All the reviewers here aren't kidding; this is Italian-made science-fiction movie from 1966 is a stinker. It will bore you do death. It's really tough to watch the entire 80 minutes, it's so dull.
I had high hopes in the beginning because the DVD transfer was good, the color was good and even the sets and special-effects were better than I anticipated. The little toy space ships and other artifacts looked cool! But then, it's just talk, talk, and more talk for a long period....and not even interesting talk. Later, there are a few action scenes but they are extremely short. The color in this film remains very strong and kudos to the people responsible for the DVD transfer. This is a colorful, devoid-of-grain picture. The problem is the weak story.
It's a futuristic story and we see a bunch of people observing that earth is being pummeled with environmental problems due to something, but what? No, this is not some global warming goobledy-gook but something odd going on in space that is affecting Earth. The commander yells several times at his subordinate because he doesn't want fellow space station workers depressed watching the TV showing what's happening back home (tidal waves, etc.).
"Something is disturbing Gamma One's gravity quadrant," is typical of the dialog. "We have a gyro disturbance," says someone else moments later. Huh? Three astronauts went beyond the gravitational pull and have to be rescued. Those scenes go slowly like "2001: A Space Odyssey," but without the realism of the latter. Then, afterward comes more bickering as to whether than operation could have been more successful. These are like immature kids, and they are running this operation? It's all very dumb.
Much of the time is spent with inane dialog that isn't cheesy-funny, it's just boring which, as one other viewer puts it, is the ultimate sin of any movie. Every time these astronauts attempt to do anything (except at the end) they mostly fail and then wind up arguing all the time. Imagine if that happened in real life; nothing would have ever been accomplished.
Why was the Earth in trouble? The problem was that an asteroid was on a collision course with it, and that was causing the problems. If the thing isn't destroyed, it will totally ruin our planet, so that's the mission of our heroes here - take that asteroid out. It seems to be a familiar story in the genre. One wonders then about the USA title to this film - "War Between The Planets" - since there is no war between the planets.
This was part of a double feature DVD and thank goodness, the other movie was a lot better.
I had high hopes in the beginning because the DVD transfer was good, the color was good and even the sets and special-effects were better than I anticipated. The little toy space ships and other artifacts looked cool! But then, it's just talk, talk, and more talk for a long period....and not even interesting talk. Later, there are a few action scenes but they are extremely short. The color in this film remains very strong and kudos to the people responsible for the DVD transfer. This is a colorful, devoid-of-grain picture. The problem is the weak story.
It's a futuristic story and we see a bunch of people observing that earth is being pummeled with environmental problems due to something, but what? No, this is not some global warming goobledy-gook but something odd going on in space that is affecting Earth. The commander yells several times at his subordinate because he doesn't want fellow space station workers depressed watching the TV showing what's happening back home (tidal waves, etc.).
"Something is disturbing Gamma One's gravity quadrant," is typical of the dialog. "We have a gyro disturbance," says someone else moments later. Huh? Three astronauts went beyond the gravitational pull and have to be rescued. Those scenes go slowly like "2001: A Space Odyssey," but without the realism of the latter. Then, afterward comes more bickering as to whether than operation could have been more successful. These are like immature kids, and they are running this operation? It's all very dumb.
Much of the time is spent with inane dialog that isn't cheesy-funny, it's just boring which, as one other viewer puts it, is the ultimate sin of any movie. Every time these astronauts attempt to do anything (except at the end) they mostly fail and then wind up arguing all the time. Imagine if that happened in real life; nothing would have ever been accomplished.
Why was the Earth in trouble? The problem was that an asteroid was on a collision course with it, and that was causing the problems. If the thing isn't destroyed, it will totally ruin our planet, so that's the mission of our heroes here - take that asteroid out. It seems to be a familiar story in the genre. One wonders then about the USA title to this film - "War Between The Planets" - since there is no war between the planets.
This was part of a double feature DVD and thank goodness, the other movie was a lot better.