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Greek myth mythology harryhausen stopmo

All movies seen on 04/08/2018

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Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Directed by Don Chaffey

Fantasy | Adventure | Action

Most recently watched by sensoria, jakeneff, scottfinn

Overview

Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.

Rated G | Length 104 minutes

Actors

Todd Armstrong | Nancy Kovack | Gary Raymond | Laurence Naismith | Niall MacGinnis | Michael Gwynn | Douglas Wilmer | Jack Gwillim | Honor Blackman | John Cairney | Patrick Troughton | Andrew Faulds | Nigel Green | John Crawford | Ferdinando Poggi | Ennio Antonelli | Harold Bradley | Aldo Cristiani | Eva Haddon | Doug Robinson | Davina Taylor | Tim Turner

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Was inspired to revisit after viewing Monkey King 2 last night. Such an interesting film to watch today, nevermind the terrific Ray Harryhausen work, just the weird gender politics and nature of the film. Very white movie too.

90 minutes until the showstopper scene but that hydra fight into the skeleton battle is still one of the greatest of all time. So it bumps an average film up a few notches. Most of what comes before it is a bit of a chore with kind of a dipshit dummy in Jason.

Also wild that they tease a sequel and more adventures that never happened. I believe I knew why but have since forgotten. The Legacy extra that features a bunch of filmmakers talking about Harryhausen mostly focuses on 7th Voyage which is strange given it’s on the Jason disc.

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