Ray Harryhausen passes

[Wade]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-hollywood-reacts-ray-harryhausen-dead-20130507,0,3656321.story



That's Ray on the far left.

 

[Frank Stalter]

A big part of some great movies. RIP Harryhausen.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

One of those films was "Earth Versus the Flying Saucers," a Grade-B sci-fi film that was very, very loosely based on (or suggested by) one of Major Donald E. Keyhoe's books, "Flying Saucers from Outer Space."

Let's just say that Keyhoe naively assumed they'd actually make a film that accurately presented his case for UFO reality, and he was not amused with what Hollywood did to his book. But it's still a good popcorn thriller.

 

[Goggs Mackay]

Jason and the Argonauts - what a movie, even today I think it looks great. Those skeleton soldiers were just awesome. I had no idea Ray had still been alive til now, I figured he'd died ages ago?

 

[Gene Steinberg]

He more or less retired in the 1980s. It's not that he was wanting for cash, I suppose.

 

[mike]

One of those films was "Earth Versus the Flying Saucers," a Grade-B sci-fi film that was very, very loosely based on (or suggested by) one of Major Donald E. Keyhoe's books, "Flying Saucers from Outer Space."

Let's just say that Keyhoe naively assumed they'd actually make a film that accurately presented his case for UFO reality, and he was not amused with what Hollywood did to his book. But it's still a good popcorn thriller.

The movie also had the suggestion that the aliens could extract a humans conciousness and load it into a computer.
Pretty heavy stuff for the era

 

[Wade]

Thank you for correcting my typo on the thread title gene (goggs?)

 

[Gene Steinberg]

It's the spirits of the threads.

 

[Christopher O'Brien]

Paul Davids pays homage to Harryhausen and (I think) interviews him in his fun 2006 documentary Sci-Fi-Boys

 

[Randall]

I'm sure he's living in "Dynamation" Heaven!​

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