When Worlds Collide
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Movie Reviews of When Worlds Collide
Movie Review: Visionary Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE is a true visionary classic. I love this George Pal film from the 50s about a Star on a collision course with Earth. It is colorful and thought provoking and the Special Effects are indelible. This film takes a realistic look at what effects on the human race this impending catastrophe will have. It also examines the differences in scientific thought, greed, ambition and all the other human frailties we process as the predominant life form on Earth now becoming impotent to forces outside our planet. I like Richard Derr's easy style as an airplane pilot caught up in the events. Derr represents the ordinary man's point of view and his performance makes this film very intimate and believable.
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: A short note from me.
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this as a kid, recently I got it from amazon and watch it again. It is still one of the best ever made. It rates right up there with all the epics like Forbidden Planet, Day the Earth Stood Still, Day the Earth Caught Fire, This Island Earth etc.
Why watch it if you don't like these classical movies...well, what would you do if you found out the earth was about to be smashed by a star just now entering our solar system--call it shake and bake. Beats me but I got to tell you they did a fine job of it in this movie using models instead of computers for special effects.
Don't rent--buy.
Movie Review: Doomsday is near
Summary: 5 Stars
When Worlds Collide is one hour and twenty-one minutes long and was released on November 22, 1951. When Worlds Collide won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects in 1952. An astronomer Dr. Henry Bronson in South Africa discovers that a planet he calls Zyra will collide to earth within eight months. A group of scientists get together to build a rocket\spaceship so a group of forty people can colonize Zyra. The movie has one major flaw. When they land on the new planet, they land snow\icy area. When they open the hatch, it is sunshine and green pastures. Still this is a good movie to watch. I give it an A.Movie Review: A classic that still holds up
Summary: 5 Stars
'After Worlds collide' was the first Sci-Fi book I ever read. I had seen 'When Worlds collide' several times over the years. Now here I was, on detention in the library, killing time. Then I see `After Worlds collide' on the shelf. Gee, I didn't know there was a part 2 to the movie, I thought. That's the day I became hooked on Sci-Fi. 23 years and 3000+ books later, I still am. This is the movie that really started it all for me.The DVD is short on special features, but the transfer quality is great, and the sound in good. Sure it's dated. Yea, the color is off. But it's still enjoyable.