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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Terrornauts (1967) in Movies

Oct 20, 2019  
The Terrornauts (1967)
The Terrornauts (1967)
1967 | Sci-Fi
2
2.5 (2 Ratings)
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Almost wholly inept British sci-fi B-movie. Aliens abduct a shed containing two astronomers, their secretary, an accountant, and the institute's tea lady in order to secure their help in repelling an attack on the Earth.

Starts slow, is dull in the middle, gets very silly towards the end (it's the kind of movie which seems to assume that the audience for SF films is made up of very young children and congenital idiots). Production values and special effects manage to be even worse than you'd expect, but deserves such a low score mainly because it doesn't contain a single interesting or original idea. Every bit as poor as its reputation would suggest.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Daigoro Vs Goliath (1972) in Movies

Aug 4, 2019 (Updated Aug 4, 2019)  
Daigoro Vs Goliath (1972)
Daigoro Vs Goliath (1972)
1972 | Family, Fantasy
5
5.0 (3 Ratings)
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Almost indescribably weird Japanese children's film takes all the tropes of the giant monster genre and somehow manages to make them thoroughly whimsical and charming. Up to a point, anyway. Anyone wondering about the sanitation arrangements on Monster Island will enjoy the giant monster toilet which turns up in this film.

The monster suits are awful, the acting mainly consists of the broadest kind of slapstick and people shouting at one another, and even the special effects are decidedly ropey. Yet we must remember this was a children's film and it does have a very peculiar gentle charm to it. If you like Japanese SF movies anyway. Everyone else will probably find it totally unwatchable.
  
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Ande Thomas (69 KP) rated Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3) in Books

May 30, 2019  
Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3)
Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3)
James S.A. Corey | 2013 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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I've said it before, I'll say it again. The Expanse is hands down the best SF series this side of Frank Herbert. The story is so tight, the characters so real, and the plot threads so engaging, it blows my mind that the show adaptation was hanging by a thread. Not that the show should have any bearing on the books. The Expanse is <i>exactly</i> what I've been wanting out of a science fiction universe for years. It hits all the buttons for me and hits them hard.

In this installment, every conflict seems dire. The villains are sinister and competent, the protomolecule is apathetically devastating, and humanity is unsurprisingly shortsighted and self-centered. What could go wrong?

All hail JSAC.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) in Movies

Mar 14, 2018  
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
1957 | Sci-Fi
8
7.7 (6 Ratings)
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The Jack Arnold SF B-movie that was always critically acceptable eschews schlocky thrills, mostly, for a more psychologically resonant drama. Plot sounds daft - businessman gets caught in radioactive cloud, starts to have trouble with his shoe size - but the treatment is absolutely serious.

Film manages to make trying to avoid being eaten by your cat or a passing spider seem like a genuinely deadly struggle, but it is just as much about the psychological effects of the main character's transformation as he struggles to maintain his sense of self-worth (size matters, if you know what I mean). The actual ending is somewhat obscure transcendental bibble-bobble, but this is a typically solid Arnold movie which is unusually open about its serious subtext.