Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
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52/100 I wanted to like Gorath, especially since it's one of the Toho films where the focus isn't on a Kaiju, though there is one nonetheless. However, this movie offers almost nothing for me to appreciate. The film is in large part dominated by technobabble, and there is no effort to make this interesting, meaning that we're stuck just watching dry exposition and scientific efforts throughout this film without anything to disguise how boring and slow these procedures are. However, even when it makes an effort with its human characters, the film doesn't quite get there. The cast here is very overstuffed, and as such, I wasn't able to get attached to any one character. There are some momentary conflicts, such as an amnesia plotline with one character, but nothing that actually made me attached. The only character I actually cared about was Ito, and that's only because he's played by…