I've been watching these great old movies like this and want more, but don't know about many. Please help and point me in the right direction!
Recently have watched: Clash of the titans, Jason and the Argonauta, 7th Voyage of Sinbad, & Sinbad and the golden voyage, and Sinbad Eye of the Tiger.
Love them all, and I am just craving more like this. Help!
Hmmm...looks like you have seen most of the most popular ones. There are also some Hercules films that are somewhat similar, but inferior in every way, especially special effects. If part of what you love so much about these films is the special effects, you should check out more of Ray Harryhausens work. His fx work is often what people love the most about the films, and he did fx work on ALOT of films---many of them simply great sci-fi classics!
In fact Ive just watched a few more of his films recently, and re-watched a few of my favorites from his library. Even though theyre not in this same "age" or sub-genre, they are definitely good films for their time and classic sci-fi fan fav's! The ones I just watched recently were "First Men in the Moon" & "20 Million Miles to Earth" (50th Anniversary Edition DVD, has alot of goodies from this era if you like this stuff!!), "One Million Years BC" (Despite the goofy story and acting, any movie combining Ray HarryHausen special effects & Raquel Welch in a curvy fur bikini can ONLY be AWESOME--her hips are no joke, lol!)! Also, I just watched "Mighty Joe Young" & "Earth vs. The Flying Saucers" again the other day and still love them dearly, for all their charm, goofiness, and for their great unapologetic sci-fi style of that time!
As I said, I know those arent the same sub-genre but theyre connected together by one of the worlds best science fiction masters in Ray HarryHausen. Not sure if others are aware so wanted to mention it just in case, altho I suspect most probably do know of R.H. if a fan of these kind of films, hehe)!
"Why does the Earth have colors?" - "The New World"
Hi try also "Jack the Giant killer" Dir by Nathan Juran (7th voyage of sinbad) and starring the late great Kerwin Matthews
Also Mysterious Island (1961) Dir by Cy Endfield and Valley of Gwangi are worth a look
all good stop motion romps.
My fav has to be jason and the Argonauts :)
As well as previously mentioned Jack the Giant Killer and ANY Harryhausen films, we always enjoyed Captain Sinbad [1963] and you can't miss Thief of Bagdad [1940]. Yes, it is old and dated but it really was the starting point of this genre.
shareYes ive become very nostalgic for these films of late, which i saw mostly in my younger childhood and youth.
Id quite like to see them again but the titles confuse me i dont know which ones ive seen. There was one on british bbc1 or 2 recently cant remember which one it was. But it wasnt as good as i remember it.
But i love the fantasy and exoticness and middle eastern feel and appeal of them. Takes me back.
Ali Baba from around the time of ToB, is definitely worth a look. Sabu was also in Arabian Nights from that time period, also worth a watch.
I really like Jack the Giant Killer, it's got a lot going for it.
I read that they wanted Christopher Lee for this film, Tom Baker is more than adequate but Lee is also in the similarly themed Arabian Adventure(s?) from the 70s. Nowhere near as good but still worth your time. Oliver Tobias is game but hammy, which only adds to it.
Not really themed like this but in the vein of adventure and Troy, sorry Doug McClure is Warlords from Atlantis. Maybe the 60s version of Lost World too.
If you don't mind so-so special effects in your family movies, Amicus's The People That Time Forgot has the same life and tone as this movie, with charming actors like Thorley Walters, Sarah Douglas, and Shane Rimmer, and you don't need to watch The Land That Time Forgot first to enjoy it. (BTW don't bother with Hammer's The Lost Continent. It's embarrassingly incompetent.) A lot of people like the 1960 version of The Time Machine, which has a look similar to Star Trek, and the 2002 version of the Time Machine with Jeremy Irons succeeded in keeping the classic tone too, I thought.
share,More good titles; Forbidden Planet, Robinson Cursoe on Mars, Rocket ship XM with Lloyd Bridges, The Day the Earth Stood Still.
shareI made a list of Fantasy-Adventure movies.
http://www.imdb.com/list/olDwiPBkJqg/
Aside from some of the ones others mentioned, I'd single out Ulysses (1954), Dragonslayer, and Willow.
Here's a good stop-motion horror film: Q
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084556/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
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Surprised they hadn't tried remaking the SINBAD movies.
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