Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (Color Special Edition)

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Release date: 2008-01-15
DVD
Actors: Morris Ankrum, Larry Blake, Donald Curtis, Clark Howat, Harry Lauter

Alien Film, B&W, English, Evil Aliens, Excellent For Children, Feature, Forceful, Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Menacing, Movie, Race Against Time, Rousing, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Science Fiction, Stylized, Tense, USA


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First thing's first, as a movie it has many flaws, but of course you can't expect perfect Hollywood cinema here. But in terms of just plain sci-fi fun, this movie triumphs. Harryhausen's effects are as wonderful as always.

Now to ease your curiosity, I'll be the first to admit that while I'm 100% against the colorization of classic B&W films, they did a rare and remarkable job here. Every scene was carefully supervised by Harryhausen himself to make sure the colors are as authentic and sensitive to the film's integrity as possible. He also points out in the DVD extras that he also hates the idea of colorization, but this movie, as well as 20,000,000 Miles to Earth (another classic Harryhausen picture also colorized in the same process) were always meant to be filmed in color. Budgetary constraints made color filming impossible. The fact that this movie was filmed in B&W was not an artistic choice, but an economic one. So from that perspective, you can appreciate what they tried to do. Of course it's nice that you can get to choose from color and B&W. I would have knocked off another star if that weren't the case.

The actual video quality looked a bit soft to me though. I don't know if this is how the original film looked but I was expecting a bit more detail because it's from a new high-def master (clips from 20,000,000 Miles to Earth in the bonus material looked much crisper). This is nitpicking though. It certainly still looks great and the slightly soft nature of the video quality never detracted from the enjoyment of this film.

As for the sound... it ROCKS! Of course don't expect Lucasfilm quality sound, but considering this is a remix of a monophonic source, it's quite enveloping and effective, and really took me by surprise. The saucers truly swoosh over your head and there's an adequate amount of subsonic rumble when appropriate. Of course the original mono source is included for purists like myself, though I found the new 5.1 mix to be far more effective and I highly recommend it over the mono track.

Bonus material is just adequate. Nothing terribly worthy of note, but most of it is definitely welcome and interesting material.

All in all, it's a decent package, though in my personal opinion, a tad overpriced. It should be $15 at most. I bought this for $7 at Walmart around Halloween and they had the other colorized Harryhausen films at that price. I was shocked to find out it was only a Halloween special price and that they actually retail for $22 (with the Blu-ray versions costing only a dollar or two more!). I should have picked the other ones up when I had the chance... but oh well. It's your call.

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Out of all the flying saucer / aliens from Mars classic movies there are, this is not too bad. (I rate "The Day the Earth Stood Still" as #1) The storyline is pretty decent and believable, and the special effects aren't too bad for the time. Nothing compared to todays standards of course, but overall, not bad. Definitely worth adding to your collection of 50's martian / monster movies. Also the actors really did a decent job. The ending is also pretty good. I give it a B+.

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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (Color Special Edition)

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I was unhappy with the item because.
1.It wouldn't play on my DVD player or my computer.
2. the warning that it has to be for a certain region needs to be put up front.
3. when you have to send an item back because it doesn't work it cost the consumer. its like a penalty .

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