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A lot (most) of the Harryhausen stuff, seeing as how they were independently produced (and with low budgets), often times look pretty cheap. Anybody tried watching Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger lately?


Eye isn't a very good movie to guage Harryhausen by, I would go as far to say its my least favorite of his films (despite being one of the three to feature one of the Doctor's Who). The opening credit sequence especially smacks of amateurism - it comes off as a 70s made-for-TV movie of the week. His animation is top quality as always, but the production surrounding it, eh...

However, I wouldn't say any of his other stuff suffered from this problem, I might have problems with a few of them in other ways (It Came From Beaneath The Sea would probably be a second least favorite for different reasons - cheap looking wouldn't be one of them).

A non-Harryhausen stop motion film that definiately looks cheap, but still manages to entertain (maybe 'cheap' is too derogatory of an adjective - how about 'low budget') is Equinox. Wheras one that looks downright cheap and completely fails to entertain (except on MST3K) would be Laserblast.