Not even bad in a good way

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I recently saw a restored 3-D print of this film at MoMA and have to say I enjoyed it. It seems so much of it's time, when the Cold War was getting warmed up and interest in space exploration was taking hold of our collective imaginations. I loved the costumes, and of course the lead female scientist running around in heels, and that they thought radiation could only travel in a straight line and that just a turn of the corner would keep you safe. I imagine that I would not have enjoyed this film as much had I seen it in its original release in 1954, but given the chance to see it now in the 21st century I found it great fun!

Corny but entertaining 50s sci-fi about a secret military base working on space hibernation for astronauts, but the things get weird when a supercomputer and it's robot minions begin taking over. Nothing great, but not terrible either. I did enjoy the low budget simulation of weightlessness.

*Spoiler/plot- GOG, 1954, An 'Atom project' security agent investigates sabotage and murder at a super secret underground laboratory, home of two experimental robots planned for space exploration and travel to Mars.*Special Stars- Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall. Produced by Ivan Tors.*Theme- Space was going to be conquered by robots and a wheel space station.*Trivia/location/goofs- THe centrifuge was at USC and caused actors to get too sick to work. They were replaced by dummies for shots. William Schallert(later to become SAG president in the 80's) was paid $250 for two days work. Film had a 3-D version, now missing. Location was Hal Roach studios Hollywood and George AFB Victorville CA. Gog and Magog were partially operated by little people inside them. Scrambled F-86 jets are magically changed into F-94s in the same flight.*Emotion- A wonderfully produced film from Ivan Tors(60s & 70's adventure TV producer) that incorporates the right amount of intrigue, Cold War tension, suspense, and science fiction of it's day. Great casting of lead actors helps the film. The result comes out very impressive on camera much like a George Pal film of the same era. Excellent entertainment.

Okay, the melody line is overly episodic 50 years later--the bar lines are too rigid for the first 3/4 of the film--but sometimes it's the baseline in a piece of music that makes it great.Here, the beautifully paced baseline is devotion to science; an exemplary aural aesthetic; an advanced, sophisticated feminism; extreme prescience regarding enlightenment's dehumanizations, e.g. replacing flesh with machine, hyperrationalized embedding space and surveillance.There is wonderful mystery, delightfully cynical murder, a great sense of humor, terrific dialogue ("every punched hole is a thought"), exactitude ("it's uncanny"), and endlessly depressing realism....