Free movie - 1966 Oscar-Winning Sci Fi Classic: "Fantastic Voyage"

Tomorrow night (Thursday March 11) Enzian Theater's Popcorn Flicks in Central Park (7pm; free; if it's cancelled due to rain day the alternate date is March 25) will present the1966 sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage, about a medical team (and their submarine) shrunk down to microscopic size in order to enter a human bloodstream and save the life of an assassination victim. The film won Oscars for Best Art Direction and Best Effects and stars Raquel Welch as Cora. Check out the above trailer – this movie has it all. Sexiness, sexism, 60’s aesthetics and the first film venture into the human body – and the underlying implication that we know a lot of other irrelevant crap but most of us still don’t much about how our own bodies work.

Many other films have gone into the human body since Fantastic Voyage - if you count porn, probably millions. My personal favorite is the Futurama episode Parasites Lost. And I can’t hear the title without hearing the Lakeside song from 1980; since I want you to have the same songs stuck in your head that I do, here it is:

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  1. chas_mMarch 12, 2010 at 4:18 AM

    Oh, I *love* Fantastic Voyage (the movie!). I encourage everyone to go if you possibly can, seeing it outdoors with a crowd should be hilarious.

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