*For the next week or so, I’m going to add a random film the great Ray Harryhausen worked on. The legendary special effects MASTER passed away on May 7, 2013 at age 92 in London and yes, the film world has lost a true giant as well as a fine and talented gentleman…

For years, I disliked most of Clash of the Titans because by 1981, I’d thought I’d outgrown the type of work Ray Harryhausen was doing and it seems that, despite the film’s OK success at the box office, some movie audiences just weren’t into so much classic stop motion animation in such a large scale film either.

Granted, it took me a few years and a lot of distance to find the movie actual fun to watch (instead of unintentionally funny for all the wrong reasons) as well as a classic in its own right, but I’m glad I gave it another chance. As Ray’s final studio film it’s a bittersweet sendoff that has one truly terrifying sequence and a few good to great ones that neither the CG-packed remake nor its sequel could come close to topping…
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