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Summary: CLASSIC
Review: ONE OF THE BEST SCI-FI EVER,A MASTER PIECE BEFORE ITS TIME ARE SOME OF THE WORDS THAT CAN BE USED TO DESCRIBE THE MOVIE,BUT ONE MUST SEE THE MOVIE TO FEEL WHAT THOSE WORDS MEANS. THE THRILL OF VISUALIZING AN HG WELLS SAGA IN COLOR AND LIVING THE STORY IS ABSOLUTLY THE MOST AMAZING FELLING A PERSON CAN HAVE NEXT TO ACTUALLY "BEING THERE" (ANOTHER GREAT MOVIE). THE BEHIND THE SCENES COMMENTARY WAS JUST AS EXCITING AS THE MOVIE. THE STAR ACTOR RENEWED THE INTEREST OF THE VIEWER WITH THE HISTORY OF MAKING THE MOVIE AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PROPS AND STARS OF THE MOVIE. FOR THOSE WHO LIKED TO DREAM OF TIME TRAVEL, THIS IS YOUR MOVIE. IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES.
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Summary: A Classic that has held up well over time!
Review: I used to watch this movie on ABC afternoon theater after school in the '70s. I always felt it was the best time travel movie. Having seen more recent and modern time travel movies I must admit that this one is still the best. The extras on the DVD are insightful and interesting and the movie itself has never looked better. Any Sci-Fi fan or HG Wells fan will love this movie.
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Summary: My fave flick as a child!
Review: Sure, the flick is 41 years old and the story even older but George Pal outdid himself here! The morlocks were a bit fictitious looking but hey, what do you want for 1960? Time travel at its best! (Hmm...where's the Back To The Future trilogy on DVD?). Rod Taylor & Yvette Mimieux star here!
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Summary: Another George Pal Classic!
Review: I saw this movie in 1960 at a drive-in, and it so impressed me that I stayed to see it again! (You could do that in those days!) I've also read the H. G. Wells story it's based on, and the movie does it justice. This is one of George Pal's best! The cast is great, the special effects are tops, and the cinematography is beautifully done! And this DVD is a worthy addition to anyone's collection. The movie is in widescreen format, the image quality is very good, and the special features--cast & crew notes, awards, theatrical trailer--includes the documentary Time Machine: The Journey Back, a fascinating look behind the scenes which first aired on PBS several years ago. If you missed it then (as I did!) you can see it here.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: H.G. Wells was the father of literature involving the future - what may happen, who will rule, what will life be like. I enjoyed The Time Machine, but not in ways that I would usually prefer a science fiction thriller. The film gets you thinking. Not about monsters and murder, not about blood and guts. But about the world's fate. The simplicity of the film is wonderful; The beauty of the time machine itself. However, complex ideas are involved. The Morlocks become rulers in the future. Their cannibalistic ways rule the simple blonde haired, blue eyed people. I don't know how Mr. Well's thinks of this stuff. Before viewing, I didn't know that the movie revolved around this plot. I myself would have enjoyed a trip into the past and the future, but how can one put that much greatness into one single video? Any way, I loved the movie and I now plan on watching other old, sci fi movies like The Mysterious Island, The Forbidden Planet, and The War of the Worlds.
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: I used to watch The Time Machine in black and white TV when I was little child. I did not understand what they said because of my deafness. Now I just loved it in color and even closed-captioned in an excellent condition. I just prefer to get the closed-captioned video tapes so we could enjoy to watch them.
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Summary: Childhood returns w/o the Time Machine!
Review: Well, I think that this was probably the only movie I ever watched as a junior high and high school student. At least it seemed this way. And I was addicted to the book--reading it in the bathtub, etc. But that is a different review!My only copy was a static-ladened VCR tape I got off of the local UHF. It was absolutely stunning to see the film in a clear letter-boy, plus to see the missing scenes that were cut out due to time constraints. Wonderful! Yes the effects are cheesy, and WWIII in 1966 is dated, but still . . . give it a break. "1984" was off, but we still read the book! This DVD has the complete film, and it is a good transfer, except for one or two scenes which seem a little fuzzy. The sound is tops! The great bonus was the "Making of . . ." This segment is a behind the scenes look at the making of the movie, with a special segment! Rod Taylor (George) and Alan Young (Filby) filmed an addendum to the film, and it is an almost perfect continuation and conclusion to the film! This was the first DVD I ever owned. I love it! Just the thought of traveling thorough time appeals to me. that is probably why I am a historian!
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Summary: This Was Vicarious Fantasy Like No Other Film of its Kind.
Review: My dear, dear friend, "time-lapse photography," introduced itself to me in "The Time Machine," and I was forever changed. It showed me worlds I had not seen, at least, not in a fantastical sense. As a boy in the Seventies, I was not able to see this film in the theater, but the impact it made on me was equal to a nuclear explosion. The giddy feeling of following the intrepid time traveller through the ages was like climbing Everest for the first time, or stepping foot on the Moon. That may be hyperbole, but the thrill of seeing a lit candle melt quickly down to the candlestick in seconds was palpable. Electric. Captivating. I absorbed every image, every sound, and I was there with Rod Taylor every step of the way. It was an exhilerating ride, and it's one I highly recommend that you take. I hope that the ride is as thrilling for you as it was for me.
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Summary: TIMEless Sci-fi Classic...
Review: "YOU'LL ORBIT into the FANTASTIC WORLD of the FUTURE!" This was the oriflamme that emblazoned posters promoting George Pal's masterful adaptation of H.G. Wells' science fiction epic. Rod Taylor does a superb job in the role of Wells himself, the adventurer-scientist who conquers the Fourth Dimension. Alan Young is affecting as his best friend Filby. Yvette Mimieux is enchanting as the guileless child-woman, Weena. The TIME MACHINE itself though not quite a star...like Star Trek's Enterprise...exudes a physical presence of beauty, beckoning danger and excitement. The film's centerpiece is the wonderous journey into TIME with its panoply of drama and special effects. "It was intoxicating!" proclaims Taylor as the awed scientist watches Day change into Night...( like the flapping of a great, golden Wing)...Summer fall into Winter and Spring renewed; and a dazzling myriad of flowers and trees spurt from seedlings to fruition in sparkling seconds... This seminal display of FX pyrotechnics won Pal an Oscar for special effects, and is justly reputed as one of cinema Sci-fi's matchless moments (along with Disney's work in Forbidden Planet and Kubrick's 2001). The film adaptaion of Wells' "socialist-conflict" fable has the hero, instead, witness a violent anti-panorama of War which ends with atomic holocaust. And the end of civilization. In the far future, the descendants of Man have branched into two races: the child-like, and fecklessly childish Eloi; and the monstrously savage Morlocks. Nevermind that Morlocks are a bit goofy looking...for once, FX falter. Their single-minded modus vivendi, breeding Eloi like cattle for food (and summoning them to slaughter with the eerie wail of an "archectypal" Air Raid siren) is singularly menacing. They are...what we still call...THE BOGEYMEN. This is a marvelous film. When viewers remember it was made 40 years ago, the film...like THE TIME TRAVELER'S journey...becomes astonishing. George Pal does more than justice to H.G. Wells vision of Time-travel as the final frontier. THE TIME MACHINE is cinema mythology, a TIME-less sci-fi classic.
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Summary: Q: I have a wonderful film, with great extras, yet...
Review: ...I have no image nor sound. What am I? A: A defective DVD. WB needs to get their freakin' act together and release better cases for their DVDs and insure quality in all releases. This disc tried to load for a while and stopped at 'No Play'. What fun!
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