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This Island Earth

This Island Earth

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: interociterribly cool
Review: I had the 15min 8mm Castle Films for years! A must for the Sci-Fi rookie - an ABSOLTE must for the collector!!!

Dick Brunning

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great old time sci-fi movie probally the best
Review: Sense the first time I saw this movie (The mst3000 way) I fell in love with it and i have been looking every where for a poster or some memrobilla of the movie. The first thing i have seen was on Sat. Sept. 11, 1999 at Universal Studios there was a poster of the movie i was amazed. I cant wait till i get the real copy of the movie well i hope that everyone gets to like this movie as much as i do

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great 50's sci-fi
Review: The special effects are chessy by todays standards. But who cares? The movie is fun to watch. . A must see if you love 50's sci-fi. It also has the Professor from Gilligian's Island in it. Unerrated actor. Dies well.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Humor in cheese...
Review: If you love the classic kamp scifi movies of the early/mid 20th century, you'll love this movie. Its a movie that's so bad, its actually funny. One of my favorites...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A review from Mr. Entertainment Lover
Review: This film about two people going to another planet is terrible and corny in every way. Watch the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version instead.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A very excelent movie if you seen the other version
Review: This movie isn't realy a bad movie. I thought it was a very good sci-fi movie. Still as I watch this one the Jokes from Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie keep playing in my head. You have to check out Mystery Science Theater 3000. Makes the movie much better.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent !!!
Review: Ahead of its time in every aspect. It paved the way for the sci-fi films of today. If you enjoy science fiction, you will like this movie !!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: See The Movie & Read The Book ...
Review: The original novel, This Island Earth by Raymond F. Jones, on which the movie was based, is now for sale on Amazon.Com! Search "This Island Earth" in the books category!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I enjoyed the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version better.
Review: This movie is from the golden age of science fiction movies, offering outdated special effects that are fun and cheesy. This is not a movie that provokes much in the way of mental stimulation as it is from a perspective of space travel as something that is fantastic. However, after watching this movie, rent the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of this movie and see if the witty criticisms that are thrown out comply with your own. This is a classic.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Classic Of Early Science Fiction
Review: It has taken me a few decades but I have finally seen the film This Island Earth (I had to buy it first). I must say that I was not disappointed by this well-crafted tale.

A physicist working on new power from uranium and the transmutation of elements to create more uranium, gets involved in a project of a far grander scale. Replacement parts are ordered for the lab but the parts that arrive seem far superior to anything that should be available. Then a catalogue of other equipment arrives and soon the lab is set on building a strange device.

The device is a communications console which puts the scientist in contact with a white-haired man seeking out talented scientists to tackle the issue of world-wide peace. The scientist joins a small think-tank of top researchers who are working on increasing the energy available from nuclear reactions. But it soon becomes apparent that all is not what it seems. The head of the project, and his assistant, are actually aliens. They are hoping that the human scientists can come up with a way to save their home planet.

The story then escalates to include the alien world and their plight at the hands of a second, and vicious, race of aliens. We learn of motives, deceits, and how far the peaceful will go to save their own home. Distrust and compassion struggle against one another until the film's conclusion.

This is not a typical B-movie of alien invasion. Unlike most of that type this film was not a quick project. Two and a half years were spent in the making so that the film is pretty well consistent within itself. The pacing of the plot's revelations is well handled and almost resembles a classic tale of A.E. van Vogt. This is definitely a film for fans of the great black and white science fiction films.


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