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Posted by DexterBG on 7/20/2008, 2:45 am, in reply to "Re: Eat your heart out Irwin Allen"
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: 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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