one of the last guys to understand how badass skellies with swords are, r.i.p.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
The Medusa sequence in the original COTT is still one of the scariest, best paced sequences in a film of its kind.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
there is something incredibly human/magical about stop motion animation, that CGI just can't replicate. rip
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:47 (ten years ago) link
God knows the creatures were more animated than the humans in those films.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
Harry Hamlin rowr
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 8, 2013 1:45 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTFM
― lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:01 (ten years ago) link
It's got the texture of a dream, as when Medusa slithers into the opposite corner of the temple and Perseus can theoretically escape; but, no, he has to lure. A nice touch: his arm trembling with nervousness and the weight of the sword.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:03 (ten years ago) link
*he has to lure her back
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:04 (ten years ago) link
Ironically, it was "Clash of the Titans" that capped and/or killed his career. He insisted on doing it all himself, it took forever, it did OK, but in then in the end the movie couldn't compete with the Phil Tippets of the world, who took the amazing things Harryhausen did and did more with them.
Man, the number of Saturdays I spent watching his movies ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 03:24 (ten years ago) link
love how Titans was so scary and bloody and dark for an A-rated family film. way nastier and gorier than, say Gremlins two years later which was a '15' over here.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
I remember being gobsmacked by Harryhausen's movies as a kid. They'd show up on our local station's Saturday afternoon matinee sometime. I was seeing stuff normally done in cartoons...but it's real! there's people AND monsters and it's in color...but it looks kinda...old? They felt like dreams to me, I remember being excited when I saw Sinbad again after the first time because I was convinced I had imagined it.
I love thinking about all my favorite movie makers and effects people who got into movies because of him. His tree diagram would be huuuuuge.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:02 (ten years ago) link
They felt like dreams to me
otm
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:11 (ten years ago) link
when i was a kid and slept in a bit on sundays, i would wake up, turn on the TV, and half the time there'd be a harryhausen movie on. RIP.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 05:31 (ten years ago) link
"Back in the early 80's Tom Baker made contact with Ray Harryhausen via a friend. Tom would stop over at Ray's place in Kensington, and both would get shitfaced on good brandy. Diana, his wife, banned Tom, after Tom weed in their fireplace."
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
omg
that is awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
way nastier and gorier than, say Gremlins two years later which was a '15'
Eh, I dunno about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zReX7OpfZXY
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
I saw Clash Of The Titans at the cinema as a kid and it was a massive experience. It inspired me later to try and do my own animation on a Super 8. So many of his films blew my mind as a child.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
films in LA for a week, Sat night in Jersey City:
http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/the-king-of-stop-motion-ray-harryhausen-remembered
http://loewsjersey.org/images/pdfs/jun13b.pdf
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 June 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
have never seen this Beast ... wish he would rampage through contemporary Wall Street.
http://filmforum.com/movies/more/the_beast_from_20000_fathoms
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link
^^^ just wached this. pre-godzilla! rollercoaster climax is good and there's a majestic bit early on where the monster attacks a lighthouse. as cool as the monster is (partic the tail movements) it's the debris that's really how-did-you-do-that.
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 02:09 (ten years ago) link
now i just watched jason and the argonauts. skellies w swords are badass for sure but best in show is that amaaaaaaaaaaaazing titan statue who clambers carefully off his pedestal, leans against it for a moment getting his animated bearings, then comes implacably at our heroes and destroys the argo before hera clues jason into the service hatch on the statue's heel, which when pried open gushes steam and what looks like hydraulic fluid. his technicolor corroded-bronze skin is the greatest uncanniest thing--and the screeching when he moves!
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 19 April 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
I was watching Monster Inc. with my son last night, had never caught this shout-out before:
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100616021853/pixar/images/0/0c/Harryhausens.jpg
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 April 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
happy 100th, ray
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 04:42 (three years ago) link