Yes if you wanna make a good fantasy movie here’s the things you must put in it one magic two monsters three good or decent acting four A decent bit of violence and five make sure it has dragons I don’t care if The dragons or Dragon is good or evil dragons are a need for fantasy
I wanted to get your opinion on a horror movie called "Kairo or "pulse'. It was a Japanese movie released in 2001 that inspired another American horror movie also called pulse. The thing with the Japanese version is that everywhere I see, reception seems to be mixed. Some think the movie was boring, badly acted, and nonsensical, while others think that the movie was genuinely scary and intriguing in its subtle message
That is actually mostly realistic most animals with mostly go for a death bite on the throat plus it was probably easier to animate plus remember the dragon shoots fire but they had a hard time animating it realistically so having the dragon bite the Cyclops Neck was actually realistic and makes sense that it would kill the Cyclops with that If this was in 2024 the Cyclops would have been wielding a weapon and the dragon would have been breathing fire and it would have been a much more brutal but it wouldn't have been as memorable as the one we see here will even though they're fighting isn't anything special their movements and how they are is very realistic and unsettling
@@JurassicReptile I totally agree that's pretty much where I believe they got their inspiration since the dragon moves kind of like what a komodo would do. Lions wolves have been seen going for death bites on their prey . They go for death bites defeat on their rivals in their packs/prides
@@nitrokid I wouldn't doubt it harryhausen was a master of detail. The Cyclops is littering licking its lips as it's trying to cook the person I mean that's a pretty awesome detail anyone else would have just made the Cyclops sitting there turning the person but to make it add that it's so hungry that it's licking his lips in excitement for the person that's going to eat it's not only a great touch but it also adds some creepiness
This is a childhood favorite of mine, and holy crap, the fact that it was made in 1958 blows my goddamn mind. There's 60's and 70's movies that don't have cinematography and effects of that quality.
Ray Harryhausen is probably the great effects artist to ever live; from Science Fiction B movies to the Sinbad trilogy, The Valley of Gwangi to Jason and The Argonauts and Clash Of The Titans. He is an Hollywood legend
He basically perfected and honed the blueprints of the modern SFX industry in cinema. I'll always credit Harryhausen's own mentor, as would he quite often, Willis O'Brien with getting the ball rolling, but Harryhausen almost single-handedly carried the torch for decades till ILM and others came around in the 70s/80s.
LOVED this film as a kid and I see it's on youtube too,plan to watch this film later on tonite. Let this movie transport me back in time to a magical period.
Ray Harryhausen really had a magical touch on films. There's a reason his films are talked about as Ray Harryhausen films first and foremost and not their director's or writer's.
Real talk: most of these movies were creatively invented by Ray Harryhausen and then his producer Charles Schneer would go get a writer to flesh out Ray's idea. Ray himself would quickly start being credited as a producer in later films.
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger was the first film I ever saw, at a drive-in theater, no less. These films just fired my young imagination and molded my artistic endeavors for life. Long live Harryhausen!
I remember seeing it in the theater as well when I was kid. At around the same time the local theater also played The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Great films
I met Ray Harryhausen back in the 90's at the San Diego comic con. I told him that his work inspired me he asked me what I did. When I sheepishly told him that I just wrote and designed video games, he smiled and said he thought that was wonderful, that I was "at the forefront of a new media for telling stories". He said always aim to entertain and inspire with your stories. More than twenty five years later and I still hold to that maxim. Thanks Ray!
Fun fact! When Brandon commented about the filming site in Spain passing well for Bagdad, it's because Spain, and much of the Iberian Peninsula, was once occupied by the Umayyad Caliphate from 711 to 1492. Known as Al-Andalus at the time, when the Spanish and Portuguese took back the region, much of the original Islamic architecture was left standing and kept during the transition.
Plus many people don't know what Baghdad looked like, and since many movies use Spain or Mexico or parts of California, we think Spain looks about right.
Best of all, it's Granada, which part of Muslim Spain from 711-1492, and the last city to fall to the Christian kingdoms. Alhambra palace remains one of the most beautiful places in the world and was a much cheaper and more accessible site than anywhere in Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, etc.
Do you mean the TV release? I saw it at the movies with my Dad in 1958 and don't remember that being part cut out. What was missing in UK was the USA Colpix LP of the Bernard Herrmann score, which I discovered to my surprise in Berlin a few years later!
That's interesting because watching the video I didn't remember the skeleton fight, and since I only ever saw this on TV maybe that's why. But they didn't cut the multi-skeleton fight out of Jason and the Argonauts, even though that has way more actual death in it.
This is the second time that a movie that is in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress gets spotlighted on this show after The War of the Worlds. To anyone who is curious, this film got in in 2008, the same year as Deliverance, Sergeant York and The Terminator. It is THAT influential.
Harryhausen's stop motion effects are old school movie magic which even high-quality CGI cannot truly replace. I saw Clash of the Titans at a movie theater, the only Harryhausen movie I was fortunate enough to see like that, and it was awesome. Technology can improve the process, but it cannot replace the heart and the passion for the art and magic of movie making and storytelling. Maybe it even becomes a crutch like, autotune and digital quantizing have become for music. Maybe the best results can only really be achieved when you really have to work and sweat for it.
My kids are fascinated with stop motion, and are very much over CGI. There's something of a push-back against CGI in favor of practical effects, helped by a lot of CGI being rushed and cheap-looking of late.
That first scene on the island with the foreboding music and the eventual reveal of the cyclops is a scene that has stuck with me since childhood! Still one of my all time favorite adventure films.
I always loved the Dragon vs Cyclops fight in this and now, looking at Harryhausen’s earlier movies, you can see the Rhedosaurus from “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” and Ymir from “20 Million Miles to Earth” in their respective designs. It’s almost like Harryhausen had created his own little Monsterverse in this movie.
I like the stylization that it has. It's subtle, but it's not simply a scaled anatomical model. It's a Harryhousen skeleton with a mean face and distinct proportions.
When I was a little kid, there was a run down theater in our neighborhood that showed old movies as matinees on Saturday and Sunday, sometimes as many as three different films in a day. My aunt would drop myself and my cousins off to sit there all day and watch them all. That was where I saw this one for the first time. I don't know how many times I've watched this over the years, since that day. It was the gateway drug for me into everything fantasy, from Tolkien to D&D.
Back in the 70's I grew up in Phoenix AZ. Valley West Mall did the same thing. Saw so many movies for like 3 dollars. That was including hot dogs,popcorn and soda. God I'm old!😊
Another aspect of Harryhausen which doesn't get nearly enough love was his skill at compositing. Sure, it's not 100% perfect, but most of those comp shots were amazingly clean, especially for the time. Plus, he was also exceptionally good at matching lighting on his models to the footage, for better integration.
15:42 In the Odyssey the cyclops Polyphemus is blinded by Odysseus' crew, so that's probably where Harryhausen got the idea from. I've got a feeling Jack The Giant Killer (1962) is going to be the subject of your next video.
There's giant in Sinbad's voyages too, and he is blinded (it is basically a medieval monotheist ripoff of the odyssean episode), but the different versions of the text are ambiguous on if he is one eyed or not. So Harry definitely is taking stuff from literary/folkloric Sinbad but mixing liberally with classical and medieval Roman-Germanic European myth (I don't think the giant blinded was in the 7th voyage anyhow).
@@randallbesch2424Sure, maiming/handicapping the threat is a rational natural strategy, but a plot with asailor coming by an island apparently uninhabited, then they see they reached a giant's cave and the giant is maneating and eats some of them, and while sleeping the people he left to eat later blind it? You can't tell me that isn't just the Polyphemus episode beat for beat.
Whenever people ask “What do you think were some of the best trilogies in cinema history?” It’s unfortunate that these films barely get mentioned. Keep up the great work. I always look forward to your reviews.
Thank you SO MUCH for this! I was fearing that Harryhausen's legacy was all but gone. I'm glad to see that there are still true Dynamation fans out there! By the way, I interviewed him back in 2012, shortly before he passed away. Such a gentleman!
I loved the part showing the comparisons of various dragons used in films around the same era as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. That 2nd dragon clip was from one of my favorite MST3K episodes, The Sword and the Dragon.
This movie, _Sleeping Beauty_ , and _The Sword and the Dragon_ / _Ilya Muromets_ could probably form a holy trintity of great deagons in 1950's famtasy film.
I suspect that's what he means by next reviewing a Harryhausen movie without Harryhausen. As cheap as it is, there's something about Jack The Giant Killer that I still enjoy, and the crappy witches are still creepy.
its too bad Brandon isn't get a chance to review Dune(1984) just before Dune Part Two(2024) hits theaters this friday, would've been a great time review the one David Lynch one, still psyched for Jack the Giant Killer though
@@originaluddite Oh I agree. It's a fun charming film and I remember being scared by the giants and witches when I was little as much as the cyclops and skeleton from Sinbad
When I saw this saw this as a child in the 60's, and the scene when Sinbad fights the skeleton was mind blowing, and still is. The story was excellent, the sound track one of the best, the direction and acting outstanding and Ray Harryhausen...amazing. Torin Thatcher seem to the typecast as the evil Vizier as he played virtually the same role in this, Jack the Giant Killer and the episode of Lost in Space...The Space Trader.
I saw Golden Voyage in its initial run and saw 7th Voyage after so I thought Golden was made first thus the mind of a 7 year old.The music when the maiden was turned in the snake lady was so so beautiful,that clarinetist was baddazz.
I got to meet Ray Harryhausen at event years ago, shortly before he passed. He autographed my DVD of this film, which was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. Awesome person, and his creatures look better than a lot of the CG ones in modern films.
I still remember the thrill of going to the movies as a boy of 10 when The 7th Voyage was a first run film. Shivers went through me at hearing those opening notes of the score! Loved that movie then as I do now all these years later.
I was 11 when I saw this masterpiece in the theater, and my little brother was 8. It's no exaggeration to say that it changed both of our lives. We had the amazing opportunity to meet Ray at a meet-n-greet, as adults, and tell him how magical that experience was for us. We never missed a Harryhausen film, and loved every one. Our folks gave over the dining room table, and their 8mm movie camera so we could make our own little movies. We had a GREAT childhood.
As a kid this was one of my first gateways into special effects and the cinematic process... As a small kid I immediately became obsessed and watched as many of his films I could find... and then made my own stop motion animations. I can imagine at that time there was NOTHING like this as it's the next logical step after KING KONG/Mighty Joe Young - color, adventure, legends and folklore and a whole array of creatures! Fun stuff.
Whilst there were a few of his films I didn't see growing up, including this one, I still knew of them and what films I did see of his like Clash of the Titans or Jason and the Argonauts became engrained in my brain. One of my most treasured memories is a trip I took to Edinburgh in 2020 for a Ray Harryhausen exhibition. It was on Halloween too so what could be a more kick-ass way to celebrate than getting to see many of the original props, puppets and sketches of a legend like Harryhausen.
Back in 2002 when I graduated from art college, where I’d been studying film design, Ray Harryhausen was a guest at the graduation ceremony as he was receiving an honorary doctorate. Following the ceremony I got the opportunity to meet Ray & spoke to him about the lasting impact his work had had upon me & was one of the reasons I’d gone on to study film design.
This was the first movie I ever remember seeing at a cinema. I was 4 back in 1958. It took me years to find out what it was. All I could remember of it was the Cyclops and the tiny princess. Even though it probably scared me witless, I still became a big fan of Ray Harryhausen.
I saw this movie in 1974 when it was re-released and shown at Saturday matinees. I was four at the time and I remember what an impact it had on me. "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" popped up later at the same theater and I was a huge fan by that point. My dad made sure that we caught up on every fantasy film like this one. And then, in 1977, we were treated with "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" -- which is still one of my favorite films from that era. And finally, "Clash of the Titans" wrapped up Harryhausen's career quite nicely. I wish that I could have met the man, because his influence on my imagination was a gift that will never go away. :)
I had been watching Ray Harryhausen's classics on VHS since before I turned 10 and it's just incredible how a vast number of them still enchant me as an adult! Even the lesser efforts are sterling cinema! Harryhausen truly was a master of the craft and the real auteur of these FX classics, and apart from his mentor Willis O'Brien and genre contemporaries and successors like Eiji Tsurabaya, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Stan Winston, Rob Bottin, Phil Tippett, Dennis Muren, and other prominent names of the pre-CG age, it's going to be hard to think of a prominent FX artist in this day and age who will have the same impact he did, especially since he paved the way!
The design & animation of that snake-woman, with the weird, boneless fluidity of her arms, reminded me of something you'd see in an episode of Adventure Time. And it was all new to me, because I have somehow never seen this particular Harryhausen film before. Thanks for the informative (& respectful!) review. I'm going to check out the movie right now!
A great review and homage to a great man. Honestly it's not just covering Harryhausen, but this is Brandon at his absolute best being both funny, informative, and sharing a love of film.
Seeing the Cyclops armature at the fantastic Ray Harryhausen Titan of Cinema exhibition in Edinburgh was definitely a highlight! One of the great movie monster designs, up there with the Frankenstein Monster and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Seeing the Cyclops for the very first time was both amazing and terrifying. Even if the movie was 30 years old by the time I saw it. It still is my favorite rendition of Sinbad😊
When I was a kid we had a local theater that would show old sci fi and fantasy double feature matinees on Saturdays. They showed 7th Voyage of Sinbad, War of the Worlds, Jason and the Argonauts and the like. Great stuff! This was in the pre-VCR days, so this was basically the only way to see these classics.
Glad you're doing these. I love watching people make fun of bad movies as much as the next guy, but you're also bringing a lot of really good stuff to an audience that could have really missed out.
Thank you for the mention of Bernard Herrmann's dynamic score. I saw the movie during its original (1958) release and was mesmerized by both movie and music.
Thanks, Brandon for this great review of a classic by a true master. And while paying such reverential tribute, still managing to make us laugh. You’re work is a blessing, brother. Most Sincerely from Patreon contributor, Stephen Vale. Keep up the awesome work.
It's satisfying to see Brandon talking about a movie he has clearly seen dozens of times before. He clearly knows this one really well and can highlights many great details that you wouldn't notice the first time.
Thank you for doing this one. I loved this movie as a kid, now my daughter is 8 and this is her favorite movie, so I've seen it Probably 100 times. The part when the princess opens the cage and gets launched went through my head once I watched it again
The cyclopes from the 7th Voyage of Sinbad was probably my first ever movie monster. Thanks for covering one of my favourite childhood films. I recently introduced introduced the 7th Voyage to my nephew (4-years old), who loved it. It would be great to see you cover more Ray Harryhausen movies.
I love the 3 Harryhausen Sinbad movies, my fave being the Golden Voyage, all three of these films are a joy to watch. I remember seeing these films as a young child and being blown away by them after seeing clash of the titans at the drive in with my family
Hate when fantasy movies show barely any fantasy stuff? So did Ray Harryhausen!
Review Godzilla minus one 🥷 ✂️
Yes if you wanna make a good fantasy movie here’s the things you must put in it one magic two monsters three good or decent acting four A decent bit of violence and five make sure it has dragons I don’t care if The dragons or Dragon is good or evil dragons are a need for fantasy
@@JanabJhan when it’s out on DVD
If nothing else, it got Disney off his ass, and two years later we got the awesome cel-animated dragon in "Sleeping Beauty"...
I wanted to get your opinion on a horror movie called "Kairo or "pulse'. It was a Japanese movie released in 2001 that inspired another American horror movie also called pulse. The thing with the Japanese version is that everywhere I see, reception seems to be mixed. Some think the movie was boring, badly acted, and nonsensical, while others think that the movie was genuinely scary and intriguing in its subtle message
The dragon killing the cyclops was pretty brutal, then and now. It really seems like a wild animal giving a death bite.
That is actually mostly realistic most animals with mostly go for a death bite on the throat plus it was probably easier to animate plus remember the dragon shoots fire but they had a hard time animating it realistically so having the dragon bite the Cyclops Neck was actually realistic and makes sense that it would kill the Cyclops with that
If this was in 2024 the Cyclops would have been wielding a weapon and the dragon would have been breathing fire and it would have been a much more brutal but it wouldn't have been as memorable as the one we see here will even though they're fighting isn't anything special their movements and how they are is very realistic and unsettling
The real life Komodo dragon kills in a similar way.
@@JurassicReptile I totally agree that's pretty much where I believe they got their inspiration since the dragon moves kind of like what a komodo would do.
Lions wolves have been seen going for death bites on their prey . They go for death bites defeat on their rivals in their packs/prides
Harryhausen definitely did some research first.
@@nitrokid I wouldn't doubt it harryhausen was a master of detail.
The Cyclops is littering licking its lips as it's trying to cook the person I mean that's a pretty awesome detail anyone else would have just made the Cyclops sitting there turning the person but to make it add that it's so hungry that it's licking his lips in excitement for the person that's going to eat it's not only a great touch but it also adds some creepiness
"I'm gonna make my _own_ fantasy epic, with cyclops and rocs!"
I'm glad you did, Ray.
This is a childhood favorite of mine, and holy crap, the fact that it was made in 1958 blows my goddamn mind. There's 60's and 70's movies that don't have cinematography and effects of that quality.
There's a ton of crappy CGI from the last 30 years that had effects way worse than this.
Yeah, I'm looking at you Scorpion King.
Ray Harryhausen is probably the great effects artist to ever live; from Science Fiction B movies to the Sinbad trilogy, The Valley of Gwangi to Jason and The Argonauts and Clash Of The Titans. He is an Hollywood legend
My favorite was mysterious island
Yep. Ray was truly a master. May he rest in Shalom and may his work and memory continue to bless us.
Say it bro!!!
Brandon should do The Valley of Gwangi
He basically perfected and honed the blueprints of the modern SFX industry in cinema. I'll always credit Harryhausen's own mentor, as would he quite often, Willis O'Brien with getting the ball rolling, but Harryhausen almost single-handedly carried the torch for decades till ILM and others came around in the 70s/80s.
This was the ultimate Harryhausen film for me. One the greatest fantasy films on all levels.
All the Harryhausen movies rock. 'Golden Voyage of Sinbad', with the amazing Caroline Munro is my favorite, but it's hard to pick which one is best.
LOVED this film as a kid and I see it's on youtube too,plan to watch this film later on tonite. Let this movie transport me back in time to a magical period.
It's good, but everyone I know tends to rave about the skeleton battle in Jason and the Argonauts.
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k It might be my favorite just because of the Bernard Herman score; possibly his greatest.
This, and "One Million Years, B.C." are the 2 Harryhausen high points for me. Maybe throw in "20 Million Miles to Earth" in there as well.
Ray Harryhausen really had a magical touch on films. There's a reason his films are talked about as Ray Harryhausen films first and foremost and not their director's or writer's.
Real talk: most of these movies were creatively invented by Ray Harryhausen and then his producer Charles Schneer would go get a writer to flesh out Ray's idea. Ray himself would quickly start being credited as a producer in later films.
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger was the first film I ever saw, at a drive-in theater, no less. These films just fired my young imagination and molded my artistic endeavors for life. Long live Harryhausen!
I'm still surprised that it was rated "G", given the violence of the fights and Jane Seymour sunbathing wearing only her hair.
Me too -- I saw it in the theater!
I remember seeing it in the theater as well when I was kid. At around the same time the local theater also played The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Great films
@@mmattson8947that scene alone made me have a very special feeling. One that my 7 year old mind wouldn't understand for a few more years. LOL
@@mmattson8947 wait they showed nudity in this film?!?!? In 1958!!?!?!? with a G rating??!
I met Ray Harryhausen back in the 90's at the San Diego comic con. I told him that his work inspired me he asked me what I did. When I sheepishly told him that I just wrote and designed video games, he smiled and said he thought that was wonderful, that I was "at the forefront of a new media for telling stories". He said always aim to entertain and inspire with your stories. More than twenty five years later and I still hold to that maxim.
Thanks Ray!
My great regret in life is I never got the opportunity to meet him. He was an inspiration, I'm glad you got to do what I couldn't!
I'm so thankful my grandparents showed this movie to me!
Fun fact!
When Brandon commented about the filming site in Spain passing well for Bagdad, it's because Spain, and much of the Iberian Peninsula, was once occupied by the Umayyad Caliphate from 711 to 1492. Known as Al-Andalus at the time, when the Spanish and Portuguese took back the region, much of the original Islamic architecture was left standing and kept during the transition.
People forget it was occupied by a lot of islamics that's also why a lot of those Spanish and Portuguese may have Islamic Bloodlines in them
Plus many people don't know what Baghdad looked like, and since many movies use Spain or Mexico or parts of California, we think Spain looks about right.
Best of all, it's Granada, which part of Muslim Spain from 711-1492, and the last city to fall to the Christian kingdoms. Alhambra palace remains one of the most beautiful places in the world and was a much cheaper and more accessible site than anywhere in Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, etc.
One of my mother's favorite movies growing up. She loves all of Harryhausen's movies and so do I thanks to her.
I remember in middle school we were learning about Greek mythology, and our teacher showed us the opening Cyclops scene.... it was fun
I was shown this in first grade, and I just couldn't get over how cool the cyclops was 😃I am almost 51 now BTW.
Fun fact. In the UK, for several years, the skeleton fight was omitted for being considered too scary for children.
It surprises me that they cut the skeleton fight and not the more violent dragon vs cyclops fight.
Do you mean the TV release? I saw it at the movies with my Dad in 1958 and don't remember that being part cut out. What was missing in UK was the USA Colpix LP of the Bernard Herrmann score, which I discovered to my surprise in Berlin a few years later!
Well that would have sucked, glad by the time I saw it they'd stopped cutting out the best bit of the film.
But that's the best scene, children of the hydra.
That's interesting because watching the video I didn't remember the skeleton fight, and since I only ever saw this on TV maybe that's why. But they didn't cut the multi-skeleton fight out of Jason and the Argonauts, even though that has way more actual death in it.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was the first Harryhausen film i saw as a kid and is still my favorite film to this day.
This is the second time that a movie that is in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress gets spotlighted on this show after The War of the Worlds.
To anyone who is curious, this film got in in 2008, the same year as Deliverance, Sergeant York and The Terminator. It is THAT influential.
In whose mighty company, it need not be ashamed.
There was something really special and magical about these 50s era movies.
Harryhausen's stop motion effects are old school movie magic which even high-quality CGI cannot truly replace. I saw Clash of the Titans at a movie theater, the only Harryhausen movie I was fortunate enough to see like that, and it was awesome. Technology can improve the process, but it cannot replace the heart and the passion for the art and magic of movie making and storytelling. Maybe it even becomes a crutch like, autotune and digital quantizing have become for music. Maybe the best results can only really be achieved when you really have to work and sweat for it.
My kids are fascinated with stop motion, and are very much over CGI. There's something of a push-back against CGI in favor of practical effects, helped by a lot of CGI being rushed and cheap-looking of late.
Ray Harryhausen was the greatest. My dad showed me his films when I was a kid. Loved fantasy ever since.
I loved this movie as a kid. My dad used to project it on my bedroom wall with a super 8 projector.
Thats pretty cool! I take it that it was a big wall then?
Cool dad!
That first scene on the island with the foreboding music and the eventual reveal of the cyclops is a scene that has stuck with me since childhood! Still one of my all time favorite adventure films.
God I remember marathoning my dad’s Harryhausen collection every summer vacation as a kid. I wish I wasn’t so busy with work so I can do it again
Little Boy Blue And The Man On The Moon
I always loved the Dragon vs Cyclops fight in this and now, looking at Harryhausen’s earlier movies, you can see the Rhedosaurus from “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” and Ymir from “20 Million Miles to Earth” in their respective designs.
It’s almost like Harryhausen had created his own little Monsterverse in this movie.
Every year I re-watch Ray Harryhausen's movies. They are a treasure for me that I now share with my children and grandchildren.
Somebody really ought to make a fighting game that's similar to Primal Rage, but with Ray Harryhausen creatures.
When I was a kid it was Clash of the Titans on tv all the time, I loved how monsters looked in that one.
I met Ray a couple of times. A class act who made gave excitement to our childhoods.
The skeleton is so dope. It looks skilled at swordplay and terrifying to fight for the reason that Brandon mentioned.
I like the stylization that it has. It's subtle, but it's not simply a scaled anatomical model. It's a Harryhousen skeleton with a mean face and distinct proportions.
Ray Harryhausen is a legend and will always be remembered as Master.
a classic that has been loved for 3 generations in our family
When I was a little kid, there was a run down theater in our neighborhood that showed old movies as matinees on Saturday and Sunday, sometimes as many as three different films in a day. My aunt would drop myself and my cousins off to sit there all day and watch them all. That was where I saw this one for the first time. I don't know how many times I've watched this over the years, since that day. It was the gateway drug for me into everything fantasy, from Tolkien to D&D.
Back in the 70's I grew up in Phoenix AZ. Valley West Mall did the same thing. Saw so many movies for like 3 dollars. That was including hot dogs,popcorn and soda. God I'm old!😊
Movie theaters should still do this
Another aspect of Harryhausen which doesn't get nearly enough love was his skill at compositing. Sure, it's not 100% perfect, but most of those comp shots were amazingly clean, especially for the time. Plus, he was also exceptionally good at matching lighting on his models to the footage, for better integration.
This takes me back to being sick at home from school, watching TNT with my father who was recording everything on VHS as they came on XD
It tugs at the heartstrings thinking of ye olde TNT and Sci-Fi networds.
15:42 In the Odyssey the cyclops Polyphemus is blinded by Odysseus' crew, so that's probably where Harryhausen got the idea from. I've got a feeling Jack The Giant Killer (1962) is going to be the subject of your next video.
There's giant in Sinbad's voyages too, and he is blinded (it is basically a medieval monotheist ripoff of the odyssean episode), but the different versions of the text are ambiguous on if he is one eyed or not. So Harry definitely is taking stuff from literary/folkloric Sinbad but mixing liberally with classical and medieval Roman-Germanic European myth (I don't think the giant blinded was in the 7th voyage anyhow).
@@vitorafmonteiro blinding the giant is logical.
@@randallbesch2424Sure, maiming/handicapping the threat is a rational natural strategy, but a plot with asailor coming by an island apparently uninhabited, then they see they reached a giant's cave and the giant is maneating and eats some of them, and while sleeping the people he left to eat later blind it? You can't tell me that isn't just the Polyphemus episode beat for beat.
I'm so glad to see the opening intro music is still going strong.
My father used to make me watch this on tv growing up in the 80s.. turned into one of my fav flicks ty dad
The Harryhausen Sinbad films were so good and fun!
Harryhausen is a genius at creating monsters, his work will always be one of if not the best!
Whenever people ask “What do you think were some of the best trilogies in cinema history?” It’s unfortunate that these films barely get mentioned.
Keep up the great work. I always look forward to your reviews.
The 7th voyage, the Golden voyage and the eye of the tiger are 3 of my favorite movies!
It's probably because the Sinbad aren't really a trilogy and are instead 3 standalone films that use the name Sinbad.
Thank you SO MUCH for this! I was fearing that Harryhausen's legacy was all but gone. I'm glad to see that there are still true Dynamation fans out there! By the way, I interviewed him back in 2012, shortly before he passed away. Such a gentleman!
Now we need the Golden Voyage of Sinbad, John Phillip Law's magnum opus. One of my favorite films of all time.
Caroline Munroe.
This is _Space Mutiny_ erasure, and I will not stand for that.
Of the three Sinbad movies, Law manages to look and seem the most Persian.
Personally my favorite Harryhausen film, with this one close second.
I loved the part showing the comparisons of various dragons used in films around the same era as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. That 2nd dragon clip was from one of my favorite MST3K episodes, The Sword and the Dragon.
This movie, _Sleeping Beauty_ , and _The Sword and the Dragon_ / _Ilya Muromets_ could probably form a holy trintity of great deagons in 1950's famtasy film.
I remember watching this, Clash of the Titans, & Jason and the Argonauts on cable. Those stop-motion creatures are awesome.
Harryhausen movies are the reason I got into wargame terrain and painting D&D minis
I don't think there would be D&D without this movie
Quite right.
Ray Harryhausen was an artistic genius; he made realistic models move in realistic ways - one millimeter at a time!
One of _those_ films I always had to watch when it aired on public TV during the 70s and 80s
Your are in a prime position to review Jack the Giant Killer, since the director tried to basicaly clone T7VOS.
I love how in order to avoid being sued by Columbia, United Artists dubbed it as a musical. Yes, seriously.
I suspect that's what he means by next reviewing a Harryhausen movie without Harryhausen. As cheap as it is, there's something about Jack The Giant Killer that I still enjoy, and the crappy witches are still creepy.
its too bad Brandon isn't get a chance to review Dune(1984) just before Dune Part Two(2024) hits theaters this friday, would've been a great time review the one David Lynch one, still psyched for Jack the Giant Killer though
@@originaluddite Oh I agree. It's a fun charming film and I remember being scared by the giants and witches when I was little as much as the cyclops and skeleton from Sinbad
I was just thinking about that. It even had Kerwin Matthews and Torin Thatcher.
When I saw this saw this as a child in the 60's, and the scene when Sinbad fights the skeleton was mind blowing, and still is. The story was excellent, the sound track one of the best, the direction and acting outstanding and Ray Harryhausen...amazing. Torin Thatcher seem to the typecast as the evil Vizier as he played virtually the same role in this, Jack the Giant Killer and the episode of Lost in Space...The Space Trader.
I saw Golden Voyage in its initial run and saw 7th Voyage after so I thought Golden was made first thus the mind of a 7 year old.The music when the maiden was turned in the snake lady was so so beautiful,that clarinetist was baddazz.
I got to meet Ray Harryhausen at event years ago, shortly before he passed. He autographed my DVD of this film, which was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. Awesome person, and his creatures look better than a lot of the CG ones in modern films.
I actually like you reviewing movies that are not necessarily weird or bad, its nice to hear about ones you like. You have a decent analytical eye.
Bless your little Canadian heart for finally covering another Harryhausen movie! This is such a treat!
You reawakened my love and memory of Ray’s work. Thank you Brandon I’m gonna buy the Blu-rays of the ones from my childhood now 🤣
I still remember the thrill of going to the movies as a boy of 10 when The 7th Voyage was a first run film. Shivers went through me at hearing those opening notes of the score! Loved that movie then as I do now all these years later.
As to Sinbad being a prince, he had six previous voyages to make himself fabulously wealthy and buy a kingdom.
8:20 "I'm not like the other girls, I have *SNAKEARMS*."
I absolutely love the Sinbad films! they're so much fun (and scary when you're a kid).
Medusa from Clash of the Titans scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
One of my favourite movies of all time, great review pointing out all the little details.
I was 11 when I saw this masterpiece in the theater, and my little brother was 8. It's no exaggeration to say that it changed both of our lives. We had the amazing opportunity to meet Ray at a meet-n-greet, as adults, and tell him how magical that experience was for us. We never missed a Harryhausen film, and loved every one. Our folks gave over the dining room table, and their 8mm movie camera so we could make our own little movies. We had a GREAT childhood.
God that intro music gives me goosebumps
As a kid this was one of my first gateways into special effects and the cinematic process... As a small kid I immediately became obsessed and watched as many of his films I could find... and then made my own stop motion animations. I can imagine at that time there was NOTHING like this as it's the next logical step after KING KONG/Mighty Joe Young - color, adventure, legends and folklore and a whole array of creatures! Fun stuff.
The dragon in Ilya Murometz is pretty cool too though, proper flamethrowers and stuff.
Please do more of those movies! Your comments are so good!😂
So grateful that my Dad put me on, he loved these classics specially Ray’s work. I am such a Kaiju fan and this had a huge part in the making of it.
Whilst there were a few of his films I didn't see growing up, including this one, I still knew of them and what films I did see of his like Clash of the Titans or Jason and the Argonauts became engrained in my brain.
One of my most treasured memories is a trip I took to Edinburgh in 2020 for a Ray Harryhausen exhibition. It was on Halloween too so what could be a more kick-ass way to celebrate than getting to see many of the original props, puppets and sketches of a legend like Harryhausen.
Back in 2002 when I graduated from art college, where I’d been studying film design, Ray Harryhausen was a guest at the graduation ceremony as he was receiving an honorary doctorate.
Following the ceremony I got the opportunity to meet Ray & spoke to him about the lasting impact his work had had upon me & was one of the reasons I’d gone on to study film design.
This was the first movie I ever remember seeing at a cinema. I was 4 back in 1958. It took me years to find out what it was. All I could remember of it was the Cyclops and the tiny princess. Even though it probably scared me witless, I still became a big fan of Ray Harryhausen.
I saw this movie in 1974 when it was re-released and shown at Saturday matinees. I was four at the time and I remember what an impact it had on me. "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" popped up later at the same theater and I was a huge fan by that point. My dad made sure that we caught up on every fantasy film like this one. And then, in 1977, we were treated with "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" -- which is still one of my favorite films from that era. And finally, "Clash of the Titans" wrapped up Harryhausen's career quite nicely. I wish that I could have met the man, because his influence on my imagination was a gift that will never go away. :)
Just recently watched this. SO good. Stop motion was incredible and movie was very enjoyable.
I had been watching Ray Harryhausen's classics on VHS since before I turned 10 and it's just incredible how a vast number of them still enchant me as an adult! Even the lesser efforts are sterling cinema! Harryhausen truly was a master of the craft and the real auteur of these FX classics, and apart from his mentor Willis O'Brien and genre contemporaries and successors like Eiji Tsurabaya, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Stan Winston, Rob Bottin, Phil Tippett, Dennis Muren, and other prominent names of the pre-CG age, it's going to be hard to think of a prominent FX artist in this day and age who will have the same impact he did, especially since he paved the way!
Love the thumbnail, with all the fantasy characters depicted.
The design & animation of that snake-woman, with the weird, boneless fluidity of her arms, reminded me of something you'd see in an episode of Adventure Time. And it was all new to me, because I have somehow never seen this particular Harryhausen film before. Thanks for the informative (& respectful!) review. I'm going to check out the movie right now!
Excellent: I saw this movie in a theatre twice as a kid. It was very famous.
This film is awesome
I loved it at Christmas age 8 and still love it 40 yrs later
Rhh is a legend ❤
Marvellous stuff by Ray Harryhausen. Loved this and Jason and the Argonauts
Yes, it did. This is one of the most formative movies that I grew up experiencing.
A great review and homage to a great man. Honestly it's not just covering Harryhausen, but this is Brandon at his absolute best being both funny, informative, and sharing a love of film.
Seeing the Cyclops armature at the fantastic Ray Harryhausen Titan of Cinema exhibition in Edinburgh was definitely a highlight! One of the great movie monster designs, up there with the Frankenstein Monster and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
This is a valid statement. Very iconic design, in rarified air and good company.
As a kid in the late 70s and 80s it was always a treat when these movies aired.
Seeing the Cyclops for the very first time was both amazing and terrifying. Even if the movie was 30 years old by the time I saw it. It still is my favorite rendition of Sinbad😊
One of my favorite films of all time.
Loved watching this on TV growing up.
I love classic Ray Harryhausen movies I hope you do The Valley of Gwangi in a future video.
I hope you review Sinbad Eye Of The Tiger! I really enjoyed that film. My favorite beasts from that movie were the giant walrus and smilodon.
I’m surprised Brandon didn’t do “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad” since it combines two of his favorite things - Ray Harryhausen and Caroline Munroe.
7th Voyage of Sinbad remains fun to watch..
Harryhausen was a true master, we wouldn't have the movies that we do without him
I'm from the city where the Baghdad parts were filmed! Crazy that they let they use the Alhambra for this😂😂 I love it.
When I was a kid we had a local theater that would show old sci fi and fantasy double feature matinees on Saturdays. They showed 7th Voyage of Sinbad, War of the Worlds, Jason and the Argonauts and the like. Great stuff! This was in the pre-VCR days, so this was basically the only way to see these classics.
Glad you're doing these. I love watching people make fun of bad movies as much as the next guy, but you're also bringing a lot of really good stuff to an audience that could have really missed out.
This movie is fucking amazing. I saw it so many times as a child.
Dude- top shelf humor. Literally laughed out loud - a LOT. More please
I watched this many times when I was younger. I should give it another watch for old time’s sake!
Thank you for the mention of Bernard Herrmann's dynamic score. I saw the movie during its original (1958) release and was mesmerized by both movie and music.
Thanks, Brandon for this great review of a classic by a true master. And while paying such reverential tribute, still managing to make us laugh. You’re work is a blessing, brother.
Most Sincerely from Patreon contributor, Stephen Vale. Keep up the awesome work.
It's satisfying to see Brandon talking about a movie he has clearly seen dozens of times before. He clearly knows this one really well and can highlights many great details that you wouldn't notice the first time.
A true saturday afternoon classic from my youth. I loved Harryhausen movies as a kid.
Thank you for doing this one. I loved this movie as a kid, now my daughter is 8 and this is her favorite movie, so I've seen it Probably 100 times. The part when the princess opens the cage and gets launched went through my head once I watched it again
The cyclopes from the 7th Voyage of Sinbad was probably my first ever movie monster. Thanks for covering one of my favourite childhood films. I recently introduced introduced the 7th Voyage to my nephew (4-years old), who loved it. It would be great to see you cover more Ray Harryhausen movies.
Definitely one of Ray HarryHausen's finest films. And what a body of work he leaves being.
Thanks for the entertainment and memories Ray.
Hopefully "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" is coming soon. One of the first movies I remember watching in the theater.
I love the 3 Harryhausen Sinbad movies, my fave being the Golden Voyage, all three of these films are a joy to watch. I remember seeing these films as a young child and being blown away by them after seeing clash of the titans at the drive in with my family