Saw this for the first time when I was 6 years old . No movie to this day stands out more than fantastic voyage. It was amazing especially for the time period when it came out. There's something very special about this movie. Everything was done right . Even today I still enjoy watching this movie and I will never get tired of watching this movie . Love it!!!
Didn't that scare you when you was a kid? The microscopic universe and being shrunk especially to microscopic size has always seemed extraterrestrial and mysteriously terrifying to me when you can die in a disgusting and unnatural way when you are small, the microscopic universe doesn't seem so small when you both look at it on a image and are yourself as detailed as that which is much larger than that, and even also when both we and even the earth itself are much smaller than anything else in the universe.
I think the best part of the movie is when they're approaching the heart and you can hear it thundering away. And one of the crew says" each best separates a man from eternity" so profound!
@@sanantonioroach7458 Cora : Listen, the heart. Dr. Michaels : Yes, it's slowed down a great deal. Grant : It sounds like heavy artillery. Dr. Michaels : It throws down quite a barrage. Over 40 million beats in a year. Dr. Duval : And every beat separates a man from eternity.
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Saw this movie in 1967 and I was 12. The special effects were astounding and it was cutting edge for the day. And, of course, Raquel Welch was the Best effect they could have. I enjoyed the movie the first time I saw it and am watching it now, February, 2019, on TCM. Still fun to watch and Raquel is just as yummy.
5:15 -- The "underground" ramps and corridors of CMDF were actually the outer concourse of the Los Angeles Sports Arena, an indoor stadium that was demolished in 2016. I half expected Stephen Boyd and Edmond O'Brien to go inside and catch a Lakers game.
As a kid, I was fascinated by these special effects. These could be done today, so much more cheaply and so much better, but to go back and watch these as they were done, back then, is so satisfying and much more enjoyable than to see them done with digital effects! They did such a remarkable job, using practical effects, that you can't deny the visual beauty of the outcome!
Regarding the plasma in the blood, I would prefer the oil / vaseline etc in water that they used over any digital effects. That looked perfect in this film and I doubt any CGI would come anywhere close to replicating that as faithfully
I saw this movie on a 70mm presentation on a huge curved screen and muilti-channel sound a coupole of a years after it initially came out in 1966. Will never forget the experience.
Art Cruckshank was my neighbor and gave me photos from the film. The next Dat his wife Mary Jane dropped the Oscar on her toe and broke her toe. It is a fantastic film.
This has ALWAYS been my most favoritest movie in the whole world!! I have loved it every since 1973, when I saw that American Lung Association commercial. And I discovered they had a MOVIE that had the same footage as that commercial!! HOO BOY!! That was for me!! In 1975, I fell in love-first with the Proteus, then with Cora Peterson(Ms. Welch), and then with the sets and the entire movie. This should have the highest award TEN TIMES!! I’ve had dreams about this movie (including a very interesting alternate ending, so if I secured the movie rights, I’d have a very interesting idea for a remake that involves a bullfrog and the Empire State Building).
Its a sci-fi masterpiece..They can never remake it, and also fail with too artificial SFX !! These days, directors have computer special effects but unfortunately no brains !
I remember watching fantastic voyage 10 years old, the scene where Donald pleasent crashed the sub and the foam dissolving the glass and dropping onto Donald’s head gave me a real sickening feeling. Great movie
The microscopic universe and being shrunk especially to microscopic size has always seemed extraterrestrial and mysteriously terrifying to me when bigger beings like humans can die in a disgusting and unnatural way for them when when they are not also microscope beings, the microscopic universe doesn't seem so small when you both look at it in both microscope and a photo and which are both detailed as and resembles to some things that are much bigger than the microscope universe, and even also when both we and even the earth itself are much smaller than anything else in the universe.
In the ‘70’s this film was required viewing for biology /science class in high school ... really relied visualize the various bodily features - functions ... especially the immune system
@@luciancorvus9992 yeah. I hear you. It's worse. Do you know how a spider eats? It injects digestive juices which turn the victim's guts into porridge, and then it pushes the porridgelike guts into a lower sac with its pedipalps. All that's left is an outer shell.
@@slw59 >>> I agree. My _thing_ about that TV show was *producer Irwin Allen.* I REALIZE it was the 1960s, but he tended to let his TV shows go a little crazy {or in the case of *LOST IN SPACE,* a LOT CRAZY}. Saying that reminds me of something I read once, posted online [around 2013] by J. Michael Strzynski, creator of *BABYLON 5* and *CRUSADE.* He said that TV executives for the most part just do not _get_ science fiction. Looking back at science fiction TV shows I have watched over the decades, that is often true. {I believe the same applies for movie executives as well.} MANY years ago, I realized that technologies we have had at any particular time in the second half of the 20th century {and later} were often themselves SCIENCE FICTION just a few decades -- or even occasionally just a few YEARS -- previously. Look at a modern law enforcement show where very latest technology is used to solve a crime. Some of that stuff might have been science fiction just two decades ago. I have worked aviation for much of my adult life, and there is stuff there that was undreamed of just a few decades ago....
They both actually were smaller than average subs-more so the Proteus. And as for those bubbles-especially on a deep diving watercraft-that was a death sentence waiting to happen. And it did on the Proteus. There was a version of the movie where the white blood cells actually smashed through the glass. I think the Nautilus was a midget sub and the Proteus was a mini sub.
@@johntapp7232 But those bubbles are so cool. I remember the first time I saw the Proteus, sitting in a movie theater as a 7 year old. I was blown away by how beautiful it was.
Amazing movie when it came out, i saw it in the Lowe's theater, and it was well made for the year it came out, i believe in 1966, the actors and a young racheal Welch were very convincing, also the style of the proteus ship, looks like something from star wars, great movie.
There used to be a free paper model available for download on the internet from a designer who went by the name of 'Uhu.' Don't know if you can still find it or not. Fortunately, I had downloaded the model and instructions when they were available in his links.
Fantastic Voyage still is a great movie. The story was great. I watched the movie and the cartoon. Both are great in there own right. The Proteus is very cool. It is in the same omage as the Juipiter 2 etc.
It's called Predictive Programming...Proteus Digital Health is also creating products of pharmaceutical treatments, ...like pills with battery (chip implant) that monitor your body Called Digital Medicines, these new pharmaceuticals will contain a tiny sensor that can communicate, via a digital health feedback system, vital information about an individual’s medication-taking behavior and how their body is responding.
This is what we HAVE to do exactly that!! This is what we’ve ALWAYS had in dealing with this or any other pandemic all through the ages. This is where we get our “herd immunity.” This is EXACTLY where man and animals get there defense and security and survival.
They mention this in the film. Their original plan was for them, and the ship, to be removed (surgically I think) at some predetermined extraction point.
@@slw59 more precisely, they were supposed to arrive back via the veinous system and be removed with a hypodermic (as per Dr. Michael's explanation at the briefing).
@@josephstalin7374 It wouldn't matter. Every atom of the ship would still be inside the white blood cell. When those atoms enlarged, Benes' body would have been permeated with the material of the ship, killing him. Isaac Asimov addressed this issue in his novelization of the movie. In Asimov's version, Grant gets the white blood cell to follow him and the rest of the crew along the optic nerve to Benes' eye and out of his body!
One guy being a talking head here -- does not even have a clue about when the movie came out. And he is going to tell us about it? This docu is low-grade and even with its audio volume maxed out, I can hardly hear it. Back to the cutting room (floor) with this one, please.
It is interesting that Harper Goff designed TWO submarines for two of Richard Fleischer's films. I suspect that Mr. Goff got the design for the Proteus while fixing his home's toilet, specifically the float valve!
Saw this for the first time when I was 6 years old . No movie to this day stands out more than fantastic voyage. It was amazing especially for the time period when it came out. There's something very special about this movie. Everything was done right . Even today I still enjoy watching this movie and I will never get tired of watching this movie . Love it!!!
I wore out a vhs, got another, then found the dvd. Found a slightly discounted Proteus model kit from Moebius and will give it very special attention
Didn't that scare you when you was a kid? The microscopic universe and being shrunk especially to microscopic size has always seemed extraterrestrial and mysteriously terrifying to me when you can die in a disgusting and unnatural way when you are small, the microscopic universe doesn't seem so small when you both look at it on a image and are yourself as detailed as that which is much larger than that, and even also when both we and even the earth itself are much smaller than anything else in the universe.
@@leasebergfladstad167 scared? No. Fascinated--YES!
Happy 55th Anniversary to Fantastic Voyage. 🖖🏻
I think the best part of the movie is when they're approaching the heart and you can hear it thundering away. And one of the crew says" each best separates a man from eternity" so profound!
"Only one heartbeat or one breath separates a man from eternity"
My favorite quote in this
@@sanantonioroach7458 Cora : Listen, the heart.
Dr. Michaels : Yes, it's slowed down a great deal.
Grant : It sounds like heavy artillery.
Dr. Michaels : It throws down quite a barrage. Over 40 million beats in a year.
Dr. Duval : And every beat separates a man from eternity.
Never. Gets. Old.
@@jonnyq680 Thanks for writing it out, awesome
If you like this, then you'll probably also like 'Andromeda Strain' and 'Colossus the Forbin Project'.
*"WARN - THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM"*
Yep, I DID see, and DID LOVE both of those movies too!
@@Geezer-yf8hv I saw both of those movies when I was a kid. I'm 64 now. Colossus the Forbin Project is still one of my favorite movies ever.
Also the comedy version of this - Innerspace with Dennis Quaid and Martin Short!
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A highly underrated classic...
Saw this movie in 1967 and I was 12. The special effects were astounding and it was cutting edge for the day. And, of course, Raquel Welch was the Best effect they could have. I enjoyed the movie the first time I saw it and am watching it now, February, 2019, on TCM. Still fun to watch and Raquel is just as yummy.
Raquel is, incredibly, still stunning in 2019. She could quite possibly reprise her role in a sequel, which needs to made.
@@georgehenderson7783 yeah, imagine--Doctor Cora Peterson!! Top brain woman in the country. Now her intern can thank her for taking her along.
For me, the Proteus was the best effect in the movie. Raquel, in her white, skin-tight dive suit, came in a very close second, though!!!
Raquel was a very special effect for sure. If this movie was released now then you would see millions of snowflakes exploding all at once globally.
5:15 -- The "underground" ramps and corridors of CMDF were actually the outer concourse of the Los Angeles Sports Arena, an indoor stadium that was demolished in 2016. I half expected Stephen Boyd and Edmond O'Brien to go inside and catch a Lakers game.
As a kid, I was fascinated by these special effects. These could be done today, so much more cheaply and so much better, but to go back and watch these as they were done, back then, is so satisfying and much more enjoyable than to see them done with digital effects! They did such a remarkable job, using practical effects, that you can't deny the visual beauty of the outcome!
Regarding the plasma in the blood, I would prefer the oil / vaseline etc in water that they used over any digital effects. That looked perfect in this film and I doubt any CGI would come anywhere close to replicating that as faithfully
I saw this movie on a 70mm presentation on a huge curved screen and muilti-channel sound a coupole of a years after it initially came out in 1966. Will never forget the experience.
You lucky bas...
Fantastic movie great sound fx! I'm going to watch it again after this...
Art Cruckshank was my neighbor and gave me photos from the film. The next Dat his wife Mary Jane dropped the Oscar on her toe and broke her toe. It is a fantastic film.
Eagerly waiting for the remake. I KNEW IT WASNT GOING TO COME OUT WHEN THEY SAID THE ORIGINAL DATE .
Hold up a remake is in the works?
Have you ever seen a remake that captured the magic of the original? I have not.
@@jamesfracasse8178 i bet they mess it up
@@jonnyq680 true: but I now believe that no villain could come close as Donald Sutherland.
@@jamesfracasse8178 Keanu was not up to par as Klaatu. Gary Oldman or Chris Walz, maybe?
Sci-fi masterpiece !!
This has ALWAYS been my most favoritest movie in the whole world!! I have loved it every since 1973, when I saw that American Lung Association commercial. And I discovered they had a MOVIE that had the same footage as that commercial!! HOO BOY!! That was for me!! In 1975, I fell in love-first with the Proteus, then with Cora Peterson(Ms. Welch), and then with the sets and the entire movie. This should have the highest award TEN TIMES!! I’ve had dreams about this movie (including a very interesting alternate ending, so if I secured the movie rights, I’d have a very interesting idea for a remake that involves a bullfrog and the Empire State Building).
One of the best sci-fli flicks. I can't believe they haven't (tried) to remake this.
There was talk that Guillermo Del Toro was going to remake it.
They said it was too complicated--even with computer generation.
@ja maguire Glad they did not use 90's çgi, was hit and miss.
Inner Space came close...
Its a sci-fi masterpiece..They can never remake it, and also fail with too artificial SFX !! These days, directors have computer special effects but unfortunately no brains !
I remember watching fantastic voyage 10 years old, the scene where Donald pleasent crashed the sub and the foam dissolving the glass and dropping onto Donald’s head gave me a real sickening feeling. Great movie
The microscopic universe and being shrunk especially to microscopic size has always seemed extraterrestrial and mysteriously terrifying to me when bigger beings like humans can die in a disgusting and unnatural way for them when when they are not also microscope beings, the microscopic universe doesn't seem so small when you both look at it in both microscope and a photo and which are both detailed as and resembles to some things that are much bigger than the microscope universe, and even also when both we and even the earth itself are much smaller than anything else in the universe.
In the ‘70’s this film was required viewing for biology /science class in high school ... really relied visualize the various bodily features - functions ... especially the immune system
still find Donald's death terrifying!
And me it's the stuff of nightmares. Everytime I watch it, I'm willing him to free his hands even if he is the villain😳😳
Ditto … Right up there with David Hedison's death in "The Fly"! It's that final scream that
gave me the collywobbles!
Death by soap suds.
@@luciancorvus9992 yeah. I hear you. It's worse. Do you know how a spider eats? It injects digestive juices which turn the victim's guts into porridge, and then it pushes the porridgelike guts into a lower sac with its pedipalps. All that's left is an outer shell.
@@sidious6826 He's reliving his entrapment during the London Blitz 1940. Poor kid.
Best special effect? Raquel Welch
Thank you so much
Harper Goff's design of the Proteus was a masterstroke. He also designed the Nautilus for "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
Nautilus & Proteus are probably my two favorite movie submsrines....
@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman The Seaview and Flying Sub are great designs too, but I agree, Goff's designs are my favorites.
@@slw59 >>> I agree. My _thing_ about that TV show was *producer Irwin Allen.*
I REALIZE it was the 1960s, but he tended to let his TV shows go a little crazy {or in the case of *LOST IN SPACE,* a LOT CRAZY}.
Saying that reminds me of something I read once, posted online [around 2013] by J. Michael Strzynski, creator of *BABYLON 5* and *CRUSADE.* He said that TV executives for the most part just do not _get_ science fiction. Looking back at science fiction TV shows I have watched over the decades, that is often true. {I believe the same applies for movie executives as well.}
MANY years ago, I realized that technologies we have had at any particular time in the second half of the 20th century {and later} were often themselves SCIENCE FICTION just a few decades -- or even occasionally just a few YEARS -- previously. Look at a modern law enforcement show where very latest technology is used to solve a crime. Some of that stuff might have been science fiction just two decades ago.
I have worked aviation for much of my adult life, and there is stuff there that was undreamed of just a few decades ago....
They both actually were smaller than average subs-more so the Proteus. And as for those bubbles-especially on a deep diving watercraft-that was a death sentence waiting to happen. And it did on the Proteus. There was a version of the movie where the white blood cells actually smashed through the glass. I think the Nautilus was a midget sub and the Proteus was a mini sub.
@@johntapp7232 But those bubbles are so cool. I remember the first time I saw the Proteus, sitting in a movie theater as a 7 year old. I was blown away by how beautiful it was.
I remember when I saw Fantastic Voyage when I was quite young,I actually had nightmares of knowing how we looked on the inside of our bodies.
6:05 big goof as the car goes down the shaft the shadows on the car doesnt change.
9:15 - one of the funniest lines in movie history - “But I don’t want to be miniaturized !”(Stephen Boyd)
“It’s just for an hour” (Edmond O’Brien)
😂
Some Seinfeld type humor at 9:21.... "...but I don't want to be miniaturized!"
kudo's to the effects directors.
awesome
Amazing movie when it came out, i saw it in the Lowe's theater, and it was well made for the year it came out, i believe in 1966, the actors and a young racheal Welch were very convincing, also the style of the proteus ship, looks like something from star wars, great movie.
Colossus and andromeda strain wow!!!!!❤
Saw this with my Dad when I was 11. I STILL want a model of the Proteus. There's some company that manufactures it.
There used to be a free paper model available for download on the internet from a designer who went by the name of 'Uhu.' Don't know if you can still find it or not. Fortunately, I had downloaded the model and instructions when they were available in his links.
I just watched this movie on utube
It was released in the year 1966
Fantastic Voyage still is a great movie. The story was great. I watched the movie and the cartoon. Both are great in there own right. The Proteus is very cool. It is in the same omage as the Juipiter 2 etc.
Funny you should say that-The Proteus borrows its sound effects from the tv show “Lost in Space.”
It's called Predictive Programming...Proteus Digital Health is also creating products of pharmaceutical treatments, ...like pills with battery (chip implant) that monitor your body
Called Digital Medicines, these new pharmaceuticals will contain a tiny sensor that can communicate, via a digital health feedback system, vital information about an individual’s medication-taking behavior and how their body is responding.
Reportage intéressant ☺😊😀
That’s freaking scary!!!! HELLO!!!!! 😫😫🚫⚠️⚠️
This is what we need in 2021...to take on Covid19! 👍
This is what we HAVE to do exactly that!! This is what we’ve ALWAYS had in dealing with this or any other pandemic all through the ages. This is where we get our “herd immunity.” This is EXACTLY where man and animals get there defense and security and survival.
when the hour is up - would not the ship have re-sized, killing the scientist ?
That, and about 40 gallons of saline solution.
Anything would have deminiaturized. Cant wait for the remake .
They mention this in the film. Their original plan was for them, and the ship, to be removed (surgically I think) at some predetermined extraction point.
@@slw59 more precisely, they were supposed to arrive back via the veinous system and be removed with a hypodermic (as per Dr. Michael's explanation at the briefing).
@@josephstalin7374 It wouldn't matter. Every atom of the ship would still be inside the white blood cell. When those atoms enlarged, Benes' body would have been permeated with the material of the ship, killing him.
Isaac Asimov addressed this issue in his novelization of the movie. In Asimov's version, Grant gets the white blood cell to follow him and the rest of the crew along the optic nerve to Benes' eye and out of his body!
Love this movie. The Proteus is almost as sexy as Raquel Welsh.
Welch
😅só em inglês?????
Quelqu'un aurait le lien du film complet en français
Pas ici🤣🤣
1966
The movie is from 1966, the documentary from 2006.
One guy being a talking head here -- does not even have a clue about when the movie came out. And he is going to tell us about it? This docu is low-grade and even with its audio volume maxed out, I can hardly hear it. Back to the cutting room (floor) with this one, please.
It is interesting that Harper Goff designed TWO submarines for two of Richard Fleischer's films. I suspect that Mr. Goff got the design for the Proteus while fixing his home's toilet, specifically the float valve!
I remember when I saw Fantastic Voyage when I was quite young,I actually had nightmares of knowing how we looked on the inside of our bodies.