Product: Idaho Transfer (1973)
Rating: 4.0
Good movie considering its time and motive
I just watched this movie, no, not on the individual dvd for sale, but a fairly decently viewable copy in the 50 movie set of "Nightmare Worlds", probably no better or worse than for sale individually. I was impressed with the premise of time travel, and what they did with a likely low budget. Wow, I was impressed with how they made those likely new cars look so grundged with dirt and dust, very impressive. The story seemed passable for a sci fi movie, and the affects of someone disappearing were stunning for a movie I've never heard of before. I'd bet this would have been a more popular movie with a different ending that wasn't an eco message aimed at our dependence on fossil fuels, and THAT must have been what "catastrophe" must have befell the human race by 56 years into the future according to the story.But grabbing other humans by the side of the road and throwing them into the trunk like space in the back of that vehicle, I am guessing for fuel(?), how stupid was that...., now that was likely demised this film as a regular re-run, the reason I have never seen it previously, and I am near my mid fourties in age.Anyway, I have just recently purchased nightmare worlds 50 movie collection, so I am sure anyone can still view a copy of it in there. Other than that, it was a pretty decent movie for a b movie, its too bad the ending was a eco joke, I mean I couldn't figure it out after watching the ending twice what just happened, and only had an assumption till I read others opinions here. Thanks goodness the end was short in length, and ya know, I think a better ending would have been meet up with elderly former acquaintances who had found out from records that she reset herself to reappear in a certain time far ahead, and they were there to greet her, or she really did appear in time to stop the crazy girl from killing the other two, or at least the one she slept with, and he could have told her she really was able to get pregnant and probably was, and that they were not really all sterile like he was thinking. Instead, she turned out to be a nifty trunk, errr, "tank", of gas.Endings to t.v. shows, even movies still haven't progressed all these years later, and they still fudge them up regularly, like sopranos, like lost, like the newer battlestar galactica where the survivors went back to nature and no technology koombya-ing with the cylons, among many that fudged the endings. Hey, I know, how about in the future(not too distant future?), that when someone in the entertainment industry fudges the ending to a good show or movie, that they get thrown into a trunk as a good trunk of, errrr, "tank" of gas! Now, THAT will end our dependence on foreign oil!