THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS - The Movie That Inspired GODZILLA 

Fuck yeah I do!

Godzilla can’t beat up his grandpa, or maybe he can

Planet of the Dinosaurs

Fuck yeah!!!!!!!!! We sure wish if that crossover would be made

Agree

Ouch long ago that would be good but now that’s not right

@@canonbehenna612 what’s wrong with keeping a promise to your daughter?

@@huntercoleman460 because the kajiu must die if it lives then it’s an unhappy ending

@@canonbehenna612 Gorgo does have a happy ending. The mother and baby are reunited and return to the sea.

"Daddy, I want a Rhedosaurus!"

It's a damn pity they didn't try to make a comedy with them as giant monster killers.

Damn someone needs to make this movie set now.

Now we need Tuco Ramirez to defeat a Kaiju monster.

And it is both actors very first part as well.

@@glenchapman3899 Whilst Eastwood's first movie was "Tarantula," Lee Van Cleef's first movie was "High Noon" in 1951. "Beast" was his seventh appearance onscreen.

Same for me Stop motion will always be superior!!!!!

Gremlins 2.

Even more than Gojira?

@Hunter Coleman OK. My favorite Stop Motion Monster movie

Yep, mine too! My brother & I loved watching it on creature features.

I couldn't agree more! It also has more than a few resemblances to Giant Behemoth. If the '98 godzi had just been hyped as a remake of Beast, it might not have been dumped on so much.

Huh, maybe they should have used a different design and market it as a remake of Beast.

​@@varanid9 i think the design we have fits redhosaurus well, surely better then it fits godzilla

@@MatteoPicone-yy7pk Yes. They could have called it "The Giant Behemoth from 20,000 Fathoms". Keeping in the spirit of things, they could have followed up with a remake of "Rodan" and modeled the titular monster after the Giant Claw. But, yeah, make it a quadruped and replace the plates on its back with iguana spines and it could have passed.

My thoughts as well.

They probably would have gotten a better reception if they just switched the names.

Part of why I dig it ! XD

@@AgentofLADON Yeah a a monster movie it was pretty good. As a Godzilla film it was appalling lol As soon as I saw the skinny ankles in the trailer I knew we were in very deep trouble

Think the 1994 script would do more justice to the kajiu but it still better then evangelion,attack on titans and blood c

But how it survive the k-t event

For me it was the Sindbad Movies.

If you like good but old movies similar to this I highly suggest "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" also a Harryhausen movie. I have watched it many times.

@@Lukiel666Ten months later and he’s done a video on it I choose to give you credit for that.

Your 78 Cool

Also your cats cute

@@DinoRicky Yeah, I used to love dinosaur movies and now I am a dinosaur.

@@DinoRicky Thank you. I appreciate that. Sadly she passed away this February at age 14.

​@@richardfabacher3705 May she rest in peace.

I prefer it to modern CGI, but i cant say 100 percent that isnt my nostalgia showing through.

I AGREE!!!

It holds up well, even next to Harryhausen's later stuff. Maybe the moody black-and-white helps hide any imperfections.

​@@demonkingbadger6689 tbf, I love even modern works of stop motion. Stuff is just a good watch when you realize how much love and effort goes into it.

The details to the monster like it's muscles, scales and even bones is amazing and it moves very realistic It definitely holds up still

That was pretty awesome

@@nickbutcher760 I wonder what Godzilla film Brandon will do....I would LOVE to see him tackle Shin Gojira.

I am kind of amazed that it was possible to film a movie back before there was such a thing as TECHNOLOGY.

Condolences

The 1998 Godzilla movie is more like a remake of this movie then it has anything to do with Godzilla itself.

The Redosaurus is fictitious but I feel like it fills a niche that _should_ have been filled by a dinosaur - a more chunky quadruped that is also carnivorous.

Hear! Hear!

That's a lot of fish."

@@anubusx It sure is, buddy.

I read books. If you like grindhouse type stuff, check out some of Ari Marmell's recent work... The Goblin Corps is inspired by an all-villain D&D campaign and has some epic profanity and pretty gnarly violence. The Iron Devils is vampires vs. robots in a dystopian future. Despite the high cheese factor both are well written.

You need to check out "Who Goes There?," a short story which all 3 versions of "The Thing" were based on.

I think Gamera also wrecks a lighthouse in his debut film doesn't he?

@@andrewparsons2391 yes he does. That's where he picked up Kenny.

It's a shame that people hate The 1998 GODZILLA because that's the movie that first introduced me to GODZILLA back in 1998 when I was 11 years old I'm 35 now. Also Matthew Broadrick and Jean Reno are awesome in that movie

@@thing1thing2themediamaniac43 the reason it's hated is because it was marketed as a Godzilla movie when the "Godzilla" in the movie has almost nothing in common with the actual Godzilla. Despite that Godzilla 98 is an entertaining monster movie but a bad Godzilla movie if that makes sense.

@@romangunter621 I don't think it's a bad GODZILLA movie

@@thing1thing2themediamaniac43 I did say it was an entertaining monster movie even though the "Godzilla" in the film doesn't act like a traditional Godzilla, doesn't have the iconic atomic breath, runs away from the army and fights back I think once, and is killed by conventionel weapons where as OG Godzilla is indestructible.

@@romangunter621 MY ALL TIME FAVORITE GODZILLA IS SHIN GODZILLA

The first time someone beat on the Golden Gate bridge. That started a trend lol

And "It Came From Beneath the Sea" also stars Kenneth Tobey. The man just couldn't keep away from monsters in the fifties.

I KNEW IT!! I knew the resemblance wasn't a coincidence.

@@DDlambchop43 There are parallel sequences throughout. And though TGB is an inferior film and completely derivative, I've enjoyed it, but mostly for the acting, particularly that of Gene Evans, who usually got cast as a "heavy", and mostly in westerns. I think he could have done a fine job as a hard-boiled film noir detective. Too bad he had no other leading role. Apparently, Lourié had even less money to spend making TGB than TBF20KF, and what he had he spent on the cast, which is a good policy in general, but in a kaiju, the monster is the lead and needs screentime. However, the Paleosaurus, designed and animated by Willis O'Brien (King Kong), is seen for less than two minutes out of 71 minutes of total running time, and much of that is repetitive. Lourié tried to make up for the lack of a visible monster with reaction shots of its victims getting fried by its radioactivity. Nope, doesn't work. Lourié knew how to build this sort of story, and did it brilliantly in TBF20KF, giving Ray Harryhausen free rein to create a memorable and iconic work of animation exceeded only by the original and magnificent King Kong, but budgets and bean counters rule in the end, so he flubbed the remake Gorgo is pretty sad by comparison. Lourié's producers, the King Brothers, (King Bros. also produced the English-language version of Rodan) spent too much on Technicolor (which nevertheless looks grainy, washed-out, and altogether lousy) and stupid publicity stunts like parading a life-sized mannequin of Gorgo Jr. around Picadilly Circus, leaving very little for the kaiju, not to mention the sleepy, uninspired acting, and the incomprehensible script. So why did TBF20KF work so well and the remakes mostly failed? I think it boils down to three points. First and most importantly, Ray Harryhausen was given the time and the money and the creative freedom to make the Rhedosaurus a character rather than a prop. The lighthouse sequence is probably the best piece of animation ever filmed. You don't get that sort of work with cramped schedules and penny-pinching budgets. The Rhedosaurus is so well established as a character that its death agony on the Coney Island beach is tragic and heart-wrenching. Secondly, the script introduced a palpable element of menace into the story. Japanese Kaiju films try to do this with impossible creatures as destructive to Tokyo as a B-29 fire raid or an A-bomb, but "The Beast" did it with the completely non-improbable threat of a devastating pandemic. The Rhedosaurus itself could kill people by stomping some and eating others, but not millions and it could wreck stuff, but not the entire city of New York. However, the pathogen in its blood... the horror story of plagues is real history. Finally, there's the boundlessly charming Cecil Kellaway, casting him as the kindly Professor Elson was a masterstroke.

Agreed Yimir was something special, I loved that movie, first I remember feeling for the monster.

@@YamiFudo Also had a really intelligent plot as well. Did not treat the audience like idiots. As for Harryhausen I can not get past Jason And The Argonauts as my personal fave

There was a time when being a cop sorta meant being brave and putting yourself between danger and everyone else... I mean, sure, that was probably just some romantic notion or whatever, but it had some resonance with beat cops. I remember watching some news magazine in the early 90s with my mom, and there was a story about a cop in California or Florida or something who killed a rampaging circus elephant with a 9mm Glock pistol. He said he was hoping to draw the animal away from the crowd and that he never imagined he'd be able to drop the animal... that's pretty damn brave by just about any measure. Also, wild to think that the circus just used to have elephants that they would drive around the country.

@@420JackG Even if I was a beat cop I'm going to assume my service revolver cannot do any damage to a kaiju.

@@grapeshot maybe he had one of those (at that time) newfangled .357 mags that were advertised to police departments as "the most powerful handgun ever fielded, capable of taking any large game in North America and compact enough to fit in her purse"... maybe he bought the hype 😆

If I had a nickel for every modern franchise/character inspired by ACD I'd be a billionaire.

Godzilla raids again?

@@joeysullivanTM Yes the original subtitled to English. The American version sucks!

@@ronellis9710 I agree

You realize that is what he is doing next right?

Maybe the goverment were cloning people in this film.

"I fell 8000 feet to my death. Of course, folks were tougher in those days. I was jitterbuggin' that very night!" -Grandpa Simpson

When it's done well it holds up pretty decently, when it's done poorly it looked okay in its time but hasn't aged well. Harryhausen always did it well.

You'd be rightfully pissed because this movie is public domain.

@@odstarmor557 if this movie is in the public domain then how in the hell there isn’t a full movie version of this film on RU-vid

@@Emmanuel-ms8pr nevermind, apparently they renewed the copyright, which is bullshit.

@@odstarmor557goddamn it I was about to plan to make a tribute for this movie and yeah it’s fucking bullshit that the copyright got renewed for this film >:(