Oh, Bill, c'mon. Bradbury didn't write BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS. You could excise the entire lighthouse segment from the film-- the only thing which remotely relates to any Bradbury work-- and the film would still be intact, 1950s scifi archetypes and all. But nobody wants to call Lou Morheim and Fred Freiberger the Fathers of 50s SciFi; it's not sexy. So it's scarcely fair to credit him with establishing the Big Bug films.

I took a pass on reading Bradbury a long time back, years before he decided he was a poet and a playwrite. But I would say a lot of his short stories, plus, obviously, FAHRENHEIT 451, and SOMETHING WICKED all have a nostalic bent, as does his latest tidbit about Halloween. Even in the MARTIAN CHRONICLES collection, there is a wistfulness for "the old days," a passing of an age (whether its by humans, or Martians) that's nostalgic. And in dystopian stuff, his or anyone else's-- say,"The Pedestrian"-- there is an obvious inherent theme that the "modern" world stinks and the Good Old Days were better.