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Classic Quad Set 17-75 years Fantastic Voyage, The Lost World, The Towering World, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea [Import]

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For those who are still buying DVDs this is a great deal. All 4 movies are stored in one nice case. Yes, I would recommend this to a friend.

4 great classic movies. Story lines are simplistic and imaginative. I'm glad the main actors in "Voyage to the bottom of the sea" have been changed from the movie to the TV series. Although Barbara Eden would have been a "hootie" as the only woman onboard a nuclear submarine.
"Fantastic voyage", "Towering inferno" and "Lost world" are always a pleasure to watch and rewatch.
These movies are a must-have for everybody of any age to watch on a rainy Saturday day.

Great special effects for his days and awesome captivating storyline.

"Fantastic Voyage" is certainly worthy of its name, with imaginativeness, creativity and beauty (From Raquel Welch in particular). It also has a rather simple plot, which I shall outline for you. An eastern bloc scientist, who holds the knowledge to perfecting miniaturization warfare, is defecting to the Americans. However, an attempted assignation leaves him with brain damage. The only way to save the scientist's life is to miniaturize a team of surgeons and send them into the body. But they have only one hour to complete the mission and have to face threats such as the body's natural defenses and sabotage from within.

If there are complaints with "Fantastic Voyage", it is in some plot holes (Smart Alecs, in my opinion, should stay away and look elsewhere). Firstly, although it's extremely obvious who the saboteur is (He tries constantly to get the mission aborted and is always frantic), no one on board really seems to suspect him. The ending was also somewhat empty and unsatisfying (We never learn what happens to the scientist). Some will also love pointing out the plot clichés (The people in the control room always seem to know what the Proteus crew is thinking, even with no radio, and the sub crew always finds a way out of a problem). Many will also find scientific inaccuracies (My dad pointed out how well lit the human body was depicted) Then there is the impossibility of shrinking matter and placing it in other matter. Also, in terms of ideals, this film shows age. People in the 1960's believed that the future would be like it was in here and Kubrick's "2001". They thought one-day that humans would have established bases in space and would be able to miniaturize. How could they have known that computers and the World Wide Web would be the tools and thoughts of the future?

Some reviewers have suggested that "Fantastic Voyage" should be remade. I think that is a lousy idea. Sure the special effects and set design would be better. But a new version would be colder, darker, more violent and full of foul language. The heart and joy of the original would be gone. Also, notice that despite being the only woman onboard, Raquel Welch never seems to have interest with anyone else on the sub (Most of them are past her age, anyway). While she may not give the best performance, at least she is professional and knows her priorities. Would that stay the same in a remake?

So, while not without some problems, I wouldn't mind owning this movie. But I would especially love to see a widescreen edition (DVD preferably) released sometime soon.

Before 2001 and Star Wars, Director Richard Fleischer made a very well made science fiction movie with Fantastic Voyage. With a cast starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Arthur Kennedy,and Edmond O'Brien, a team of scientists are reduced to sub-atomic size and placed aboard a small sub, then injected into a man's body to save his life before it's too late. Oscars were well won for best work in visual and artistic effects. A movie with substance and puts many of today's so called big effects pictures to shame. Also featuring a good musical score by Leonard Rosenman (who would go on to compose the music for the movie; STAR TREK IV; THE VOYAGE HOME).

This is one of the most imaginative science fiction films ever. No Martians or UFOs in this one, just a medical crew traveling through the body of a dying man in a miniaturized submarine in a race to save the man's life. Now who's going to tell me director Richard Fleischer doesn't have an imagination for movies? When a very important diplomat is nearly assassinated, a medical crew is shrunk down to microscopic size and is sent to embark on a journey to save him from a deadly blood clot. Once entering the body, they must make their way through gallons of plasma, bloodied canals, and vital organs and do it before they return to normal size. What a climax! Raquel Welch appears as one of the medical crew and if the imagery doesn't impress you, perhaps that will. There is nothing like seeing a beautiful woman with intelligence to compare (or so says Roger), not to mention the fact that she is wearing a mini skirt and at one point covered in goo. Now that might be something for some of you to behold (Roger coughs). Here's a movie that will entertain you, and at the same time, you might even learn a few things about the human anatomy. Oh, and did I mention this film won Oscars for art direction and special affects? Of course, you might find some of the effects laughable compared to what we can do today with technology, but at the time this movie was something to rave about.

I saw Fantastic Voyage for the first time when I was still a kid on the TV. I liked it a lot and went on to read Asimov's novelization of the movie 's screenplay. I liked both of them. It should be told that the movie was not based on the book but rather the other way around. The acting was okay, the special effects great for the time the movie was made, and Raquel Welch in the eye of the boy was the best. I hope one day to have a copy of this video for my movie library just because. And it would be the perfect story for a remake in the next century, if someone like George Lucas were to produce it and Steven Spielberg directed it.

This is one of the few science fiction flicks made back in the sixties that still continues to awe its audience. We've made much advance in the area of presenting special effects since this film's release; but it's still got plenty of popularitiy to entertain another generation of sci-fi fans.

This is one of my all time favorite movies. I have read the book and the movie follows it closely. It is riviting and the effects are still great, even in this age of digital SFX. It is definite classic!

After all these years, it's sad to see what science fiction has become. There was a time when sci-fi movies had a modicum of "sci" in them, not to mention intelligent storylines and suspenseful situations that rose directly out of the premise.The science in FV is sound--the makers of the film did their sophomore biology homework, as well as their basic physics homework.I show this to my grade-school students, as an example of 'good science fiction', and as an entertaining part of learning about various body systems.The visual effects are breathtaking and still convincing, even in this era of CGI.Lots of fun!