The Time Machine

The Time Machine

  • Director: Simon Wells
  • Writer: H.G. Wells,David Duncan,John Logan
  • Countries of origin: United States, United Arab Emirates
  • Language: English
  • Release date: March 8, 2002
  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: La Máquina del Tiempo
  • "The Time Machine" is an action science fiction film directed by Simon Wells and starring Guy Pearce , Samantha Muba , Jeremy John Irons and Orlando Jones . It was released in the United States on March 4, 2002.
    The film is adapted from the science fiction novel of the same name by Herbert George Wells . It tells the story of an avid science lover who developed a time machine in order to save his fiancée and traveled through time and space on the time machine   .

    Details

    • Release date March 8, 2002
    • Filming locations New England Building, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
    • Production companies Warner Bros., Dreamworks Pictures, Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation

    Box office

    Budget

    $80,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $56,832,494

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $22,610,437

    Gross worldwide

    $123,729,176

    Movie reviews

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    • By Uriah 2022-06-14 13:14:18

      The Time Machine--The Real World Doesn't Have What If

      The world is always inseparable from sighing, sighing the word "if".Alex built a time machine to save his fiancée's life. When he was smug, thinking that history would be rewritten because of this, he was disappointed again. As Alex said, I could go back a thousand times and go through a thousand ways of losing her. Why can't I change the facts? Why can't I change the past?

    • By Norberto 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      I watch "The Time Machine"

      Comment written three years ago:
      I read this story of Wells in the first two years of junior high school. It was combined with his "Invisible Man" into the same thin book. I have always been impressed. I didn't expect to read it today this movie.

      Maybe it's because I've been reading the book for a long time, and I think this movie is the one I've seen that hasn't faded from the original. The film fleshes out the inventor of the machine, adds the reason why he invented the time...

    • By Nyasia 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      Why can't we change the past? Because of......

      The past, the present, and the future are three divisions on the timeline, which are the result of human division.

      People can only live in the present.

      Time is the measure of the movement of matter.

      The movement of matter is recorded in the brain one after another due to the observation and memory of consciousness.

      However, no matter how matter moves, what remains unchanged is matter, but what changes is its light and shadow, coordinates, and structure....

    • By Jadon 2022-04-23 07:02:02

      In the changes of time and space, it is the deepest emotion that is moved

      When an accident loses a favorite, persistent people always want to change the result. Such plots appear in various comics, novels and movies. Although this film is still out of the way, it can still move us enough, especially in the first half of the film. The scientist looked at his fiancée infatuously, and made a confession with some Muna. The fiancée was desperate to regain the token of love, and the scientist cried silently while holding the fiancée's body. If you are a person who pays...

    • By Carol 2022-04-23 07:02:02

      Reverse the river of time

      I heard the unfortunate news that a classmate's mother passed away and was deeply saddened.

      So thinking began to travel long distances, against the river of time, there seemed to be music accompanying the footsteps in the dimness, and there was nothing to listen to. Strolling through the spring and autumn for more than ten years in a trance, like the forgotten song, like the yellowed photo, we smile, but we have no leisure to plan for ten years later. They're naive, but not childish,...

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    • By Marcia 2023-08-02 18:33:29

      Three and a half. Allegorical science fiction. "Sometimes we need to accept what happened, even if we don't want to; but then we have to fight, even if we are afraid." "You are who you are. Memories take us back to the past, dreams take us through the...

    • By Jared 2023-07-08 13:19:26

      The Dream of Wells, the ancestor of the wasteland system, the monster setting is similar to the road of...

    • By Roman 2023-03-16 23:16:16

      Under the guise of saving his wife, he went back to the past. After realizing that he couldn't change the past, he began to wear it, witnessed the destruction of the earth by the moon, and returned to the primitive society, but there is actually an action movie heart under the elements of science fiction. A cliché destined to be buried in...

    • By Gertrude 2023-02-22 20:03:11

      It would be great if we ran for hundreds of thousands more years, and let civilization reappear, destroy it, and reappear a few...

    • By Jaylan 2023-02-14 23:56:03

      I was amazed after watching it at the time!! Especially when the camera took the moon to break into a band of stars and moons, the scene was really amazing and amazing... The era of...

    Movie plot

    In 1895, Dr. Alexander Hardkin ( Gay Pierce ) , an associate professor at Columbia University in New York, USA, still had the curiosity and curiosity of a child in his middle age, and his mind was full of strange theories that seemed strange to others. These theories have never been appreciated by the principal, and have always been regarded as "unrealistic fantasy" and sent into the cold palace. Even so, Alexander decided to build a...
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    Behind the scenes

    To pay tribute to George Parr's "The Great Shift in Time and Space," the producer invited Alan Young, who played Philby, to appear as a flower vendor in the guest film.
    Due to the fatigue of director Simon Wells, Gore Wibinski directed the filming of the last 18 days of the film.
    To ensure accuracy, the producer specially invited a mathematician to complete the mathematical formulas on Alexander Hardkin's....
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    Creative background

    The film is adapted from the science fiction novel of the same name by British novelist Herbert George Wells, whose work was born in 1895. "The Great Shift in Time and Space" is the first to put this work on the big screen. The producer of the film, Arnold Leibovette, was fascinated by the future world in the movie "The Great Shift in Time" when he was 9 years old, and regarded George Parr as his idol. He directed the documentary...
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    Shooting process

    Simon Wells, who is good at shooting cartoons, is no stranger to the design work of the Morlocks in the film. He personally completed the character sketches and then gave them to the special effects makeup artist Stan Winston. Due to the unique structure of the skull and the position of the mouth and eyes of the Morlocks, it is impossible for Stan Winston to implement it on the actor through simple makeup. Special effect makeup artists...
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    Movie quotes

    • Teacher: Tommy, you stop what you're doing, or I will resequence your DNA, so help me.

    • Über-Morlock: You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it would never have existed. So how could you use your machine to go back in time and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy, just as I am the inescapable result of you. You have your answer. Now go.

    • Über-Morlock: Who are you to question 800,000 years... of evolution?

      Alexander Hartdegen: This is, this is a perversion of every natural law.

      Über-Morlock: [grabs him by the throat] And what is time travel but your pathetic attempted to try to control the world around you? Your futile effort to have a question answered? You think I don't know you, Alexander? I can look inside your memories, your nightmares, your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words: What if?