When Worlds Collide
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Movie Reviews of When Worlds Collide
Movie Review: Fun Sci-Fi Classics
Summary: 4 Stars
I loved the book (and it's sequel, After Worlds Collide) when I was young. The movie is certainly not as good, but still a lot of fun. Its too bad they never made a movie of the sequel.Movie Review: Early George Pal
Summary: 5 Stars
After DESTINATION MOON and just before WAR OF THE WORLDS, Pal's adaption of The Phillip Wylie/Edwin Balmer classic is, itself, a classic. Effects that were top of the line for the early 1950's but may seem abit lame to today's viewers. The grand daddy of all disaster movies, this is one film it would be interesting see it remade with CGI. Still an wonderfully entertaining film. Have to admit, except for John Hoyt as a ruthless cripped millionaire (his man servant is played by a guy whose name escapes me who ended up in either Petticoat Junction or Green Acres) and Barbara Rush I can't think of anything else I've seen the rest of the cast in. Movie Review: Great Classic Movie At A Fantastic Price!
Summary: 5 Stars
"When Worlds Collide" is one of my very favorite Sci-Fi movies. It is based on a book by the same name, co-written by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer (which is a great book with and enjoyable sequel, "After Worlds Collide"). The movie is appropriate for all but the youngest viewers and rates highly on my family's "Lazy Saturday" movie list. The plot is fast moving, the acting is good, and the "classic" special effects are enjoyable (matte-paintings :-)
This is a bargain priced DVD for a fantastic movie! Highly recommended!
Movie Review: From Nuclear Paranoia to Kitsch Fun - I love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie freaked me out when I was 5. Now it is so kitsch I just can't stop laughing.
Special effects are ludicrous. Oil-painted canvas as background scenarios; a butane lighter as rocket engine. Acting lines are poor (except for the memorable: "You are scientific crackpots! Nothing will happen!"). On top of that, lip-locked kisses, and the absurd amount of cigarettes.
Its sci-fi concepts are beyond illogical, even for the genre criteria: a settler-rocket flying into a zooming Terran planet that crushes Earth, not to mention the life-saving lottery in which the doctor's daughter and her boyfriend are absurdly left hors-concour. The overt references to the Bible are amusing, as well as the long show-off scene of a first-generation helicopter. More seriously, the complete absence of African-Americans actors must be noted.
"When Worlds Collide" kicked off the wave of sci-fi (and horror) movies expressing anxieties over a Nuclear Holocaust during the emerging Cold War. The approaching planet is red, red, red. As interestingly, the movie also anticipates the white exodus from the city towards suburbia.
All in all, an interesting movie, which I recommend for a goofy time with some fun friends.
Movie Review: Great Movie by George Pal!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great movie about the end of the world. No, not by global warming, but by a heavenly body colliding with Earth. A space arc is constructed, and everyone fights for a seat. The only negative, there does not seem to be any racial diversity on the all-white flight.