michaeljhuman

Ok, I admit I first saw this on MST3K.

But I find it hilarious without their help. As someone who has worked on RADAR software, I guess it cracks me up more than other people. It's totes ridiculous what they say RADAR can do in this movie.

I also love a lot of B cops and robbers movies in general. So I have a weird view of this given my joy at laughing at all the things that RADAR cannot do, that it does in this movie.

This movie reminds me of why science education is important. It doesn't take much knowledge to realize RADAR could not do these things. Did the writers of this movie lack science knowledge, were the 1950s science classes behind the times, or did they simply not care. Did they not care and, think the public would not know better?

Kids, study some science, then you won't be a fool like these writers :)

First off, I have a love of railroading. Never worked in it, just love trains.

This is a B movie, at best.

But it's fun. It shows an actual historical streamline train. Show footage of the then Boulder Dam during construction. Has that Ralph of the Roundhouse plot ( an old juvenile series about steam railroading.)

Plot is contrived. Acting is flat. Dialog is basic.

But I like simple plots and B movies. Man loves woman, woman loves man, man loves engineering, old man hates newfangled things.

The one thing that bothered me was, one test run, and people wrote it off. That's dumb! That's not how engineering works! And I think a lot of people know this. But in this movie, apparently people think one failure is too many failures, lol.

I suspect the tail end of the movie, with all the impossible near misses will bother people. Just take it for what it is, a B movie ( programmer as some people would call it I guess.)

I was reminded of the fantastic murder on a private car at times, which is equally fantastic, but perhaps a better movie.