Inclubabu Plot so thin, it es unnoticed.
2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!
Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Hitchcoc This is one of those adaptations of works of authors like Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Welles. While short on science, it's a fun venture into the stars. Of course, there is a simplistic romance that goes on. The space ship is primitive at best and wouldn't work at all, but we are in the realm of the speculators. This is played tongue in cheek and there are lots of funny bits. But it is a story of courage and effort to find out about the great beyond. There is an interesting confidence in the principle character. These writers weren't accurate scientifically, but they brought joy to the people of the time. Watch this for its colorful presentation of the great stories.
BA_Harrison Struggling entrepreneur Arnold Bedford (Edward Judd) invests in the latest invention by crackpot scientist Joseph Cavor (Lionel Jeffries): Cavorite, a substance that defies gravity. In order to test their product, the pair embark on a trip to the moon in a metal sphere, accompanied by Arnold's unwilling fiancé Kate Callendar (Martha Hyer). Once on the moon, the trio run into trouble with a race of technologically advanced bug-eyed creatures that Cavor calls Selenites.First Men In The Moon is an entertaining sci-fi yarn boasting great performances, solid direction from Nathan Juran, and some impressive visual effects (for the day), including a couple of nice Ray Harryhausen Dynamation creatures; but what I like best about the film is that it sticks steadfastly to H.G. Wells fanciful scientific invention, no matter how absurd it all gets. If the book was to be adapted for the screen these days, I have no doubt that much of the content would be drastically altered to make it seem more plausible, but in the process, Wells' story would be robbed of its innocent Victorian futurism charm.In Juran's 1964 movie, it's all intact: the crazy sphere with blinds coated in Cavorite, the massive caterpillar-like moon cows (sadly, not a thing, as we have since discovered), the weird and wonderful lunar vegetation, and the intelligent insectivorous beings (mostly realised via men in unconvincing rubber suits) who must create their own oxygen to breathe (which leaves one wondering how they evolved). The script, by Nigel Kneale, also throws in the silly idea of using deep sea diving suits as space attire, plus a near miss (of about 90 million miles) with the sun.It's all extremely daft, but therein lies the fun.
Rueiro Those were the days of innocence and magic in the cinema: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Time Machine, From the Earth to the Moon, First Men on the Moon…. All the films that carry me back to many Saturday afternoons glued to the TV screen when I was a young boy. Films that, when I see them again now that I grew up "educated" by modern special effects and CGI, draw a smile of pleasure on my face and revive the childish excitement and enthusiasm I once felt at the sight of those rubber dinosaurs and other nasty creatures made and operated by the unique genius and talent of that true Renaissance artisan of the art of animated miniatures that was the late Ray Harryhausen. I still the first time I saw First Men on the Moon on my grandparents' black and white TV set when I was about ten. It was either on the Easter or the Christmas holiday, I can't tell exactly which... but boy I loved the film! I really believed that the British had been to the moon in Victorian times, and I wondered why it had taken the Yanks, with all of their modern technology, seventy years to follow them. I never forgot this film, and decades later suddenly one day I came across it at a DVD store, and I simply couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that anyone at all had bothered to produce it on DVD in the first place, because... who will want to watch this film nowadays after all of the Star Wars, Alien and Jurassic Park stuff? Well, Columbia Tristar put it out on DVD, and not only that but the film is in its original widescreen format in all its glory and with a pristine image and sound quality, and it comes with a few extras among which there is lengthy documentary that is absolutely priceless to any Ray Harryhausen enthusiast. So, lock the door, disconnect the phone, pour yourself a good large drink and sit down to enjoy once again the charming fun and the humour of this fantastic little gem. There is the lovable Lionel Jeffries as the crackpot inventor, the fantastic lunar landscapes that make you wish you were there, the superb sphere with its furnished and fully upholstered interior as only the Victorians could do to travel in comfort, the creepy Selenites, the giant caterpillar… What else could one ask for?
DKosty123 I rate this one fairly high based upon the visual effects. The H G Wells novel is followed so faithfully that the script at times borders on the ridiculous. Still, it is quite an effort. 5 years before man went too the moon, this is not the first version of this, but it is the best visual of it. There are some cave sequences of this which look very much like the caverns used in Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff. The images in this one and the sets are amazing. This one comes off as rather simplistic for todays audience.Martha Hyer and Lionel Jeffries are the best known of the cast. Though it is dated, it is quite watchable.
