The Illustrated Man
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Movie Reviews of The Illustrated Man
Movie Review: 4 those who love old terrible SCI-FI. Like me.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is required viewing for those who love Soylent green, planet of the apes, silent running and phase IV. I think I have said enough. You either hate me now, or love me.Movie Review: If only they could all be this good....
Summary: 5 Stars
Go rent it, watch it, and then come back here and write a review. That way, I can finally own a copy of my own, on dvd. It really is an amazing film. KISS...Movie Review: Finally on DVD!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been waiting for ages for this great film to appear on DVD. Rod Steiger's performances are amazing, and Bradbury's stories are richly produced.Movie Review: Illustrated Man!
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband loved this for Christmas. He had been looking for it for a long time!
I recieved it promptly, and was very pleased!
Movie Review: Memorable Trippy Sci-fi Story - Vintage Year
Summary: 4 Stars
The Illustrated Man is a lot of fun if you go into it with the right attitude. The dialogue and the acting are great - they hook you in pretty quickly and the story wastes no time getting underway. And it is a fairly unusual story with a couple of quite memorable characters. I haven't read it in a long long time, but it seemed to stay fairly true to the original I thought. Which brings us to the next point - you may feel Bradbury's work itself is outdated - but it is pure fantasy/sci-fi/horror and there is a touch of its own logic as it deals with time scenarios milleniums in the future, while the main story seems to be taking place in the 30s or 40s. Another element is the year it was made in - 1969. This story was probably made to be told in that year as it's kind of a "trippy" story to begin with. Bradbury's character in the story hadn't dropped acid before he started staring at the man's tattoos - excuse me "skin illustrations" - but he might as well have.
And that brings me to the last point - the visions or trips that the tattoos involve them in. Expect the same level of special effects that you might find in early Star Trek episodes and you're pretty near the mark in terms of what to expect - the viewer should be willing to exert his own imagination to some degree and forgive the swanky "futuristic" sets of 1969. If that doesn't put you off too much and if you'd ever be curious to see how Bradbury's classic was put to film, Rod Steiger and his co-star put in great performances, the likes of which you don't find anymore, due to a change of eras. There's certainly a cold-war, post World War II paranoia and harshness to the Illustrated Man's character. And the film ends less interestingly perhaps than the bulk of the preceding story, but come to think of it, I left the novel feeling more of less the same way. So for those who didn't love the ending that may be more the fault of the novel than the movie. That's the way it ends from what I remember. Where this picture wins is in the bulk of it's story, in the occasionally hair-raising scenes along the way, and in the sympathy we feel for its characters. The thing I liked best about this movie was the interplay of dialogue between the man of an older generation who got the bad end of a sci-fi odyssey, and a young man representing the kindness and openheartedness of naive youth. Next stop for him... the twilight zone.