Quatermass
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Movie Reviews of Quatermass
Movie Review: Why would aliens want Earth's hippies? Professor Quatermass knows why
Summary: 5 Stars
I tried really hard not to enjoy this classic little sci-fi mini-series from the U.K. Poor FX, horribly dated 70's "future" fashion etc but I found myself really enjoying this complex entry into the classic Quatermass series. In the grim near future aliens are collecting the world's youth who believe that they are being taken to a new world to start over again. The only man who can figure out why the hippie children (dubbed "Planet People") are being upducted is reluctant hero Professor Bernard Quatermass (John Mills "Ghandi"). But can he find a way to stop the aliens in time or will the world's youth be taken away for good? This fourth Qautermass entry is a classic! I LOVED IT! Recommended to fan's of classic Doctor Who, Blake's 7, The Tomorrow People & Saphire and Steele.Movie Review: If you like weird...
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like weird science fiction, like Doctor Who, this is the show for you. Made into television series and big screen movies Quatermass in some ways helped make Doctor Who and has been influenced by Doctor Who. Civilization is coming to a close as young people get angry at the old way and fuel runs out. As the USA and the USSR continue to waste energy and resources on a space race that nobody cares about the rest of the world slowly dies. And then terror strikes from the sky, turning thousands of young adults into dust. Were they murdered by a alien invaders or rescued from a dying planet by friendly aliens?
Anarchy, gangs, turning away from science and the end of the world. What more could you want from a 1970s sci-fi classic?
Movie Review: Quatermass the Legendary '70's sci-fi classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best science fiction films I've seen so far. Personally, I find it fascinating, as it is about a cult where the young generation of that day is drawn to cirtain spots on the Earth, where they are compelled to call to a transporter, which is a large beam of bright light that then comes down and takes them up to another planet somewhere far out in space. Those who are not part of the cult, but are caught up in the beam are destroyed rather than taken to this planet. It's a great science fiction adventure!Movie Review: QM: A Fascinating Psuedo Post-Apoc Story
Summary: 5 Stars
it starts a bit slow (only the 1st episode), then all of a sudden, you're in the middle of it. this semi-Post-Apoc story is not a thriller, it is not loaded with special effects, but the story and the stories w/i the overarching theme are thoughtful and interesting.
i watch this set every year or so, and i enjoy it each time as i discover more philosphical notions i missed the last time.
goes great with a glass of Cab and a bowl of stew on a cold winter's day.
Movie Review: Quatermass and the exploration of inner space
Summary: 4 Stars
For years British science fiction has incorporated many of the traits of the nation: anti-authoritarian, individualistic, eccentric and scientific. From H.G. Wells through to the most recent reincarnation of Doctor Who these themes have been very common.
Quatermass and the television show Doomwatch have in mmany ways led the way for the rest of the shows to follow and have also gone to the most extreme view of what may be to come.
Many other reviewers have plundered the plot but very few have looked at the overiding ideological positions adopted by the creators of Quatermass. The familiar themes which charaterised this series of movies is very much in the vein of Wells and Wyndham the apolyptic vision, a society degenerating where the rule of law has broken down, anarchy in the UK, all of which can be found in some of the works of J.G. Ballard, and to soem extent Mike Moorcok. For stark contrast the Planet People, a pseudo-hippy movement without the drugs, breeze through the movie portrayed as having become rather mindless lotus eaters who are easy prey for the force yet can also kill and destroy.
Scientists are seen as having interferred with nature, a position closely associated with the green movement especially the Fundis in Germany. Quatermass qua as a scientist, is scorned for his views and his apparent contribution to the general sense of decay. Yet it is he who, working with the self same bueaucrats he clearly distains, strives to discover the evil nature of the force and to overcome it. Given the tremendous economic, social, political and environmental upheavals taking place in the 1970's it is not surprising that this mini-series carries a distinct socialist tone, not least of which are the pay cops, a parallel with the fire brigades of Farenheit 451, who are driven by the going rate in the market if they are to provide assistance. The movie is concerned too of the issues of youth versus old age and only barely touching on the question of euthanasia, still taboo even now.
All in all there is much food for thought in this movie aside from the scale and spectacle. It is instructive to compare and contrast this sort of movie with the general SF competition of the time where good always prevails over evil and losses tend to be relatively less.
The series carries a message of hope but it is not clear on which basis the hope rests: is it on science or is it on a naieve fundamentalist rejection of modern societies or simply put, getting ourselves back to the garden?
Quatermass has set the example for others to follow. They may have more gore as in 28 Days Later, but in many respects much of British Science Fiction has gone on to develop ideas found in it's reels.
To me science fiction has never been about science per se but merely a set of posible alternatives, call it a multiverse if you will. Not all futures may be rosy but regardless there is a strong belief in the human spirit and human ingenuity all tied to freedom being strong enough to see us through. This Quatermass, in my view shows us much more of that human spirit and the capacity to defeat adversity, and that is it's greatest strength.