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The Time Machine
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127 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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The Time Machine is a 1960 thriller adventure fantasy film, directed by George Pal, starring Rod Taylor, Alan Young and Yvette Mimieux.
- 123 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy
- posts span Oct 12, 2023 to Nov 2, 2026
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60 of 127 · most liked firstLast night I watched The Time Machine (1960) because a clip went viral of the Eloi not being able to read, and giving up on books, and make you think, that's us now. Anyway, I quite enjoyed it. Can some more film clips go viral please so I know what to watch tonight?
positive · AI labelView post →last night was a movie! can't believe Bashley AND Barley get to be real after Ashley entered the Time Machine and doubled herself after evicting everyone!! congrats on your $875,000 queen! 🥰 #bbsky
neutral · AI labelView post →I forgot to post on Film Score Day😔 I was raised on soundtracks. My dad has an extensive collection spanning decades. They influenced my tastes SO MUCH. Folks, check out film scores. There's more to life than Hans Zimmer. Go forth. The Time Machine (2002, Klaus Badelt) is great.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m sure it’s just me but I find the extremely hyperbolic headlines at Polygon to be incredibly off putting. Calling Guy Pearce’s “The Time Machine” the most divisive time travel movie of the 20th century is cuckoo banana pants.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave film for each year of the 1960s: 60: The Time Machine 61: Blast if Silence 62: Cape Fear 63: The Haunted Palace 64: Dr. Strangelove 65: Dr. Terror's House of Horror 66: The Sword of Doom 67: Point Blank 68: Targets 69: The Wild Bunch
neutral · AI labelView post →By that logic, 2002's The Time Machine is a Christmas movie, averaging approximately 6,619,019 Christmases per minute over its 96 minute runtime.
neutral · AI labelView post →you ever remember a movie out of nowhere that was so shit that you feel like it wasn’t real? that’s what The Time Machine is for me
negative · AI labelView post →Mr. Peabody & Sherman 2014 DREAMWORKS computer animated film based on the original cartoon shorts. New main character named Penny. Sherman intending to impress Penny takes the Time Machine without permission, accidentally rips a hole in spacetime until rescued by Mr. Peabody #Saturdaymorningcartoons
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney History 1/11/1930 Actor Rod Taylor, the voice of Pongo (the patriarch of the pups) in Disney's 1961 film 101 Dalmatians, is born. (You may know Taylor from such classic films as The Birds and The Time Machine.) He even appeared in a 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone.
neutral · AI labelView post →Weird career ... couple of hits, a big budget movie ("The Time Machine" in 2002) then just seemed to disappear #TOTP
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved that movie when I was a kid watching the mannequin clothes change as the Time Machine traveled
positive · AI labelView post →Phyllida Law (The Winter Guest; Much Ado About Nothing...) has reportedly died & will be added to my 2026 Geeky Goodbyes (The Time Machine; The Sarah Jane Adventures; Mee-Shee: The Water Giant...) later www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
neutral · AI labelView post →I wrote a book report on the Time Machine based on watching the movie instead of reading the book and it did not go well
neutral · AI labelView post →I find it funny that Simon Wells's reasoning for why he should direct "The Time Machine" was "Do you know who my great-grandfather is?" letterboxd.com/mrcoat/film/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I recall in the very derided The Time Machine film from 2002, the Moon in 2037 has got destroyed by lunar colonists, which wrecks the Earth. It feels like we're heading to that timeline!
neutral · AI labelView post →Sci fi writer H.G. Wells though, was not a fan. Despite his own The Time Machine influencing the writing of the movie, Wells called it the "silliest film [I’ve ever seen] with a sort of malignant stupidity. Metropolis… is already… a third of a century out of date." 32/34
neutral · AI labelView post →2: BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985). It’s the best Time Travel movie ever made, and I will fight you if you say any differently. Come at me, THE TIME MACHINE! Come get some, TIME AFTER TIME! Get outta here, TIME BANDITS! BTTF is the best, and you all know it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's a 1960 reprint of the classic,1895, H.G. Wells book,'The Time Machine.' The original 1957 Berkley edition was a companion to the MGM movie,starring Rod Taylor & Yvette Mimieux. Some of the 802,701 A.D. creatures in the novel are starting to look too familiar. #TheTimeMachine #HGWells #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →Slightly off-topic, but you've unlocked a memory of a Craig Kilborn "Late Late Show" joke from the Monday after the movie came out: "One of the saddest scenes in the movie is when they travel to two weeks from now and find copies of 'The Time Machine' at Blockbuster."
neutral · AI labelView post →This idea led me to Samantha Mumba ("Gotta Tell You", "Baby Come Over"), who I then remembered for her short-lived acting career. Her biggest movie was likely THE TIME MACHINE (2002) with Guy Pearce, but I recall watching this silly zombie comedy a few times back in the day.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the granddaddy of them all, George Pal's #TheTimeMachine - a film so influential, it's supplanted the novel in the popular imagination. When you mention The Time Machine, most people will be thinking of this; that it's about nuclear war, and the hero is HG Wells, who was a fit Aussie.
positive · AI labelView post →we finished it last night, and man. wacky how Lupin the Third Part 4's overarching plot is they made Replicant Leonardo DaVinci who tries to mind control specifically all italians using the time machine from The Time Machine (1960 film) mixed with a skating rink DJ stand that deploys 5G towers.
neutral · AI labelView post →The three-oval design would later find its way onto the controls of The Time Machine in Pal’s later film adaptation. #Svengoolie
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry but I thought it was a very silly movie. Cruise sucked. Fanning screeched a bunch. The Martians reminded me of pool vacuums. The 1953 version was better by far. Same goes with The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Time Machine. Some movies severely sucked as remakes.
negative · AI labelView post →I love this film but … Ugh #FridayThrillerClub #TheTimeMachine
positive · AI labelView post →It wasn’t a movie per se. I thought it was when I was a kid, though. It’s an episode of “Friday the 13th: The Series” called “The Executioner”. I was like maybe 6 or 7 at the time. It starts with this guy in prison you see them take him to the electric chair and attempt to execute him. They botch it and the warden or whoever pretty much goes “oops, well by law we did technically carry out your sentence so you’re a free man now” He then goes on to become a dentist and uses a “cursed…
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched 'The Time Machine' as a kid in '64 and the morlocks scared the hell out of me. And the nuclear war that destroys everything takes place in the movie in 1966 so my little mind feared we only had 2 years left. Made me a very nervous child.
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember loving the 1960 version of The Time Machine when I was a kid (in the 80s, I'm not that old!) but rewatching it today, I can't help but pick many holes in the plot. I guess it was better when I had less understanding and could suspend my disbelief. It is still a classic though
neutral · AI labelView post →The Thunder Road from the 1985 film Explorers? The drone ship from Flight of the Navigator? The titular machine from the 1960 film The Time Machine? No GIFs? Seriously???
neutral · AI labelView post →Has there been a bigger nepo baby swing in film history than the great-grandson of H.G. Wells directing the film adaptation of THE TIME MACHINE? (Which, as we all know, was a flawless movie with no flaws.)
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m watching the 1960 movie The Time Machine directed by George Pal. It’s my first time (pun not intended but embraced) and along the way I hear a familiar piano tinkling that makes me think of Deloreans traveling 88mph. What a cool homage I didn’t even know was a thing! 🎶😃 youtu.be/1KDGsZPCqZ0?...
positive · AI labelView post →Post your favourite film from the year you turned 18 The Time Machine (2002)
neutral · AI labelView post →I know it's probably sacrilege to cite but the surface of the Earth being decimated by mankind's hubris in attempting to develop the moon is literally a minor plot device in the 2002 film "adaptation" of The Time Machine.
neutral · AI labelView post →[GALLERY UPDATE] Benedict Cumberbatch Receives The Time Machine Award At The Sitges Film Festival benedict-cumberbatch.com/photos/thumb...
neutral · AI labelView post →Yvette Mimieux. An American film and television actress who was a major star of the 1960s and 1970s. Playing “Weena” in The Time Machine (1960) was her breakout role.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rod Taylor was one of my first favorite movie stars almost solely because they played his flicks on weekend TV on my local stations. This is why I have THE TIME MACHINE on Blu ray
positive · AI labelView post →Sometimes it takes a child to point out your educational bias. 12 yr old son - “so basically dad, from your description, the future is going to be like the Time Machine film. We have just elected the first Morlocks and we are all going to be eaten “ Me - “ah, let’s review what I said” 😂😂😂
neutral · AI labelView post →The director of The Time Machine (2002) was Simon Wells. He is the great-grandson of H.G Wells, author of the 1895 novel. #MovieFactoftheDay #TheTimeMachine
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of a Big Bang Theory episode where they bought a replica of the Time Machine from the movie of HGWells story and it arrived life sized.
neutral · AI labelView post →I enjoyed the 2024 movie, “Here“ we saw last night. Since I was a kid I’ve imagined what it would be like to stand at a certain place at home & wind time backwards & forwards into the far reaches of each to see how that space would change. Both “The Time Machine” movies scratched that itch as well.
positive · AI labelView post →When you said "reading physical books", it reminded me of this scene in "The Time Machine". I remember feeling so saddened...one of my earliest memories of a movie making me feel a sense of dread for the future. The book part starts at about 1:30. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Zf...
neutral · AI labelView post →Things I was frightened of as a child, The warlocks in the Time Machine film The Onedin Line Quicksand A public info film about kids throwing bricks at trains. Dave Hill from Slade.
neutral · AI labelView post →Akin to the two human races in the Time Machine: Eloi and Morlocks. From movie of same name CHUD = Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. So yes, extremely racist. And synonymous with White Supremacist. Ditler is a chud is racist but bc it is legal to speak a fact he can’t sue me.
neutral · AI labelView post →Phyllida Law (94) TV, Stage and Film acress many roles including Films The Time Machine: Mrs Watchit Housekeeper Nanny McPhee: Mrs Patridge Beatrix Potter: Mrs Wayne TV Sarah Jane Adventures: Bea Nelson Stanley Midsomer Murders: Felicity Dinsdale and Mary Bingham Many roles
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember that scene in the movie The Time Machine, when, in the future, a woman is drowning in the river, and no one bothers to even try to save her? Feels like we are kind of there. Folks not interested in meeting their neighbors, billionaires unconcerned with others, etc. Pretty depressing. 
neutral · AI labelView post →Take a movie title, add a colon and another movie's title to make it SOUND like a sequel to the first movie! The Time Machine: The Eras Tour
neutral · AI labelView post →THE TIME MACHINE (1960) George Pal adapts this Wells classic A Cold War parable? Oscar-winning VFX Morlocks need more sun for their blue skin A perfect film for a lazy Saturday afternoon 1 Sight & Sound vote, Critic Adam Scovell UK
neutral · AI labelView post →Hungarian filmmaker/animator George Pal produced this film, 7 years later he directed an adaptation of another HG Wells sci-fi classic THE TIME MACHINE #Svengoolie #WarOfTheWorlds
neutral · AI labelView post →The uniforms were reused in The Time Machine [another great film - the shop window to show time passing].
neutral · AI labelView post →It was great fun reading The Time Machine for the first time - especially since I've loved the Rod Taylor film version for so long: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bq1...
positive · AI labelView post →Delighted to be welcomed back to May the 4th Sci-fi Film Festival, this time for the screenings of ‘I Made The Time Machine’ and ‘Wholigans.’
neutral · AI labelView post →Jump into the fantastical world of time travel with THE TIME MACHINE (1960), followed by the documentary THE FANTASY FILM WORLDS OF GEORGE PAL on April 19th at 3PM! 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/the-t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Great Horror Movie Posters, day 466. #GreatHorrorMoviePosters #MoviePosters #TheTimeMachine
neutral · AI labelView post →Join me and my returning guest, @danielspalmtree.bsky.social, as we dive into another sci fi filled with classism, existential crisis, and silly early 2000 film tropes (you bet they are back) in The Time Machine written by H.G. Wells. didyoureadthebookpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-56... #timemachine
neutral · AI labelView post →So The Time Machine was written in Sevenoaks! If I had a time machine I'd go back to 1894 and tell HG to secure the film rights. But I guess he'd already done that having a time machine. 🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →Years ago a friend and I were reviewing the Time Machine (2002) on my podcast and he mentioned child choirs in movie scores :V One of my fave quirks is dueling films. The Cat Concerto vs Rhapsody Rabbit, Antz vs A Bug’s Life, Deep Impact vs Armageddon, Oblivion vs After Earth…
neutral · AI labelView post →You cannot shame these people! No matter how hard one tries that will never, ever, change! This DNA is too deeply embedded into every molecule of their body! Who remembers the Morlocks in classic movie The Time Machine? I rest my case! 🙋🏾♀️
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie was originally less comedic when Eric Stolz was attached to it, so maybe he wasn’t miscast so much as the movie evolved away from him. Also, the Time Machine ran on Coca Cola.
neutral · AI labelView post →Big business, profit and opportunities for connected politicans are only concern of #UCP. Ever watched the 1960 movie The Time Machine based on H.G.Wells book? Alberta's are the Eloi and UCP & friends are #Morlocks. #VoteNoTo9 #VoteRemain #Canada.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Zoe Kazan's adaptation of John Steinbeck's East of Eden, filmed by her grandfather Elia in 1955” .. I haven’t seen a film lineage like that since H.G. Wells‘ great-grandson gifted us with a new adaptation of The Time Machine in 2002
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