The Philadelphia Experiment
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Movie Reviews of The Philadelphia Experiment
Movie Review: Great to see again...
Summary: 5 Stars
It was wonderful to see this movie again. I'm a sucker for a good time travel show and this is one of my favorites.Movie Review: Can A Ship Full of Sailors Simply Disappear?
Summary: 4 Stars
MIchael Pare was the star of this sci fi prequel, even though he had made only one movie previously. My son Jeff asked who I thought was handsome, and I replied "the actor in 'The Philadelphis Story.' Justin corrected me, "It's 'The Philadelphia Experiment' you watch all the time. Cary Grant was handsome, but Pare reminded me of the football player at Central High I had a big crush on, Jim Darling. So, to feel young again, I would watch this flick on cable t.v.
He played a sailor with a sidekick who were on a naval vessel out in the Philadelphia harbor which was used in an experiment to make it 'invisible' by radar. It not only knocked the ship off the radar, it vanished back in time. Michael and his sidekick were transported forward in time to the desert in California where they found things weird to say the least.
They were rescued by Nancy Allen, who went on to make other such movies, and reunited with the old people who were young when the experiment 'failed.' They had no aged one iota.
It was a bit before the time for such ideas to catch on. It wasn't the idea behind the story, but the actor who carried this futuristic movie. He was good, and made other features, then fell by the wayside after playing Sandra Bullock's ex-husband in 'Hope Floats.'
Movie Review: Final Countdown Gone Bad
Summary: 3 Stars
First of all, I enjoyed the movie. It was entertaining and a good Sci-Fi story. What made it bad was Nancy Allen. When I see her on the screen I get an old "B" movie feeling about her acting. Michael Par? is okay as an actor but can be dull, he always has that bad boy edge to him, which I enjoy watching. He makes the movie bearable.
I loved Final Countdown and thought this was a remake or possibly an old script someone found and decided to try it again. What made this one different and more interesting was the military (bad guys) twist with the developement of yet another weapon and the results of that endeavor. A comment on the early nuclear bomb tests that went on and left many military men dead or poisened. Much of it hidden yet in secret documents. In Final Countdown, the results of unethical teasting were very interesting.
If you are looking for a fun time with a bowl of popcorn on a Saturday Night. This could work. Cheers....
Movie Review: "Navy owes me 40 years back pay."
Summary: 3 Stars
Let's see, you've just been rocketed 40 years into the future, the fate of your brother and shipmates are unknown, and mysterious government forces are trying to kill your a$$, but you still have time for a little introspection and joke cracking. Uh huh.
This is one of the best bad movies around, and Michael Pare' was the logical choice as he is probably the worst actor of the last 30 years or so. Basically the male equivalent to Sondra Locke, except for that Pare'is prettier. haw haw
The story of the Philadelphia (Tesla) Experiment has been hashed and rehashed, and deserves better treatment by Hollywood. Whether you believe it happened or not, and it did, is irrelevant. This makes for a compelling science fiction plotline whose end result is fairly disappointing, especially considering John Carpenter's presence. Oh well, maybe the Matrix intended this flick to mock the legend of the Eldridge, thereby casting it into the black hole of "conspiracy" tales that can never be proven nor disproven, despite evidence to the contrary.
The DVD transfer is better than you would expect from a film of this below average quality and the Dolby 2.0 is adequate. There are actually liner notes inside the jacket with more background on the experiment itself that don't shed any more light on what happened, but make for an interesting read nonetheless. 3 bulkheads
Movie Review: Science on the edge
Summary: 2 Stars
This is not meant to be a review of the movie per se. Instead, the movie and its reviews need some historical and scientific perspective.
First, degaussing of naval ships started with the British early in World War 2. The Germans had developed mine fuses capitalizing on the magnetic fields generated by steel ships traveling through salt water. English scientists in the war department quickly developed degaussing coils for ships entering/leaving the areas around their harbors, where supply and war ships entered. The harbors and several areas in the North Atlantic were where the Germans had concentrated their mining efforts, and the initial shipping losses threatened to strangle the British supply life-line.
There were several interesting developments in this regard, including surrounding each ship with de-gaussing coils, building and refitting degaussing internal to each ship, etc. Churchill's 6-volume series on World War II should be required reading, and the prose and style is something to relish.
Second, "secret" U.S. Naval experiments are not going to be known to the general public, unless there is a major disaster that exposes it in some horrific way to a large population. If part of your body gets caught in a steel bulkhead, you can bend over and kiss your tutu goodbye -- permanently.
Finally, Einstein's Unified Field Theory never made it to the TRUE "Theory" category. The "theory" was -- and is -- an effort by theorists to understand and explain Natural Laws using a common set of equations. This common set of equations is precisely what the "Theory" lacked -- and still does.
Have fun with the movie, and remember that Hollywood types care more about whether it makes money (their real purpose) than they do about historical or scientific accuracy.