Science Fiction & Fantasy > 1950 Science Fiction & Fantasy

"Fly Me to the Moon"

Advantages: Old fashioned 'B' movie
Disadvantages: Very Dated

Destination Moon. At the time of its pending release this film was massively promoted claiming to portray accurately but with the twist of adventure how man will get to the Moon and stay there. Unfortunately the public didn’t want the science all they wanted was the adventure and on that point the film falls into the dreaded ‘B’ movie genre. The film follows Charles Cargraves, a kind of Howard Hughes of his day, as he struggles ...
...only financially that is and Destination Moon is good to go. I will not give you the rest of the movie lest to say there are the usual explosions, double crosses, a love interest and not so good special effects. Well it was 1950. The science in the film is awfully dated and quite quirky and innocent looking. The plot is fairly decent but the dialogue at times is awful and corny. It was I believe nominated for an ‘Oscar’ for its special effects, ...

Maximus-Qualitus 10.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Destination Moon (DVD)

Rocketship X-M.

Advantages: A surprise find.
Disadvantages: None

ROCKETSHIP X-M = A real find this film, ok it's grossly inaccurate when it comes right down to the factual science but it is still a superb film. The story is basically about the crew of rocketship X-M and there adventures. They set out to land on the moon and set up an untouchable space base. However they miscalculate and end up on Mars instead. Now that's a bit absurd but let's go with it for now. The crew consists of four men ...
...Bridges, Engineer Major William Corrigan, A beautiful chemist, Dr. Lisa Van Horn And a (get ready to die) extra. On Mars they find remains of a Martian city and surprise, surprise they looked human in form. It is determined that they destroyed themselves using Atomics. They discover a few other Martian goodies and not so goodie, they end up having to make life and death decision and if they get it wrong humanity could be at risk, The special effects ...

MaldivesHoliday 11.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Rocketship X-M (DVD)

Sometimes, Ignorance is bliss

Advantages: clever thriller, good story, well acted
Disadvantages: bit depressing?

Dont misunderstand my review title, this is a cracking film. You can nearly always say that about Nicolas Cage films, but this one really is! The premise is simple. There are many disasters happening on earth, for some reason, aliens decide to warn mankind about the upcoming disasters by "whispering" them to a little girl in the 1950's. Unfortuneately, that girl does nothing with the information other than write it down on a bit of paper and allow ...
...capsule. The capsule is dug up in the current day and discovered by Nicolas Cage's character. He soon discovers the code in the series of numbers written on the page and works out that the code tells of impending disasters, when they will happen, how many will die and the location. The story continues on along this path, with a worrying fortelling of the end of days. We don't know what will happen right until the end. I wont ruin it for you either, ...

AgeUK 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Knowing (Blu-ray)

Return To Form!

Advantages: Classy return to form, set in the future! very well done!
Disadvantages: should have been an 18 to be its best!

...is I am a big Terminator fan. I loved Terminator 1 and 2. With Terminator 3, they ruined the franchise, it was rubbish on many levels. Terminator salvation is literally the saviour of the fanchise. In the same way that Casino Royale, Batman Begins and others have saved other franchises, the same has happened here. The most thrilling thing is that Terminator Salvation is the first film set in the future. During the war against the Terminators and ...
...as you'd expect from a Terminator film. Sure, Arnie wasn't in it, but perhaps that was a good thing. You can have too much of a good thing after all. Christian Bale does a very good job of being bad-ass and insipiring at the same time. The way its set in the not too distant future, featuring current human weaponry being used against the machines in a nice touch. The picture and sound on the blu ray edition is first rate and makes the scenes with ...

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Review of Terminator - Salvation (Blu-ray)

Science defying Madness!

Advantages: easy to watch, reasonably priced, good picture
Disadvantages: very unrealistic

...I remembered her saying she wanted to see it at the cinema, but we never got round to going. I admit, i was a little uninterested as the whole concept seemed a bit ridiculous. If you haven't seen the trailer, then it wont be spoiling it too much that the premise of the film is action orientated and there's physics defying gun play where the main characters make bullets travel in circles and bends in order to kill people they shouldn't be able too. ...
...will be most disappointed. The story line centres around a young chap doing 9-5 in an office job. He's not happy in his work or his life. One day he bumps into Angelina Jolie's character ("Fox") in a chemist she is apparently there to save his life from an assassin, who also killed his father. He is then recruited into "the fraternity" a group of assassins who have been around since ancient times. Killing people according to the interpretations ...

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Review of Wanted (Blu-ray)