Taylor is astounded that mankind has not progressed as he had figured but seemed to have regressed. However, it's a fairly interesting study of a group of ultra-passive people being dominated by others who live underground and then literally eat the good people. Wells, the author of this story) finally stops, in the year 200,000-something, the story loses some of its momentum. (Apparently, scare-mongers back in '60 thought that was a short-term likelihood.) Anyway, when "George" (H.G. Then, he stops in 1966 when supposedly there was a nuclear attack. Since time travel stories always fascinate me, my favorite part of the film is when "George" (Rod Taylor) is actually in his time machine and experiments with it, slowing it down here and then and then stopping it a couple of times to observe World War I and then WWII. This was my fourth look at this movie over a 45-year span and I enjoyed it the most this last time. The main thing, however, is how I now viewed this story and how much more I wound up liking it than in the past. I had to have at least one movie which had the woman I had a crush on back in the early '60s: Yvettte Mimieux. I only acquired the DVD as a memento, so to speak. Boy, did a nice DVD transfer of this not only mak me appreciate the visuals in here more but made the story seem better, too, for some reason.
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