"The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies of the 1950s" Topic

"The 1950s are considered the "Golden Age" of science fiction cinema, and that's not just hyperbole. By many accounts, more than 200 sci-fi movies were released during that decade. And while the film industry had sporadically produced quality sci-fi in the years before—ranging from Aelita (1924) to Metropolis (1927), to The Invisible Man (1933)—it wasn't until the 1950s that classic after classic began to arrive like riches from a long-lost hidden treasure.

And when we say classic, we mean films that essentially created the template for all science fiction movies that followed. Just look at this list. The first half of the decade brought us The Thing from Another World, When Worlds Collide, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Godzilla, and Them!, while the second half ushered in This Island Earth, Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Blob, The Fly, and On the Beach…"

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Armand

Some of those DESERVE to be underrated.
I'll let you guess which ones.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an interesting British one, but from 1961. Feels like a 50s sci-fi film, tho!

(smile)

Armand

"It! The Terror from Beyond Space"

The original ALIEN move is basically the exact same plot as this 1958 movie!

In Space No One Can Hear You Plagiarize!

Kim

I love all the mentioned films and many others. Saturday I watched "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman." Too bad she couldn't find the "60 Foot Man."

Ha!…

Armand

Basically every film is near identical to others.

Don't get me started.

JP lost world, a place beyond the Pines. Both read to Hamlet, for example.

Inception, the matric. Eg. Waking up in a bath.

I can't remember the name of the film, but it had a killer jumping about down a fire escape then holding a gun to the hero's head, just like…Alien 3. It was a good shock when I twigged to that.

Lots of films are identical to others, sometimes scenes may be switched about, but it's still obvious. They are running off the say play books, although I wonder, if they aren't just direct copies, as how could two so similar films be derived from something else, yet be identical.

Got my suspicions about return of the king and new flight of the Phoenix, probably the next I'll look at.

I find it humerus when people complain about a film not being like the book, or not being historically accurate. Perhaps because they are shoe horned into a second story? I suspect this is done, although I think it has always been, not that I was ever taught about it, to avoid legal issues.

If someone says you ripped off their story, you can just say you actually ripped off an out of copyright story.

I'm now looking at novels, will this horror never end?

Glup!

Armand

If your calling me "dumb or stupid," think again.

I just watched the Philadelphia experiment.

Every time someone has a hand issue, they are getting shot at about two minutes later.

Another one I'm keen to investigate.

It also looks likely to be American werewolf in London.

Two guys wondering about, attacked at night, one is bitten and dies, stuff in hospital where the other meets the girl.

Also reminds me of Howard the duck.

Probably the 80s hotties I hadn't taken as much notice of in back to the future/robo cop.

But also, the hero lost in time/space, the girl who helps him falls in love with him.

Actually back to the future rings a bell there also.

Got me some work to do.