I had seen this in my much younger years, and nothing in it really stood out. Over the years, I've heard much about how great a movie TIE was. Then I watched it as the MST3K movie, and then on AMC. And you really got to wonder...so what's so great about it, and what were those critics thinking?
It does indeed have lovely matte paintings of Metaluna (sic). But after that... You've got dopey looking aliens, even by 50's standards. You've got a really, really goofy looking ant. And you've got a plot that goes nowhere. "We've come to Earth to secretly draw on your intellectual resources...so we'll let one of our guys blow you all up. Then we'll take you two back to our home planet just so you can watch it blow up. Then we'll take you back in our last ship, right before it blows up." There's a whole lot a blowin' up goin' on, allrighty. The movie starts somewhat intriguingly, but slows to a plod, as the technobabble is tossed out at levels that we wouldn't see until decades later in the Star Trek franchise. I just think the critics don't want to admit how their initial assessment of TIE was so off.
It does indeed have lovely matte paintings of Metaluna (sic). But after that... You've got dopey looking aliens, even by 50's standards. You've got a really, really goofy looking ant. And you've got a plot that goes nowhere. "We've come to Earth to secretly draw on your intellectual resources...so we'll let one of our guys blow you all up. Then we'll take you two back to our home planet just so you can watch it blow up. Then we'll take you back in our last ship, right before it blows up." There's a whole lot a blowin' up goin' on, allrighty. The movie starts somewhat intriguingly, but slows to a plod, as the technobabble is tossed out at levels that we wouldn't see until decades later in the Star Trek franchise. I just think the critics don't want to admit how their initial assessment of TIE was so off.