{"id":5941,"date":"2004-06-25T05:34:27","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T12:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/25\/voyage.html"},"modified":"2004-06-25T05:34:27","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T12:34:27","slug":"voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/voyage.html","title":{"rendered":"Voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A movie remake of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea<\/i><\/a> is in the works.<\/p>\n

I always had mixed feelings about that Irwin Allen <\/a>schlockfest. On the one hand, it was too frelling cheesy for words<\/a>, quickly devolving from its initial black-and-white adventure series tone to SF goofiness <\/a>that would make even its cousin<\/a>‘s Lost in Space <\/i>Dr Smith blush.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, in the great SF wasteland that was the late 60s, it was … well, just about the only thing going<\/a>, once Star Trek <\/i>was gone.<\/p>\n

To this day, I still have a fondness for the wall of blinkenlights <\/i>that made up the Seaview<\/i>‘s computer. And certainly there’s no reason why the basic setting (an advanced undersea research vessel and What It Discovers Out There) couldn’t make a decent movie, at least.<\/p>\n

Still — it won’t be the same without Richard Basehart <\/a>and David Hedison <\/a>chewing the scenery and trading off the “Who’s going to be thought insane because of their insane (but correct) interpretation of the insanity going on?” roles on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A movie remake of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is in the works. I always had mixed feelings about that Irwin Allen schlockfest. 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