30,000 Leagues Under the Sea |  | Director: GABRIEL BOLOGNA
Actors: LORENZO LAMAS, SEAN LAWLOR
Studio: The Asylum Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  9 reviews
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: ASYD2015D
UPC: 686340201538
EAN: 0686340201538
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: September 25, 2007
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Studio: Asylum Home Entertainment Release Date: 09/25/2007 Run time: 85 minutes
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 Do Not Waste Your Time or Money! April 20, 2009
E. T.
Just saw this pile of crap on cable. Actually, I only watched about 25 minutes then I stopped. It was terrible. Right from the start, the Navy submarine crew with their long hair, goatees, and ill fitting uniforms just started out bad. There was a 24 year Navy Commander, a rank usually attained after about 18 years in the service. Then there were sailors with beards, goatees, and incredibly long hair! When we get to Lorenzo Llamas with his hill billy hairstyle, goatee and thought the movie might be a comedy, like Hot Shots. First he's a Lieuteant, next he's a Lieutenant Junior Grade. His ex-wife, is suppose to be LT Commander, but she only wears her rank on one collar, plus that patch that says "NAVY" where did they come up with that? But it was really the dialog that got me. It was written with no actual Navy or submarine terms. Sonar pronounced "Soner". One sailor says, "they are off our left flank". What about port and starboard? Another sailor says "I reapeat" instead of "I say again". Clearly, there was no military consultant on this film. Has the writer even read a Tom Clancy novel? The bottom line is this, it is so poorly acted and so poorly costumed that you won't want to watch it with the sound on "mute". Don't waste your time or your money!!!
 It is so hokey... March 20, 2008
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
No body who has seen a real submarine movie
or even a good "20000 leagues under the sea"
remake knows that this is a very bad modernization of a classic
in sci fi.
The acting is bad, the writing is bad, and the special effects are minimal,
and nobody is fooled.
The sets costs more than this movie will probably ever make.
What's the point of even making this film - If you can call it that February 26, 2008
666 (Hell)
So, the only reason why anyone would be interested in looking up this film should be because of the title and the name, Lorenzo Lamas. I guess that's the only way to lure someone in to watch, or worse, to buy this piece of horrific &%@#. It's real bad, and not bad as in actually being good, or hilarious; but bad as in plain aweful. Or as in: I wasted an hour and a half of my life.
First of all, the acting is terrible; although that could be due to the junk script. The special effects... well, they are not "special." And the sets... Hell, the production value of this whole thing just looks terrible. It's like some College... no, Junior High School student did it as a side project. You would of think that Lorenzo Lamas must of forfeited his paycheck or something.
Ok, friends, only watch this if you are Lorenzo Lamas fan, not because you are a Jules Verne fan, since otherwise, you might decide to break this DVD in half. Not a good thing if you are renting. Yes, only because you would rent, and not buy.
30,000 leagues under the sea February 16, 2008
Samuel Moua (St Paul, MN)
OMG... I'd rather waste 2 hours rubbing peppers in my eye. Lets just say it was so bad that I had to type this review.
Jules Verne, Badly Treated Again January 21, 2008
Brian Taves (Washington, DC United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It would seem to be difficult to go further downhill than the 2004 movie of Around the World in 80 Days or the 2005 telefilm Mysterious Island, but 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea succeeds in achieving this lamentable goal. As a 2007 direct-to-video release from, appropriately, The Asylum, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea begins with the unpromising notion of updating Verne's classic, trying to cross Verne with Tom Clancy. Certainly Verne has been updated before, and the results were not promising; The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978) comes most prominently to mind. Yet, as bad as that predecessor was, it was a masterpiece by comparison to 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
As in The Amazing Captain Nemo, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea begins with the idea of having Nemo interact with modern naval technology. Some characters remain; there is a scientist, Aronnax, and Conceil [sic], now his ex-wife and military superior. There is even Nemo--but none of these individuals have any resonance with those in the novel, nor do any of the other supporting characters. Indeed, Conceil is pronounced, not as a French name, but as if it were a type of seal.
Aronnax and his crew are dispatched by Commander Farragut from the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in a special deep-sea diving sub into the Marianas Trench, where another, larger submarine was lost, apparently caught in the grip of a giant squid. Making contact, the rescuers somehow wake up aboard the Nautilus. Nemo introduces himself as a jolly eccentric billionaire who plans to release his captives shortly and is on the friendliest of terms with Farragut. Already the disjunctures typical of the unfolding plot are evident.
The Nautilus itself has vastly more in common with the Seaview of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea than anything of Verne's imagining. Nemo regards himself as an idealist, determined to save the deep and create a deep-sea utopia since humankind is "defecating" (the word is used twice) on the surface world. His crew seems to contain all types; the Nautilus is more of a city than submarine. There's even a nightclub on board and apparently prostitutes ply their trade with approval. Certainly the language and morality of a Jules Verne film has changed in the 21st century; gone are the days when Verne implied family entertainment, or the civic idealism of Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, in which Nemo was formulated as a Lyndon Johnson-style figure trying to formulate a Great Society in the deep.
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea director Gabriel Bologna claims to be a fan of Verne, and he even says that he's named his son after the author; however the adaptation by him with Eric Forsberg's screenplay has more reverses and nonsensical twists than a movie serial, while none of the genre's charm. 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea constantly returns to plot points to recycle shots and sets. The end has Nemo pursuing the escaping Aronnax to retrieve the oxygenator that Aronnax had invented and Nemo needs to resurrect Atlantis.
Only two motifs beyond character names are to be found in the book: the sunken land of Atlantis, and the giant squid (several of them, and under Nemo's control). Nemo himself spins steadily further from Verne's conception and even the weakest other previous filmic impersonations. Sean Lawlor's Irish brogue and the naval tour-of-duty pins on Nemo's tunic are entirely out of place. Nemo proves steadily more monomaniacal in trying to capture Aronnax. He turns nuclear torpedoes on Aronnax and his crew, who has arranged a booby trap that destroys the Nautilus. As Nemo's own followers haplessly declare "Abandon ship " leaving their captain to weep uncontrollably, the Nautilus crashes into the remains of Atlantis. Surely no film has ever offered so pitiable an etching of Verne's hero of the deep.
Not that Lorenzo Lamas offers more as Aronnax, or Natalie Stone as Conceil. The actors have little opportunity here, however, given the script and Gabriel Bologna's direction, which does little more than alternate between close-ups and extreme close-ups. While at least the 2004 Around the World in 80 Days or the 2005 Mysterious Island had offered a few points of interest or discussion, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea has, lamentably, no virtues whatsoever.
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