Fantastic voyage

[Dude Manson]

Man this movie is a big stinkbomb..

[Dirtcreature]

Original or re-make?

[BoyScoutKevin]

I don't know. Raquel Welch looked pretty good in a wetsuit, when I was a teenager.
Add in a supporting cast that included Stephen Boyd, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O'Connell, William Redfield, and Arthur Kennedy and some memorable sets, and you have a film that I enjoyed watching.

[AndyC]

One of my favourite movies as a kid. Watched it whenever it was on TV. For the time it was made, it was an engaging story with some really cool effects. It was nominated for an Oscar, wasn't it?

Anyway, compare it to the bulk of 60s sci-fi, and it's head and shoulders above for quality, and lots of fun too.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Actually five times nominated: Best Color Cinematography, Best Sound Effects, and Best Film Editing and winning for Best Special Visual Effects and Best Color Set Decoration.

[The Burgomaster]

Stink bomb? Maybe because you are spoiled by today's CG effects.  I think the movie is actually very good.  Back when it was released, the special effects probably looked pretty damned good, too.

[Bernie]

I saw this in the theaters way back when it was new (hell, so was I) and even then, at age 9-10, I thought the grid drawn on the guy's bald head and the miniature radar antennas whirling around him were --- embarrassingly dumb.

Other than that, I loved it -- had never seen anything like those sets and hell, you really believed these people were in that ship traveling through a human body.  (It would be another 2 years or so before I could appreciate Ms. Welch's body!)

Yes, it was deadly dull up until they injected them into the guy but once they got going -- whoosh! we were all swept along.

[Flangepart]

Breast..er, best parts...Part!...Raquel Welch!
Worst part...the radar antennas...yeah, they did up the goof factor.
Man, i wish Mike and the bots had gotten this one for the movie! Oh, the power of cheese.....

[Gerry]

I love FANTASTIC VOYAGE.  One of the best SFs of the 60s (and there are a lot of good ones actually--IMO).

[trekgeezer]

I must admit to noting the erotic subtext   when Ms. Welch got  attacked by the  antibodies and they crystalized  requiring them to be removed by the hands of her  male shipmates. That was when I was just 11 years old.

She was really hot in One Million Years BC.  A  lovely Cro Magnon woman  kidnapped by Neanderthals,  in a buckskin bikini no less.

Trivia - Fantsastic Voyage  was based on the novel by Isaac Asimov.

[Bernie]

Not sure but I THINK Asimov wrote a novelization of the movie (not the other way 'round).

[Flangepart]

Bernie...your are correct, sir!
I read part of it. He postulated that the atoms of the whole shebang had to be shrunk,,,including the oxygen supply, as the normal oxygen atoms would be too big to use!
Also, it lowered the gravity effect, so the multiton sub and crew would not fall through the body of the scientest, and hit the floor.
Hummm....gotta look that puppy up, now that i think about it..."ol mutton chops was a pretty good writer, wern't he?

[ben rosson]

has nothing to do with this movie, but it is awesome.

[trekgeezer]

The book was written in 1964, the movie was released in 1966. But it could've been one of those deals like 2001, where Clarke wrote the book  while they were making th movie.