The Fantastic Voyage is on

February 13, 2002

The Fantastic Voyage is on the tube. I always wanted a shrink ray. Honey I shrunk the neighbour's car with the megaphone muffler and the boom system. Honey I shrunk all the Creed CDs. Honey I shrunk the bylaw enforcement officer. Donald Pleasance as Dr.Michaels was one of the memorable performances of my youth. There are far more bald people in the media now so Donald Pleasance & Yul Bryner probably wouldn't have become as famous today. They were two of the only bald guys on TV. OK...OK...Pleasance had a fringe. Later came Kojak. Now all the receding rockers have shaved heads. All famous basketball players have shaved heads. Neo nazi youths have shaved heads. Hardly a component of originality and distinction now.
They're starting to explain how they will shrink the people and bring them back after the voyage through the body. I remember thinking if they could describe the scientific theory so well to a little kid then why couldn't they just build the godamn thing! Jurrasic Park was pretty good that way too. they demonstrated how they could make new dinosaurs...geezuz...get on with it! If they got out of control we'd just shrink them. Simple.