"I saw a satellite!" I take it this film was made -before- the universally known term "UFO" was around.
Wow, what a lame load of garbage. Is this EVER a movie from the 50's - lots of cigarettes, lot's booze, lot's of convertibles and lot's of painfully shrill hysterics, but more Boredom than anything. I bet there are at least a handful of nostalgic souls out there, who consider this to be a classic. However, with complete confidence, I can tell you that it wasn't good then and it sure as hell isn't good now. Just another lame and tedious, vintage, low-budget Sci-Fi flick - which now, nearly 60 years later, is even less impressive. This movie actually started out well, but VERY briefly, I like it's title screen - but after that it's all downhill from there. Here's yet another example where a movie might have been good, had a completely different group of people worked on it.
Included here is an incomplete list of things you can expect to see when watching Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Right out of the gates you have the shrill and over-wrought acting from Allison Hayes, a gold digger husband and a cast of dull, paper-thin characters, painfully dated photographic effects (that you can literally see through that which is intended to be solid), hokey attempts at slapstick - that usually miss there mark and capping things off is a short-lived, very tepidly paced and entirely unspectacular finale. When she goes on her so-called rampage through town, the movements of our 50 foot maiden wield very little weight and even less speed, she emotes practically no emotion (a pleasant countenance if anything) and an overall VERY tame approach was taken. In short, this movie sucks.
This stinking scrap of celluloid by-product currently maintains a (laughably inaccurate) 5.0 rating. After having seen the movie I can quickly and easily arrive at this conclusion, which is: Anyone who rates this weak and dated schlock above one or two stars, is obviously basing their rating from a purely and -completely- NOSTALGIC point-of-view (you can bet money on it) and that often has a way of over-riding people's logic and any critical assessment they might of had. Sorry to sound like a snob, but Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is exquisitely lame and those effects! Wwhheewww och!
There are many good old black and whites out there, that are plenty worthy of nostalgic attachment, but with Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.................well, not so much.
Another thing that I've noticed over the years, is that no Sci-Fi from the 50's is all that exciting (if they are, it's usually because of how terrible they are) and most Sci-Fi from the 50's (and beyond) are throw-away's. Sci-Fi is the hardest genre to excel in, evidently not everyone has the mind of George Lucas.
Interesting Contrasts: The Incredible Shrinking Man vs. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
When you compare these two films you'll find that they are absolutely the -exact opposite- of each other and here's why. Made only a year apart, in one the lead is played by a man, the other by a WOman, one involves micro-nized size (1 inch tall or so), the other involves gigantism (50 feet tall), but most importantly, one of these vintage films is great - while the other is terrible. One is fun, the other an absolute total bore.
Did anyone notice that funny continuity? When the hubby was going to over-dose her with a syringe, then the nurse walks in, she turns on the lights, screams (of course) and he's suddenly holding a vastly smaller syringe.
Wow, what a lame load of garbage. Is this EVER a movie from the 50's - lots of cigarettes, lot's booze, lot's of convertibles and lot's of painfully shrill hysterics, but more Boredom than anything. I bet there are at least a handful of nostalgic souls out there, who consider this to be a classic. However, with complete confidence, I can tell you that it wasn't good then and it sure as hell isn't good now. Just another lame and tedious, vintage, low-budget Sci-Fi flick - which now, nearly 60 years later, is even less impressive. This movie actually started out well, but VERY briefly, I like it's title screen - but after that it's all downhill from there. Here's yet another example where a movie might have been good, had a completely different group of people worked on it.
Included here is an incomplete list of things you can expect to see when watching Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Right out of the gates you have the shrill and over-wrought acting from Allison Hayes, a gold digger husband and a cast of dull, paper-thin characters, painfully dated photographic effects (that you can literally see through that which is intended to be solid), hokey attempts at slapstick - that usually miss there mark and capping things off is a short-lived, very tepidly paced and entirely unspectacular finale. When she goes on her so-called rampage through town, the movements of our 50 foot maiden wield very little weight and even less speed, she emotes practically no emotion (a pleasant countenance if anything) and an overall VERY tame approach was taken. In short, this movie sucks.
This stinking scrap of celluloid by-product currently maintains a (laughably inaccurate) 5.0 rating. After having seen the movie I can quickly and easily arrive at this conclusion, which is: Anyone who rates this weak and dated schlock above one or two stars, is obviously basing their rating from a purely and -completely- NOSTALGIC point-of-view (you can bet money on it) and that often has a way of over-riding people's logic and any critical assessment they might of had. Sorry to sound like a snob, but Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is exquisitely lame and those effects! Wwhheewww och!
There are many good old black and whites out there, that are plenty worthy of nostalgic attachment, but with Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.................well, not so much.
Another thing that I've noticed over the years, is that no Sci-Fi from the 50's is all that exciting (if they are, it's usually because of how terrible they are) and most Sci-Fi from the 50's (and beyond) are throw-away's. Sci-Fi is the hardest genre to excel in, evidently not everyone has the mind of George Lucas.
Interesting Contrasts: The Incredible Shrinking Man vs. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
When you compare these two films you'll find that they are absolutely the -exact opposite- of each other and here's why. Made only a year apart, in one the lead is played by a man, the other by a WOman, one involves micro-nized size (1 inch tall or so), the other involves gigantism (50 feet tall), but most importantly, one of these vintage films is great - while the other is terrible. One is fun, the other an absolute total bore.
Did anyone notice that funny continuity? When the hubby was going to over-dose her with a syringe, then the nurse walks in, she turns on the lights, screams (of course) and he's suddenly holding a vastly smaller syringe.