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Giant Bees

posted 18 years ago by RNE
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This was a great scean along with the attack of the Giant Bird. I loved the characters (herbert and elena)they were so cute together. I mean if you were a giant bird would'nt you want to eat them? Back to the Bees!! I loved Ray Harryhausen's special effects espacialy the stop motion. He is a genius. And the Bees sealing in this cute young couple who are barely dressed is way hot. I wonder what this scean would look like in a remake. Who would play (herbert and elena). Giant bees and sexy, tiny humans. Great film!!
Any comments?

[–] royal_blue 14 years ago

This isn't really a response to the original post, just a thought:

When you think about it, fending off that one gigantic bee was much easier than it would have been to fight off a swarm of normal sized bees. In a way, Herbert and Elena were actually lucky to have to deal with just that one oversized insect.

[–] Tresix 13 years ago

To all of the people complaining about the remake with Patrick Stewart: you do realize that this version is also a remake. The original came out in 1929 and starred Lionel Barrymore (best remembered as Mr. Potter from It's A Wonderful Life) as Count Dakkar, based off of Captain Nemo.

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[–] heelmaster2000 8 years ago

I thought that the bee's were some of Harryhausen's best creations.

[–] RIP_IMDb 8 years ago

To me the giant bee looked more like a giant wasp.

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