At the Earth's Core

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Summary: FlashX49
Review: This movie is a great classic sci-fi movie. Today's computer generated effects can hold nothing to this very creative and entertaining movie. They created a whole new world that was completely orginal and the story as well as the charters are very enjoyable. This movie has class and flair and even the music is enjoyable and fun. If you don't like this movie I questioned your respect for creative and fun movie making. I highly recommend this movie to all of those who enjoy sci-fi and just plain family fun kind of people. Try the other movies is this set, they include, the people that time forgot, the land that time forgot, and Warlords of Atlantis. This last movie is almost impossible to get the only copies I could get were generic copies. I wish the Amazon could get this movie in VHS or even better DVD.

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Summary: Entertaining and a classic.
Review: This movie starts good, but it get static, silly and stiff toward the mid-end of it. Overall: Fair to Good.

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Summary: Embarassingly bad sci-fi "epic".
Review: This ridiculous adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' straight-faced novel was probably not even meant to be taken seriously, but that is no excuse for its extreme badness. Two scientists (Peter Cushing and Doug McClure) pilot a giant drilling machine which goes off-course and winds up in a strange land in Earth's interior. In the original novel, the inner world of Pellucidar has no "time" as we understand it, because there are no astronomical events to measure the passage of time. Needless to say, there is no such interesting idea in the film version. Cushing, usually a fine actor, is embarassing to watch as a dotty old scientist with a "funny" vocal delivery which, in one scene, he forgets to do! (I guess the director didn't notice.) The inner world looks basically like a cheap amusement park ride, complete with highly unconvincing rubber monsters. Our intrepid heroes go thru the usual dangerous situations, all of which lack excitement. They return to the surface by popping up in front of the White House, causing two comic policemen to run around frantically. It's supposed to be funny, I guess.

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Summary: Oh well, at least the drilling machine still looks cool
Review: Though modestly entertaining, this movie isn't nearly as cool as I remember my teenage self thinking it was when it came out. And I think the reviewer from Brentwood Bay, Canada is onto something: several scenes looked suspiciously cropped (sometimes on the sides, sometimes on the top and bottom) for a true widescreen print. Some upshots: the print is otherwise in good shape, with rich colors; the drilling machine is still a neat thing to behold; and although some of the monsters' costumes aren't the best, the optical effects that integrate the monsters into the same shots with the actors (and make a normal-sized guy in a monster suit appear to be fifteen feet tall) are polished and work quite well. So, there's enough here for genre fans to enjoy, as long as one doesn't expect too much. Also fun to think about: Peter Cushing probably filmed "Star Wars" right after he made this movie. Think of the man's versatility; his sinister Grand Moff Tarkin character in "Star Wars" is nothing like the scatterbrained professor-type he plays here, yet he pulled off both parts beautifully.

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Summary: Another classic!
Review: When I was a kid, Doug Maclure movies were a Sunday afternoon tradition. Giant rubber dinosaurs and paper mache monsters. Awesome!!! Still as much fun to watch today as they were 20 years ago.

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Summary: Another classic!
Review: When I was a kid, Doug Maclure movies were a Sunday afternoon tradition. Giant rubber dinosaurs and paper mache monsters. Awesome!!! Still as much fun to watch today as they were 20 years ago.