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Riverworld (2003)
Very Disappointed!
I was very disappointed. This movie managed to take the science out of science fiction. They had a great premise...death and then being reborn in another world or spiritual realm. The first 5 minutes were great with the bubbles of people coming up to the top and the people coming up on shore. But then from here on out it was all down hill. Except for certain landscape scenes this was the END of the special effects! The story was plain and silly. Good guys get captured, good guys escape. Then they build a steamboat! What?! I said to myself! MacGyver would be proud! The end was a mystery to me...see if you can figure it out.
They clearly needed a larger budget. They movie should have made the conflict more complex. They should have given us more background on the lead character. They should have gone into the theological aspect and the 'aliens/gods?' characters. Also they should have made this into a miniseries so to acheive the above objectives. Here are my grades:
Acting: C Special effects: F storyline: D
Overall Grade: D
The Martian Chronicles (1980)
On the whole not very good
Here is how I would grade it: Special effects C- acting C- storyline D
The last 2 stories didn't make any sense! A bunch of mumbo jumbo philosophy from a martian that didn't make any sense AT ALL! The story about how the astronaughts were tricked into beleiveing they were home was the only part of it I liked.
Also, its somewhat preachy and unduly negative about the human race. You can tell it was written during the cold war, I guess he thought we would end up blowing each other up.(USA/USSR) Now that the cold war is over and we DIDNT blow each other up, the message seems somewhat outdated.