The Time Machine

It is Christmas Day when your are about to eat as much as you can, be nice to your family who you haven’t seen for a long time (there is a reason for that) so when I saw The Time Machine starting on one of the channel I was happily focused on the TV and blocked my surrounding out.  Not worrying about my family going crazy about the turkey and the roast potato around me. 

It is 1960 when the film was made. Let’s do the math, 50 years ago! Ben-Hur is winning its 11 Oscars which Titanic  38 years later can only beat. Since then the world population is doubled and loads of other interesting things happened according to Wikipedia if you want to read some more....here!

I’m not one of those people who read the novel the film was based on by H. G. Wells, published in 1895  but with the limited information a film can tell compare to a book its based on I still found it very enjoyable and entertaining.

Great acting from Rob Taylor including all the facial impressions a film at that time required. Producer-director George Pal who we can proudly call the granddaddy of science-fiction films did a great job creating the impressive sets and special effects. I have to be honest here I wasn’t blown away by the beauty of Yvette Mimieux. When it comes to female character I have to choose the props in the shop window with the different outfits on her as the years are going by.

I have read a couple of reviews where there were some arguments about the low quality of the special effects or the characters are cardboard cutouts and the acting is being wooden, English to be the language spoken in 800,000 A.D and having two casts, Sweden looking suburban teenagers with no brain and stuffed animals with battery-powered eyes. Let’s just say there re some truth in those but for me The Time Machine is a great film to watch. One of those Sci-Fi films that's made just right to be watched over and over again and never gets old just do the math if you want to compare it to Avatar.

By glued to the TV for an hour and a half I wasn’t only the pleasant Chrimtas guest who doesn’t interfere but luckily for me for that period of time I was taken to a different time away from the turkey madness!