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1. Absolutely fantastic film. Maybe the best Harryhausen film.

   I watched it recently and was still impressed with the effects even compared to new cgi films.

   Story is pretty good, engaging with some pretty good characters. I think Bobo (sp?) may have been added as a comic element but it adds a bit of charm to the film and the kids like him.

   Comment by Rob Williams — September 6, 2006 #

2. You know that collection of VHS tapes you had as a kid? Thet motley collection of recordings from HBO or movie rentals that you watched over and over again when there was nothing on? Yup, Clash of the Titans was one of the for me (My sister even named one of our cats Cracken). As soon as I saw Maggie Smith in Harry Potter I instantly shouted “Hey, she was Thetis in Clash of the Titans!”. I loved it as a kid and it still holds up ok. The special effects are like any of the movies of the time, and while the scenes with Pegasus and the Scorpions are a little questionable, I still dig Medusa and the Cracken. I look forward to the discussion.

   Comment by Jonathan — September 12, 2006 #

3. Ah, yes. Ray Harryhausen’s last major film, where they actually went for some A-list actors for once.

   I still find the Medusa scene chilling with its great use of a dark set and well-designed sound effects. And that one scorpion’s “death rattle” is a highlight of Ray’s cleverness in his stop-action work - reminds me of how inspired Ray was by Willis O’Brien’s pioneering work with the Fay Wray King Kong, and how Ray would later enhance his mentor’s work with his own delightful fist-pounding action in Mighty Joe Young. The carefully planned idiosyncrasies in many of his monsters’ motions gives them memorable individual character traits.

   The movie, like many of Harryhausen’s mythology pastiches, is chock-full of great set pieces to showcase the stop-action work. I think Pegasus is quite beautifully done, and even the annoying Bobo has some nice sound effects. (Although the laser effect for Olivier’s Zeus does remind one of some music videos of that era!)

   Comment by Granger — September 12, 2006 #

4. Are you sure you didn’t mean October 12th?

   Comment by Waiting... — September 19, 2006 #

5. *sigh*

   I really did intend for it to go out last week, but moving all the FarPoint Media websites and getting them up and running smoothly took priority over me editing the next two Ninjas shows.

   Bear with me… I’m doing all the heavy lifting with the website moves, and there isn’t anyone else to pick up the slack.

   But didja notice how pretty the new dragonpage.com is? The design is all Nina, but hammering all the pieces together so they’d still work is what I do, darlin’.

   Comment by Summer — September 20, 2006 #

6. Bernard Herrmann obviously did the best music for Ray Harryhausen films, but and I hope this comes up in the show, Laurence Rosenthal’s score for Clash is really quite good, probably my favorite bit in the whole movie is when Perseus has his battle with Medusa- that bit of music, from the start of the scene to it’s triumphant end is just really brilliant adventure movie scoring…

   Comment by Darren — September 22, 2006 #

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