I always watch this through rose-tinted spectacles, I saw it the first time it was on UK TV Christmas 1973 at an impressionable 14. However, taking into account the shoestring special effects budget it's still impressive, with a powerful and cogent story that almost solves the fundamental mysteries of the Universe.
It explains why there are so many different opinions on this and every other film on the IMDb, why some people actively think there's a difference in religions and some people prefer margarine to butter. Hell, it also explains why London was bombed on 7/7 - the Devil was paying another call. Maybe that's why there's no life on Mars now, not climate change but that the locusts ran out of locusts to kill!
QATP to me is a wonderful, corny, sensible, nonsensical, intelligent, contrived sci-fi film that still hits the spot all these years later. I keep the Goon Show's Scarlet Capsule firmly at the back of my mind whenever I watch it though!
It explains why there are so many different opinions on this and every other film on the IMDb, why some people actively think there's a difference in religions and some people prefer margarine to butter. Hell, it also explains why London was bombed on 7/7 - the Devil was paying another call. Maybe that's why there's no life on Mars now, not climate change but that the locusts ran out of locusts to kill!
QATP to me is a wonderful, corny, sensible, nonsensical, intelligent, contrived sci-fi film that still hits the spot all these years later. I keep the Goon Show's Scarlet Capsule firmly at the back of my mind whenever I watch it though!