Best movie of this year hands down!

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This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

On the Beach is a dull soap opera of a film.Peck gives a stock standard lead performance, offering nothing. Donna Anderson needed to be given more screen time as she was the standout. People on horseback carrying suitcases to work, is a first. The destruction derby Grand Prix was amusing, with car flips and explosions. As for the story, it fails to show any of the real horror of the situation with hostility and death or the passion of those wanting to experience life and instead gives us "The Days of Our Lives."

In this, my 65th year of life today, I have have enjoyed so many great and memorable films. But in all that time, this wonderful B&W classic remains my single favorite. It's one of those gems that once you see it you can never forget it, and how many movies can you say that about today? This truly inspired piece of filmmaking was remarkable from the start. The amazing ensemble cast, starring the wonderful Gregory Peck in one the best roles of his life, to a memorable and stunning Ava Gardner in the sunset of her career in a role she was born to play, and the dark horse in this remarkable drama, Fred Astaire, in a nuanced performance that should have won him the Oscar. While never really known as a dramatic actor, more as a song and dance man, this was the shining, glorious moment of his entire serious movie career. Add to this splendid line-up the always underrated Tony Perkins as the young Lieutenant, and you have pure screen magic. Under the subtle guiding hand of Stanley Kramer and based upon the riveting novel by Neville Shute, this masterpiece of a post-Apocalyptic future remains a film for the ages. WATCH IT.

This has got to be one of the most depressing and sad movies I've ever seen.There is a sense of impending doom throughout.The worldwide fallout will eventually kill every human on the planet.Everyone is basically fatalistic and/or suicidal.There is no sense of hope for any kind of future... the people just seek out pleasures and human love.No one imagines that there might be a place to go to escape from the radioactivity... Antarctica, maybe?There is no mention of faith in God (except for some Christians, and even they give up in the end).It gives Australia a bad name. The people there would've certainly done better, if this had actually happened.

Stanley Kramer directed this nuclear holocaust drama set in the near-future and stars Gregory Peck as Lt. Commander Towers of the American submarine U.S.S. Sawfish, which has escaped the nuclear war that has devastated most of the world, and ends up in the last safe place: Australia, where Towers meets Moira Davidson(played by Ava Gardner) with whom he begins a relationship. Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins costar as fellow crew-mates who must also deal with the loss and despair following the war, and the inevitable radioactive fallout that is approaching... Good acting cannot save tedious and uneventful film that talks itself to death, though does attempt to say something meaningful.