Project Moonbase

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Audience Member A spy thriller and a sci-fi adventure all wrapped into one brief-yet-ridiculous mini-movie. Also based on a Heinlein story, Project Moonbase deals with a guy-girl "space force" team who find their moon mission interrupted by the arrival of a very stupid Russian spy. Much of the 63-minute flick consists of silly sets, insipid dialogue, casual sexism, and (especially towards the end) outright lunacy. And those outfits! Whose idea was it to give out Peter Pan hats and short-shorts to Earth's first guy/girl astro-squad? Still: simply and consistently silly, but not all that weird. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the most boring films I've seen in my entire life but at least they tried? Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review anthony w Two people are stranded on the moon and the public is worried about whether or not they are married? Definitely a product of its time. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member As with a lot of these older sci-fi flicks, the rating on this one refers to the MST3K presentation, which makes a character whose name is pronounced Bright Eyes (Briteis? Really?) somewhat tolerable by slinging barbs at the screen until it's all over. Rent the MST3K version. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member The question I kept asking myself while watching Project Moonbase is "does this film have any sort of merit to it or is just another generic, poorly-made sci-fi film from the 50's?" Well, the answer is somewhere in the middle. The film isn't a masterpiece by any means, nor is it all that interesting. Instead, there are only the mildest of things that are good. There are some special effects in there that are decent, and they used split-screen photography in a clever way, but does it hold up as a story or themematically? No, absolutely not. You think it's going to be about a group of scientists doing some lunar exploration, but it ends up being a love story. The crew at Mystery Science Theater 3000 tackled this one, and even they couldn't do much with it. Other than that, I'd say skip it altogether because it's mainly just an exercise in boredom. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Watched the MST3K'ed version of this. Mostly amusing for the goofy costumes the astronauts wear and the early-50's-ness of it. Notably, the female lead is the commander of the expedition and is a strong female (up until the final ten minutes of the plot need her not to be). Can't imagine watching this without Joel and the 'bots. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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