RIP Ray Harryhausen

[Simon Wood]

Hi All,

RIP Ray Harryhausen, movie special effects genius.

Who still doesn't thrill at Jason and the Argonauts?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/05/07/ray-harryhausen-obit/2141651/

Regards,

Simon

[Graham]

One of the greatest scenes in modern cinema - and I mean this most sincerely, folks - is when Jason and his mostly pot-bellied chums take on The Children Of The Hydra's Teeth. I mean, scary or what?

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[Magpie]

Seventh Voyage of Sinbad scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a kid.

The Swordfight with the statue of Kali--brilliant!

[RivkahChaya]

Several cable companies have shown Clash of the Titans recently, which has really great fx, although the acting, maybe not so much. Also, there's a DVD of the 1933 King Kong, with commentary by Harryhausen.

That got me thinking: what's that last film with a major stop-motion sequence? I don't mean something like Wallace & Gromit, or something that uses stop-motion for a surreal effect, even though CGI was available, or a YouTube posting. What was the last major picture to use stop-motion, because CGI was not available?

Terminator has a major sequence at the end, when the skinless robot is stalking Sarah Connor. That was in 1984. Jurassic Park came out in 1993. What was in between?