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MOVIE UNDERRATED

posted 9 years ago by hizherz
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This is one of the best Sci-Fi movies ever made. Especially for it's time. Acting was great. Even the monkey. Scenery was beautiful. I rate this a 9.

[–] randyferron 9 years ago

agree first saw this in a drive-in movie theater in New Jersey when I was 10. Still love the effects
Love the alien ships made a model using small 3 inch hull of war of the worlds without neck. Painted silver with greenish blue on front. Mounted round red jewel on bottom for weapon array
For photo email is [email protected] if interested

Also love the music

[–] ms-zanadu 9 years ago

That's really excellent randyferron
your own personal handmade fan model spacecraft to treasure
and an awesome memory collectable of this film too  .

Thanks also randyferron for sharing this with us here as well  .

[–] ms-zanadu 9 years ago

Just got through watching this film on the MOVIES! Channel  .

Totally agree this movie does seem very underrated
and almost forgotten about  .

I only hope this MOVIE! channel or another channel like COMET will
show this lost gem again soon  .

Thanks so much hizherz for your subject post  .

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18433) 4 years ago

I wouldn't go that far. But it's far better than it has any reason to be. However I do wonder if the movie would had been improved if Adam West was the main character instead of Paul Mantee. Mantee isn't necessarily bad but he's not that charismatic a leading man.

[–] strntz (12773) 2 years ago

Adam West was probably too stoic and pretty for this gritty role. I thought Mantee and Sundlin were both excellent in this.

[–] whynotwriteme (7817) 2 years ago

I agree. I first saw this on TV back when I was a kid and I liked it even more than "Forbidden Planet".

[–] parkerbot (10735) a year ago

Agree. Thought it would be horrible but it was great.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15124) a year ago

This one is a particular favorite that dad and I share. Despite the inaccuracies and the cheesy special-effects, it's a good story. Dad introduced this movie to me as a kid.

The only part I got tired of was the radar going off all the time whenever an evil alien saucer went overhead, or the oxygen alarm goes off and Mona would screech. That got annoying after a few times in the film.