When Worlds Collide
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Movie Reviews of When Worlds Collide
Movie Review: Its the end of the world as we know it
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a perfect example of Classic 50's Science Fiction. Not a really complicated scenario a string of comets are going to hit the earth and everyone is going to die. A small community of scientists try to persuade the world to listen to their finding but the world in typical arrogant fashion will not listen. What can they do to save a few people in all of this madness? How will they get to the new world?
What kind of people should they take
Should they concentrate on saving there own skins or take elements of the couture with them Like books or precious art?
It would be very cool it you could plan your own people's great exodus from earth(in purely a hypothetical sense.
My impression-True the graphics seem a little choppy and the crews of the ships aren't exactly what you would call Politically Correct but remember that other countries were probably building the exact same ships. Also this movie had GOOD SCIENCE a thing relatively few movies produced these days have.
Movie Review: quaint by todays f/x,this movie still packs a punch
Summary: 5 Stars
i first saw this classic on the sunday afternoon movie and was amazed at the way they wiped out earth one city at a time. when new york flooded i was hooked. george pal the king of sci-fi in the 50's produced this movie and it won an f/x oscar,and it earned it. while quaint today this was cutting edge then.
a planet has been knocked out of orbit and is heading for earth so rich men give money so a huge ship,an ark,can be built to save animals and some people. as they work and the planet gets close the earth is torn apart by the pressure.its a race to build the ship ,get the animals on board, and select the people to go. the tension is very high and so is this movie,which never falls into the soap opera that most of these films do. if classic sci-fi or great movies are your thing check this one out!!!!!!
Movie Review: This story done many times, but this is the best
Summary: 5 Stars
This storyline about the pending destruction of earth by an approaching comet or meteor has been done several times, but this movie is a perfect example that good acting and good directing does make a difference since in my opinion, "When Worlds Collide" is the best of the lot. The only bad spot of this film was at the end when the crew of the "Noah's Ark Spaceship" open the hatch door and see their new planet home. This was a cheesy painting. If only someone could take this last scene and redo the background painting with something more realistic. Up until this disappointing painting, the acting, props and special effects were great and made it very easy to like this classic. This is a very good "B" Sci-Fi movie, and I was surprised that after all these years, it still made a positive impression on me.Movie Review: An all time classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Have not seen this film since I was a boy growing up in the 1960's and always wanted to own it. The story is great and so is the acting. My biggest disappointment as a boy when you see the shot of the new planet from the ship as the film ends, is that I wanted to see more. The matte work is beautiful and so is the miniture work. Rates pretty much up there with anything coming out of Hollywood today in terms of special effects and property work. A few scenes have some light flaws, such as when the rocket ship takes off, but they had us kids convinced back then the whole thing was real. Lots of fun to watch: Intense!
Cover and DVD quality are fine: No complaints. Purchase price for the quality is fine: Again, no complaints. Glad to have it in my library and thanks Amazon for offering it!
Movie Review: Enjoyable, Dramatic and a Product of its time
Summary: 5 Stars
Right from the start of this film , it is clearly a drama based on a Biblical Allegory. It is also a product of its time, and taking these things into account, some of the comments are pretty unnecessary in the other reviews.It is rather inappropriate, I would suggest, to judge a fairly good film of its time, by current FX and film standards.
For myself, it was a treat to See "Dr Bellows" in an earlier role to his hit TV series of 15 years later.
The drama of the film is quite enjoyable, and whilst the audio is not the best, and if they wanted to, this could have been fixed.
Watch it for what it is, a good film, enjoyable fare, and an insight to the period, if you want to go that far. Otherwise, just watch a good film for its entertainment value.