20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (with Movie Cash)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (with Movie Cash) Review

I watched this movie when it originally aired on TV, and it inspired me to want to read the book. I had only seen the Disney movie before, but not since I was a little kid so I didn't really remember it. The book ended up being really different, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying this movie. The Stanley Kubrick version of The Shining doesn't have much to do with the book it's based on either, but I still love it. If you can watch this version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as it's own thing, it's actually really good. I actually always thought it was one of the best made-for-tv movies, and I wanted to see it again but they never reaired it. Finally it came out on DVD after YEARS of searching for it, and I still like it.

I don't understand all the negative reviews. I'm probably going to get attacked for this, but I actually like this better than the Disney movie, which I watched again not long after this aired. The Disney movie feels to me like a travelogue and has minimal story. This version has a better story and a more climactic ending. There's more happening. It's darker, edgier. There's more character development, and a couple new characters (Nemo's daughter, played by Mia Sara), which may make some people mad but I thought it added to the story. One of the criticisms I've heard people make of Jules Verne is that he wasn't very good at writing women. All the same themes and ideas are here, some of them are just presented in a different way. The special effects aren't as good as I remembered, they look kind of cheap, but halfway through the movie you stop noticing because you're drawn into the story.

Anyway, give it a chance. You may be pleasantly surprised.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (with Movie Cash) Feature

• The year is 1886 and New England's fishing harbor is the scene for a "creature of unknown origin" destroying all ships at sea. It is the job of a curious marine expert, Professor Pierre Aronnax (Patrick Dempsey from the hit TV show "Grey's Anatomy") and the iron-willed sailor, Ned Land (Bryan Brown) to learn the truth of the "monster" roaming the depths of the ocean. Their discovery begins when th

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (with Movie Cash) Overview

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/25/2006 Run time: 178 minutes Rating: Nr

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The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms / Them! (Double Feature)

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms / Them! (Double Feature) Review

When one compiles a list of the great sci-fi films of the fifties, that list must include "Them!" and "Beast from 20,000 Fathoms." Besides being made during the same decade, the two films have so much in common:

1) They were both produced and released by Warner Brothers.
2) Both feature actors in supporting roles as the "old scientist," Edmund Gwenn in "Them" and Cecil Kellaway in "Beast", respectively.
3) Both films have then-state-of-the-art special effects, though "Beast" sports the best with the handiwork of the legendary Ray Harryhausen on his first "solo" project.
4) The "monsters" in both films were the result of atomic bomb testing, a plot device stemmed from the fear fostered in many following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
5) Both films have the necessary female "expert" to "equal things out, Joan Weldon ("Them!") and Paula Raymond ("Beast"). Weldon even gets to do the required scream when saved from the marauding ant hordes.

What's fun about both is that viewers get to see some novice performers who would later make their mark on television or the big screen. "Them!" stars future-Matt-Dillon James Arness and in supporting roles future-Davy-Crockett-and-Daniel Boone Fess Parker as well as Leonard Nimoy would would later don pointed eyes as the legendary Mr. Spock. ""Beast" has future movie star Lee Van Cleef as a marksman that brings down the monster.

Still-going-strong-at-87 character actor William Schallert has a small part in "Them!", also.

The picture and sound is very good for films that are fifty-plus years old.

The extras include a fascinating conversation between Harryhausen and longtime friend Ray Bradbury whose "The Fog" was the inspiration for "Beast."

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms / Them! (Double Feature) Feature

• Humanity has split the atom, unleashing a new era of science - an era that would also unleash monstrous celluloid rampages. An A-bomb test in the Arctic awakens The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, and it makes New York City its stomping ground in the movie (based on a story by Ray Bradbury) that launched a string of Atomic Age creature features. One of the best of those cautionary yarns is Them! Radiat

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Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: UN
Release Date: 22-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD

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