What are Your Favorite Film or Tv Series Adaptation of The Works Of Jules Verne?

[BAYLOR]

What is you favorite Adaptation of his world in those two mediums ?

 

[Alexa]

We don't see many of Jules Verne anymore, so it's hard to chose a favorite one.

I really loved Journey 2: The Mysterious Island with Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine and Josh Hutcherson. The scene with the giant bees was hilarious.

 

[BAYLOR]

We don't see many of Jules Verne anymore, so it's hard to chose a favorite one.

I really loved Journey 2: The Mysterious Island with Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine and Josh Hutcherson. The scene with the giant bees was hilarious.

That is a terrific film .

 

[BAYLOR]

I love the 1954 Disney film 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea with James Mason, Kirk Douglass and Peter Lorrie. This film is a classic. I own it on dvd. It had great acting, great production and special effects. I love that version of the Nautilus. That film set a very high standard.

 

[Alexa]

Classic are always the best ! It seems we will have a new release in 2017 for that one directed by Bryan Singer. The only actor announced so far is Roger Mussenden.

 

[BAYLOR]

Classic are always the best ! It seems we will have a new release in 2017 for that one directed by Bryan Singer. The only actor announced so far is Roger Mussenden.

They've been talking about this one for a while.

 

[TWErvin2]

I love the 1954 Disney film 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea with James Mason, Kirk Douglass and Peter Lorrie. This film is a classic. I own it on dvd. It had great acting, great production and special effects. I love that version of the Nautilus. That film set a very high standard.

This was the first one that came to mind for me too, the Disney 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. As a kid, I can remember watching it whenever I found it was on, always waiting for the giant squid scene.

 

[BAYLOR]

This was the first one that came to mind for me too, the Disney 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. As a kid, I can remember watching it whenever I found it was on, always waiting for the giant squid scene.

It's my favorite Disney film of all. The man that directed it Richard Fleischer, was the son of animator Max Fleisher who gave us Popeye, Betty Boop and those incredible animated Superman shorts. He was one of Walt Disney's rivals.

 

[Alexa]

Journey to the Center of the Earth with Peter Fonda was not bad either.

I grow up with Popeye. How say no to spinach meal after ?

 

[BAYLOR]

Journey to the Center of the Earth with Peter Fonda was not bad either.

I grow up with Popeye. How say no to spinach meal after ?

1959 film with James Mason and Pat Boone. I own that one on dvd, It's very enteraining film and a classic. I liked the Dimetrodons, even though they were iguanas with sail fins stuck to their backs. They did look part though.

As for Popeye, the early Fleischer ones are great , the paramount picture Popeye cartoons done in the 40's an 50's decent but not as good as the earlier ones, you can see decline in the writing and the animation which, is not surprising because at that time, the Studios with a few exceptions were discontinuing short subject, movie serials and cartoons and, the advent of television the 50's didn't help. The Popeye Cartoons done in the 60's are terrible in terms story and animation and the ones done in the late 70's early 80's are really wretched stuff.

 

[Alexa]

You don't like any of new releases ?

Honestly, I don't remember which version of Popeye I used to watch. He received a lot of kicks, though. Do you think the cartoon below is a Fleischer or a Paramount one ?

 

[Frost Giant]

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959). I enjoyed this as a young child despite it's many scientific inaccuracies.

 

[BAYLOR]

You don't like any of new releases ?

Honestly, I don't remember which version of Popeye I used to watch. He received a lot of kicks, though. Do you think the cartoon below is a Fleischer or a Paramount one ?

That looks like the 70's and 80's Popeye.

 

[BAYLOR]

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959). I enjoyed this as a young child despite it's many scientific inaccuracies.

Lots of inaccuracies but still very imaginative .

 

[Frost Giant]

Imaginative and spooky once they start exploring down there. I remember them finding the skeleton of the first explorer and the ancient city ruins, those were some of the best parts. The creepy atmosphere is then disrupted by someone's pet lizard running amok.

 

[BAYLOR]

You don't like any of new releases ?

Honestly, I don't remember which version of Popeye I used to watch. He received a lot of kicks, though. Do you think the cartoon below is a Fleischer or a Paramount one ?

Niether , but then I have no idea who produced the later Popeye Cartoons. From the style of the animation. this looks like Hanna Barbara.

 

[BAYLOR]

Imaginative and spooky once they start exploring down there. I remember them finding the skeleton of the first explorer and the ancient city ruins, those were some of the best parts. The creepy atmosphere is then disrupted by someone's pet lizard running amok.

The biggest problem was the volcano erupting with them in side the volcano . There is no possible way that is plausible. first off the minute that Volcano went off went , that whole chamber would been flooded with hot gas and Lava killing the Lindenbrook expedition instantly . Riding up the Volcano chute in the asbestos dish wouldn't have been survivable because the stone plug underneath the dish would still have been heated to the melting point by the lava ,the dish which still would have burned and there would still be the gasses to consider . They then get they thrown into the sea, that alone would have killed them instantly.

But I like the film and can suspend disbelief.

 

[HanaBi]

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959). I enjoyed this as a young child despite it's many scientific inaccuracies.

Likewise: a film remembered from my misspent yoof (sic). And if memory serves it was always shown around Christmas-time. And I always thought it was possible to actually "journey" down to the centre of the Earth. And as a consequence I had nightmares of giant squid appearing in the back gaerden just waiting to grab my legs and pull down to the Earth's core!

 

[BAYLOR]

From the Earth to the Moon 1958 This adaptation of Verne flawed but not bad and got some goofed moments, Some the effects are bargain basement though .

 

[Frost Giant]

The biggest problem

The biggest problem for me was that the center of the Earth is molten in the first place. As you noted, though, it goes downhill from there. Still a good story, though, especially if you're a kid.