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Monsters From the Id

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Thirty classic films are used to explore the cultural impact of 1950's Sci-Fi cinema in America.

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David Cornelius eFilmCritic.com 04/04/2011
2/5
There's so little focus to any of it that the end of the movie forgets what the beginning of the movie set out to say. Go to Full Review
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03/23/2009 Interesting up to point. It got a bit dry with the Homer Hickman interview. People interested in science might like more than me, although I did like the clips from old 50s movies, which was the best part of the documentary. See more 03/19/2009 I was totally digging on this movie for the longest time, as it was chronically the parallels between sci-fi science and real-life science during the 1950s. I loved seeing clips of old sci-fi movies that I had never gotten a chance to see before and learning how the goofy technologies in those movies were very similar to present-day not-so-goofy technologies. About 2/3 of the way through, however, this documentary became a shameless public service announcement crying out to the world that we are in need of more scientists or our world will crumble into the dark ages. The message is all right and good and everything, but I felt that there was a better place for it to be spread than in an otherwise fun documentary. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Thirty classic films are used to explore the cultural impact of 1950's Sci-Fi cinema in America.
Director
Dave Gargani
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Jun 5, 2012
Runtime
1h 11m