It Came from Beneath the Sea

Even though they're dumb or they're bad or we might not enjoy them, they still have memorable things about them.

We didn't necessarily like the It Came From Beneath the Sea movie the greatest, but also the premise of it was one of the most incredible premises ever.

It's such a unique premise.

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I was watching since I was a kid.

Films like, you know, The War of the Worlds and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, When Worlds Collide, all these films, it came from beneath the sea.

I just love them.

In fact, I did write a...

I mean, one thing I'd like anybody listening to this now to take away is not just to watch this film, but to watch, just do a deep dive into that period because the films were special then.

I know, I mean, you can say, okay, the special effects are dated and they do reflect 1950s, so there's not a lot of diversity there at all.

But, you know, to see films like Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, It Came From Beneath The Sea, Them, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Tarantula, The War of the Worlds.

Yeah,

I haven't seen everything, but I've seen probably about half of it.

And this was, I had purchased 20 Million Miles to Earth on a Blu-ray set with It Came From Beneath the Sea.

And yeah, I mean, I don't have any super long history with it, but I find Harryhausen's work really, really comforting.

So I'm always down to watch a Harryhausen movie.

Now, I think I mostly just watched Jason and the Argonauts, which is still a film that I absolutely love from that period.

And it was really only a little later when I started getting into Godzilla stuff that I picked up some of the,

you know, it came from beneath the sea, Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, that sort of thing.

And some of his other movies like The Sinbad and things I really only discovered in recent years when, you know, my wife and I were like, you know, there are Harryhausen movies we haven't seen.

This is an homage to Ray Harryhausen, the man who was one of the earliest practitioners of stop-motion photography and claymation and made the stop-motion animation and now iconic monsters for films like Jason and the Argonauts, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, and Clash of the Titans.

Also, the octopus behind the bar in the restaurant with only six legs is a reference to It Came from Beneath the Sea from 1955, a film in which Harryhausen created an octopus with six arms due to budget restrictions.

Those nerds.

they put so many Easter eggs in this.

yeah well and that's kind of i wanted to mention one of my favorite actors of all time is kenneth toby uh who's He's in the original thing from another world.

He's in It Came From Beneath the Sea.

I always enjoyed him.

And he's kind of, they don't really say who he is, but he's like this big political mover guy.