Wich2 wrote:
Fellers, look again at the Real Thing: the restored DVD, on a nice monitor.

The figure climbing up appears to have no live-action blurring; though it's animated too slow, it has the slight strobe effect of animated motion, not fluid motion.

-Craig

Having worked on a film or two in which giant monsters (played by a guy in a suit) have appeared, I know they are usually shot at a higher frame rate...  The reason being to create the impression of mass.  If they shot it that way with a guy in a suit, then it was rotoscoped, it would have exactly the appearance you described. 

The kind of sliding movment at one point, that I described in an earlier post, may also account for the live footage not quite matching and being rotoscoped so that the placement would fit closer.
  

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