The Time Machine (1960)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Admirable film.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Beautifully conducted and acting that is believable, this film is a great edition to the Science Fiction enthusiast's collection. H.G. Wells has always been a favorite of mine anyway, but the concept and idea of the film is so neat. I love how the feel of the film makes you think you're on another planet, when in fact, you're in another dimension. Truly, this was a great film and I would recommend it to anyone.

(Flash Review) This is an amusing time travel movie with a plot that is intriguing, has a message, keeps changing and getting more creative as the story goes. The movie starts in the 1800's and goes all the way to something like 200,000 AD!!! As the time traveling inventor makes stops throughout time he sees how mankind changes. When he stops at year 200,000 AD, he notices humans have stopped caring about learning and advancing the species. He finds this troubling and later learns that another type of foreign being has had a profound influence over mankind. What is happening? Will he or should he alter the future and will he be able or want to make it back to his original time? This is an entertaining 60's Sci-Fi movie with amusing sets and effects. It also has subtext around society and the dangers of future technology and not learning from past as well as failing to advance mankind.

THE TIME MACHINE is a science fiction adventure which deals with time travel. The film was based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells. Illusions about something unknown have always been very popular.On January 5, 1900 four friends arrive for a dinner at the London home of their inventor friend, who arrives and begins to describe the strange experiences he has had since the group last met. At their earlier dinner on New Year's Eve, they have discussed about the fourth dimension as time travel. The host has showed them a small model of a time machine. After a brief demonstration, as proof of his claim about time travel, the device disappears. However, his friends remain unconvinced. The inventor bids his guests a good evening, then heads downstairs where his full-size time machine awaits. He sits in the device and moves a lever forward...The world is actually a horrible place to live. The story is based on conflicts, world wars and the threat of nuclear weapons. Serious topics have been presented in a rather frivolous way. However, an innovative technology of special effects, which implied time lapse will certainly be remembered. That technique has demonstrated a time travel in contrast with the main protagonist.Tempo is debatable. I would say that the film, in certain parts, is pretty boring. However photography and scenery are at a high level. Characterization is, unfortunately, very superficial, which is somewhat understandable, because everything revolves around one character.Rod Taylor as H. George Wells is a time traveler. He bears witness to wars, conflicts and apathy of the human species. His romance with the girl from the future (Yvette Mimieux) is the culmination of levity.This journey into the future has not given any valid conclusions.

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.I cannot say that I am terribly familiar with the original story. I am, however, somewhat familiar with the remake. Although that was not bad, you simply cannot beat the charm of this original.What I liked most was the progressive move forward in time, first by minutes, then years, and then many thousands of years. That was much more interesting than just jumping to the distant future and the Morlocks. The son who looks exactly like his father? Brilliant. And by setting it in Victorian England rather than 1960, the jump ahead could be accomplished with a true history... at least for the first fifty years.