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Cheryl - 19 Feb 2005 02:48 GMT

So I got direct tv with TiVo. There are more channels than I've seen
on all the years I've had cable. I was looking through the listings
earlier and saw "Fantastic Voyage" and I'm watching it now, and its
still recording probably the end of it. These old movies are so far
ahead of their time! I saw it when I was a kid. I had to laugh when
someone asked "how big is the ship?" "As big as a microbe" was the
answer. lol It's only at the part where they're being injected into
the body, but I missed something that I can't remember. Who is the
subject? Apparently its the military doing the mission. Who is so
important for them to go "laser" a blood clot in someones brain? I
LOVE these old movies! And I love TiVO and being able to record
something and watch from the start when its still recording near the
end!

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Kreisleriana - 19 Feb 2005 05:16 GMT

>So I got direct tv with TiVo. There are more channels than I've seen
>on all the years I've had cable. I was looking through the listings
>earlier and saw "Fantastic Voyage"

OMG, what a scream.. I love that crazy old sci-fi stuff. How come it
all hasn't happened yet? Huh? Huh? ;)

Here's what I wrote in my blog last year when I saw "Voyage to the
Bottom of the Sea":

I watched Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea this evening. Good God, what
a turkey. Lots of fun, though. Timely, too, with its crackpot global
warming theme!
What a cast. You almost want to cover your eyes as you see Walter
Pidgeon and Joan Fontaine mouthing this crap. They are ably assisted
by Robert Sterling, Barbara Eden and yes, Frankie Avalon! Peter Lorre
is the only one who doesn't look completely ridiculous. But it's all
ridiculous in a good way.

I love submarine movies, and I just need to point out that there were
some egregious breaches of correct submarine movie rhetoric:

1) I know this was supposed to be a super-duper modern nuclear sub,
but IMO, thats no excuse for not having loud horns going
OOOOOOOOOO-GAH! OOOOOOOOOO-GAH! when the sub dives (DIVE! DIVE!), or
when water comes pouring in. No excuse at all.
Why, I had to make the sound myself! :P

2) When a diver is attacked by a giant octopus, it is a matter of
absolute trust that the diver must take out a knife and stab the
octopus multiple times. In this one, the diver had some kind of gadget
with which he electrocuted the octopus, which was cool but I still
felt a bit betrayed.

Although I have to give them points for when the divers go out, they
are immediately attacked by sharks, then immediately after the shark
attack, they are attacked by the giant octopus.) Troubles under the
sea truly come in battalions. :P Later on, when a mine explodes near
the sub, wiping out the two volunteers in the mini-sub, the whole big
sub is immediately attacked again, by a *really big* giant octopus.
And Joan Fontaine, the secret saboteur (saboteuse?) is eaten by a
shark. Serves her right. :P

Theresa
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jmcquown - 19 Feb 2005 07:12 GMT

>> So I got direct tv with TiVo. There are more channels than I've seen
>> on all the years I've had cable. I was looking through the listings
>> earlier and saw "Fantastic Voyage"
>
> OMG, what a scream.. I love that crazy old sci-fi stuff. How come it
> all hasn't happened yet? Huh? Huh? ;)

No joke - by now we should all be living in round dome-like houses and have
robots! I remember back in 1967 going to Disney World out in Anaheim and
visiting "Tomorrow Land"... my house definitely doesn't look like that! I,
for one, am glad not to have video-phones. I don't want anyone to see me
first thing in the morning when I answer, all bleary-eyed, "Huh? Hello?"

Of course there are web cams. I won't use one for that same reason. Here's
*not* lookin' at you, kid ;)

Jill

> Here's what I wrote in my blog last year when I saw "Voyage to the
> Bottom of the Sea":
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> Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
> My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

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jmcquown - 19 Feb 2005 07:06 GMT

> So I got direct tv with TiVo. There are more channels than I've seen
> on all the years I've had cable. I was looking through the listings
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> something and watch from the start when its still recording near the
> end!

He was a foreign scientist who escaped from behind the "Iron Curtain" (how
many years has it been since you heard that particular term, eh?) That was
a great film! I loved it when they made a wrong turn and had to go through
the heart!

Jill

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