Tim Allen

Movies

1. Forbidden Planet

   

   Top notch sci-fi for its time and still …

   Top notch sci-fi for its time and still holds up if one gets past (by today's hocus-pocus effects) the modest set design and special effects. I still feel the style lends itself to the period well and I still get the amazement factor as we see the expanse of the Krell City below the planet. The Saucer is still my idea of a cool craft and Robby the Robot started it all. A collection of solid actors selling what must have been an odd idea do the time and situation justice. The story is a deep and imaginative draw from THE TEMPEST. Aside from the borrowed oedipal themes, the story says much about the nature of power – be it within us or creatures from another place and time. Enjoy it widescreen for the first time with Raisinets and some cheddar popcorn or have a repeat performance with a good deli spread.

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2. Pitch Black

   

   “Pitch Black” opens with a big, fast, co…

   “Pitch Black” opens with a big, fast, convincing spacecraft crash. That crash parallels the crash of personalities as they emerge from the wreckage on a desert planet’s barren landscape. It’s the diversity and shading of the actors that make this movie a really good sit down. The problem involves the cycles of night and day on this otherworld. Cycles our group discovers along with the discovery of the planet’s inhabitants. I do have the reality check and wonder what the night creatures eat if it were not for the rather unlikely arrival of crashed spacecraft filled with fresh meat but... Vin Diesel was the discovery here for me and plays the great anti-hero. The pacing, the acting, the less is more creature scenes and the emotional tone puts this movie in my favorite section.

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