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MikeKuypers

Ray Harryhausen's first solo effort is not his best but will still please his fans.
12 years 8 months ago
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Shidan

It was great, the Rhedosaurus is amazing, it really seems real, there's quite a lot of interactions between him and the people, and it's very well done.
I also was pleasantly surprised to see Lee Van Cleef on it!
8 months 1 week ago
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ChrisReynolds

Very generic giant monster movie. Quite boring for most of the running time too, although the great special effects from Harryhausen go a little way towards redeeming it.
11 years 5 months ago
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Siskoid

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms doesn't reinvent the giant monster genre, but it's a good entry in the genre on the American side, in large part due to early Ray Harryhausen stop-motion effects (this is his second film, Mighty Joe Young was the first). Already, he has a handle on integrating effects into live footage, and the finale is a literal roller-coaster on fire. In the story, scientists are happily melting the polar ice caps with atomic tests when the free Godzilla, I mean Gamera, I mean a Rhedosaurus, is freed from the ice, and starts a rampage down to the North American Eastern seaboard. Its addition to the genre is that the protagonist is not believed about seeing a giant monster, and spends most of the film trying to convince others the threat is imminent. It's no addition to the monster genre per se, of course, but you don't see it a lot when the monster is several stories tall, and all joking aside, it's done pretty well. Had fun with the French-speaking boat captain down in Nova Scotia as well, despite the dreaded "zut alors", which WE DO NOT SAY IN FRENCH CANADA! Only I care about this, I know, and it doesn't detract from a sometimes goofy, but still effective creature feature.
4 years 2 months ago
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gerryt

http://archive.org/details/TheBeastFrom20000Fathoms_436
10 years 5 months ago
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St. Gloede

Crap
13 years 4 months ago
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