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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404971134
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404971130
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: December 28, 2004
Running Time: 529 minutes
Sales Rank: 6615
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 19, 1963
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/28/2004
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Rating:  - Awesome movies for the whole family
Ray Harryhausen's movies are great! They don't go out of style at all. If you enjoy fantasy and need a break from the real world, these movies really transport you to a different place and time. My 8 yr old daughter loved them and wants me to find more movies like this for us to watch.
Rating:  - not happy
Not Happy with this item as they advise it will contained french version = not right
Rating: - "Jerky, Good Work-y"
Oh, how I loved these movies when they first arrived at local theaters. As a pre-teen, I watched them over and over. I watched them for the Cyclops, for the human skeletons coming up out of the earth, grown from planted teeth, for the dragons and monsters thrashing about. To see gigantic creatures pick up human beings and examine them for their possible tastiness--that was an amazing thing to be watching on celluloid! It did not bother me that the motion was a bit jerky--I deduced at the time that these scary studio creations had been posed and shot a frame at a time, and my feeble little mind had thought this was terribly sophisticated, as FX go. I still get a kick out of seeing them and re-makes of the same stories just do not do it for me.
Rating: - Monsters! Monsters! Monsters!
With most boxed sets, the DVDs are linked by an actor (like Errol Flynn), director (like Sergio Leone) or genre (such as noir). It is rare to see sets with something else in common, but this is the case with The Fantastic Films of Ray Harryhausen. While I suppose it could be argued that these are related because they are fantasy movies, in truth, it is Harryhausen who unites them: there aren't many boxed sets which feature a special visual effects designer, but if there was to be one, it would naturally feature Harryhausen.
Sure, by today's standards, the effects in the movies in this set are rather crude, but in their era, they were pretty good. This is especially the case when you consider the effects in other giant monster movies of the time which usually featured a man in a costume crushing miniatures or a regular animal made large through obvious camera tricks. Of course, these effects were simpler to do than Harryhausen's stop-motion work, but the short cuts showed.
First in the set (chronologically) is The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, in which the hero must restore a beautiful princess to her proper size after she is shrunk to just a few inches. From the start, there's little skimping when it comes to the monsters; this one includes a cyclops, a dragon, a roc and a sword-wielding skeleton. This film (and the other two Sinbad movies in the set) are a reminder of a time when the stereotypical version of Arabian lands was one of romance and magic. It's obviously legend, ... Read More
Rating: - The Greatest Special effects for the time.
I have always loved Ray Harryhausen's special effects. He really had to work to get all the movements with the stop motion camera. For the time when they were made, they were really impressive. I love all of the movies in this collection, especially Jason and the Argonauts. The fight with the skeletons towards the end is really something to watch.
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