On the Beach
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Movie Reviews of On the Beach
Movie Review: Not with a Bang but a Whimper
Summary: 5 Stars
There is almost too much that can be said about this splendid and poignant film. On the Beach deals more with the tagedy of people's inevitable deaths than with the nuclear holocaust that causes it.
We are treated to a love story in Beach with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardener which is doomed from the start by the human annialation about
to envelope the last group of humanity living on the planet. I loved Fred Astaire's performance as a nuclear scientist and race car enthusiast and also by Anthony Perkins role as a naval officer and married man with a new-born daughter. No one will survive. to Quote T.S. Eliot, " This is the way the world ends, not with a Bang but a Whimper....." The "Bang" has been nuclear war, leaving only the whimper of total human extinction. The musical score of Waltzing Matilda sounds like a funeral dirge and is the poignant theme of On The Beach.....Sad.
Movie Review: this needs a blu ray release
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a classic flick that much is certain , unfortunately it was shot in black and white (by 58 color film was out there alot) but other than that it's still a great movie. I disagree with those that say that Anthony Perkins isn't great here, the man is underrated all the way. Ava gardner does a fine job and Gregory Peck never gave a bad performance in his lifetime. The plot of the end of the world is effective although we know today that it would be alot worse than this movie shows it with a nuclear winter coming down on the planet. Something that people back then had no idea of though. The film stands up today though because it came from a great
book and that translates well for this movie. The films print on this dvd looks excellent with no lines and defects , this one needs a blu ray release someday. Perhaps with another flick from the same director. Double features work better on some older flicks as 52 years is a way back.
Movie Review: Still Just as Good
Summary: 5 Stars
When On The Beach came out in the mid fifties I was a teen ager. I thought it was the best movie I would ever see.
Over the years I saw it a few more times and liked it every time. It's been a while since I had seen it, though, even though I owned it on VHS. So I decided to watch it. Alas, the tape was bad.
So I ordered a DVD of it. I wondered while I awaited its arrival if I would find it as wonderful as I remembered it because sometimes you watch an old movie you loved and wonder why you ever liked it so many years before. I guess we out grow some things.
When On the Beach arrived I put it in and settled down to watch. Oh my! Gregory Peck was still as beautiful and Ava Gardner as pretty. The story was the same as before, set in Australia in the aftermath of a war as the end of mankind crept closer and closer. It's still my alltime favorite movie and I expect it always will be.
Movie Review: A version of the Apocalypse
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a somewhat classic motion picture from about 50 years ago depicting the end of the human race following a nuclear war. The last survivors are the crew of a submarine. Nobody knows how the war started. Somebody pushed a button somewhere, and one thing led to another. They find a pocket of survivors in Australia, but the radioactive cloud is approaching. Everyone has their own way of facing their impending doom. Some live life to the fullest to go out in a blaze of glory. Some seek religion. Some drink themselves into oblivion.
The story is always a cause for thought as nations try to contain nuclear weapons. At the moment there is a treaty on the table.
Movie Review: Enduring
Summary: 5 Stars
A timeless work...perhaps even more relevant today, as the specter of nuclear tensions increases. Brilliant acting all around. Those who call it "boring" miss the point that the movie isn't about cataclysmic, city-leveling explosions and other special-effects, but about the human drama of the end of mankind, and how love is all we have, really.
*spoiler below*
I personally liked the scene where it turns out to be a Coca-Cola bottle sending Morse code. If Shute or Kramer intended that the last messages from the USA be gibberish from the great consumer item of the last century, it's brilliant.