested that Michael Rennie as Klattu in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL was the ideal Science Fiction Hero to my mind. This is because his performance effortlessly caused the viewer to associate him with Sherlock Holmes, Abraham Lincoln and even Jesus Christ. A noteworthy feat for one man to accomplish, but owed in large part to the great writing and direction of the piece. One could say more easily that Rennie was simply right for the role of an alien emissary with a message for Earth to mend its ways.But considering that Rennie as Klattu was a wonderfully dignified paradigm for the Visitor from Outer Space as Hero, who would do so on a more Earthbound plane? I nominate Rod Taylor's George as a fit candidate, until someone extrapolates a Science Fiction Hero from the likes of Lewis Latimer, George Washington Carver and Garnet Morgan. Once again, we have someone in the person of Mister Taylor who brings to mind Winston Churchill, Knute Rockne and finally Thomas Edison.We find our hero at the outset suffering from a situational and, later we learn, psychologically bad case of Temporal and Spatial discontinuity. He laments being in the wrong place at the wrong time, however true or false this conclusion may be. He harbors a latent wish to be a member of a more enlightened society, less inclined to warring and more amenable to projects for social betterment.Therefore, he has devised his own way out. Enter his latest invention; the Time Machine. After a short tutorial and lecture about how Time and Space affect each other, he presents a prototype to his dinner guests. He discovers much to his chagrin that his explanations have produced more culture shock than enlightenment and finds himself the object of disgruntlement and scoffing from his close friends.But our hero is resolved to act, and throwing off the tarp to a full scale model of his invention, off he goes into the wild prismatic yonder of brilliant time lapse photography chronicling his adventures in Time. He makes sundry mental notes here and there as his journey progresses, and lands himself eventually and unknowingly in the midst of a cultural divide between two races of men, the Eloi and the Morlocks.Thought it was fascinating to see a group of people often portrayed as representing the concept of Aryan supremacy presented here as passive sheep and slaves to be sheared. Freed up the thinking considerably on that front. The Eloi are these people and our hero discovers them in a veritable Garden of Eden, little realizing that there is figuratively and literally a dark underside to their existence. This is all vividly addressed in the simplest terms with all the sweep and romance of a grand adventure bordering on being a fable or a fairy tale.These comments should explain the across the board appeal of THE TIME MACHINE and how enjoyable is the learned, virile grace that Taylor brings to his role as the hero inventor. The fey innocence of the beautiful Yvette Mimieux as the Eloi Weena, and Alan Young's portrayal of Filby, the friend for the ages are also elements that stand out in this film.There was a remake made in 2002, but this original version has the burnish and the glow of a classic.

clivemorrow I recently read the book "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells. It kept me from sleeping for a while because I thought the Morlocks were chasing me! This film I have loved since childhood but now I see that it differs from the book quite a lot. Nevertheless, the spirit of the novel is in this film and it is so much better than the Guy Pearce film of 2002.That film was bizarre, especially in the way it showed the Eloi living in cages on cliffs above the sea. Then there was the incomprehensible part played by Jeremy Irons.This film starred Rod Taylor and he was ideal for the part.The book was written in 1895. The film has him starting off on the last day of 1899. He sees 1917, 1940 and 1966 before going to 802,701. The world of the Eloi and the Morlocks is evoked extremely well and there is great imagination in the sets. Rod Taylor is exactly the way I imagined the Time Traveller to be when I was reading the novel.Yvette Mimieux also plays Weena in just the right way. The book ends with the narrator saying that he is glad that "mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man." Rod Taylor died at the beginning of this year and "The Birds" and this are the two films for which he will always be remembered. Some things have been changed, but I feel sure that if he had lived to see it H.G. Wells himself would have approved of this film.