hyped garbage

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I spent a good few hours the other day trying to remember this movie from my childhood. As far as I could remember, I watched it on TV around 1981 or so. I would have been 11 or 12 at the time. The movie at that time and it's concept intrigued me to no end. I was captivated by it.The most I could remember about it was that there were some people that had been trapped inside a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean for years. They had developed into a rather "cultist" society and even after being discovered by rescuers did not want anything to do with the real world on the surface. I remembered they shot one of the rescuers that surfaced inside the ship to explore it and then pretty much trapped any other rescuers there with them that entered their so called "world of utopia". Overall the movie was great back then. Subplots aside, I really enjoyed it so much, I am currently looking for a copy on VHS or DVD I can buy and own for myself and relive a little of my childhood memories thorough it.

WPIX (Channel 11 in NYC) used to show this movie when I was a kid and I always loved it. WPIX had all those schlocky graphics for their 8 O'clock movie. I also recall them showing this on Saturday or Sunday afternoons. I think I saw it about 4 times in total. Fascinating story. I haven't seen it in 20 years probably but would love to see it again.I loved the music -- there was some big band numbers that they tended to repeat over and over again -- presumably because they were the only songs they knew how to play. I seem to recall the production quality was a bit weak but it was pure fantasy so who really cared.

This movie is quality entertainment! I was laughing my rear off the entire time. Just when you think the BS cant be stretched any further, here comes even more unbelievable silliness like a mack truck. Have a few drinks, or take a smoke of something, and sit back for a good time! A+ I almost expect this to be an episode of In Search Of or Issac Asimov's Strange World with the made-for-TV, shot-on-video look. You could play tons of great drinking games with this movie. Like every time there 'should' be a commercial break, everyone drink up! If you like your B-list stars, this ones got it in spades! Christopher Lee, Frank Gorshin, Robert Foster, and if you look close enough, even Kirk Cameron! Give it a view, if you have the right tastes, it doesn't get much better than this.

When I see movies like this, I want to know what happened later...how did the people react to changes in the world after 40 years. I was curious about how they would find jobs, make their way in a new society. I did agree with the comments on weaknesses of the film...but the premise was fascinating.