Best Ray Harryhausen film? - Democratic Underground

ChavezSpeakstheTruth

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Tue Oct-25-05 07:10 AM
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Poll question: Best Ray Harryhausen film?

Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 07:11 AM by ChavezSpeakstheTruth

I saw someone post that Clash of the Titans is a terrible movie they still watch and I recoiled in horror. TERRIBLE? The mighty Harryhausen has never touched anything that may be deemed "terrible"! For shame!

Anyway I vote for the 7th Voyage of Sinbad!

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terrya

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Tue Oct-25-05 07:19 AM
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1. Jason and the Argonauts. Without question.

Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 07:19 AM by terrya

The special effects were amazing and the story (it's classical Greek mythology, after all) was wonderful.

Harryhausen's best.

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Atlas Mugged

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Tue Oct-25-05 08:53 AM
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9. Fuck the special effects

Regardless of how good they are. 'Jason And The Argonauts' was a MAJOR gay awakening for me. That film, and Tallulah Bankhead, was all it took. And Billy, in fourth period gym.

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arwalden

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Tue Oct-25-05 10:22 AM
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11. My Favorite Too... Followed By Clash Of The Titans.

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HughBeaumont

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Tue Oct-25-05 07:55 AM
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2. Clash of the Titans by an eyelash.

I love Jason, but seeing Clash so many times during my adolescent years, kind of grew on me.

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ChavezSpeakstheTruth

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Tue Oct-25-05 08:04 AM
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3. His Medusa was top notch!

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HughBeaumont

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Tue Oct-25-05 08:29 AM
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6. Best part of the whole damned movie (spoiler)!

Especially when she regurgitates Prego out her neck!

Bubo the mechanical owl is good too.

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ChavezSpeakstheTruth

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Tue Oct-25-05 08:43 AM
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7. Bubo was based on a real roman coin

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HughBeaumont

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Tue Oct-25-05 08:49 AM
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8. Well look at that. . .you learn something new every day.

Wonder if owls did look like that way back when.

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Tue Oct-25-05 08:08 AM
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4. A tribute to Ray Harryhausen

http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/tribute/

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BigMcLargehuge

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Tue Oct-25-05 08:20 AM
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5. for me it's a three-way tie in Other

20 Million Miles to Earth
Earth Vs the Flying Saucers
It Came from Beneath the Sea

While I love Jason and Argonauts and the Sinbad films (even the crappy one with John Philip Law as Sinbad) his B/W Science Fiction epics are my favorite.

I also love his sequence in Mighty Joe Young (Drunk Joe in the cage).

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Beware the Beast Man

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Tue Oct-25-05 10:18 AM
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10. "Clash" is an abomination to Greek mythology.

Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 10:21 AM by Beware the Beast Man

Even the title alone is indicative of that. For fuckssakes, the gods in the film are Olympians, not Titans.

Still, great effects, especially Medusa.

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ChavezSpeakstheTruth

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Tue Oct-25-05 10:34 AM
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12. Thank you - was that so hard?

Harryhausen = God

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