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Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

alexanderdavies-99382 This film isn't what I would describe as a typical science fiction film. The plot serves as a prediction as to how our world has evolved into the place it has become.Edward Judd - hardly ed now - is a savagely witty and cynical journalist whose newspaper he works for, provides the latest news with regards to the rather unusual weather that takes place.The screenplay is an excellent one and is brought to life by a gallery of familiar character actors, including Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe amongst others.

MartinHafer "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" is an intelligently made but incredibly depressing film. The Earth is screwed in this drama. It seems that the US and USSR simultaneously tested nuclear devices and there's been an unforeseen problem...the blasts have affected the Earth's axis. Only later do they realize that the Earth is also now slowly drifting towards the sun. The magnitude of this as well as the possible solution are only discussed late in the film. In between, you see the story unfolding from the viewpoint of a group of reporters. The overall effect is rather realistic as well as super-depressing. While other Earth in peril films have been made, this is earlier and more intelligently made than most. The film has a few minor problems related to special effects but considering when it was made and its budget, the film actually is remarkably good. Certainly not a feel-good movie but one that is very well presented. Some might hate the ending--I thought it quite appropriate and well done, though I did think the social chaos in the film was probably way understated if such a situation ever occurred. Not a crackpot or bug-eyed monster sort of sci-fi film, that's for sure.

Dalbert Pringle Movie tag-line - "The Incredible Becomes REAL!... The Impossible Becomes FACT!... The Unbelievable Becomes TRUE!" You know, if I'm not mistaken, this 1961 Doomsday-Thriller was the very first picture to prominently display the all-familiar "peace sign" in its story. (This happened during an anti-nuclear protest in London) This peace sign is now, of course, famous, worldwide. But, back in 1961, it wasn't. It was originally designed by British artist Gerald Holtom in 1958 to help the nuclear disarmament movement back then.And, speaking about the likes of nuclear disarmament - I think that you should see this taut "Countdown-To-Catastrophe" movie for yourself and be the judge as to whether it condones or condemns this sort of thing.See just how the scriptwriters carefully weighed the pros & cons of this particular matter and then presented that outlook to the audience in a fairly intelligent manner.Anyways - Regardless of its glaring flaws and half-baked scientific guess-work, this 53-year-old British production was still well-worth a view.But, be warned - This vintage "End-of-the-World" picture was loaded with plenty of stock footage during its scenes that depicted worldwide disaster. And this, of course, helped to render its overall visual effects as being somewhat wishy-washy, in the long run.

felixoteiza This movie is so good, it hurts. Someone should tell me how the brits were once able to spurt out masterpieces like this, just like a kitchen oven spits out bread buns. And TDECF just seems to get better with each viewing. Those two orange-tinted sequences that frame the entire movie are simply beyond praise. How to say it in words? Behold the deserted streets, the empty riverbeds; the haunting, slow, drumbeat coming from somewhere; is that the heartbeat of a dying Earth, or rather the muffled strokes of distant church bells? And those terrible words that resonate all of the sudden like bullets in an empty City Hall: "The time is now 10.41...19 minutes before countdown...19 minutes". And then, a solitary Janet Munro, her fragile silhouette framed against the door of a deserted switchboard room. There's something childlike about her presence there, a rare mix of innocent curiosity and apprehensive expectation, as she hesitantly waddles her way to the switchboard. And the movie is barely 3 minutes old! That opening alone is enough to put TDTECF amongst the best. But even better is that final pub scene, the most poignant of the movie, with Harry and May watching their whole life escaping them in front of their eyes, while trying desperately to keep a stiff lip, holding to whatever they have left. As someone put it well, there's nothing sadder than a deserted pub when the world is about to end. (it seems confusing, but both tinted bits don't follow each other. Most of the second, until Peter leaves the pub, goes right before he appears in the first, after the ing car. Then, what's left of it completes the speech he started at the end of the first) This is what I would call a flawless movie. After several views I can't still find it fault. Maybe Stenning being just a bit too angry, but I guess that's part of the plot. A plot that's quite simple: an alcoholic reporter, and a bit of a loser, finds love and redemption when his path crosses that of a typical girl-next-door switchboard clerk, just about when the world is about to end. Or will it? Anyway, the writing is superb, the dialogues great and I have no problem with the characters being too witty--which some have criticized--as I assume they reserve their quote of lame one-liners for the times when they're off camera. Some have criticized also the great use of newsreels, but I disagree. That kind of material perfectly blends with what's going in the movie, what the cosmic disaster reserves for all of us, and give the story a eerie feeling of indisputable authenticity.I have watch bits of Munro's later movies in You Tube and I can't figure out why her career took a turn for the worse later, as here she's brilliant, luminous. She brights up every scene she's on and I must conclude that those Disney years were not that bad for her after all. And what she can't do with a good line (Don't make it so easy, be hard to get, make me fight for you!) She's also the lone protagonist of what must be one of the most erotic bits in movie History, that of her lying in bed after setting Peter in the bathroom and before the phone call. Her beautiful eyes longingly cast on the light under the door, her sweaty, palpitating, chest brimming with barely concealed intensity. This is a scene you have to watch in slow motion to fully appreciate and one that perfectly illustrates what Guest says in the commented version of the DVD, that the best thing is not to show but to suggest.And of course the science behind the plot is B.S. but if the creators of Casablanca got away with making Gen. De Gaulle a big shot in Vichy's , who's counting? (as I recall, what makes Earth keep its orbital path around the sun isn't its rotation, but its inertial momentum; i.e., its speeding mass. And also, its rotation depends solely on its angular momentum. A-bombs going off in the poles won't do a thing, as they won't produce torque. In the Equator instead they would have a chance, if any, to do damage. BTW: the Chilean quake of Feb 2010 released energy equal to 1 million Hiroshima bombs or 400 50--megaton bombs, the biggest ever built, and that barely shortened the day in a tiny fraction of a second).All in all, a neglected masterpiece. Which is as well, as nobody will likely try to do remakes or a sequels to it. I say 8.5/10 on 10.