Lots of clever bits and gadgets in the first 1/2 hr about what 1980 will be like. Too bad they decided it was to be a musical..kind of takes away from the plot, when they break into song every now and then. Definitely worth seeing if you can catch it.
shareThe plot suffers a lot more from the deadly pacing. I don't think the few songs (what are there, six?) are much of a burden. In fact, I think they liven things up a little. For me, the completely bizarre trip to Mars (including the dance number there) makes the whole film.
It's very funny that the prologue depicts the streets of 19th century Manhattan as quiet and calm. In reality, they were snarled with carriages, horses, pedestrians, pigs, chickens, etc. and were also quite filthy.
"Please! You're not at home!"
It's very funny that the prologues depicts the streets of 19th century Manhattan as quiet and calm. In reality, they were snarled with carriages, horses, pedestrians, pigs, chickens, etc. and were also quite filthy.
Yes, folks in 1930 had a romanticized, idealized view of the past, just as we romanticize the 1950s or 1960s today. Nostalgia is never what it used to be.
All the universe . . . or nothingness. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?
Yes, folks in 1930 had a romanticized, idealized view of the past,Actually, the 19th century was often portrayed as grimy and miserable in the 1930s. share
I think this is a movie that I can rate a "one" and a "ten" at the same time. Some of it is brilliant and then some of it is silly but you cannot knock the special effects and the music numbers for its time as an early "talkie". Of course we now know how the Flash Gordon serials got their rocketship design. In fact the take-off of the rocketship is done very well in this film as well its brief flight over the city. Of course none of this that I can see came into the real world of 1980 and very little of this is coming into the 21 century right now.
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The view of 1880 was as extreme and silly as 1980. I took this as humor, not an attempt at a documentary. :)
And as always the people cry out, "Where is my flying car?!" We're long overdue.
i agree!!
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