12 Book-to-Movie Adaptations So Bad, the Authors Deserve Letters of Apology

H.G. Wells's 1895 novel about an inventory jumping around in time is credited with coining the term "time machine," which is almost universally employed in media when talking about a device used to travel through time. The movie, which earned a paltry 29 percent, can be credited as managing to be described as "joylessly extravagant," "amazingly stilted" and "weirdly disjointed" by three major critics.