Official Score = 3 1/2 Devils[/caption]For years now I have been a fan of both Horror and Science Fiction movies, and you know what? Generally speaking it seems like to me that with Horror movies, I usually come out of the movie feeling very satisfied, and sometimes I have even come out of the movie wanting to buy it!
With Science Fiction I feel very similar… That is to say I am also a huge fan of the Science Fiction genre, and frankly oft times I also come out of those movies either very happy with my selection… I would even go so far to say that I usually end up wanting to build the Science Fiction side of my library!
But you know what truly defines a great movie? When that movie actually electrifies you!
Now I am not talking that you get a jolt of actual Electricity... But it is not far from it… I mean you get that intense jolt of adrenaline that one gets when seeing a truly awesome movie, so much so that when you get out of the movie you can’t stop thinking about how great that movie was and it stays with you for a bit afterward… If you have had that then, you know what I am talking about!
And you know what? The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) was just one of those movies!
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Michael Paré with Bobby Di Cicco in, 'The Philadelpha Experiment'![/caption]Starring: Michael Paré (Solar Force), Nancy Allen (Carrie), Eric Christmas (Air Bud), Bobby Di Cicco (Night Shift), Kene Holliday (The District) and Stephen Tobolowsky (Groundhog Day).
The Philadelphia Experiment, tells the story about how in 1943 an experiment on board a A Navy Destroyer that went horribly wrong and ended up transporting two sailors by the name of David Herdeg (Paré), and Jim Parker (Di Cicco) that were on board the ship from 1943 to 1984…
Once they get to this foreign world though, they are not much better off… You see, besides the fact that both of them are both way out of date, and have no idea what seems to be going on, one of them is experiencing weird pain… But despite all of that, the world is coming to an end due to the fact that no one seems to be able to seal up the hole, and the hole seems to be sucking everything in to it!
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Herdeg with the one friend he and his friend, 'Jim Paker' have been able to make since being thrown in to the future![/caption]And once Jim finally disappears, David and his new friend, ‘Alison’ (Allen) will stop at nothing to find out what happened to him and his ship, and ultimately to maybe regain some sort of semblance of his life… It is the ride of his life!
In the end, this movie was freakin amazing… Now for those of you who don’t know, this movie is supposedly loosely based on the true story of an experiment that went wrong during World War 2… (And did a great job with the story line I suspect because of that…)
The truth is though is that they don’t make Science Fiction movies like that anymore… I mean this movie had some amazing talent that just did a fantastic job! Admittedly the special effects are a little campy… But what can you expect? I mean this movie is almost 30 years old, and in all truth I have to admit that the special effects (despite their campy appeal were part of what made this movie so awesome!)
The last thing that I wanted to mention here is the fact that this movie had an amazing script, with an awesome story line… the reason I say this, is that I saw a documentary on the, ‘Real’ Philadelphia Experiment, and in truth, at least according to the documentary, the way the movie depicted the events on the ship in 1943, were pretty close to what really happened, and the plight of the two Sailors lost in time (something that as far as I know didn’t actually happen) was amazingly well written!
In the end, this movie, I thought was just awesome… And if you check it out you might think the same!
http://youtu.be/iURHeZ3Qv8E
