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Loading... The Incredible Shrinking Man [1957 film] (1957)by Jack Arnold (Director), Richard Matheson (Screenplay)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  unclebob53703 | Aug 16, 2019 |   It changes tone, and quality, drastically in a few places. At first, it's a corny, B-movie attempt at suspense, which is amusing. Then it turns into a drama, briefly but tediously. Finally, he shrinks to a few inches tall, and it becomes an adventure. That part is great - clever and exciting - but they sure take a long time getting there. Oh, and then there's the ending. What the hell is that ending? Concept: C Story: C Characters: D Dialog: D Pacing: C Cinematography: C Special effects/design: C Acting: C Music: C Enjoyment: C plus GPA: 1.8/4 (  ) comfypants | Dec 22, 2015 | no reviews | add a review
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Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity₂s place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller⁵ and smaller⁵ and smaller until he₂s left to fend for himself in a world in which ordinary cats, mousetraps, and spiders pose a mortal threat, all while grappling with a diminishing sense of himself. Directed by the prolific creature-feature impresario Jack Arnold with ingenious optical effects and a transcendent metaphysical ending, The Incredible Shrinking Man gazes with wonder and trepidation into the unknowable vastness of the cosmic void. No library descriptions found. |
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The screenplay is by Richard Matheson, and based on his novel The Shrinking Man. The ending is both obvious (after the fact) and mind-blowing as the hero transcends his limitations and himself--there really wasn't another movie ending like this until" 2001: A Space Odyssey."
Most of Jack Arnold's SF films are worth watching--he is a genuine auteur with a distinctive style and characteristic elements that populate his work. He went on to do quite a lot of different kinds of film and tv work, but his 50s SF and Horror movies put him in a league of his own.
It took forever for this to be available in DVD, and this Bluray is a Spanish import--the packaging and menu are in Espanol, and you have to manually adjust it for the original English version, but once you do that it's fine, (