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The cameo by Rod Taylor and the references to Yvette Mimieux (the stars of 1960's "The Time Machine") are the tip-offs: "Inglourious Basterds" is Quentin Tarantino's celebration of cinema as time machine -- a device that not only can erase the years (where can you see the young and beautiful Marilyn Monroe walk and talk but in a movie?) but, on a more imaginative level, can change the past, as in Tarantino's historical fantasy, in which the tragic flammability of old nitrate film stock -- the perishable nature of the our film heritage itself -- provides the spark for the perpetration of what is presented as a righteous holocaust.
These episodes are indebted to Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” film adaptations of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” and, more recently, Terrence Malick’s time-tripping “The Tree of Life.”
That’s probably why The Time Machine, based on H.G. Wells’ literary masterpiece and the 1960 George Pal movie, delighted me --- despite its deviations from these two sources.
The Time Machine is a movie only a 10-year-old boy could love, and it's likely that many will -- it's the kind of giddy, overstuffed fantasy that taps into a child's sense of adventure in ways that slicker, more streamlined vehicles like Tomb Raider never even attempt.
Previous versions of the story, "The Time Machine" were released in 1960 (theatrical release) and 1978 (made for TV movie).
And now we have another cinematic take on H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, directed by Wells’s great-grandson Simon Wells ( The Prince of Egypt ) — who owes everyone in his family a big apology.
No wonder then that hopes were so high for this second big-screen adaptation of "The Time Machine".
Not only must this latest version of The Time Machine satisfy fans of H.G. Well's science fiction masterpiece, but it must do so without trodding on George Pal's much-loved 1960 film adaptation in the bargain.
Metropolis (1926), The Time Machine (1960), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Soylent Green (1973), Blade Runner (1982) and Dark City (1998) all were forerunners of The Hunger Games , Divergent , and even the Transformer series.