Science Fiction & Fantasy > 1960 Science Fiction & Fantasy

Simply Timeless

Advantages: Interesting to see how the past viewed our future
Disadvantages: Effects look rather low budget now

...excellent film. If you've seen the Guy Pearce remake and haven't seen this then I seriously suggest you watch it. If you haven't seen the remake then watch this first. Rod Taylor plays George (HG Wells' middle name!), a Victorian inventor who creates a machine that can travel through time and he wishes to see how man has fared through the ages and to see what he can learn from our future. At first he travels a little forward to just past the 1st ...
...he thinks is him despite the huge passage of time. His final big jump is to the future of the Eloi and the Morlocks, where half of man had lived underground and become the cannibal Morlocks and the rest had stayed above ground and became the innocent carefree (and fairly brainless) Eloi. We get to follow George as he interacts with and grows frustrated with the Eloi and how he has to risk his life to travel to the home of the Morlocks when he falls ...

atytyut2434 25.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Time Machine (DVD)

The man in the moon is a naked woman!

Advantages: So bad its good
Disadvantages: Shows its age

Directed by Doris Wishman who might be be better known to "certain" film buffs as the woman who gave the world Chesty Morgan. Its a pretty rubbish film if I'm honest, the nudity is a distraction from the bad 60's scifi that actually looks like bad 50's scifi. Basically its the story of an American rocket that lands on the moon and discovers its not as lifeless as they were lead to believe. There's a bit of a love story between 1 of the astronauts ...

atytyut2434 02.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Nude On The Moon (DVD)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

paulie1975 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moon (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 ...

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