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DVD The Time Machine - Limited Edition Collector's Set
After scoring popular hits with When Worlds Collide and The War of the Worlds, special-effects pioneer George Pal returned to the visionary fiction of H.G. Wells to produce and direct this science-fiction classic from 1960. Wells's imaginative tale of time travel was published in 1895 and the movie is set in approximately the same period with Rod Taylor as a scientist whose magnificent time machine allows him to leap backward and forward in the annals of history. His adventures take him far into the future, where a meek and ineffectual race known as the Eloi have been forced to hide from the brutally monstrous Morlocks. As Taylor tests his daring invention, Oscar-winning special effects show us what the scientist sees: a cavalcade of sights and sounds as he races through time at varying speeds, from lava flows of ancient earth to the rise and fall of a towering future metropolis.
The movie's charm lies in its Victorian setting and the awe and wonder that carries over from Wells's classic story. The pioneering spirit of the movie is still enthralling, but it gets a bit silly when Taylor turns into a stock hero, rescuing a beautiful blonde Eloi (Yvette Mimieux) and battling with the chubby green Morlocks whose light-bulb eyes blink out when they die. Although it's quaint when compared to the special-effects marvels of the digital age, the movie's still highly entertaining and filled with a timeless sense of wonder. --Jeff Shannon
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FINALLY! The Time Machine on DVD!
It's finally coming! Even with all the glitz and glam of today's sci-fi movies, some still stand the test of... TIME. Such is the case with The Time Machine! True there are a few things about the movie that date it, but it will forever remain as one of the best sc-fi stories we've ever known. That credit goes to H.G. Wells as much as to George Pal, for presenting this tale to us on the screen as well as on the written page. The Time Machine is certainly a worthy entry into the realm of DVD technology. It's a colorful romp through the eons on a fabulous Machine that, viewing on DVD, would be a virtual treat to the eyes and ears. Not to mention the nifty extras that come with it, like a sort of 'Behind the Scenes' look at the movie in a documentary "Time Machine: The Journey Back". And to me, it's always a little added treat to view the original theatrical trailers, especially as crisp and clean as the DVD technology allows. If you're a fan of Pal's wonderful films, a great companion DVD would be Arnold Leibovit's "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal", which is also now available on DVD. This documentary not only covers The Time Machine, but all of Pal's other marvelous works, including "War of the Worlds", "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao", "Conquest of Space", "Destination Moon", and many, many more. If you had a copy of this documentary on tape, then you're going to want to own it on DVD too! Why? Because Arnold has included almost two hours of extras on the DVD! It's almost like having a whole extra documentary all about George Pal! "The Time Machine" and "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal" go together like bread and butter, in my opinion. My hat's off to the DVD transfer of Time Machine, as well as to Arnold Leibovit, for the DVD transfer of Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal and all the extras he's added!
George Pal will be most remembered for The Time Machine
It was 1959 and I was 9 when I witnessed the now classic Time Machine by George Pal unfold on the movie screen. That was some memory for a kid - but from then on I was hooked on this movie and the works of George Pal. Who could forget that marvelous Victorian era of clocks and carriages of turn of the century London. That incredible Time Machine design by George Pal and Wah Chang. This machine really looked like it could do fantastic things! I was so impressed by the way Pal took us on his adapation of the H.G. Wells journey in ways that were so believable and heartfelt that over time seems to have out distanced the original source material. The wonderful commaderie between Filby (Alan Young) and The Time Traveller (Rod Taylor), that terrific little Time Machine miniature, the "Talking Rings" (voiced by Paul Frees), the mannequin clothes changing in the shop window, the time lapse stop motion animation photography, the beautiful Eloi Weena (Yvette Mimieux), the three books and those frightening cannibilistic Morlocks. And of course the inspired and magnificent Russell Garcia musical score - certainly one of the best ever written for a motion picture! Who could ever forget all it back in 1959 or even better now in 2000! Some 40 years after the original movie was released The Time Machine on DVD has stood the test of time and viewer interest has not abated one single iota. Even a now a new Dreamworks Warner Bros. remake is in production for a 2001 release by none other than Steven Spielberg (admitted to be inspired by George Pal in his formative years). But we must all remember it all started with a little Hungarian genious named George Pal. His films were big films with big ideas and authentic good stories grounded in real emotion, effects that enhanced the story not envelope it and his mesages were moving sociological what if studies - as The Time Machine so perfectly examples. Some of Pal's stories were fanciful - even far-fetched - but still believable, emotional. memorable and enigmatic. The hopeful optismism of Pal's message in The Time Machine that even at the ends of time man will endure is prevalent in many of his films. Pal should never be forgotten and The Time Machine is a wonderful way to remember him. Incidentally, to get a terrific overview of The Time Machine and George Pal - don't forget to get your hands on the new director's cut DVD of "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal" by director Arnold Leibovit (who by the way is Executive Producing the remake of The Time Machine with Dreamworks). Leibovit's love letter film tribute to George Pal contains a stable of stars like Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Gene Roddenberry, Ray Bradbury and countless others. A treat for anyone interested in "The Time Machine" and all of the George Pal films. We think the sequence of The Time Machine is one of the best done! The expanded edition has two hours of new material. Check it out.
Review for "The Time Machine"
The Time Machine had a great effect on me. I found it to be enjoyable and it had very fascinating theories throughout. What I liked most in the book was the interesting characters, H.G. Wells' style of writing, the parallel of Eloi and Morlocks to society now, how the book always kept my attention, and finally I liked how the narrator left us questioning the conclusion of the novel. First, I liked how interesting the characters were simply because that is a vital aspect to a good novel. I was impressed by the Time Traveller, and how he was determined to prove his machine to be a success. The characters whom attended his dinners always seemed a little skeptical of his ideas and theories. The Time Traveller explains his discovery of the fourth-dimension and the Psychologist interrupts stating,"You can move about in all directions of space, but you cannot move about in Time" (III.13.16). The second thing I liked about the novel was the authors' style of writing. Wells remained descriptive throughout the book. For a novel based on imagination and theories, I found it important that Wells had kept some reality in it. (Reality being the descriptive details in the novel.) With all these crazy ideas going on in the book, Wells had to keep our minds somewhat intact to what his visions were. The Time Traveller describes the Eloi's as being "very beautiful and graceful creatures, but indescribably frail. His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive-that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much"(III.34.33.) Another aspect of the novel I enjoyed, was the parallel of the Eloi and Morlocks to society now. We begin to understand that the Eloi and Morlocks are humans after great evolution and time. It amazed me to see how society completely divided itself between graceful creatures and creatures of the underworld. The fourth thing I liked was how the book kept my attention the whole way through. I constantly wanted to know what was going to happen next or how the Time Traveller was going to escape the Morlocks and get back to his machine. Finally, I really enjoyed how the narrator concludes the Time Travellers disappearance. The narrator says,"The Time Traveller vanished three years ago. And, as everybody knows now, he has never returned"(XII.124.18). I liked this because it made you question whether the Time Traveller had vanished into the future forever, whether he had always been from a past time and had gone back, or what was to come of him? So, as it began with one mans' imagination, it ends with your own.
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