Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth

[jjones]

What a great film. Anyone else seen this movie?

Very low budget sci-fi film but highly entertaining. It all takes place in a home and the movie is almost entirely dialogue between college professors.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/

I just watched this last night and when I saw the quality of the movie at the very beginning I had some serious reservations about it, but it turned out to be one of the best "intelligently entertaining" sci-fi movies I've ever seen.

 

[amish]

i saw it.

i enjoyed parts and hated parts. dialogue was ok but some of the cliches were so over the top that i almost stopped watching. when the "jump to conclusions" guy from office space showed up i really almost stopped watching. terrible, terrible actor.

overall i give it a B. interesting premise, the dialogue was decent, terrible acting at times, and it could have been so cool to see certain things portrayed.

edit: mi speling is rely grate.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

I saw it as well. The overall plot was pretty good but I did not care for some of the actors selected. A few of them just could NOT pull off the "I have been a professor for a decade or more" look or attitude including Billingsley and the black guy. Normally I do not watch non-action movies but I was VERY pleasantly surprised by it.

 

[Kyteland]

I've been meaning to watch it but haven't found it anywhere.

 

[skulkingghost]

I loved it, one of my favorite movies. I couldnt stop thinking about it for days after wards.

 

[Canai]

Great movie. I liked it.

 

[sandorski]

It is an interesting movie. I too kinda rolled my eyes when he kept name dropping various Historical figures, but then on second thought he had all that extra experience that he was likely more knowledgeable then the historical figures.