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What if.? Ray Harryhausen special effects were great in the HG Wells and Jules Verne films. Harryhausen worked for Irwin Allen on Animal Worldthe dinosaur effects. If Allen would have used this great...

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I wouldn't say a misspent opportunity, but The Whip and the Body could have been great with Barbara Steele. Daliah Lavi is amazing in her own way though.

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That would have made for an incredible 1960 version of The Lost World! I can't quite picture what Harryhausen improvements I'd like to see in the contemporary H.G. Wells films, however- other than in...

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I know it's a bit too new, but this has been bugging me since it came out and I wasted money watching it; What if Romero had been tapped to direct World War Z? It might not have been such a mess. any...

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If only War Gods of the Deep had been better written, and as an adventure story instead of a cheap comedy. The drat chicken got more screen time than Vincent Price.

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What if someone at Hammer films had written some decent dialogue for Dracula. I mean some witty repartee between him and Van Helsing. Some verbal jousting... Instead of dialogue so limited that Lee...

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What if ... the decision-makers behind Disney's Dinosaur had stayed with the original plan, to keep it naturalistic and wisecrack-free ...

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I know, right? That's why I started writing my own stuff; to fix little things like that. After all, Dracula is supposed to be educated. he should be able to at talk a little, but after Hammer's first...

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The 1960 version of "The Lost World" also needed Leo McKern instead of Claude Rains as Challenger.

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punkingal5 wrote:After all, Dracula is supposed to be educated. he should be able to at talk a little, but after Hammer's first movie adaptation, they gave up.Wasn't the reason for this to keep to a...

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It evidently also had to do with Lee reading dialogue he was given, pronouncing it wretched (likely, with cause), and pushing to just cut it out.

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Willis O'Brien was originally in line to do Lost World's effects, of course, until Allen realized how much stop-motion effects would cost and opted for slurp-o-saurs instead. However, even if Obie (or...

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"The inevitable heroine would be Dawn Addams, my favorite out of all the British beauties of the era". Wow what a great cast, I would only prefer Martha Hyer for theheroine. She was great in First Men...

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I wish the Bradbury-scripted MARTIAN CHRONICLES, which was set to star Gregory Peck, had actually made it to production in the fifties.

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What if James Whale had consented, and Colin Clive had lived...to fill in the missing section between BRIDE and SON.....and the series had ended with a Whale directed SON? I'd also enjoy finding out...

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If only Hitler hadn't begun World War 2--- Millions of lives saved, and O'Briens'/Coopers' THE WAR EAGLE goes ahead [it was aborted due to Hitlers' actions] and we could well have had a 'successor to...

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One my favorite's is what if Federico Fellini didn't suffer his life-threatening-illness and managed to film his science fiction film What Mad Universe (from the Frederic Brown novel). What if Robert...

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WHAT IF:Bernard Herrmann had not died in his sleep on Christmas Eve 1975 and had scored DePalma's CARRIE as planned.

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