Comments on: Movie Review: First Men in the Moon

By: veggiecar300

veggiecar300 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:22:52 +0000

BTW, another good one to see mentioned here would be the “At the Earth’s Core” (1976), director Kevin Connor. As a musician I dig the vintage synth sounds. As a steampunk fan I dig the contraption. As a sci-fi buff I dig the story.

You’ll hate the “old doctor” charachter, as it is virtually the same charachter as Dr. Cavor – although he looks strangely like General Tarkin from Star Wars.

By: veggiecar300

veggiecar300 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:14:55 +0000

Instead of summarizing the entire plot of the movie, the best reviewers actually review the movie. Talk about WHY the movie was bad… tell me how you would have done it better… something other than a 5th grade book report.

By: Jim K

Jim K — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:34:21 +0000

Actually, every caterpillar from the moon that I’ve seen had mandibles and compound eyes. Not that I’ve seen that many actually…

By: The Retro Blog » A retro future vision of a retro future: The First Men in the Moon

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:07:47 +0000

[...] Brass Goggles has an in-depth review of the film from a modern steampunk point of view. [...]

By: The Infernal Mr Adams

The Infernal Mr Adams — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:06:49 +0000

Ooops! I meant soundcircus, my mistake :/

By: soundcircus

soundcircus — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:49:51 +0000

The British flag is called the ‘union jack’ not union flag.

By: Lord Admiral

Lord Admiral — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:43:23 +0000

A lot of people have mentioned that you shouldn’t go into a movie like this expecting great special effects. I didn’t mean to give the impression in my review that this was what I was after. I usually quite like movies like this, and have quite a fondness for people in suits (even bad ones), stop motion, blue screens, giant foam monsters, etc. I just would have liked to see the monsters be a bit more threatening. Even in large numbers, they present very little threat to our heroes.

I definitely hear what you’re all saying about knowing what you’re getting into when going to see these films. I only wish this movie hadn’t built up so many elements (the elephant gun, the ray gun, the caterpillars, the alien leader, the danger to the modern astronauts, etc) and then never delivered on a single one.

By: Janis

Janis — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:03:07 +0000

The scene begins with our heroes passing an enormous caterpillar.

WHA–oh.

By: Cory The Raven

Cory The Raven — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:35:43 +0000

@Lt. J. Butcher

So long as they don’t have the chicken from “War Gods of the Deep”…

By: Sigil VII

Sigil VII — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:59:01 +0000

Well, it sounds like Lord Admiral picked the movie up and doled out an ureasonable $25 for it, expecting to see amazing special effects and Victorian sci-fi from Mr. Harryhausen and Mr. Wells, but was sorely disappointed.

I think I could enjoy a film like this. Definitely sounds campy. Am under the correct impression that this film was loosely based on an H. G. Wells novel? I don’t know his work that well.

By the way, caterpillars do, in fact, have mandibles. I found a video clip of the creature on YouTube (at about 2:06 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kmjW73-v4) and I have to say it looks pretty good. Really good. Except… well, while caterpillars do have mandibles, they do not have compound eyes.