PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Sammy-Jo Cervantes
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Hayleigh Joseph
This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
Cody
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
O2D
I don't know what the heck I just watched.This movie is terrible from beginning to end. Apparently the planet of prehistoric women is Venus and the prehistoric women are mermaids who use telepathy to communicate.Sounds pretty advanced to me. When the astronauts first see Venus they say they can tell it's prehistoric. How can they tell people on the planet haven't started to record history if they haven't been there? At one point a guy even has to take his helmet off and has no trouble breathing.This is one of those movies I could pick apart line by line but I won't waste anyone's time. Never watch this movie,trust me.
siderite
Humans decide to explore the planet Venus, something that looks like Earth on steam. They conclude the planet is "definitely prehistoric", which actually makes no sense, because it resembles early Earth, but with sexy singing women and rubber dinos.I've watched a bunch of old movies these days and I can tell you this one is a lot more entertaining, although probably inadvertently. The dialogue is cheesy and stereotyped, the scientific view of the world is ridiculous (actually, I am now beginning to understand that regular folks in the 60s and 70s were completely out of sync with what science means, even if they sent people to the Moon in the same period), the robot, something that was probably made of cardboard covered with metallic paint, was incredibly clumsy and the "functionality" was hilarious. I especially loved the scene where it requested help because he found a waterfall and its systems were in danger.Bottom line: I couldn't watch it till the end, but there are some scenes (ex: an eerie song is heard and one of the guys says "It sounds like a woman!" and the other guy says "Perhaps. A woman or a... monster") that are really funny. I don't know what they were thinking when they made the movie, probably that it could be good, only it resulted in a sort of Ed Wood thing.
flapdoodle64
Although primitive and low-budget by modern standards, VTTPOPW is worth a watch, especially for fans of this sort of cinema.This film was originally a 1962 Soviet release that was bought by a U.S. producer and then given to apprentice auteur Peter Bogdonavich to pad and repackage for U.S. consumption. As such, it is much less awkward a film than one would expect. There is continuity in the overall sound quality, in certain sonic elements, and in the element of water that smooths over the schisms, and for some inexplicable reason there is a certain otherworldly mood that prevails.The cool science fiction elements such as the robot and the hovercar come exclusively from the Soviet film, and are generally more impressive than the kind of stuff you would have seen in a 1962 U.S. scifi film. The original film also establishes Venus as a moody, damp, cloudy place, and provides the original 'singing' background track.The blond bombshells were added by the U.S. director, and although they should be silly, nonetheless seem to be plausible, mysterious and telepathic, just beyond the detection of the cosmonauts, with their hotpants and bare midriffs.This is a tale of hapless group of men, lonely, struggling for survival, absolutely clueless as to the sense-shattering beauties just beyond, and the impossibly stunning maidens, led by goddess Mamie Van Doren, oblivious to their world's invasion. There is obviously a commentary on the male and female conditions within this scenario.
ClearThinker
This film is so awful it's brilliant.The film is actually a re-edit of a Soviet science fiction film with extra footage of young American girls. Very low budget. The two sets of actors never actually meet.All the voices are dubbed on afterwards. This covers up the fact that the astronauts are speaking Russian. The "Prehistoric women" communicate through thought waves, so none of them have to talk and act at the same time! I watched this on Sumo TV in the UK. The version I saw still had all the cinema adds spliced in. The adverts for ice cream, popcorn and hot chocolate were still there. There was also an advert for CocaCola.The whole thing looks like someone had filmed the thing from the stalls on an old Cine camera. Picture blurred and fuzzy, colour almost bleached away.Unfortunately none of the US actors ever went on to do anything of any significance. The leading lady, Mamie Van Doren, seems to have built her reputation around being a former Hollywood starlet who was supposed to be the next Marylin Monroe and spent five years dating Howard Hughes, from the age of 15! Directed by Peter Bogdanovich (Famous director and also Dr. Elliot Kupferberg in The Sopranos TV series)Any prospective actor/producer/director should see some of this.