From: utzoo!decvax!cca!csin!cjh
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re Movie Not in Review
Article-I.D.: csin.143
Posted: Tue Jun 15 11:29:28 1982
Received: Thu Jun 17 00:50:23 1982

In response to your message of Tue Jun 15 08:11:38 1982:

   CLASH OF THE TITANS was probably left off the list because it was an
unbelievably bad picture. A lot of money spent on names in unidimensional
roles, a couple of unknown incompetents in the major dramatic roles, a
diabetically cute imitation of R2D2, special effects straight out of the
40's (apparently Harryhausen likes the old-style, jerky stop-motion
animation and tries to jazz it up by having more things moving rather than
by making the movement more realistic; there were also some other effects
(one of the rear-projection/animation combinations, for instance) that were
so badly done as to destroy any suspension of disbelief even in  my relatively
relatively inexperienced sight). I've seen quite a few Harryhausen movies,
and considering CotT as such it's the worst or second-worst he's done;
considering that this was supposed to be a blockbuster movie, it's among
the worst of the decade.