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The Time Machine
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The Time Machine is a 2002 science fiction adventure action film, directed by Simon Wells, starring Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba and Jeremy Irons.
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60 of 171 · most liked firstLegendary Hungarian-American filmmaker George Pal (1908-1980) was born 117 years ago today. He produced Destination Moon (1950), When Worlds Collide (1951), Conquest of Space (1955) and The War of the Worlds (1953). And he directed The Time Machine (1960):
neutral · AI labelView post →Did I dress up as my main character and film a video of me reading from my book in the bathtub that inspired the Time Machine in the story? Yes, yes I did. Happy World Book Day. #kidlituk
neutral · AI labelView post →For many of us, it was the first big sci-fi/fantasy movie on tv; the 1960 version of HG Wells' The Time Machine stands up well today. The special effects are charming and ingenious, and the anti-war warning still has genuine bite in our far-off future of 2025. 4/5 film-authority.com/2025/12/14/t...
positive · AI labelView post →Last 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 →Holy shit the 2002 film version of The Time Machine pulled this too (‘my wife died/wahhh’) JUST LET SCIENTISTS THINK SCIENCE IS NEAT BUT AT WHAT COST
negative · 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 →Just accidentally learned that Simon Wells - director of Fievel Goes West, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Tale, and Balto - directed one live action film, that (mostly forgotten?) 2002 version of The Time Machine with Guy Pearce, because he IS IN FACT the great-grandson of HG Wells lol whattttttt
neutral · 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 →George Pal (with scenes from his film "The Time Machine") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Guy Pearce was quoted recently as being none-too-thrilled with his performance in the 2002 version of HG Wells' The Time Machine, but it's not as bad as remembered. With grandson Simon Wells ringing the changes, this version features additional Samantha Mumba. 3/5 film-authority.com/2025/04/20/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m always ready to yell about THE TIME MACHINE (2002), even though tone-wise it’s basically two unrelated movies sewn together
neutral · AI labelView post →#MayMovieChallenge #Moviesky 5/4 Volcanic eruption In A Movie 1960 movie "The Time Machine" wasn't exactly about volcanoes but it had a scene that really impressed me as a kid it's not something that can be expressed with only one screenshot, so i put it in GIF
neutral · AI labelView post →The colors of the BACK TO THE FUTURE DeLorean’s display match the colors of the display in THE TIME MACHINE (1960) #bttf #movies #film #scifi
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.
negative · AI labelView post →The Time Machine (2002) is one that stuck with me. I liked the movie first, so I got the book, and really didn’t enjoy it lol. But that was half my life ago so maybe I’d feel different today 😅
positive · 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 →In memory of the handsome Rod Taylor, unsung Australian classic film, stage, and television actor, on his 96th birthday. Rightly popular for films including THE BIRDS, SUNDAY IN NEW YORK, THE TIME MACHINE, SEPARATE TABLES, YOUNG CASSIDY, GIANT, WORLD WITHOUT END, and INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Who else is old enough to remember the 1960 movie The Time Machine? I feel like we're the Elois, doing battle with the Morlocks 👇:
neutral · AI labelView post →#scifisky #filmsky #scifi #movies #cinema #sciencefiction 🎬 📽️ Yvette Mimieux (1942-2022) ...appeared in George Pal's film version of "The Time Machine" (1960), and co-starred in the first PG-rated Disney film "The Black Hole" (1979).
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 →Did y’all notice in Gremlins the dad at the inventors conference with the Time Machine in the background disappearing. I swear I’ve seen this film 100 times and never noticed😂
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 →1) I am not high, I am just on week three of being bedridden with sickness and I need your help with an incredibly specific problem. So, in 2002 there was this movie, The Time Machine. (At least I THINK it was this movie? I only saw it once in theaters)
neutral · AI labelView post →#WriteStuff Q1: What would happen if you dropped your characters into another story or genre? Let’s start with science fiction. The Time Machine, Star Trek, Star Wars – pick a book, movie, TV show and tell us about your character in a completely different world.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Time Machine, a movie where Guy Pearce is cruised by a guy in an unreliable steam car.
neutral · AI labelView post →"If that machine can do what you say it can do, destroy it, George! Destroy it before it destroys you!" #WyrdWednesday #fantasy #film The Time Machine, 1960 Dir. George Pal
neutral · 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 →The Time Machine didn’t imprint on me… Morlocks? Eloi? But Journey sure did. Heaven bless you and your works, WABC 4:30 Movie.
negative · AI labelView post →I was at the Seattle Worldcon blog again, talking about the 1960 movie The Time Machine and its proto-Steampunk visuals: seattlein2025.org/2024/12/06/f...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched THE TIME MACHINE, starring Rod Taylor & Yvette Mimieux. Written & directed by George Pal. This is a fabulous adventure film & the time travelling scenes are great fun. Lovely stuff! #TimeTravel (Frustratingly light, however, on technical detail for actually building a time machine.)
positive · 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 →☢️#43. The Time Machine, 1960. Quaint by modern standards, but an Oscar award winning, watershed FX film for the time. Based on #HGWells book of the same, a spirited and influential film well worth a watch for any fan of classic #scifi. #steampunk #TheTimeMachine 4/5 ☢️
positive · AI labelView post →The Time Machine is a great film - and it's got such a wonderful time machine too. #TimeTravel
positive · AI labelView post →Aside from being a comic book retelling of "The Time Machine" (1960), the Dell Comic adaptation contained stills from the movie and an article penned by George Pal. #scifi #sciencefiction #horror #comicbook #movies #1960s
neutral · AI labelView post →THe look reminds me of the Morlocks from the 1960 movie The Time Machine. There are moral resemblances, as well.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you see this, quote this post with a time travel movie that's not BACK TO THE FUTURE 🎥 I love the classic The Time Machine from 1960. #Filmsky #Movies
positive · AI labelView post →OMG Voyagers! How about this classic? The Time Machine from the 1979 movie Time After Time.
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
negative · 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 →Remember the Time Machine they built in the 1997 movie, Contact (turns 30 next year)……found it down at the bottom of the Louisiana/Texas map.
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!
negative · AI labelView post →So glad that Netflix, for some godforsaken reason, ressurected The Time Machine (2002). It gives me a reason to bring up this Roger Ebert gem that starts: “The Time Machine” is a witless recycling of the H.G. Wells story from 1895, with the absurdity intact but the wonderment missing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sloan De Forest and Justin Humphreys talk George Pal’s 1960 THE TIME MACHINE, 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival #TCMFF Full video here: youtu.be/hYpeNxSi_S8?si…
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 →The Time Machine on the big screen!! TCM Classic Film Festival #TCMFF
neutral · AI labelView post →'The Time Machine' (1960) The prop used in the film started off as a barbers chair (!) For lots more information on the Machine - "The Time Machine Project" by Don & Mary Coleman www.colemanzone.com/Time_Machine... (Actor Rod Taylor, sci-fi author Ray Bradbury, & tv's "The Big Bang Theory")
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally, the best of the lot, the Time Machine from the original BTTF movie
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
neutral · AI labelView post →That it's the right edition of The Time Machine for the TV Movie is *insane* effort.
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