Mission impossible 1-4 tetralogy 1996-2011

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 1 4 TETRALOGY 1996 2011 HOW TO

goddess of 35mm color restoration, and Zsigmond is clearly her royal consort.ДЄn irascible John Agar leads an international space crew up Neptune or wherever the 7th planet is for you, and there rests an all seeing eye out to appear as their worst fears and/or most hidden desires in a futile effort to stay alive and in command of their own planet. If you're wondering why it looks so damned good even today, know that the great Czech ex-pat Vilmos Zsigmond did the cinematography (he'd later shoot Spielberg's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS) and someone along the chain- from the MGM/UA celluloid vault to color restoration to digital transfer-was looking out for this film, making sure it looks pristine as brand new.

Whatever your outraged stance on that last sentence, rest assured there's no browbeating here, instead Melchoir offers the same kind of mellow mix of awe and sleepiness you might feel during Walter Pidgeon's walking tour of the Krell wonders in 1956's FORBIDDEN PLANET. When may we unleash the kraken, Major? It's been idling a mighty spell. Somehow, today, though our population has more than doubled since then, we're not allowed to worry about it anymore. To offset the inevitable lapses into egghead longwinded analysis, straight-edge males refusing to fire on mutants (since killing is wrong even with a ' yawn' limited food supply), there are some hotties lolling topless in the artificial sun spa and zones rich in LOST HORIZONS-meets-MOLE PEOPLE casual disaffect.Д«y the time you realize you were dozing off somewhere back around the last slide lecture (a Melchoir specialty), a nice 'awake to the problem of overpopulation and/or getting wise to the genetic con job that is reproduction and life' kind of epiphany may well have erupted in your absence, addressing what was still considered a serious problem here on Earth back in the 60s-70s: overpopulation. So this looks like a million bucks, but ain't, honey.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 1 4 TETRALOGY 1996 2011 HOW TO

A former war hero, Melchoir knew how to stretch a low MGM budget to make it look like a medium MGM budget, which equals a huge budget in a tax shelter country, like Sweden.

Ib Melchoir wasn't exactly the most engaging sci-fi story teller (less pulp than wanted, more science than needed), he still always manages to give us just enough psychedelic rat monsters, robots, girl miasmas, mutants, and Weird Tales twists to make it worth enduring the endless in-between slogs of paternal pipe-smoking scientistsВ pointing at maps and charts. They may put you to sleep, but you won't wake up in a sour misanthropic mood. Best of all they're not grating on the nerves, they might leave you nonplussed but not nauseous. They're all shot out of real film, all have restored colors (or sharp black and white) and look pretty good despite being bad. Amazon doesn't discriminate and there's loads of recently made SOV nowheresville stuff on there, and nothing's more depressing to stumble on looking for that 50s-60s sci-fi cult fix to get you over some rough bump in the night. But don't get too exploratory without me.

And until then, old friend, if you need something to help put the kids to sleep, or to have in the background while you sleep on the couch and have Amazon Prime, behold! Colorful, relatively un-gory, sometimes hilariously bad, you don't need snarky silhouettes in the bottom center of the screen to appreciate the badness of these sweet nuggets. While I get my parts together, rest assured (and often).

Mission impossible 1-4 tetralogy 1996-2011