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A remote plateau in South America with a unique ecosystem, a lighter-than-air ship that travels across Africa, and an undersea boat that goes ghost hunting!





Science Fiction adventures abound in this Monday's Featured Threads! Pick the post which appeals the most and enrich it with your own ideas on the subject.
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The Lost World (1960

Opening Statement:
The time has come for a big-budget version of the classic novel — done as well as the first Indian Jones movies, with a reverent and accurate depiction of the period in which the story takes place.

Naturally this remake should treat us to fascinating characters which we come to love during the exciting story.

One thing the 1960 Irwin Allen version did (in spite of all it's flaws) was present us with fine characters, played by beloved actors like Michael Rennie, David Hedison, and Claude Rains

Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)

Opening Statement: This is a movie based on a Jules Verne novel about a theoretical airship that uses "heated hydrogen" and an expandable "enclosed envelope" which allows the airship to raise and lower it's altitude without loosing its gas and without using any ballast!

In the full novel, available at Gutenberg.org, Jules Verne describes how the airship can soar to incredible heights using heated hydrogen and an expandable envelope to do what our unmanned high-altitude weather balloons do!

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964 - 1968)

Opening Statement: My first inclination was to think the ghost ship was indeed a ruse to discourage investigation, but then I realized that this would be cliched, as well as disappointing to the audience.

And since Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was never shy about presenting outlandish plots, maybe it turned out to be real ghosts on a cursed ship.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)