# I visited Marianas' Trench today (movie spoilers)

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**Created:** [April 16, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-visited-marianas-trench-today-movie-spoilers/352843 "2006-04-16T02:28:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-visited-marianas-trench-today-movie-spoilers/352843/1 "2006-04-16T02:28:04Z")

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For a bit longer than 20 minutes, however. Yup, I watched that old classic [Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055608/).

I was pleasantly surprised! I expected it to be corny, the special effects to be woefully antiquated, and the whole thing to be cheesy. Well, I wasn’t wrong about the special effects - although they were very good for their time - but the movie was actually really entertaining.

It was the actors what did it. Some pretty gripping acting, particularly the Captain (Robert Sterling) and the Admiral (Walter Pidgeon) of course.

I haven’t the faintest whether the Van Allen Belt (you have no idea how tempted I am to write Van Halen belt) has a 1 in 8 million chance of lighting afire, as it did, but who cares? I was vastly entertained and actually wanted to know _what happens next_.

I have to admit, there were times when I wanted to kick Captain Lee Crane for constantly second-guessing the Admiral. The situation they were in was so bad they might as wel go for broke, and I wouldn’t want to be in the Admiral’s position - the weight of the entire world resting on your shoulders. I suppose if you’re wrong, at least no one can blame you for long before the world blows up.

And the death of the good doctor! I guess dying of radiation poisioning would have been bad, but mauled to death by a shark?

Of course I had to giggle like a kid when they came up to the Trench:  
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Admiral: “We have to dive into the Marianas Trench! The other sub can’t go that deep! Dive, Captain! Dive! Dive! Dive!”  
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\<snerk\>  
And I’ve just checked a couple of websites that say the acting was terrible. Hmm. I’ll reserve my own judgement, I think. I liked it a lot.

Tomorrow - Fantastic Voyage!

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-visited-marianas-trench-today-movie-spoilers/352843/2 "2006-04-16T11:53:53Z")

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Haven’t seen it yet, but I just thought I would recommend the animation series, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. It was a kids series\*, so it has some cheesy bits, but ends up quite serious and very poignant.

- In theory 🙂