I guess I'm goin against the flow here. Everyone thinks to seem this is a cute wonderful little tale. Although I think the film is decent for 1960(you wanna see real special effects and psychological mind numbingness, check out Psycho), it lacks a whole hell of alot. I don't read much, and I'm adamant about not comparing the film to the book, but assessing the film as it's own entity. Unfortunately, when a movie is filled with as many plot holes, inconsistencies, and downright silly plot points as this one, you may find it necessary to refer to the book, merely to try and aid your proccess in understanding the lost potential in this film. The essence of what Wells is saying in the book is sorely missed in the film, as the filmmakers seemed to have solely based the film about the nuclear threat of the late fifties. The Time Machine is nothing about war. It's about people's views toward each other, and how class separation over thousands of generations undermined the great human race into a species of oblivious, mundane, mediocre, couldn't care lesses. Wells does a beautiful job of describing the frailties of both the Eloi and the Morlocks, and does a wonderful job of making a point that they are essentially the same, neither is the bad guy to the other. Both live out of ignorance. Both are innocent as children, and Wells draws strong parallels to these descendants of the decadent aristocracy, and the supressed and opressed working class people, forced further and further beneath the surface. he also does not hint at a hopeful recovery. As the Time Traveller leaves the future, he realizes quite plainly that these are no longer homo sapiens. Possibly some inferior degradation, but their damage has gone far beyond psychological damage that can be reveresed with a mere three books. The only hope for the Eloi and Morlocks, would lie in a change found thousands of years earlier. Therefore it was quite foolish to try and add a "happy" open ending where the vigil Time Traveller is going back to save humanities future. You obviously cannot make the book verbatim into the movie, but you can try and do justice to Wells brilliant observations of the human spirit and behaviour, for surely, there is a brilliant movie with these themes prevailing, just waiting to be made.