最先登上月球的人 (1964)
这出1964年的经典幻想片，是根据作家H.G. Well的作品改编而成，将他幻想中的月球探险记，栩栩如生搬上大银幕。片中描写1964年时，一群集结顶尖航天员的太空小队登陆月球了，他们深信自己是登上月球的首批先锋，全世界也为之欢欣鼓舞。但是不久后，欢呼变成了讶异，航天员发现了一面破旧的英国国旗，以及一份文件，文件中声明月球已被维多莉亚女王所征服！此事震惊了地球上所有的科学家，正当大家陷入迷惑之际，一位90余岁的老人亚诺（爱德华贾德 饰）出面说明了一切……1899年时，亚诺巧遇一名古怪的科学家乔瑟夫，他发明了一种可以抵抗地心引力的浆糊，并自制了一艘宇宙飞船，于是他说服亚诺带着女友凯瑟琳（马莎海儿 饰），三人一同前往月球。当他们成功踏上月球表面后，遇上了恐怖的外星居民，这些像蚂蚁、又像蜜蜂的居民，由皇后、士兵与工仆所组成，牠们对这群地球访客心怀不轨……这三个月球先锋最后是如何逃出月球的呢？此片是导演纳森朱兰、与特效大师雷哈利韩森再次携手的惊人之作，创造出一个令人瞠目结舌、过目难忘的月球世界！
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1964, the first American sets foot on the surface of the moon only to find out the British have been there already in 1899. An example of British imperialistic hubris in UK movies? In Lifeforce (1985) the British even have their own space shuttle program. An inventor, Cavor (Lionel Jeffries) invents a coating named cavorite. Cavorite shields the gravitational force much like a curtain shields sunlight. Somehow I find that completely plausible. If photons, the bearers of the electromagnetic force can be absorbed, why can gravitons, the bearers of the gravitational force not? For me the fact that no one invented cavorite is proof that the gravitational force is a completely different beast altogether. I am sorry this analysis does…
Who would watch this film and say, you know, an hour fiddling around inventing rocket travel with some light comedy isn't enough! Forget the moon itself, I want an entire film that's just about making the rockets! Harry Alan Towers, that's who, with his production Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon made three years later, also with Lionel Jeffries. So if I am overly generous with the rating here, keep in mind that not only do they build a rocket in this one (more of a ball, really), but they take it to the moon and encounter some incredibly cool bug aliens, both of the kids-in-bug-costumes variety and stop motion. Also, a giant vicious stop motion caterpillar, all done by…
Ray Harryhausen's massive sub-lunar alienscape is the true star in this Verne adapted sci-fi satire, a cinematic cousin to "20,000 Leagues." Juran's vibe is mildly Disneyfied steampunk, a scenic adventure where even congenial madman Jeffries feels a bit extraneous in his velvet-lined spaceship.
Films I Watched On TCM / Film4 While I Was 'Working' Wonderful poster, wonderful title - and so nearly a wonderful film. It's a strange thing in a sci-fi adventure such as First Men In The Moon for the bit before they actually set off on their adventure to be more fun than the adventure itself. Once Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd and Martha Hyer (<3) do get to the moon, this film is just not nearly as good. It dispenses with most of the delightful comedy that the first half is shot through with for a slightly disappointing tale about aliens (that looked suspiciously like Clangers) and something that didn't really make full sense to me. To be honest, I…
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