Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: THE GIANT CLAW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2014
- I take on the infamous 50's sci-fi turkey (or would that be battleship?) "The Giant Claw" (1957). (Originally aired Aug. 7th, 2014)
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Fun Fact: The reason the acting is pretty decent was because the actors were trying. They thought it was a more serious movie and didn't know what the monster looked like until they saw the first screening of the movie.
Imagine when they did see it🤯
@@frankgesuele6298Delicious 😋.
Fun fact about Fun Facts:
They're not always facts and never are they any fun
@@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes But they are delicious 😋.
@@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixesfun fact about your fun fact about fun facts: you are wrong! This fact was infact fun! And a fact!!
So, the one "fancy" effect they had was moving nostrils. On a bird. Where the nostrols are just holes in the super non-flexing beak.
Good to know someone else noticed that. Also, I'm not sure which of these is the most sad part of all this: that, the fact that they passed on Harryhausen, or the fact that Rankin/Bass made a scarier giant bird monster for fucking Rudolph's Shiny New Year.
The eyes move at least. But yes, flaring nostrils on a beak are pretty silly.
Admittedly the bird is technically an alien and not an actual bird.
"Hold your fire! We'll try and scare him away...by firing at him!"
That is legitimately one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time. And I'm 90% sure that wasn't what that line was suppose to do.
It was from MST3K. "By firing at him" was the line from a host and was meant as a joke.
"It's a flying battleship!"
Optimus Prime: Damn it, Broadside, what did you do now?!
Broadside: no prime they meant airrazor's lobotomised causin
3:20 Fun fact: until 1968, there were no such thing as rating systems (hence no such thing as "50's X-rated movie" either). It means during the 50s, as long as you pay the ticket, you don't have any problem to see a movie no matter how young you are. That's also the main reason the movies during that decade were not permitted to be graphically explicit, because the movie was technically open to every age group.
"Get me Ray Harryhausen!"
"He's not in the budget, sir."
"Then get me his non-union Mexican equivalent!"
Epic Simpsons reference
Who has worked in several films with Señor Spielbergo!
Jokes aside pretty much what literally happened.
alright senor Raymundo....
Senor Hosehausen
I mean... ignoring the fact that creature made of antimatter would explode the second it came into contact with the matter of Earth's atmosphere, the solution in this is actually kind of clever if you boil it down to a premise-solution level.
The bird has a force field that nullifies all normal projectiles on a sub-atomic level--so they solve it by making a weapon out of subatomic matter denser than a normal atom. The force field can't pull this dense projectile apart, so it gets through the forcefield.
All very good points, says me 5 years later.
'You sound like a hyooman, not a roeman.' I have got to hang that quote up in my room somewhere
Yeah I know you made this comment 2 years ago but cool Kut Ku pfp
Someone put that on a t-shirt!
The actors never saw the monster during filming. It was suppose to be a stop motion bird by Ray Harryhausen. But slim budget so they went a person who makes puppets in Mexico.
Who else agrees with me that Brandon's youtube channel is pretty underrated?
+caleb holland Probably due to his graphic design;^/
One of the BEST reviewers
Yeah, he should have at least a couple hundred k followers.
Even in 2019 I have to agree. I can't understand why he's still below 100K subscribers
I agree. he's up there with AGVN and Nostalgia Critic.
2:52 "Just this morning we told him to start his test flight at 0600 hours and instead he got on his motorcycle and drove off into the sunset."
Pretty impressive he somehow found a sunset at 6am.
Hey, that's just how rebellious he is. He rides off into the sunset whenever HE feels like it, dammit!
it's sòooooooooo scary sarcasm
Do Angry Video Game Nerd The Movie later on for your fans and then afterwards do a top list of what do you want in the upcoming Angry Video Game Nerd movie sequels
He kinda makes own rules.
Well he didn't say WHEN he got on his motorcycle.
13:32 He's right, all things in nature are symmetrical. That's why the heart is right in the middle of the chest and not off to the left side.
HoopsAndDinoMan lol good one.
Oh hey
Well...
Mostly...
Genius.
I wonder if the writers have ever grown tomatoes. This was even made before genetic manipulation became standard.
9:43
meanwhile in an alternate universe: "so, this is the power of harryhausen... not bad, not bad at all... *chuckles*
KERBLOOEY
Thanks Brandon, the "looks like the CoCo Puffs bird fucked a Deadite" gave me one the longest belly laughs of all time. The whole review was hilarious. I recently bought a 4 movie box set on bluray just for this movie. I love it !
Honestly, I think this movie could lend itself to a decent remake. Seriously, with enough passion and clever writing behind it (As well as a MUCH needed update of the monster bird's design), a remake of this movie could make for a legitimately suspenseful and thrilling sci-fi movie, as well as a loving tribute to 1950's monster movies. :)
Imagine if Studio Laika or Aardman animated the monster
If anyone was wondering what the original Top Gun would have been like with a giant turkey, now you know.
Top dialogue:
“That makes me chief cook and bottlewasher in a one-man bird spotting society...”
“It’s just a bird, a big bird!”
“Guns! Cannons! Rockets! Nothing touches it!”
“Hey daddio! Get that tin can off the road!”
“I hope this isn’t some sort of crackpot wild goose chase!”
McAfee: “You could hit it with everything but the kitchen sink.
General: “We’ve got kitchen sinks to spare!”
"who's afraid of the big bad bird" - even by 1950s movies standards, that's some pretty instant Karma.
So this movie is about flying battleships that poop on the weather?
Yes
Duh, weren't you paying attention?
Nah it's about a giant goofy crow made by a mexican special effects company that can treaten an entire universe if nobody is smart enough to stop it.
It look like a boss in donkey kong country
Your comment reminds me of a Battleship.
@@JEMurl don't you mean a flying battle ship.
That is INSULTING. That buzzard was enjoyable without a snarky Canadian
Lools like Stu after he died
Nah even K Rool looks less goofy
"No one would ever make a flying battle ship"
Me- What about the Gotengo from Atragon? It's a Flying battleship
I'd just like to point out that the Giant Claw activating an antimatter shield in Earth's atmosphere would cause a titanic explosion from the air molecules meeting the antimatter molecules, utterly destroying both the Giant Claw and half the planet.
naaah, nothing that dramatic. The atmosphere would simply burn up. OH WELL!
this needs a fucking remake with even shittier effects
ironhide By the SyFy Channel!
ironhide rest in peace
With co-production with Asylum!
10:42 Jesus Christ! It looks like the illicit crack love child between Goofy and Daisy Duck.
Please... That movie would be way better.
It's going to take me forever to get that image out if my head.
Honestly, I think the fact that the bird is so derpy looking makes it MORE terrifying
Derpy Hooves
It still doesn't look as derpy as what chickens look like when they crow lol
"There's no need to be sarcastic."
Me: yeah that's Brandon's job.
Brandon: yeah, that's my job.
Me: glad we agree.
The narrator is William Conrad, the narrator of Rocky and Bullwinkle and countless other things.
Sounds like Pierre got his ''French Canadian'' accent in Croatia.
Communist Croatia.
@@redribbondeoxys3318 as a croatinan i personally dont see it
But the goverment here is just like the puppet of the giant claw used in the movie
" a woman doing math, that's just adorable, whatever makes them happy in between making sandwiches, right fellows".
2020 calling: You're Cancelled!!!!
You realize he was mocking misogyny in the movie right? He wouldn't be cancelled for that.
@@theangryholmesian4556 Oh yes he would. Context? Bah.
@@nooctip I'm not saying some people wouldn't have done it but most wouldn't.
@@theangryholmesian4556 no, no. Most people would
I must have caught some of this movie as a kid because that bird haunted me until I was older, watched the entire movie and marveled at how the heck that freaked me out in the first place. Thanks for covering this movie.
Wow! I was thinking the same, it scared the crap out of me as a kid
The Giant Glaw marionette is still far more convincing then that damn Rat-Bat-Spider-crab marionette from The Angry Red Planet.
The ratbatspider is still creepier.
Rodan was also described as being as big as a battleship. Though that's it. "Rodan. A bird the size of a battleship!"
Brilliant review. I used to collect 8MM films in the 70's and had about 15 different ones,mostly horror ones like Creature from the black lagune or Monster that challenged the world. My younger cousins was terrified by these movies except this one which they found amusing because of the monster. Did not know the Monster was made in Mexico. It all makes sense now. THANKS!!!
at 10:44. The Cocoa Puffs bird screwing a Deadite? It looks more like if Dooby Buzzard flew into a nuclear reactor because his momma a told hiiim to get somethin' for dinneeer.
At 12:00 Actually from what I heard, the director knew that the puppet was stupid and made it so the actors never actually saw the puppet during the films production. The actors actually had to imagine what the bird looked like in order to act scared.
And when Jeff Morrow, the actor playing Mitch, saw the finished film in his home town cinema, the audience laughed uproariously when the bird was first seen, so Mitch actually snuck out of the theater in embarrassment.
Also, You didn't talk about the scene where we find out why it came to Earth in the first place. It did it's spiral pattern because it was getting materials for a nest and it laid an egg. The scene showed Sally (The female lead) shooting the egg, and it had Pierre get eaten.
DTheRedCloak good info thx and I feel bad for the actor of Mitch I bet he never wants anyone talk about the to him
That, or it looks like a Skeksis rip-off
13:20 the actual reason why the scientists knows everything is because he's a grown up Kenny brought to the past
Good theory
Nausicaa of the valley of the wind had a flying battleship
I saw "The Giant Claw" on TV in the '60s as a kid. I still have a soft spot for cheesy old science fiction and monster movies. I appreciate the good ones, too.
He saw a Big Bird? Did he also saw his mammoth imaginary friend?
it's ok , "Hidden Figures" addressed the math issues.
love the Dr. Who reference
The monster looks like it was designed by the puppet creators from Meet The Feebles.
Speaking of Peter Jackson lol.
Now we need peter Jackson to make a five hour remake of this movie
Or by the Coco Puffs people, if Sonny fell into nuclear waste and went through a crack-cocaine phase.
Its potty the parrots meth head uncle
Nah, Meet the Feebles had much better puppets
Loved that Yamato reference ^^
Brandon’s show is great! He puts his personality in every review, while giving a great review. I enjoy them!
I gotta say, I love The Giant Claw, I watched this movie when I was young and to this day I still watch it every now and then, it’s bad, but I love it
Compare to Rodan,The Giant Claw (Battleship) would not have a chance against Rodan the best Giant Flying Monster of all time.
Batra too
@@dragonlordthekingofdragons6373 That also counts to, Battra is insane.
What about King Ghidorah or Destroyah or Space Godzilla? They can all fly
And then Godzilla: King of the Monsters added a giant condor to its monster lineup...
Don’t forget Mothra.
7 YEARS?! It's been 7 years (give or take) since this was uploaded?!
God help me...
Is it a bird?
Yes.
Is it a plane?
No,it's a bird.
Oh ...
No, it's a battleship
When I saw this as a kid, I laughed at it! If Harryhausen would've done the movie, he would have made a very realistic hideous vulture like in his other movies! This Turkey had wires on it ! You can see the wires on the bird !!! LMAO!!!
He would've made it look terrifying like the Cyclops
Brandon! Please review "Them". It's an old black and white sci-fi movie with giant radioactive ants. It was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid.
I second this! I love Them, it's one of my favorites! I'd love to see your review of that.
Another cool movie, I guess you have to just enjoy cheesy special effects.
Ishmael Kipling I GET THE FALLOUT 3 QUEST REFERENCE NOW. HOLY SHIT!
Ishmael Kipling That movie begs for a remake!
JohnNewton27 THE ATTACK OF THE GIANT TURKEY!
This to me is the second best movie I ever saw as a kid.
My favorite was The Creeping Terror. (watch with lots of beer)
Target Earth even gave me the Creeps as a kid, now I watch it and Laugh. The Creepist/Nightmare award though for me was the Original Outer Limits, it had some Shocking stuff, to a really young kid was quite strong. Had my Parents known how much it got me, they would have banned it and took the Fun/shock away. Watch Outer limits to night, go to bed and Watch the closet door til you would fall asleep, if you were 9 years old. LOL.
When I was watching this on TBS as a 12 year old, aside from the Muppet-Show buzzard, my biggest question was how is that bird able to outfly (stock footage) jet fighters but couldn’t catch an obsolete B25 Mitchell at the end of the movie. Yes I was a bit of an aircraft nerd. Ok, still am.
Don't ever ask me to make you a samich, you may get something you didn't bargain for.
I like the monster.... if I seen that coming for me I'd be scared
J.R. Wizzle because it's look Hideous
Id piss my pants out of laughter
Gonzo! Noooooooo
a giant baby charging at someone is scary. the looks of something massive doesn't matter.
15:58 You can see the string.
Except for the incredibly bad bird design and the weird theory about an antimatter shield on a bird, the movie moves fast and is easy to follow. The issue mentioned about the strange music in the apartment of the engineer is actually a table radio playing in the background that cuts in later with an announcement of martial law, actually shown in the movie.
“...As smooth as diarrhea the whole way there!”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
*I died laughing*
I laughed at that too, partially because I've heard my dad use that exact same line about a road trip
Few more 50's monster movies suggestions: Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957), Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954), King Dinosaur (1955), The Neanderthal Man (1953) and Man Beast (1956).
...all equally HORRID.
Flying Battleship?
*ATRAGON REVIEW CONFIRMED?*
No, clearly he's talking about Rodan.
I'm only partially joking. Godzilla Battle Legends for TurboDuo listed Rodan's subtitle as "The Flying Battleship" in reference to this movie.
Here's a Drinking Game: Take a Shot every time someone says battleship...you'll pass out before the end of the first act
I hope someone does that
You might want to do this with sips instead of shots
@snakes3425 Here's a drinking game that's even worse than the one you made up. The Star Trek Drinking Game: Take a shot every time a "red shirt" dies. Or the Moulin Rouge Drinking Game: Take a shot every time somebody mentions the word "love".
Or take a shoot every time in i come in peace every time they swear.
that's why i just take a sip of soda
HEY, THE GIANT BIRD IS A BATTLE SHIP
Brandon, it's time for the trifecta. You got Playboy Playmate Mara Corday in "The Giant Claw" and "Tarantula." Now, you need to get her in "Black Scorpion," from the producers of the science fiction classic "Them." It's another interesting production with recognizable actors (Richard Denning from "Creature From the Black Lagoon" and "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," and Carlos Rivas from "The King and I"). That said, it has got what has to be one of the wildest final battles in movie history.
Oh and it has the Mexican Kenny.
Brandon Tenold just got through doing a review of The Black Scorpion. Check it out. You’ll dig it.
When I was a very small child this scared the hell out of me......I've gone on to blame it for all my adult neurosis.
this? THIS scared you?
@@DDlambchop43 I was about 4 years of age.
To be the devil’s advocate, it KINDA looks creepy (but just a tiny bit enough it would pass the test of being creepy, because it’s definitely a goofball)
"La Coconya!" This is one of my favorites. "Plan 9 from Outer Space" will always be number one, though.
LoveFlatfootin1 apparently it’s spelt “La Carcagne”.
Would love to see a review of *Attack of the Killer Tomato's*. That would be a hilarious review since the movie was pathetically dumb to begin with.
WelshWidgetMan2O1O
That movie was pointless and stupid! Thank goodness the cartoon show was much better!
*blows raspberries*
"Can somebody please pass the ketchup?" (Vigorous Facepalm) ROTFLMAO!!!
That would be great since he already did Killer Klowns from Outer Space, and Tammy and the T-Rex.
I would also love if he did the Deadly Mantis?
That's actually a great idea
At 5:00, the USAF starts to regret choosing an electrical engineer over a highly-experienced pilot for the job of Test Pilot. But luckily, his specialty is experimental particle physics. And he makes apparati that can fit on a cargo plane and produces pounds of mesons from the energy of 12v batteries. Or something.
A bird with TEETH????.!!!!!
An antimatter bird with antiteeth.
@@h.plovecat4307 If its Anti-Matter, shouldn't it just explode in a cataclysmic detonation as soon as it hit the atmosphere and its Anti-Matter came in contact with our world's matter causing them to mutually annihilate?
I could say the same thing except this _is_ an alien puppet ... I meam bird from an anti-matter galaxy.
Lovecat Productions Omega really needs to keep his pet bird in the cage
Yeah......I don't think that exists in nature but hey it's extra terrestrial so could say that
this is truly one of the funniest reviews I've seen. thanks man!!
You are definitly one of the best reviewers on the internet whenever i watch one of your reviews i feel better. Thank you.
Excelent review. Good writing . . .very funny. Thanks a lot!
P.S. RE "The General" in this movie . . . that guy played a general in so many old sci-fi movies. I always look for him.
*Dr Insano:* How do I plan to stop that giant bird? With SCIENCE!!
I miss Spoony...
I honestly want to make a Giant Claw remake where she's terrifying
Do it
AVGN is one of the reasons I found your videos.
Now, I'm happily waiting for your new videos by binge watching your old videos while I do mundane tasks around the house.
Thank you for the time and effort you put into these, they help a whole lot man!
The actor who played Mitch saw what they used for the bird, stormed out of the theater angry and embarrassed. They never saw it in the movie. It was kept from them for "better acting " more like so they wouldn't walk off the set.
I've been watching your stuff for a few years and I've always loved it. You are one of the inspirations I had to do my own TH-cam stuff. Keep doing the great work! Your awesome
2:38 *DISCLAIMER:* the preceeding joke was meant for satirical purposes. In actual fact, there are several studies which show that women are more than capable of doing math. I mean, I can't really think of any right now, but I'm sure they exist. Tell ya what. If anyone knows of any studies showing that women are capable of math, feel free to post them in the comments.
(actually don't, this is still a joke and you'd be foolish to play into it.)
Ada Lovelace
18:38 man literally predicted 2020s humor
Star Trek TNG also loved to revers the polarity. Hell, in one episode they did it to detach a giant space slug from sucking on the Enterprise.
Mara Corday is so so so hot in this movie
Kinda reminds me of Gina Gershon
Happy 60th anniversary to the Giant Claw!
Will we ever see a review on "Night of the Lepus"?
If there is justice in the universe, yes.
How about a review of Frogs (1972)?
I hope so
I'd love to see that. Those giant bunnies are so cute!
Brendon, being able come up with that pattern from that map, you could be a code breaker for the NSA.
May sound random, but you kinda look like Mark Hamill when he played Luke in episode 4
Don’t you know about the bird because everyone knows that the bird is the word
10:16 I knew you were going to draw that...
That was literally what my thought was when I first saw the scene where Mara raised her elegantly-gloved hand to her horrified mouth "No - this can't be real... they decided to go with *that* thing?"
She 'acted' it perfectly - or *did* she?
Original Rejected Godzilla Design LOL
@12:44 "Easy Baker squadron leader"
So this squadron after this movie, retires and starts making flammable ovens for children?
Nick Fury wondered why people laughed at the idea of the Helicarrier.
it be nice to know the reviews it got when it originally premiered
Imagine they made a comedy version of the giant claw.
Pretty impressed with the part about mu mesons and meson matter.
This is hilarious; thank you! I remember The Giant Claw from way back when we had a 9-minute version on 8mm film (yeah, I'm old). Even with the grainy quality of the film and being little kids, we could easily see the wires attached to the critter's eyes. And you gotta love the narrator: "Terrah. Terrah and nightmayah harrah." You did a great job skewering this "classic".
One of the 50's best Best ( Worst ) monster movies. I can watch it time and time again. One of the coolest, but then, what is cool is objective
Off chance you can find it, there is a movie i buried in a desert somewhere called "Death Kappa"
It's a big difficult to get through, but you'll be stronger after watching it..and you'll believe Giant Claw is a masterpiece
Ah, Death Kappa. The Sharknado/Kill Bill of the kaiju genre 😎.
I think they say the word battleship in this movie more than the movie Battleship!
One of my "guilty pleasure" films--particularly due to the excellent cast of fifties' SF/horror film regulars like Jeff Morrow, the HOT Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Robert Shayne, Clark Howat, Morgan Jones, and even stuffy Edgar Barrier. It's a lot of fun, in my opinion, and I'll watch it from time to time as the mood strikes me.
"What's that in his back yard?"
"I guess they have some really big chickens around here."
A reminder: Pier thought it had the face of a woman. What does this say about French-Canadian women?
"The face of a wolf, and the body of a woman."
Tyrant Gregcag Well that's so much... better?
Lol! 😹
Worst butter face possible?
10:58 Actually, to me, it looks like what would happen if the Roc from My Little Pony get into a fight with Nora Valkyrie from RWBY, and survived.
Thank you Brandon! My mom and I tracked down a copy of this movie on Amazon after watching this review. Keep up the good work.
the 1st time I saw this I thought it was a parody of 50s monster movies and not a real one