How 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad' Raised The Bar For Fantasy Adventure Films 

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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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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??!

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.

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.

In whose mighty company, it need not be ashamed.

Little Boy Blue And The Man On The Moon

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.

Thats pretty cool! I take it that it was a big wall then?

Cool dad!

I don't think there would be D&D without this movie

Quite right.

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.

It tugs at the heartstrings thinking of ye olde TNT and Sci-Fi networds.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Medusa from Clash of the Titans scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

This is a valid statement. Very iconic design, in rarified air and good company.

The other reason to watch it (besides Harryhausen monsters and the special effects of Munro) is Tom Baker. Best villain in the series ("a black bat of a man").

Caroline Munroe. Chef's kiss. ❤