Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Micitype Pretty Good

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

thejcowboy22 Most of us have seen this epic many times over watching Poor Glen Manning struggle with his glandular problem. Hearing him yell, "I Don't want to grow anymore!" Most parents would not recommend this movie to their children but I beg to differ. The daily struggles of our bald star performer in a sarong can only be to familiar with a child who has diabetes, asthma or a physical ailment. The feeling of being different is a very real problem of a sickly or deformed child. Maybe cause I was different. I could feel Glen's pain and anguish toward his future which looked pretty slim or show I refer to huge?. Things of course get out of hand as Glen gives up and takes off in the desert ending up in Las Vegas and ruining a woman's bath plus a few Hotel Signs/props.Our tragic figure ends up with girl friend Carol in hand onto Boulder Dam. Glen puts Carol down and then gets a few blasts from the Army and falls off the dam to the rocky Colorado river below. Glen was positive there was no hope but I think that this movie teaches us to hang in there no matter what and don't take matters into your own hands and for the most part listen to your Doctors. Be strong enough to bear the cross!!

AaronCapenBanner Bert I. Gordon directed this surprise hit about Lt. Col. Glenn Manning, who is accidentally exposed to a plutonium blast at a desert Army base, burning him extensively, but survives. However, he mysteriously starts to grow, reaching 50Ft. He becomes an object of study, but is gradually losing his mind because of both the situation and decreased blood supply to his brain. Glenn, enraged and despondent, escapes and goes on a rampage, forcing a showdown with the Army he once served in. Despite a good performance from the lead actor, and a sympathetic script, the F/X are shoddy and the ridiculous plot dissolves into an obvious chase melodrama, ending at a dam. Not yet on DVD for some reason, though was on YouTube for awhile.

zardoz-13 Size obsessed science fiction filmmakers during the 1950s. They measured everything by bulk. Aliens, animals, humans, and robots either increased or decreased in stature. Actually, the first sci-fi film to explore the possibilities of people diminished in dimension was Todd Browning's "The Devil Doll" (1936) about a vengeful scientist who used humans that he had miniaturized to perform his perfidious deeds. The first major movie about tiny things being enlarged by radiation was Gordon Douglas' "Them!" (1954) about huge irradiated ants. Inevitably, just as Hollywood had shrunk humans, they would also enlarge them. Initially, director Bert I. Gordon experimented with this concept in 1957 with "The Cyclops" about a mutated 25-foot tall human in South America, anticipating Gordon's own 1958 outing "War of the Colossal Beast." The release dates of "The Amazing Colossal Man" with "The Incredible Shrinking Man" suggest American International Pictures rushed former into theaters to exploit the latter film about a diminutive dude. The problem with Gordon's opus is that it never generates either the suspense and/or tension that Jack Arnold's seminal sci-fi classic mustered. Once our hero looms to 60 feet in height in "The Amazing Colossal Man," nothing can challenge him in the same way that a house cat or a spider did the protagonist of "The Incredible Shrinking Man." "The Amazing Colossal Man" opens with a convoy of military vehicles—crossing the screen from left to right—traveling along an asphalt road through the desert as a narrator establishes the setting. "The time is two forty-five A.M., two hours and fifteen minutes before time zero. At time zero, a new type of atomic explosion--a plutonium bomb--will be detonated at Desert Rock, Nevada. These soldiers are to experience the plutonium explosion under simulated combat conditions." The next sight that we see is several soldiers crouched in a trench in combat gear with helmets and special goggles as the bomb site officer at a distant command post (William Hughes of "Geronimo") keeps the troops posted about the impending detonation. "Attention! Attention! All personnel. The time is zero minus thirty seconds. The plutonium explosion will take place at time zero. I repeat, the plutonium explosion will take place at time zero." Dramatically, the officer commences the countdown. When he finishes it, the technician at the command center—a staff sergeant—clicks the mechanism to trigger the detonation. However, nothing happens. The command post officer cautions the troops: "Do not leave your positions. I repeat, do not leave your positions. The plutonium bomb has been triggered and will explode at any moment. The chain reaction did not complete its cycle as calculated. Keep your dark glasses on and stay where you are." One of the troops asks Colonel Manning (Glenn Langan of "The Snake Pit") what will happen. He warns them the bomb could explode at any minute, but he allows them to smoke cigarettes to calm their nerves. About this time, they hear the sound of an engine and Manning spots a light propeller-driven civilian aircraft descend through the clouds. The command post orders the unseen pilot to alter course, but the plane crashes. The plutonium bomb has still not detonated so a heroic Colonel Manning sheds his helmet and goggles and charges towards the plane to rescue the pilot. The command post orders Manning to desist, but the plutonium bomb detonates. The blast catches Manning and shreds the clothes off his body. Later, the Army doctors have little hope for him since third degree burns cover his body.Manning's fiancée, Carol Forrest (Cathy Downs of "My Darling Clementine"), visits him in the hospital and later tracks him down to a secret military facility when the Army has transferred him to study his condition. She refuses to be kept away from him, and the doctors relent. Carol gets to spend time with him. Miraculously, despite the third degree burns, Manning survives, and new skin grows to replace the charred skin. One tragic side effect is that the Army colonel grows eight to ten feet a day. Eventually he has to be housed in a circus tent. Dr. Paul Linstrom (William Hudson of "Mister Roberts") and Major Eric Coulter, MD (Larry Thor of "Machine Gun Kelly") both struggle without success to find a cure. Nevertheless, Manning continues to grow until he towers 60 feet in stature. Carol spends time with Manning, but he grows increasingly depressed about his acute condition and sees no hope for his future.Some forty-five minutes into the action, Manning decides to leave the army base. He vanishes into the desert. How does a 60 foot guy avoid detection from the military in the desert? Before long the Army receives reports about slaughtered cattle and two guys in a car with a bottle of liquor encounter Manning at night on the highway. "I'll never drink again," the passenger (Hank Patterson of "Green Acres") assures his companion. Colonel Halleck (James Seay of "Vera Cruz") warns Linstrom and Coulter that he is prepared to use force against Manning if Manning endangers lives and property. When they finally locate Manning, Manning has wandered into Las Vegas wearing only a sarong. He uproots a palm tree and hurls it at the Las Vegas police after they take rifle shots at it. Manning tromps off to Hoover Dam. Before he gets there, Linstrom and Coulter fly in with a huge syringe and administer an injection of a drug that reduced the size of circus animals. The shot fails. Manning grabs Carol like King Kong. The military waits under he releases her and then cuts loose with a barrage of fire. Manning topples off the dam and vanishes into the Colorado River.The only genuine violence occurs when Manning skewers Coulter with the giant needle. Gordon, who doubled as the special effects coordinator, does a reason able of developing Manning's plight, but later "The Amazing Colossal Man" degenerates into giant freak show with little ambiguity.

Torgo_Approves The best thing about B-movies from the 50s is that they are almost always entertaining, if awful. Plan 9 From Outer Space certainly has more entertainment value than, say, Armageddon, and It Conquered the World was a funny little piece of silliness with performances that were definitely better than expected. The latter movie also featured the funniest movie monster I have ever seen.But The Amazing Colossal Man, simply put, has few things going for it. It looks promising, just take a glance at the priceless tagline: "A Seventy Foot Giant Is Terrorizing Las Vegas..." Sounds like a hilarious piece of schlock, doesn't it? Well, I was wrong to think so.The movie looks awful. Everything is too dark and since it is a black and white picture (although blue-and-black would be a more proper way to describe it), it is often difficult to tell what is really going on on the screen. Our hero, Glenn Langan's Lieutenant Manning, is a dull emo martyr who I found it difficult to feel sorry for. Sorry buddy, but if you run out in front of a nuclear explosion, you have yourself to blame.The main problem I had was with the ludicrous story (man is badly burned by hydrogen bomb and starts growing) that we're supposed to take seriously. This isn't a tongue-in-cheek riot, it's a melodramatic, dragging bore. It has the entertainment value you'd expect from The Seventh Seal.It is also annoying how repetitive the scenes are. Giant-Manning will sit in his hospital bed, whining about his condition, and his girlfriend will console him and claim that the doctors are working day and night. A few scenes later, Giant-Manning will sit inside a circus tent and whine, his girlfriend will console him again and repeat that the doctors are doing all they can. It all screams "filler" and makes you long for the cheesy monster action of the Gamera movies.The only scene in which anything of interest happens occurs at the very end, where a seemingly stoned Manning goes on a very mild rampage in his city. Then he is shot down and killed. That's it. The end.The Amazing Colossal Man is a huge disappointment. While Plan 9 might not have the quality of TACM, it is certainly more fun to watch. Avoid.(r#7)