RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116236481422571135
Okay, my timeline is often completely overtaken by a #Monsterdon rewatch that I am not viewing, but it is rare that I know the movie so well I can almost watch it Scene-for-scene through timeline comments.
#JasonAndTheArgonauts1963 has some very classic #harryhausen stop motion, I studied that movie.
"The tractor beam that pulled me in was the special exhibit of Ray Harryhausen’s orginal animatronic models and drawings. Here’s the Kraken from Clash of the Titans."
@temptoetiam I'm positive I did watch an old adventure movie where this exact same thing happened, but at the entrance of a cave, I think, or a tunnel. I can't remember which movie it was, but for some reason the memory is linked to Ray Harryhausen (I'd be forever grateful if someone can tell me the title)
As a little kid, I thought this was the most ingenious idea ever, and the image stuck with me forever.
Thank you for sharing this, I had no idea it had so much history.
Looks like a lot of #monsterdon adherents have not seen Clash of the Titans (the original).
Never before have so many great actors been handed such a cheesy script— or looked better on Mt. Olympus (yowza)!
While Jason & the Argonauts is a better movie overall (die/hill, not arguing) Clash is clearly the right choice for fediverse purposes.
And today is also Ray Harryhausen's birthday, so [chef's kiss] the Fates must have decreed this turn of events!
"Sindbads gefährliche Abenteuer" (1973) ist einer meiner absoluten Lieblingsfilme, besonders wegen der #Harryhausen-Effekte <3
Diese Kampfszene gegen eine sechsarmige Statue ist ein Klassiker!