otto4

I payed to see this in the theater when it came out. My friend that went with me still hasn't forgiven me. For years after that this movie was our metric for measuring bad movies, as in "Man, that movie stunk almost as bad as The Patriot".

The only part of this movie I remember is when the good guy is storming an abandoned, rusty, offshore oil rig where the bad guys are, and he knocks one of the bad guys into the water. The bad guy sinks, but his M16 rifle floats...

I followed up the viewing of this movie with Sky Pirates about a week later. After that stinker ("man that was almost worse than The Patriot") my roommate stopped listening to my suggestions for movies to see.

I'm a longtime fan of Hammer horror films and hadn't seen this one until recently. The sets were all excellent. The creative use of 'monsters', including the evil genii, the Goat of Mendez, the Angel of Death, and the giant spider, were well done and entertaining. Christopher Lee was as usual, fantastic. The scenes of the satanic rituals were sort of stupid looking. I think they may well be taken from popular references to Alestair Crowley, the Great Beast, and his "satanic" efforts in England in the 1930's (?) as the symbols used on the costumes look very very similar. But aside from that and aside from some supreme stupidity on the part of various characters in the movie, it's a fun view. The ending left a bit to be desired though.

I guess I'd classify this movie as one that starts out well and stumbles a bit past halfway through, becoming a movie which is ultimately so-so, but which has many good parts. ("Whole parts")

I've only seen this movie once but what differentiates it for me is not the story, the actors, or the director, but rather the footage of post WWII Frankfurt Germany and the devastation wrought by the war.

In addition to the general post-war, pre-Cold War footage, the most fascinating thing is the film shot inside the I.G. Farben builting. This building is famous among architects and has a unique interior, shown in the film. This building was also the "Abrams Building" during the time the U.S. military occupied it during the Cold War and anyone who was in Frankfurt in the 1970's or 1980's might recognise it as unchanged inside from the time the movie was made to the time one served in the Army. This film is rare because that was a secure building during much of the Cold War. Today I believe the Army has left the building and it is occupied by a school or college.

Lots of history in this movie. I wish it was available on DVD.

When I first saw this movie was less than impressed. Sure it had some funny moments, but overall I felt a lot like I was watching a cross between Star Trek the Original Series and a Mel Brooks film. Then I watched it again. And again. Then I went back and watched ST:TOS on DVD. And suddenly I got it. Galaxy Quest is funny on its own, but the humor of it only REALLY becomes outright tear inducing if you remember some of the old Star Trek episodes, like the one where Kirk fabricates a weapon to fight an alien. In the movie Guy says "Look around, is there anything you can use to fabricate a rudimentary lathe?" A lathe being a complex machine tool that one does't just "fabridate" on the fly.

I think the measure of how much this movie sticks in your mind after you've seen it and appreciated the humor is that, while watching a TV commercial with the same actor who plays Tech Sgt. Chen in this movie, I didn't turn to my friend and say "Hey! That's the guy from Galaxy Quest!" Instead I said "That's Tech. Sgt. Chen!" and my friend, who is not a star trek fan, knew immediately what I was talking about.

Tim Allen IS William Shatner in....Galaxy Quest!

I had not seen the original Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper in the title role, when I saw this movie. After seeing this movie, including a *hilarious* 'cameo' of Gary Cooper, I watched the original. It only made me appreciate the humor in the Last Remake even more. The Last Remake (were there ever previous remakes?) parodies the story completely, but every other scene makes you laugh. The scene with Gary Cooper would almost certainly not be allowed on TV today due to censorship so you'll have to buy this movie on, ick, VHS to see it. But at a time when new releases are $10+ to see not including popcorn, paying about $20 for a VHS of this movie, and being able to show it to friends and watch it over and over, is worth it. Trust me on this :).

"So that's why you talk so slow Big G."

This is one of the more original Toho productions out there, and it's also one of the more frightening. The Green Gartantua is the bad one, and he is only too happy to eat people whole whenever he gets the chance. The classic seen in this movie is when the Green Gargantua comes ashore near a hotel/apartment complex and tears the walls off exposing people inside. Then he grabs one and pops them into this mouth, chewing with gusto! To top off this great scene he *spits out* the chewed clothes of the person he ate, sort of like a person would spit out a cherry pit.

This movie really needs a re-release on DVD!

I'm glad I'm not the only person who remembers the closing scene of this movie as having the song "Carry on Wayward Son" as the music, instead of whatever dreck the edited-for-TV version used. That scene, and this movie, sticks in my mind now almost 30 years later. This movie which starts as a simple comedy gradually transforms into something that offers genuine pathos and commentary about life. You have to see this movie. This movie also features a young Harrison Ford in a small but compelling role.

This movie was, sadly, heavily edited for broadcast and it changed the feeling of the movie in substantial ways. Seek it out in the original movie format and soundtrack and it's quite special.

Just give it a chance and watch it until the end, no fast forwarding. I guarantee you will never listen to that song again without choking up.

Let me state up front: this movie is not just a remake, it's also a ripoff of several other movies including a made for TV movie in the 1970's starring Barbara Eden as a woman impregnated by aliens.

The problem I have with this movie is that it's completely formulaic: main character talks with kids...random/main character is killed by kids, repeat. Why wait until the end to see which, if any, of the main characters are left alive? There's no concept of time. The kids grow, but are they growing up in weeks? Months? Years? There's no way to tell. It's just plain old boring.

The best part of this movie is the first half hour or so, before the kids actually show up. THEN this movie is a bit creepy, unpredictable, and it even has a couple scenes with some decent shock value. But when the kids finally arrive it's just snooze-ville.

Find and watch the original, and skip this waste of film.

I'm a fan of good, plausible, action movies. And I'm a huge fan of the elite military units such as the Navy SEALs. Finally, I'm a huge fan of Michael Biehn. Sadly none of those allowed me to really enjoy this movie at the time. I gave it another chance more recently when I bought the DVD. Here's the problems with this movie in a quick list: 1. It's a poor mans top gun, for example including a virtual music video of the SEAL team playing golf with a soundtrack of "The Boys are Back In Town", which concludes with Charlie Sheen doing an inane chase to get his towed car back.

2. This is quite simply a Charlie Sheen movie, when Sheen was trying to be famous before he started doing stuff like Hot Shots. Reports I've heard indicate that Sheen was a baby on the set and it affected the roles and Direction the rest of the actors in the movie got.

3. Biehn is the head of the SEAL team yet Sheen seldom obeys him. Any SEAL showing the lack of discipline that Sheen's character does, or who endangered the team as he does, wouldn't even have made it through BUDS training let alone gotten on a team.

4. SEALs are cross trained on weapons. Yet in one part of the movie a SEAL has to "figure out" how to use a U.S. Stinger Missile.

There are a few good scenes in the movie. The assault entry at the beginning, Bill Paxton as "God", and some of the footage in what was supposed to be Beirut at the time. Overall though this movie is a loser.

I saw this in the theater as a kid and loved it. The story about people living a Utopian existence in a domed city underwater sticks with me today. I'm not sure how I'd feel seeing it again, when the so-called 'good guys' in the movie are so anxious to get back to their own world that they endanger the underwater city and steal a submarine. But it's a fun movie with good sets, great miniature work on the subs, the cities, and the giant sea monster. I wish this was released on DVD as the sets and sub were quite neat looking.

A neat aspect of this movie is that they tried for a bit of science "fact". For example, the most common material in the undersea city was gold, because they used a process to pull gold out of sea water.

I wonder if those people are still living down there to this day? :)

This flick was directed by Ron Howard. To me that immediately says it will be a great flick, and I was not wrong with this. Sure, the story is not exactly earth shattering, but the filming, the music, and the characters are all great. The filming in particular is just amazing. Many of the scenes have a difficult to describe beauty...showing the world as more beautiful and clear than it really can be. Some of the scenes must have been shot in morning light to get this wonderful brilliance.

Anyhow, the movie is about a family of Chicago firefighters overlapped with a sort of mystery about some suspicious deaths by fire. It's a good story, with excellent special effects, stirring music and a great cast. I bought this on DVD and watch it fairly frequently because it, like most movies by Ron Howard, is somehow uplifting.

I saw this when it came out, in the theater, in 1981. It was a sort of surprise hit that summer. This is a movie with plot. It's about a young man and woman meeting challenges, death, redemption, the death of magic and the birth of Christianity, and the hypocrisy of gov't. And it's all disguised as a PG movie about a dragon which is terrorizing a hamlet of decent people in the Dark Ages.

HIGHLY recommended. PG, but does have one foot gnawing which today would probably give it an R or X rating given the gutlessness of parents everywhere :). This is an early movie by Industrial Light and Magic, or ILM as it's known nowadays, and I believe was funded by Disney. Despite that it's got a gritty edge. Check it out, for youths and adults

This movie recently came out on DVD so I rented it from Netflix. I'm reasonably familiar with the plot and the work of Bonestell, Pal, and Willey Ley, so I don't think I had unreasonable expectations for this movie. Sadly my expectations were still to high, as I didn't enjoy this movie despite the interesting visuals done up by Chesley Bonestell and George Pal.

Compare this movie to the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet, and think about which one gives you a better 'futuristic' portrayal of how mankind has advanced in 'the future'. Even allowing for the un-PC aspects of the 1950's (which I find amusing/enjoyable, not offensive), the plot devices of Conquest of Space are absurd. There's no way that a mission to mars wouldn't catch the mental problems inherent in one of the main characters, which is the primary plot device for causing peril in the mission.

Buy/rent this movie for the visuals of the space vehicles and Mars, and for the place in sci-fi history this movie occupies, not because you expect this to be a 'good' movie. The basic premises of the plot are pretty heavily flawed and therefore annoying.

This movie is a must see, IF you've read the story and like it, and IF you've seen the other adaptation, "The Haunted Palace" with Vincent Price. Sure, this story is a bit different than the book. It's set in the modern day, and Charles Ward is a well-paid chemist at Belmar Cosmetics, not a young antiquarian débutante. And instead of Doctor Willet being the principle investigator, John Marsh P.I. is (nice nod to the Innsmouth stories with that last name).

Aside from those differences necessary to bring this into the modern day, and aside from a very slight difference in how Joseph Curwen is ultimately dealt with, this follows the story in the book. It's all there: the portrait, the neighbor Fenner, the house in Pawtucket, and of course the underground labs of J.C. Curwen. There are story sequences set in Colonial times to build the story as well, and they are nicely done. But the real crowning glory of this movie is the sets they built for Curwens underground lab. They are MARVELOUS. Everything is there: the sanity blasting carvings, the "mistakes and screw-ups" raised from Imperfect salts, and the jars of Materia.

I highly recommend this movie. I'm still treasuring my copy on Laser Disk and hoping that it someday comes out on DVD. Production is top notch, as is the music and of course the story.

This movie is advertised as something of a comedic look at the guys who invented breast implants. I expected some dark humor, and some good vintage 1950's and 60's sets. However what you really get here is a poorly told story, bad acting, hard to follow plot that goes from the 50's to the 80's. There's no way of knowing how much of the story is true from the movie. The ending is just plain stupid. I can't believe that they couldn't have done a better job with this.

The issue of the movie having a lot of breasts is mostly a non-sequitor. The breasts shown were non sexual props. There's nothing wrong with that, but if you're looking for titillation this movie doesn't have it.

What this movie is really about is how doctors and lawyers are greedy sleazeballs with no real interest in their clients. In that regard it may be something of a documentary, but I just found it making me angry.

Breast lovers won't like this movie. People who like comedies won't like it. People who like documentaries won't like it. Frankly I can't imagine anyone will really like it. So skip it.

I wish it was on DVD. As noted by another reviewer, the martial arts scenes are skillfully done. The basic story is that an upstart American (Scott Glenn) is hired to smuggle an historic Japanese sword *back* into Japan. Naturally there are bad guys trying to prevent this sword from making it to it's intended recipient (Mifune). The bad guys are funded and led by a rich Japanese industrialist who wants the sword for himself, but there's more also, which I will not mention here. Scott Glenn is beaten by the bad guys, eventually decides he likes the honor of the good guys group, and trains to become a ninja/samurai type. The movie culminates with a martial arts vs. gun-fu battle not to be missed. The director and cast make this movie: Frankenheimer is a very skilled director and it shows here. Ad to that the location shooting in Japan, and Scott Glenn and Mifune as student and teacher, and this movie is an absolute winner.

To call this merely a "revenge flick" really doesn't touch upon the tawdry, somewhat sick, borders of society this movie moves through. William Devane plays the wronged man. Tommy Lee Jones has a small but excellent part as a vaguely, but not quite, psycho co-veteran. Nowdays the phrase "crazed Vietnam veteran" probably does not resonate, but back in the day, these guys, particularly Tommy Lees portrayal, were it. The story has all the best plot devices:

Plot: buildup, reward, downfall, weapons prep, revenge.

Motivtation: hey, they're a-holes and they wronged him, that's all the "motiviation" that Mr. 12 guage pumpgun requires.

Location shots: a very very very very convincing Mexican whore house. Hooters are available.

Weapons: 12 guage and more. The denouement reminds me a lot of Taxi Driver, but X 2.

Homage: that's French for "rip off". There's at least one scene that I think has it's basis in a scene from the Western revenge flick _Nevada_Smigth_ (which I also recommend). Plus there's some disco death that is reminiscent of _The_Wild_Bunch_.

Check it out, it's dated, but worthy.

This movie is a must see, IF you've read the story and like it, and IF you've seen the other adaptation, "The Haunted Palace" with Vincent Price. Sure, this story is a bit different than the book. It's set in the modern day, and Charles Ward is a well-paid chemist at Belmar Cosmetics, not a young antiquarian débutante. And instead of Doctor Willet being the principle investigator, John Marsh P.I. is (nice nod to the Innsmouth stories with that last name).

Aside from those differences necessary to bring this into the modern day, and aside from a very slight difference in how Joseph Curwen is ultimately dealt with, this follows the story in the book. It's all there: the portrait, the neighbor Fenner, the house in Pawtucket, and of course the underground labs of J.C. Curwen. There are story sequences set in Colonial times to build the story as well, and they are nicely done. But the real crowning glory of this movie is the sets they built for Curwens underground lab. They are MARVELOUS. Everything is there: the sanity blasting carvings, the "mistakes and screw-ups" raised from Imperfect salts, and the jars of Materia.

I highly recommend this movie. I'm still treasuring my copy on Laser Disk and hoping that it someday comes out on DVD. Production is top notch, as is the music and of course the story.

I'm not going to try to write a full review, but will instead provide some bullets as to why you should see this:

• this was the FIRST zombie movie with fast zombies. _28_Days_ has nothing on the bad boys in this flick.

• the soundtrack for this movie is chock full of great punk bands.

• production values are high.

• this movie is hilarious. Watch for the nazi MD :).

• this movie features the first onscreen appearance of the 1950's Atomic Cannon :)

• this movie features Linnea Quigley with full frontal nudity :).

I grew up watching this movie on repeats on TV, never having seen it in the theater. But it's solid cold-war entertainment, and the cast just chews up the script and scenery. If you like old cold war movies, or you like submarine movies, or you like suspense movies you must see this.

If the studio who owns this is listening: RELEASE IT ON DVD PLEASE!!! PLEASE!