Time Machine

Pros: very clever story, exciting elements, time travel, special effects great for 1960
Cons: some weird color use

1960 brought us the first, and some consider the only, great film adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic, The Time Machine. Back when special effects were still wrapped up in a stage of laughable presentations, this film showed that if you work on ...

Pros: very entertaining; special effects; Rod Taylor; Alan Young
Cons: if you don't like some campiness, you'll hate this!

That question is only one of many intriguing philosophical amusements we’re left with after the time-traveling experience of this 1960 cult classic of science fiction thrillers, the George Pal-directed The Time Machine. If you’ve enjoyed another...

Pros: Best ever Sci-Fi flik!
Cons: I do not personally own the Time Machine prop. *whine*

H.G. Wells was a friggen genius, a true visionary. I shouldn't have to explain why, he just was! If you don't understand why, then go read one of his books. One of his many works was The Time Machine. Now, many books do not translate well to the...

Pros: Great production design and effects, story, acting, DVD Extras...PRIMO!
Cons: Only those associated with other 40-year old movies.

Several years ago, I was doing the mission thing for the LDS Church. Really. I was in Germany for two years, preaching my beliefs to the unbelieving Teutons, occasionally getting rocks thrown at me and once getting punched in the stomach and landing on...

Pros: Story and Rod Taylor; Special effects
Cons: Yvette Mimieux; film editing

The Time Machine (1960)

Nineteen hundred and sixty is eons ago when you think in terms of science fiction and special effects. I first saw The Time Machine as a child and was impressed and considered it one of my very favorite films,...

Pros: Magical, charming, and true sense of the unknown.
Cons: None in my mind.

The Wellsian tale is transferred to the film screen and stars Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Whit Bissell and Doris Lloyd.

Wells' "science romance" story takes a few twists and turns along the...

Pros: Rod Taylor, 5.1 Sound, DVD Extras!
Cons: Yvette Mimieux, shoddy matte work.

This DVD is a great addition to your Sci-Fi Classic collection. It was a lot of fun and a big hit when it was first released in 1960. It is still enjoyable, though it has paled somewhat in comparison with later versions and hybrids.

The...

Pros: Perhaps prescient.
Cons: Dated.

I remember first watching The Time Machine (1960) when I was quite young. I was entranced by the colorful effects, the Victorian ornateness and magic of the sled-like machine itself, and the idea of time travel. Since that time, more years...

Pros: Metrocolor, Yvette Mimieux's shoes (oops), the Morlocks
Cons: VERY slow start, Rod Taylor (there, I've said it), overall tone

If you need to, say, alphabetize your canned goods, or balance your checkbook, the first twenty minutes of the Time Machine is a good time to do it. The first twenty minutes of labored, wheezing, creaky, agonizingly slow conversation can be summarized...

Pros: Excellent sci-fi
Cons: no cons for it

Could this have been a disguise of what our government was coming to? Did H. G. Wells forsee the world government using its powers to breed and control? The Time Machine with Rod Taylor is the epitomy of a classic sci-fi film made for the whole family...

Pros: Time travel
Cons: ?????

This is a great film. Rod Taylor plays HG WELLS in this adaptation of the classic novel, THE TIME MACHINE. Rod Taylor uses the machine to propel himself past three world wars and into the distant future were mankind has become lazy and has become wards...

Pros: Original classic, a winner.
Cons: A wonderful movie

"The Time Machine" was almost completely believable. Now and then. It is a classic sci-fi fantasy type movie where the imagination takes over.
Rod Taylor does a fine job taking us into another time and showing us the somewhat dismal...

Pros: excellent acting, plot, a good ride for the imagination
Cons: none

This is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. I went to see it because the previews looked really interesting - like your typical time traveler trying to change history for personal reasons. Never do you expect what the movie has in store for...