The Time Machine | Rod Taylor, Alan Young

The Time Machine | Rod Taylor, Alan Young | ANOTHER CLASSIC BETTER THAN THE NEW VERSION

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The Time Machine

	The Time Machine Rod Taylor, Alan Young Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 2000 average customer review:based on 210 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

TIME MACHINE OF THE GODS

This is the book Sylvester McCoy is reading as 1996's DOCTOR WHO---THE MOVIE begins. This is just before he regenerates into Paul McGann and just before Eric Roberts gives what was (up to that time) his greatest performance on film as "The Master."

(In case you haven't noticed I am trying to work a mention of DOCTOR WHO into almost every review I write---just KIDDING).

ANYWAY---yup that's the devastatingly sexy Rod Taylor as "George" (who seems to be intended as a film portrayal of author Herbert GEORGE Wells---but if he IS then he couldn't have written the book on which the movie is based because the second time he goes...er...BACK to the future---he doesn't return. He TELLS the story to his friends (including Alan "A Horse is a Horse of Course of Course" Young---but he doesn't WRITE it---thereby creating a problem in temporal logic only someone from Gallifrey---or possibly someone from a small planet in orbit around Betelgeuse---instead of Guildford---in Surrey---as they had previously CLAIMED---could POSSIBLY solve---anyway Rod's character doesn't actually HAVE a name in the book---he's just "The Time Traveller".

Yvette Mimieux (whom I could never HELP calling Yvette Meow-Meow) is on hand looking pretty devastatingly sexy herself as Weena---and the Morlocks are suitably scary.

The Time Machine itself (which makes a guest appearance in Time After Time when Jack the Ripper (played by that wonderful character actor David Warner) uses it to escape to 20th Century San Francisco (where else?) is beautifully designed and, looking at it, you believe it just might WORK.

I was 10 when this movie hit the theaters. I loved it then and I love it now and I recommend it to you. In this day of digital magic the special effects hold up surprisingly well---but more important is the fact that there is a GOOD story here. And without a good story you don't have a movie---as some of these CGI people are, at last, beginning to learn.

Oh and check out Rod Taylor again in the Hitchcock classic The Birds (Collector's Edition) and look for Yvette Mimieux in The Black Hole

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ANOTHER CLASSIC BETTER THAN THE NEW VERSION

Another classic which was re-made in an extremely disappointing attempt.
The original has not and probably will never be surpassed. This is one of the best Sci-Fi movies of its time. Again, great special effects for the time period. And again, while it can't compare to the technology of today, its much more raw emotion, feeling and truth. Newer versions tend to be changed for the time in which it is being released. It just discredits the original. I would love to see a classic like this remade almost exactly the way the original was done but with the special effects of today.

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The Time Machine (Original)

The movie is still as great as when it first came out years ago. The service was quick.

The Time machine

I have been searching for this very version of this title for quite a long time. I owe the newer version of this film & I find it to be a very Poor remake of a very great Classic movie.

One of the best

This was one of the scariest movies I had seen up until it came out in the 1960s as a child terrified that the A-bomb was going to drop any time I heard a fire alarm. When the Time Traveler gets to 1964 and the air raid sirens are going off, that was it for me. The movie was turned off! I didn't see it in its entirety until several years later and I outgrew (mostly) that fear. I even got a copy of the book and read (most all of) it, for it, too, is a chilling tale of "what if." I happened to watch the 2002 remake last night and it was OK, and entertaining. It definitely has flashier special effects. (How is it that Guy Pearce can outrun those CGI speed-induced Morlocks?) Still, this one with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux is the granddaddy. It won't disappoint.

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