Beyond The Time Barrier (1960) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_385" align="alignright" width="353"] Official Score = 2 Devils[/caption]

Starring: Robert Clarke (The Man From Planet X), Darlene Tompkins (Charlie’s Angels), Vladimir Sokoloff (Twilight Zone), Boyd, ‘Red’ Morgan (Foxy Brown), Stephen Bekassy (The Four Horseman Of The Apocalypse), Arianne Ulmer (The Naked Venus), John Van Dreelen (The Money Pit), & Ken Knox (The Giant Gila Monster).

Now this one is an interesting one, because I am pretty certain that this movie is indirectly responsible for a lot of the accidental time travel movies of the 1980s… You see, this movie tells the story of how Major William Allison (Clarke), the lead research pilot at the Sands Air Force Base gets thrown forward in to the future when he is testing an experimental aircraft in to space…

Once he gets there, he finds that he is confronted with a plague ridden Earth, where most of the closest to normal humans have created a totalitarian society underground, with the mutants living on the surface… (neither of which can pro-create and both civilizations are dying out…)

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="448"] Major WIlliam Allison (Robert Clarke) as checks out this strange new world![/caption]

Once he is forced underground, the leader, ‘The Supreme’ (Sokoloff) panders to Allison in the hopes of having him mate with his daughter, ‘Trirene’ (Tompkins), and help to re-populate the planet… While a small group of humans that have also been sent to the future are hopping to use him and his plane in an effort for him to go back in time and stop the plague!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="512"] If Major Allison can make it back home, then maybe he can save the woman that he loves![/caption]

In the end though, and with no one Allison can absolutely trust (besides Trirene), he will have to navigate dangerous waters in this future, so that he can get home and warn the world before the plague has the chance to destroy the world!

In the end, this movie was surprisingly well done, it had a great cast, some fun special effects, and a great story… The only problem that I really have with this movie, is that there is a pretty significant plot hole (which I probably should not tell you guys about…)

In the end though, this movie is fun and action packed, and if you like these classic Science Fiction movies, then you might like this one as well.

http://youtu.be/MQXoRAlXl4U

Looper (2012) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

Last year really kind of helped bring the faith back to me in the future of the movie industry! I mean there was so many good ones out there, 'The Dark Knight Rises', being one of them as well as, 'Safe' being another one as well!

And for the first time in years I had really become excited about going to the theater again (I hadn't really spent that much time at the theater for the last few years, since most of the movies that I had seen in theaters were pretty awful and not worth the prices!)

Unfortunately though there was a series of movies that I had missed out on going to see in the movie theater last year, and one of them was Looper (2012)!

Written & Directed by: Rian Johnson (Brick). Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises), Bruce Willis (The Fifth Element), Emily Blunt (The Adjustment Bureau), Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine), Jeff Daniels (Speed), Pierce Gangnon (The Crazies), Qing Xu (The Founding Of A Republic) & Garrett Dillahunt (The Last House On The Left).

I was glad that I could say that I had seen this movie though recently on demand though...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="512"] You might want to start making some changes to your life if you find yourself being held at gun point by yourself![/caption]

You see Rian Johnson did a great job in setting up a world where your lead character (played as younger man by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and as an older man by Bruce Willis), who is a low life who works for the mob of the future (literally) as a hit man who kills people sent back from the future to his time, and what would happen if his final mark was... Himself!

I also liked the duality of forces between his younger version, who wanted to live his mostly isolated semi self involved life, and his older self who at this point is willing to do what ever it takes to destroy the man that destroyed the happy existence that he had waited all his life to achieve!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as he waits to kill his next, 'mark'![/caption]

The next thing that I have to say that I also really liked is the personal (albeit unintentional) life changing that the main character (Joe) goes through, as he not only tries to get his life back, but also tries to protect a single mother and her child from... Well basically himself!

 In the end, this movie is a surprisingly great time, and reminded me of how much I enjoyed Sci-Fi/Action movies of the 1990s... And if you give it a try, you might as well!

http://youtu.be/eI3ju17W070