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Posted by DexterBG on 7/18/2008, 3:09 am, in reply to "DBNS: Dub Sub"
My only question would be, "I wonder which came first, "Atragon" or "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"? I know that Allen borrowed heavily from "he Time Travelers (1964) for his "Time Tunnel" series. But I always assumed that "V.B.S" was original. Not I'm not so sure. Especially when you mentioned a "flying sub" in Atragon. An idea that didn't appear in the original V.B.S. movie or 1st season of the Tv series. BTW, a recent re-release of the V.B.S. film had labeled it as the "Global Warming Edition"! Oh pul-lease! Enough of this revisionist exploitation. Besides, the "Van Allen Belt catching on fire", in that film, wasn't a man-made problem. Unlike the screwed up weather in "Damnation Alley". "V.B.S." was clearly a "sub based nukes have a peacetime use" propaganda piece. And also an anti-pacifist subplot too. Clearly Irwin Allen only "borrowed" what he liked from the Japanese movies. Not their post-war politics.
BTW, by conincidence I had just viewed K12- "Gamera vs Barugon". It was the first Jap monster movie I'd ever seen that seemed respectable. No annoying little kids, running around in short pants. I quess they tried doing Gamera for adults, at least once. It had a kind of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" start to its plot. Which was intergrated into later moments quite well. It reminded me a little of Jurassic Park too. Ya know, with the short-sighted greed of one man, setting lose the monster, plot line. And then he gets eaten anyway.
-Dex-
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