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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1961, doesn't stand the test of Time.

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Just got done watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
This movie is best summed up by a paraphrase of Frankie Avalon's theme

"Come with me and I'll bore you at the bottom of the Sea"

This movies has it all, plastic sharks, a giant rubber squid borrowed from the Disney Studio, a giant octopus, Walter Pidgeon, as the Admiral, and Genius, Joan Fontaine scientist to counter balance, Barbara Eden as the bimbo blond, Peter Lorre, playing...well Peter Lorrie. And Frankie Avalon, who was then a heart throb for young sweeties and demonstrated in this roll why his future magnum opus was Beach Blanket Bingo (1965). You know the story. The than newly discovered Van Allen belt was set ah fire and Admiral Genius with his super sub has the answer to stop earth from roasting, but no one believes him. I watched this movie in theaters in 1961 and at the time I thought is was great, a 10 year old is easy to entertain. Now the movie is ridiculous, and except for Frankie Avalon's intro theme even the soundtrack is lame. Free on Netflix, and Amazon Prime.
 
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Yeah, but it had SONAR ping tones!

And it leaked air all the time. I distinctly remember seeing bubbles all the time

Now Stingray, that was cool
 
transmaster said:
Just got done watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
I watched this movie in theaters in 1961 and at the time I thought is was great, a 10 year old is easy entertain. Now the movie is ridiculous...
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Another, "You can't go home again" moment. If only things were as simple as they are through the eyes of a 10 year old boy full of dreams. :sigh:
 
jhtstone said:
Another, "You can't go home again" moment. If only things were as simple as they are through the eyes of a 10 year old boy full of dreams. :sigh:
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Yeah, this. And don't forget that it still is better than Sharknado I, II, and Ghost Shark.
 
I loved the TV show as a kid, but I'm not going to look at it again for fear that I'll lose the fond memory.
 
prisoners said:
I loved the TV show as a kid, but I'm not going to look at it again for fear that I'll lose the fond memory.
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I really, truly think this is one case where the TV show was better than the movie.
MeTV was showing the TV shows here awhile back and they really did kinda take me back. Only prob was it didn't come on till about the time my xanax was kickin' in so I hardly got to finish an episode.
Still...gotta love that sea weed monster!
 
tybrad said:
Yeah, this. And don't forget that it still is better than Sharknado I, II, and Ghost Shark.
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Sharknado...did you watch it?? Complete cheeze but absurd and funny as in Airplane meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Laughed and laughed :D :D

Guess you had to be there :arrow:
 
The TV show was so much better than the movie, it lasted 4 seasons. Remember the flying submarine.

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If I am not mistaken that is a Drake TR-4 radio on the professors table. A very good transceiver in it's day and a fun rig to operate now.

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Irwin Allen must have been raised in a hardscrabble environment, because he NEVER threw anything away... He re-used story lines, costumes, cheesy monsters, ALL of it in his wonderfully hysterical movies & TV shows.
 
Oh yes I forgot I want one of those Electro-Voice Model 636 microphones I see all over the place on the Seaview.

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Seems like most of the Sci-Fi shows from the era don't hold up well.
Science and Tech have changed so radically since then that it just seems completely ridiculous now.
The Flying Sub is still way cool though!
 
I dunno Eric; Star Trek had small silver discs before the CD was invented, cell phones, big screens, desktop computers, stealth warships, medical scanners....I'll bet there's a working teleportation device somewhere.
 
Ah, c'mon, what do you expect from an Irwin Allen production!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Allen

(and yes, the TV show was verrah cheesey!)

"The "Irwin Allen rock-and-roll" is when the camera is rocked as the on-screen cast rushes from side to side on the set,
simulating a ship being tossed around. It is employed in many episodes of Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
 
hjames said:
Ah, c'mon, what do you expect from an Irwin Allen production!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Allen

(and yes, the TV show was verrah cheesey!)

"The "Irwin Allen rock-and-roll" is when the camera is rocked as the on-screen cast rushes from side to side on the set,
simulating a ship being tossed around. It is employed in many episodes of Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
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Yeah, an' Heather, who DIDN'T love all those cheesy explosions on Seaview & Jupiter 2 where Sparks fly EVERYWHERE, but as soon as the sparks qwit, everything's back to normal ?!? Even as a 7, 8 yr-old Tadpole, I knew in real life it wasn't like that... Being around machinery at the farm, & at my family's printing plant, it NEVER happened like that..
 
The show was pretty good for the first 2 of its 4 years. It got really bad for 3 and 4.
 
prisoners said:
I dunno Eric; Star Trek had small silver discs before the CD was invented, cell phones, big screens, desktop computers, stealth warships, medical scanners....I'll bet there's a working teleportation device somewhere.
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Star Trek is a notable exception.


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