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Writers: Bill Kelly (story), Bill Kelly (screenplay)
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
I love this movie! It made me laugh, it made me cry and it made me ponder the mysteries of life....OK I didn't actually cry, nor did I ponder crap. But I did laugh and I did love it, and that's enough for me
The premise was a gas. Someone stuck in a bomb shelter for 35 years, without knowing what was going on in the world above. The bomb shelter was way cool too! I mean it was stocked with everything you could image. Loved the way it was made to look like their house. It kind of looked fun to live in! And Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek made for great - wacky parents. I couldn't ask for more.
I was a bit bummed when he left the bomb shelter, but quickly the film found it's footing and the juxtaposition of the naive nice guy coming up against the denizens of Hollyweird...err I mean Hollywood was top notch comedy. Good stuff!
Brendan Fraser knocked it out of the ball park. He's reactions were too funny, as they came out of what a guy from a nice family circa 1962 would say and do if he was plopped down in Hollywood circa 1999. Alicia Silverstone was decent too, though she came across a bit too bitchy to be a love interest. I would have liked to see Winona Ryder in this role.
Shot out to Dave Foley for some good on screen time. Good stuff all around
Blast from the Past (1999)
Director: Hugh WilsonWriters: Bill Kelly (story), Bill Kelly (screenplay)
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1962 a brilliant but eccentric scientist (Chrisopher Walken) builds the ultimate bomb shelter under his families house. When a jet plane crashes into his house he mistakes it for nuclear war and seals himself and his pregnant wife (Sissy Spacek) into the bomb shelter, which has an automatic lock for 35 years. During that time his son (Brendan Fraser) grows up and when the lock is opened he must go up into the world to buy supplies for his family. There he finds a vastly different world than he's use to...and he meets a girl (Alicia Silverstone). CR
I love this movie! It made me laugh, it made me cry and it made me ponder the mysteries of life....OK I didn't actually cry, nor did I ponder crap. But I did laugh and I did love it, and that's enough for me
The premise was a gas. Someone stuck in a bomb shelter for 35 years, without knowing what was going on in the world above. The bomb shelter was way cool too! I mean it was stocked with everything you could image. Loved the way it was made to look like their house. It kind of looked fun to live in! And Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek made for great - wacky parents. I couldn't ask for more.
I was a bit bummed when he left the bomb shelter, but quickly the film found it's footing and the juxtaposition of the naive nice guy coming up against the denizens of Hollyweird...err I mean Hollywood was top notch comedy. Good stuff!
Brendan Fraser knocked it out of the ball park. He's reactions were too funny, as they came out of what a guy from a nice family circa 1962 would say and do if he was plopped down in Hollywood circa 1999. Alicia Silverstone was decent too, though she came across a bit too bitchy to be a love interest. I would have liked to see Winona Ryder in this role.
Shot out to Dave Foley for some good on screen time. Good stuff all around