DeepFriedJello
A dapper group of explorer's journey underground to find the woman's husband, and make scientific discoveries. Apparently they descend a few miles into the Earth, rather than to the center of the Earth. They meet many threatening creatures, but thankfully have a gun and amazing luck. I was surprised that they were always unruffled and clean shaven, but cleanliness is next to Godliness, right? If you can watch this without any knowledge of the Jules Verne classic, you may enjoy it. It actually was a bit entertaining. After 2 hours I thought it must be 3 hours. After 3 hours I decided it must be 4. I can't say that i would have watched it, if I knew it was that long, but it did kinda hook me in. the special effects were OK, not great. My wife liked it, and doesn't remember if she ever saw the '59 version. I did see the '59 version and it has always been a favorite of mine. Too bad they couldn't've found a different title.
Ray Girvan
This is a grab bag of elements of the Verne story filled out with various Rice Burroughs staples: fights, captures and escapes surrounding a patriarchal tribe whose men dress caveman-style and whose flawlessly-complexioned women wear little leather skirts and bikini tops; Amazon warriors; humanoid lizards; and a seasoning of dinosaurs. The whole thing is given a weird gloss by filtering out greens - presumably a cheap way to get the blue-foliage jungles - so the whole thing is in a blue/brown/red palette. I sort of enjoyed it; but being in hospital the day after an appendix operation, I guess I wasn't in a critically demanding mood.
ragreen259
But I have to say, it takes a set of balls the size of ostrich eggs to make a movie and put a title on it that belongs to an entirely different story. Jules Verne is spinning in his grave on this one, believe me--this isn't even vaguely in line with the book. None of the characters even have the same name, fer crying' out loud! There's tribes of lizard men and humans living down there, AND THE HUMANS SPEAK English!! I did find the movie entertaining however, my only real issue with it is blatantly stealing the name of one of the greatest science fiction fantasies ever written in history and dropping it on another story in the blatant interest of tricking people to come in and think that they're about to witness the real thing. For God's sake, they even credit Jules Verne!!! For what, writing the title? On the up side, the women are all beautiful, but on the other hand, the men don't look like any of them, at least the subterranean dwellers, have bathed in years. What IS that stuff on them, anyway, if not dirt.I hear that they're remaking Plan 9 From Outer Space next year, and they're going to call it Gone With the Wind.
sauron256
This film was just an ego-trip for evolutionists, allowing them to bring across that they teach 'the truth' and that everyone else is wrong. They try to do it in a way that is subtle, hoping that it won't be so offensive that way, but it still is.Even without this, the film is bad bad bad. The story-line and acting are nothing short of pathetic, especially the chick who falls in love with Treat; did they pick her up from the streets or something? If you want to see a good TV film, watch Jason and the Argonauts instead; Jason is much better than his brother Jeremy.
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