I've seen some pretty cheesy and unrealistic sci-fi flicks in the past and this one is surely among them there.
Rocketship X-M, written and directed by Kurt Neumann who has done many alike films in his heyday in the 1950s, tells a story of five astronauts going to the Moon but due to an unfortunate event end up on planet Mars and decide to discover it a bit.
First off, this movie bears almost zero scientific authenticity - the pilots do not experience gravity in the slightest, hear sounds in space and what is happening on Mars is beyond your wildest dreams - Georges Melies' 1902 'A trip to the Moon' could have easily been this movie's blood brother by merits of imagination. And second and the most disappointing thing is that even the story itself, despite being moralizing and touching on the subject matter of nuclear war and its consequences, erases it all with kooky, idiotic dialogues full of misogynistic stereotypes and scientific mumbo-jumbo and therefore is not worthy to stick around for.
Lloyd Bridges in one of his first leading roles is far from being great, mainly due to his character being just your average Joe trying to earn a sympathy of a girl, but in space. All the rest of the cast members are just as bad and their characters seem as if written out of textbooks on how not to write an engaging story.
The filming of this movie took only 18 days and it figures: the creators were trying to beat Destination Moon in their race to be the first interplanetary movie but failed just as well as they did.
Rocketship X-M, written and directed by Kurt Neumann who has done many alike films in his heyday in the 1950s, tells a story of five astronauts going to the Moon but due to an unfortunate event end up on planet Mars and decide to discover it a bit.
First off, this movie bears almost zero scientific authenticity - the pilots do not experience gravity in the slightest, hear sounds in space and what is happening on Mars is beyond your wildest dreams - Georges Melies' 1902 'A trip to the Moon' could have easily been this movie's blood brother by merits of imagination. And second and the most disappointing thing is that even the story itself, despite being moralizing and touching on the subject matter of nuclear war and its consequences, erases it all with kooky, idiotic dialogues full of misogynistic stereotypes and scientific mumbo-jumbo and therefore is not worthy to stick around for.
Lloyd Bridges in one of his first leading roles is far from being great, mainly due to his character being just your average Joe trying to earn a sympathy of a girl, but in space. All the rest of the cast members are just as bad and their characters seem as if written out of textbooks on how not to write an engaging story.
The filming of this movie took only 18 days and it figures: the creators were trying to beat Destination Moon in their race to be the first interplanetary movie but failed just as well as they did.