Clash of the Titans (1981) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | Bubo Is The Real MVP! 

I agree! When i went to the theater to see this as a kid i remember how epic this was to me, i was 10 years old and blown away

@Loren-zq1xf Absolutely a favourite from my childhood as well i love stop motion effects and Greek mythology so here i am watching this reaction 😎 I do admit the remake is fairly good but this one i like for the classic look and even the rougher effects adds to it's charm . Cheers .

As a little kid in the 90s, being shown this --mind blown… lol

It was! Wow, I’m as old as Satan! 😮

Stop motion is an art form and Ray Harryhausen was its Michelangelo. But I always liked Jason and the Argonauts better

Word.

Gold

That part where she gets decapitated and screams and then her headless body writhes around for a moment is so creepy and disturbing.

more like totally awesome

Yeh, homegirl was on point with her bow and arrow game. Did ya'll notice her biceps? She was mos def hitting the gym on that regular.

I was paying attention to the Medusa work. Man he's just flexing with that. So wildly complicated, so many moving pieces.

Stop motion Zeus

@@shanester1832 And he worked alone!

@@shanester1832 As crazy as the many moving parts were think about the lighting! This wasn't static lighting, it was flickering torchlight. That is very difficult to pull off with stop motion.

Here!here!

Mrs Cowboy's Movies has comebacks of her own: "The bigger the sword, the better the...." . Forgot what she said, but it was a dick joke.

Quite true.

Yup..he's also got two funny AF movies for free on here: "Love At First Bite" and "Zorro, the Gay Blade"

when people said orange and brown were once the same color, that kinda tan is what comes to mind

Dragonslayer is wonderful and Vermithrax(?) is still my favourite screen dragon (sorry Smaug). Also for an 80s Disney film it's a surprising dark adventure.

I love Dragonslayer because i like Dragons and this dragon is the perfect example of what a real Dragon would look and be like ! Any other depiction of a Dragon is False .

@@TheMikeman1971 To me it's pretty much a medieval horror film. it almost does for a dragon what Jaws did with a great white shark.

@@Whitmore-uk1zw yes for the times !

Harry was also younger and not immune to her charms in real life.

​@@w1975bYeah I think Harry dated Honey Rider according to sources

@txmeats he also played Mickey in Rocky and is a very good voice actor known for narrating documentaries.🎙

The Twilight Zone episode, "Time Enough at Last", is a Burgess classic.

@@ITPalGame As is The Obsolete Man...

Don't forget Magic (1978).

That he did-he was also the boxing coach in “Rocky”.

Also, the sea monster in the original myth was a Cetus. The Kraken doesn't show up in legends until much later.

@@ShawnRavenfire I know. I mentioned that in my other comments on this video.

Good to know.

The more I read about greek mythology the more I think them folks were always high AF.

Actually depending where in Hellas you lived determined how the sacred stories were told. In some parts, they never embraced certain sacred tales. In the case of Herakles, some parts of the empire claimed the date of his birth was the start of New Years, in other parts it was the day attributed to Adonis. When it comes to the Bellerophon epic, some tales areas never mentioned a winged horse at all. Some say he rode a hawk or the back of one of Zeus' eagles. There were even different ideas where Andromeda was from: Ethiopia, Aegypt, Libia, Troezen, Thrace. And Agros was only one of several kingdoms that might have been Perseus' homeland.

It's a great film that skeleton sequence was awesome

nostalgia factor for this one is off the scale.

the skeletons were the best part. seen it when i was a little kid at the movies

Argonauts and Titans are among the BEST Greek Mythology movies with monsters.

Very true.

That's true, but the Kraken from Norse mythology looks more like a giant squid or octopus. The Kraken that Ray Harryhausen created for this film looks more like a giant Mer-Man with arms like tentacles. The Cetus from Greek Mythology looks more like a standard sea serpent, so I'm guessing Harryhausen might have felt that the Cetus would be too similar to the dragon he created for The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and wanted to create something new.

Thank you for pointing this out.

@@44excalibur Thing about this stuff I always think about; somebody back then ate some berries then saw (or think they did) something weird enough to run around town telling people about it. People really believed this stuff happened. Somebody took this story seriously enough to pass it down to today.

@@desmoove The same can be said about any faith, especially the Abrahamic faiths: Giants, Good God vs Bad God, Burning bushes that talked, Turning sticks to snakes, Witches, Bronze Serpents, Talking Donkeys and snakes, Parting waters, Godly beings (Angels) flying down on bird wings, stuffing all the world's animals on a small boat, Time Travel, The Sword of Heaven, The Staff of God, King David’s Sword, Sword of Kenaz, The sword of Zulfiqar, The immortal sword Durendal, Winged Snakes, Demanding the day and night (sun and moon) to not move, Turning blood to wine and flesh to bread, Leviathan, Turning people into salt, Cherubs, Magic multiplying bread, Flaming swords, Feeding 100's of people with 1 small fish, walking on water, Horn of Gabriel, Healing the blind, horses have the heads of lions, tails like serpents, and spit smoke, fire and brimstone, Drawing water from a rock, Confusion of languages at Babel, A Chariot of Fire, Jesus' chalice, The spear that cut Jesus, Elijah’s magic mantle, Samson's jawbone, A magical 'Arc", Resurrecting the dead, Impregnating a virgin girl, Lions and Leopards with wings, Giant locusts, 7 days to create the entire universe, Vampires, The Spear of St. George, Two great 7 headed beasts that will bring about the apocalypse, Behemoths, Nephilim, Dragons, Unicorns, Methuselah’s Demon Sword, A talking pig, Regrowing a dead tree...... not to mention all the "saints" and their own relic's that do everything from stopping earthquakes to health to bringing wealth... etc. Remember, one man's god is another man's demon. One man's faith is another man's blood cult. Also, the Greeks and other pagan faiths did not force others to believe their faiths, on pain of death.

Harryhausen didn't worry about mixing elements from different cultures. In one of his Sinbad movies he tosses in Kali and a centaur. It didn't bother me when I watched them as a kid, and it still doesn't. I think Harryhausen wanted to make a version of War of the Worlds using stop-motion animation but was never able to get the financial backing. Sadly.

Don't forget he was Mick on Rocky. Fritz Weaver is great in everything I see him in

"You can't win Rock, he'll bust you up inside 3 rounds!".

Just came to say this. Lol

Man, this ain't no family tree, more like a family pigtail!

@@ScooterBond1970 meh by greek mythos standards this is pretty tame

I love how the Kraken looks a lot like his Ymir figure.

@@minnesotajones261Holy crap you’re right. I don’t think I ever noticed that before. I haven’t watched 20 Mil Miles To Earth in a loooooong time

Didn't the remake changed it to more of a Giant Squid?

I like Liam Neeson, Russel Crowe sucked though.

Yeh, that's who I always picture as Zeus no matter if I'm reading the comics or books.

Love this film and I find it ironic that the character Harryhausen hated working on was the character I liked the most little Bubo.

That's why it took so long from filming to release. The movie was filmed in 1979. I grew up watching Harryhausen's work on movies like the 2nd and 3rd Sinbad movies, Valley of the Gwangi, and Jason and the Argonauts. Such a genius.

@@GeraldH-ln4dv He was always able to give his creatures life and character as well as movement: I felt so much for Gwangi, and several of other of the creatures Harryhausen gave us.

@@GeraldH-ln4dv Same here. Mostly on lazy Saturday afternoon "Creature Feature" showcase.

@@desmoove I loved those. I guess the were a thing all over. So many black and white movies too, most never seen by newer generations. Classics.

Also that was a nod to that Ray Harryhausen hated working with the Bubo owl and that's what kinda broke him from the stop motion filming. I loved the character because he was so well done and hated they disrespected one of the best characters in the remake.

Just proves his insecurity.

@@aaronbourque5494 I confess here and now that I watched the remake once and that was enough for me; I didn't care much for it. This version has much more life, fun, investment in character, and seems to know what it wants to give us more than the remake does.

@@melenatorrsame here. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen this one. Once was too much for the new one.

@@emilywilhite5807 Agreed.

They were!

No, they were actually rather OUTMODED at the time because they were coming out with animatronics and other methods. And THIS was the LAST movie that they were used in (to such an extent at least). Now if you'd said THAT about say King Kong, Mighty Joe Young, Beast from 2000 Fathoms, or seventh Voyage of Sinbad then you would've been right.

His name was Herakles, not Hercules. Hercules is Roman.

I feel ya on this. I was 12 and man did these movies pump a dude up!

She’s just a little tired and dusty eyed from a long day of yard work.

@@YouMeTheMovies it's OK. was just kidding. it was just funny to see how bored she was with this film. it's just not for everyone. nice greetz from rainy Germany. 🤠✌🏽

@@YouMeTheMovies How often does she come back from the dead?

I met him around that time(could have been the year before); at a convention in Philadelphia. I had just bought a movie book about him and was leaving the dealers room when I spied Ray leaning against a wall just outside. I asked if he wouldn't mind signing it which he did. Ray then told me he was waiting for his handlers to take him to dinner but we could talk until then. We actually had about thirty minutes to ourselves; two artists talking shop, although he was more interested in what I was doing than anything. 😁

Same here. Saw it in the theater when it came out.

thats what i thought

Zorro The Gay Blade was amazing

@@TonyHuddlestonholycow yes!!!

So was Love At First Bite when he played Dracula

@@user-lz6is3dn8t the blood bank scene!!

Yes,this Kraken does resemble the Gill-Man to some degree.

How cool is that!

Scared the hell out of me when I was a kid!

He directed thoes also I believe.

@bensneb360 i had to chime in just to say good one there !!😅 nothing i'm wearing is clashing today i promise you .

hmmmmm. Didn't know that.