Journey to the center of the sun?

[systemcr4sh]

Today on SPACE there was a movie which had something to do with sun in the title, I caught the tail end of it,  like the last 2 min. I think it could've been Journey to the center of the sun or something along the lines of this.

The ending was the spaceship coming in for a landing, but instead it crashed and a bunch of models.. *AHEM* I mean buildings blew up, looked REALLY cheezy, and then after this, a guy ina wheelchair sees his reflection in the mirror, and starts wheeling towards it, and smashes right into it, and that was the end.

-Dan

[systemcr4sh]

Actually, I think it was journey to the other side of the sun, not the center

-Dan

[Dr. Freex]

...Far Side of the Sun, to be precise.

[Mofo Rising]

I like JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN.  I remember seeing it on television when I was a kid, and it was one of the few old science fiction movies I could stand.  (I was a kid in the eighties.)

I watched it again about a year ago.  I still liked it.  It wasn't as impressive as I remembered it as a kid.  Kind of silly actually, but still enjoyable enough.

SPOILERS!  The concept is:
There's another planet on the exact opposite side of the sun, relative to us.  See, nobody's ever seen it until now because there was a big ball of light blocking the way.  (Never mind all that gravity and inertia mumbo-jumbo.)  So we send an astronaut to investigate.  That's the first half.  During the second half the astronaut lands on the planet.  It is exactly the same, right down to the same people.  The thing is, everything there is reversed.  Clocks are backwards, text runs right to left, etc.  Since it's the same people, they assume that there was a malfunction in the plan.  As the astronaut they sent into space returned in one-quarter of the time they expected.  He starts ranting about everything being backwards, so they throw him in the looney bin.  There's more, but I don't remember the very end.

See, I thought that was pretty heady stuff when I was kid.

The movie's pretty much a product of its time.  It's post SPACE ODDYSEY, so there's the prerequisite light show, which always make for amusement, albeit boring amusement.

All in all, not a bad way to spend a couple of hours.

[Flangepart]

Agreed. Good concapt, useable adapted. Cold British acting,for the most part. Nice modle work, by the guys who did the Anderson/ufo/space 1999 effects.

[Funk, E]

Yeah, Journey to the center of the sun would be a pretty short flick.

Opening credits
Main Character: Bye hon, be home soon!
ZOT!
End Credits

[systemcr4sh]

haha
I prefer:

Opening credits
Main Character: "Bye Hon, Be home soon"
*BURN*
End Credits

hehe
Zot?

-Dan

[Funk, E]

ZOT, I got it out of a comic book. it was the "sound" of a person being fried by a bolt of high energy

[Jay O'Connor]

Think of the bug flying toward the bug zapper...*ZOT!*

[Funk, E]

Exactly, I should have framed it w/ * like you did

[systemcr4sh]

hehe, S'alright.

-Dan

[gastropod]

is the film`s original british title. it stars roy thinnes from quin martin`s 1960`s "the invaders" tv series.  it was produced by gerry anderson who created all those british "supermarionation" sci-fi tv series` from the 60`s. the music is, of course, exceptional; because it was composed by the greatest composer of the 20th century!..........BARRY GRAY ! ! !