This Island Earth

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John S @RT40486670 12/14/2024 It's fun from a "birth of sci-fi" point of view. It's not deep or clever, but it is very ambitious and action packed. Some of the writing is grammatically weak and redundant but c'mon "mute ants" and lots of explosions! Boom pow pow 😆 See more William B @RT88240453 10/11/2024 This movie was a blast See more Bonobo J @RT85595359 03/10/2024 Really impressive effects for its time. See more Ted B @Movieaddicted 04/16/2023 3.5 stars; So OK, I'm old enough to have seen this movie when it first came out in 1955. I remember being totally captivated by it. It had a certain realism in those times. The plot was certainly way ahead of its time. I totally understand the lower rating by younger critics who recognize the less than standard and unrealistic (e.g. Flames in the vacuum of outer space) Visual Effects. For all of you who rate it lowly, consider the classic Science Fiction movie '2001: A Space Odyssey". Believe it or not, that movie is 55 years old vs 68 for "This Island Earth". I'll grant you there's a great improvement, because of computers, to the special effects in 13 years. But as far as improvement to a great Science Fiction story, not so much. When rating a movie, to me all factors, including the time frame in which It was released, should be taken into consideration. See more Milton D @adkrkv 04/07/2022 A mildly entertaining romp during the height of the Cold War. Allegory to the evil of communism and that God is more powerful than science. Don't take it too seriously and you can enjoy a period film "when men were men and women were women." See more Jon T @jon_talbot56 12/24/2020 Like all science fiction, it tells you little about science or the future but a lot about the time it was made in. This is considerably more sophisticated than most of its kind. It actually looks like they had a budget, so the sets are pretty decent and the colours gorgeous. The naivety gives it a period charm which makes it watchable. Recommended viewing times are wet weekends and late at night after a few bevvies. See more Read all reviews

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