Ahoy! I'm a man! You're a man! WE'RE ALL MEN! At least, that's what Kirk Douglas' character would have us all shouting in our review of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This is it, the progenitor of steampunk, nautical sci-fi, and submarine movies in general, and that's why we watched it! For our Submarine Month, we are going through the most impactful submarine movies, and it helps we could only think of four besides Hunt for Red October. So naturally, we had to begin with the grandaddy. We discuss mythical monsters becoming the technology of the future, the complexities of Captain Nemo, and the factual attacks of giant squids! We're farming kelp, sending messages by Sting (in bottles), wondering when they'll kill Ned, running from puppet sharks, and basking in the heavy homoerotic undertones. In the end we count how many times Pirates of the Caribbean just copied this movie. It was a lot.
"And then they made me their chief."
