Watching Fantastic Voyage even today is pretty impressive. The special effects were insane for that time and the film still holds up today in my opinion.
'Planet of the Apes' ending as written by Rod Serling is still amazing. The later Tim Burton remake had the original shocker ending that was in the novel by Pierre Boulle. Though Burton's was well done the 1968 film is still my favorite adaptation.
I saw all of those movies, execpt Day of the Triffids, but whit i had read the book. Nice video. M'y favorite is certainly Quatermass and the pit, wich deserv a good remake.
I am old enough to have seen all of these on the big screen. Day of the triffids, they gave you a small package of sunflower seeds marked triffids seeds.
Fantastic Voyage needs to happen in space in a future where we have a space station. Because only in space could it possibably happen. If you could shrink the distance between atoms they still would weigh the same and that submarine works by displacement so only in space could you escape the penalites of mass.
Also: wouldn't shrinking the space between subatomic particles not change the way they interact with normal matter? Like radiation suddenly becoming lethal to shrunk matter? Or what if the mass of the shrunken submarine and its crew does get less, how can it still interact with the outside world? And so on. An entertaining movie but you don't want to think about the fysical consequenties. Oh well. It's just a film.
Maybe you Sci-fi experts can help me identify a 60's movie I (sort of) remember from my childhood. There's not much to go on. I only remember one scene- The people (astronauts on a alien planet?) were backing up a spiral ramp chased by a black blob-like goo that was flowing up the ramp. There were hanging conical "things" sort of like light fixtures all around. Everything was very brightly colored against a black background. At the time, I thought it was so cool how they got the goo to flow uphill. (As an adult, I think I have it figured out!) I've been keeping an eye out for this movie for years. I'm certainly not saying it's a good movie but I would love to have closure on this little mystery of mine. Thanks.
SPOILERRS, MAN!!!! LOLL Absolutely FANTASTIC video. I haven't seen a few of these and the rest I saw so long ago I've basically forgot them. I'll be hunting all these up for a marathon viewing :) Thank you Sir
You could mention John Wyndham, sociological British Commonwealth author. In addition to "The Day of the Triffids, book far superior to film, he wrote "The Midwich Cuckoos", reworked into "The Village of the Damned", the novella "Consider Her Ways", made into a TV hour long 60s drama/quiet thriller, and the masterpiece "Rebirth", along with Frederick Pohl and CM Kornbluth's "The Space Merchants", essential reading for many reasons. a different take would to discuss how virtually all science fiction is fantasy, impossible in reality, and/or to elucidate allegory, in which science fiction is merely a more recent form of fable. Another take could emphasize the dangerous deluded faith in future high tech....fossil fuels are irreplaceable, fusion power impossible, we can never locate, let alone visit or communicate with, let alone live in, another biosphere. Machine age ends when, after the final century of recoverable oil and gas, the ever dirtier and deeper sulfurous bituminous coal is exhausted. Hand and hoof, stone and wood, for as long, or short, as we may, or may not survive the Anthropocene The last can only be guesstimated....currently unknowable. Good selection of films. A few more actor identities....Maurice Evans, 'plummy' style Shakespearean actor who was the very camp husband to Endora's "Bewitched" mother of 'Samantha'....was orang Zaius in film of Pierre Boule's French 'roman fantastique' "Planète des Singes". He also wrote "Bridge on the River Kwai. Gary Lockwood and 'Batman's' West played companion astronauts who die first, in "2001" and "Rob Crusoe on Mars"....Lockwood was in pilot of "Star Trek"...he dies...and the hero in a children's fantasy comedy thriller, with Basil Rathbone as an evil wizard, "The Magic Sword." He lives.
Saw all of these in reruns when I was a kid - 2001 showed us all the humans bunched up together - in a space ship - just like our ape like ancestors bunched up in the cave - we are all just a bunch of monkeys trying to fly into space - even our AI computers are as murderous as we are 🙂
I've seen all of these movies talked about here and while I generally agree I must also state that Barbarella was just a plain ridiculous, stupid movie. Sorry.
Barbarella had only weird and artsy fartsy going for it. It had plenty of both and Fantastic Planet was the only movie to come close, but it had a coherent story
2001 was a mess. Monkeys jumping around, then a colonizing the moon plot that went nowhere. The HAL thing(which was the only decent part, IMO). Then a guy watches an old version of himself, twenty minutes of colored lights, and finally a giant baby is born in space. What?
i find it totally fascinating that today we have artificial intelligence that is on par with what was shown in 2001 a space odyssey. and that it is not logic-based ("gofai" as proposed by the movie's scientific advisor and ai pioneer marvin minsky), but connectionist, i. e. neural network based. and that these neural net driven ais show the complete opposite characteristics of the kind of system depicted in the movie: intuitive, error-prone (by design. even a feature that enables analogies: confabulation/hallucination), struggling with logic... very human-like. contemporary llms also have self-awareness of these limitations.
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Watching Fantastic Voyage even today is pretty impressive. The special effects were insane for that time and the film still holds up today in my opinion.
First men in the moon and quatermass 🎉grew up watching such classics 👍
I sat in the time machine at Bob and Kathy Burns' house in Burbank, among countless treasure there, just an amazing collection of memorabilia
I was amazed by Fantastic Voyage more than the just about any other movie when I saw it as a kid.
One more to add to the list is the 1960 British sci-fi/horror classic, Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders & Barbara Shelly.
FYI Anyone wanting to see Quatermass and the Pit it was released in the US with the title "5 Million Years to Earth". A great movie.
Wonderful roundup! Thanks
'Planet of the Apes' ending as written by Rod Serling is still amazing. The later Tim Burton remake had the original shocker ending that was in the novel by Pierre Boulle. Though Burton's was well done the 1968 film is still my favorite adaptation.
I saw all of those movies, execpt Day of the Triffids, but whit i had read the book. Nice video. M'y favorite is certainly Quatermass and the pit, wich deserv a good remake.
These are some really good films, they are all "must see".
Thanks RZ
A number of my favorites, mentioned.
Quatermass and the pit every time I've seen it it was called "Five million years to Earth".
That was just the U.S. release title. We didn't know what a Quatermass was.
@@creech54 not a what but a who.
@@bored1ca Just a little joke, meaning we didn't know that, at the time. 😁
@@creech54 ah humour ar ar ar!!
Got all these movies on Blu-ray except one
The Seven Faces of Doctor Lau, Jason and the Golden Fleece, and A Clockwork Orange…?
Fantasy. Fantasy. 1970s.
It's 'Seven Faces of Dr Lao' and 'Jason and the Argonauta.' At least you got Clockwork right.
a Rondo Award nomination is in the future I believe!
You never seem to disappoint. 👍
fantastic voyage was written by Isaac Asma
Great review. Note it's Fahrenheit 4-5-1 (not four fifty one)
I am old enough to have seen all of these on the big screen.
Day of the triffids, they gave you a small package of sunflower seeds marked triffids seeds.
Interesting video and thanks for sharing 😊
Thanks for watching!
You forgot Village of the Damned
"The Day the Earth Caught Fire" and "(These Are) The Damned" are also excellent.
All are my favorites! Always looking for a good sci-fi!
Glad you liked them! Great era for sci-fi!
@ most definitely!
Fantastic Voyage needs to happen in space in a future where we have a space station. Because only in space could it possibably happen. If you could shrink the distance between atoms they still would weigh the same and that submarine works by displacement so only in space could you escape the penalites of mass.
Also: wouldn't shrinking the space between subatomic particles not change the way they interact with normal matter? Like radiation suddenly becoming lethal to shrunk matter? Or what if the mass of the shrunken submarine and its crew does get less, how can it still interact with the outside world? And so on. An entertaining movie but you don't want to think about the fysical consequenties. Oh well. It's just a film.
Maybe you Sci-fi experts can help me identify a 60's movie I (sort of) remember from my childhood. There's not much to go on.
I only remember one scene- The people (astronauts on a alien planet?) were backing up a spiral ramp chased by a black blob-like goo that was flowing up the ramp. There were hanging conical "things" sort of like light fixtures all around. Everything was very brightly colored against a black background. At the time, I thought it was so cool how they got the goo to flow uphill. (As an adult, I think I have it figured out!)
I've been keeping an eye out for this movie for years. I'm certainly not saying it's a good movie but I would love to have closure on this little mystery of mine. Thanks.
SPOILERRS, MAN!!!!
LOLL Absolutely FANTASTIC video. I haven't seen a few of these and the rest I saw so long ago I've basically forgot them.
I'll be hunting all these up for a marathon viewing :)
Thank you Sir
You could mention John Wyndham, sociological British Commonwealth author. In addition to "The Day of the Triffids, book far superior to film, he wrote "The Midwich Cuckoos", reworked into "The Village of the Damned", the novella "Consider Her Ways", made into a TV hour long 60s drama/quiet thriller, and the masterpiece "Rebirth", along with Frederick Pohl and CM Kornbluth's "The Space Merchants", essential reading for many reasons.
a different take would to discuss how virtually all science fiction is fantasy, impossible in reality, and/or to elucidate allegory, in which science fiction is merely a more recent form of fable. Another take could emphasize the dangerous deluded faith in future high tech....fossil fuels are irreplaceable, fusion power impossible, we can never locate, let alone visit or communicate with, let alone live in, another biosphere. Machine age ends when, after the final century of recoverable oil and gas, the ever dirtier and deeper sulfurous bituminous coal is exhausted.
Hand and hoof, stone and wood, for as long, or short, as we may, or may not survive the Anthropocene The last can only be guesstimated....currently unknowable.
Good selection of films. A few more actor identities....Maurice Evans, 'plummy' style Shakespearean actor who was the very camp husband to Endora's "Bewitched" mother of 'Samantha'....was orang Zaius in film of Pierre Boule's French 'roman fantastique' "Planète des Singes". He also wrote "Bridge on the River Kwai. Gary Lockwood and 'Batman's' West played companion astronauts who die first, in "2001" and "Rob Crusoe on Mars"....Lockwood was in pilot of "Star Trek"...he dies...and the hero in a children's fantasy comedy thriller, with Basil Rathbone as an evil wizard, "The Magic Sword." He lives.
Say it with flowers, give her a Triffid!
Saw all of these in reruns when I was a kid - 2001 showed us all the humans bunched up together - in a space ship - just like our ape like ancestors bunched up in the cave - we are all just a bunch of monkeys trying to fly into space - even our AI computers are as murderous as we are 🙂
I've seen all of these movies talked about here and while I generally agree I must also state that Barbarella was just a plain ridiculous, stupid movie. Sorry.
Barbarella had only weird and artsy fartsy going for it. It had plenty of both and Fantastic Planet was the only movie to come close, but it had a coherent story
And yet here we are, sttil talking about it. You have a problem with fluff? Tell me a joke. If you know one.
@@ClutchCargo001 I once knew a man with a wooden leg named Smith.
@ Hilarious! Did you umdedamd the question?
@@ClutchCargo001 Why do you think I was responding to a question?
2001 was a mess. Monkeys jumping around, then a colonizing the moon plot that went nowhere. The HAL thing(which was the only decent part, IMO). Then a guy watches an old version of himself, twenty minutes of colored lights, and finally a giant baby is born in space. What?
I'm not sure if the book or the movie came first but if you read the book it makes a little more sense.
@@jamesellis9080 Alien is the key word and our perception of a future alien contact . Aliens made a room where culture shock would be minimised .
2001 eloquently showed how a constant guiding force helped mankind evolve . Apparently not in your case. 🙈🙉🙊
@jamesellis9080 Short story I believe: The Sentinel.
i find it totally fascinating that today we have artificial intelligence that is on par with what was shown in 2001 a space odyssey. and that it is not logic-based ("gofai" as proposed by the movie's scientific advisor and ai pioneer marvin minsky), but connectionist, i. e. neural network based. and that these neural net driven ais show the complete opposite characteristics of the kind of system depicted in the movie: intuitive, error-prone (by design. even a feature that enables analogies: confabulation/hallucination), struggling with logic... very human-like. contemporary llms also have self-awareness of these limitations.
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