just watch it!

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I love his films.Just love.So,my review's of his films will be same,Pardon me for my laziness and repetition,but I can't something new,because his films are the same in fact,each his film is the great magic presentation(no story,just illusion) and you must watch all of them in one breath. He made a huge impact on world culture.here is quote from Wikipedia: "Walt Disney, on being presented with the Legion of Honour in 1936, expressed gratitude to Méliès and his fellow pioneer Émile Cohl, saying they "discovered the means of placing poetry within the reach of the man in the street."Terry Gilliam has called Méliès "the first great film magician," adding: "His joyous sense of fun and ability to astound were a big influence on both my early animations and then my live- action films… Of course, Méliès still has a tight creative grip on me." The 2007 novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and 2011 film Hugo based on it, center on the later life of Méliès, who is played by Ben Kingsley in the film.Méliès was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2015.

We recently reached our first 100 years of cinema, and no one would dare say that cinema is not art. Yet, this movie was made back when cinema was, at most, a curiosity. A vulgar past time for the uncultured masses, at worst. I recently read a contemporary review of Dante's Inferno (1911, I believe), where the reviewer, a writer and culture woman, spelled this as clearly as this can be said (I translate from my memory): "We thought cinema was trash, but this was wonderful". With that attitude, it's no wonder early cinema was not carefully conserved. This movie was almost lost, and this would have been a great pity. This is a dreamy, wonderful hallucination. The story is told, and it's not seriously told. This movie does not take itself seriously, but it's meant to be funny, ironic, with a hint of some serious critique maybe (doesn't this space adventure remind you of colonialism a little bit?). The scientists are a funny lot, found of throwing science papers to each other's faces and surrounded with pretty assistants with naked legs (the relatively sexy attire of those assistants would have been a no-no until the 1970s in Italian TV). The Selenites are comic enemies. This movie has to be watched. It's entertaining and visually nice after 115 years. It sure is one of the first tries to use cinema in a new way to tell a story, and I believe later cinema (the already mentioned Dante movie included). It's a luck this was preserved and can be enjoyed today.

This is a great representation of the earliest forms of cinema. Despite being made over 100 years ago, I still found the visuals to be very imaginative and entertaining. I imagine the reaction of a viewer in 1902 to be one of awe and wonder. Some will recognize the imagery which is being paid homage to in the Smashing Pumpkins video for Tonight, Tonight. For people interested in the history of film making, this is a must see and an easy watch at only 13 minutes.8/10...but that's just like, my opinion, man# Of Times Watched: Twice

I can't say that I really enjoy this film because I think that it belongs to a different generation and it is so different from the films I used to watch. In my opinion this movie is quite slow and has not any action, so it becomes quite boring for our standards. On the other hand we have to consider that this film was registered 110 years ago and it changed drastically the history of the cinematography and the way that the film were produced after the 1902. I know the huge progresses that this film meant for the history and that it was produced with just a few technological devices really worse than the cameras that we own nowadays, thus I really appreciate this registration. This are the reasons because of this film is still shown to the film classes around the world. Moreover I think that this film represents in a very detailed way the zeitgeist of this age and this is the cause because of the audience really appreciated it when it debuted. In my opinion the "spirit of the time" was the try to arrive always more far away with the huge technological discoveries that the beginning of the 1900 brought with it. This is the first science-fiction film and it represents this desire of discover that everybody had in that age. For all this reasons, this movie is certainly a timeless film!