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The Iron Giant
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FilmNR1956
Giant
Directed by George Stevens
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the… From TMDB
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Giant is a 1956 drama western film, directed by George Stevens, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean.
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60 of 203 · most liked firstMy first non-food service job when I moved to Portland in 2005 was a Production Assistant (cataloging storyboards, not making art!) on the movie Coraline. My boss had worked on James and the Giant Peach, and when I told her that it’s one of my favorite movies, she just friggin GAVE me this-- 1/2
neutral · AI labelView post →Guillermo del Toro about his new animated feature film "The Buried Giant": - "a stop motion movie for adults, being produced without any concession to a family audience" - "I want all the creatures to be of the same material. It's gonna take us years." 💪💪💪 deadline.com/2026/05/guil...
neutral · AI labelView post →i play the lead character Grey in the short film A GIANT LIVING EYE, we shot the whole thing last year in Norfolk, Virginia, currently the filmmakers are raising money for post-production costs, if you're interested in pledging, head on over here seedandspark.com/fund/a-giant...
neutral · AI labelView post →Giant doggo ghost coming out of the giant screen! I dig this movie.
positive · AI labelView post →if you haven't checked it out yet, i play the lead character Grey in the upcoming short film A GIANT LIVING EYE, right now the film's fundraiser page is 66% towards its goal for post-production costs, if you're interested in pledging, go check it out seedandspark.com/fund/a-giant...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Giant Crush" short by Luke Lee (CalArts school). It's refreshing to see some kaiju in student mode. Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=N82T...
neutral · AI labelView post →we are at 94% for post-production funding for A GIANT LIVING EYE, a live-action short film i play the lead character in, we're only $1148 away from our goal, if you'd like to help support the film, please go pledge if you're able seedandspark.com/fund/a-giant...
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy World Ocean Day🌊 SCUBA DAN 🤿 "The oceanic manta ray or Giant Manta 🤿 The biggest ones in the world are at Socorro islands in Mexico 🇲🇽 Super fun to film"
neutral · AI labelView post →PUT THE GIANT BOMB CREW IN THE NEXT SONIC MOVIE AS CHAO!
neutral · AI labelView post →Best performance by a Wrestler in a Hollywood film . I’m not counting Andre because he is a literal Giant.
neutral · AI labelView post →Real News Point: Ari Aster Set To Direct 'Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg' Film For Apple, Glenn Howerton Set To Star
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been working through 2025's animated student films, and I've definitely got a favorite so far. "Death is a Giant Peanut," by Amy Boisvert. It's less than 7 minutes. Give it a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNal...
neutral · AI labelView post →Two new animated feature films at Cannes Film Festival 2026 : • "Lucy Lost" by Olivier Clert (Xilam / France) - Family Screening • "Tangles" by Leah Nelson (Giant Ant / Canada) - Special Screening www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/pre...
neutral · AI labelView post →"WHERE'S THE GIANT, MANSLEY?" is an all-timer animated movie line-read, imo. it feels so real
neutral · AI labelView post →Apollo & Rocky from Rocky III, in gouache for FILM SCHOOL, an upcoming group show at Giant Robot Gallery!
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Iron Giant (1999) By Kilian Eng
neutral · AI labelView post →Four Film studies in gouache from Katheryn Bigelow’s Western Vanpire film Near Dark (1987) for the FILM SCHOOL group exhibition at Giant robot Gallery in LA. Curated by me! come to the opening tonight 6-9pm
neutral · AI labelView post →14-month-old Jeanne Anne Evans kisses her horse on the set of the movie "Giant" near Marfa, Texas in 1955.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yesterday was a two-essay-release day! This one, at my newsletter, reframing an earlier essay on the film Giant, which is about racial and gender equality, in the light of the 14th Amendment stuff going on and....
neutral · AI labelView post →Futurama x Iron Giant painted on a thrift store print by Tyler Turnbull. #comics #art #film #animation
neutral · AI labelView post →Learned today that Studio Ghibli helped make a live-action, 9-minute short film called 'Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo' that serves as a canon prequel to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_G...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ll save you the youtube video: MOVIES LOOK REAL WHEN PEOPLE SWEAT PEOPLE SWEAT WHEN THEY FILM IN REAL PLACES NOT GIANT GREEN ROOMS WITH AC SWEAT GOOD
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie night with @lluisabadias.bsky.social and it's my favourite Godzilla film ever! It's Godzilla,Mothra & King Ghidorah - Giant Monsters All Out Attack! Every element of this film is perfection. The story & mythology hits hard, the monster designs are top tier, & the human aspect is great 🦖🦋🐲
positive · AI labelView post →Iron Giant by @patricjreynolds.bsky.social. #comics #art #film
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m honestly not interested in film adaptations of his work because they’re so chilling & beautiful, & I’d rather not my experience & imagery be overwritten by the film version… …the exception is the upcoming Guillermo Del Toro stop-motion adaptation of The Buried Giant (which I haven’t read yet)!
neutral · AI labelView post →‘RAY GUNN’ is Brad Bird's first animated film in 8 years, but does it manage to be as good as ‘The Incredibles’ or ‘The Iron Giant’? Find out in our review… discussingfilm.net/2026/10/10/r...
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great #FilmSky The Iron Giant (1999)
neutral · AI labelView post →Any fans of the 1999 animated film the Iron Giant?
neutral · AI labelView post →Some Willems from the Film School show at Giant Robot. Painted in acrylic.
neutral · AI labelView post →There was going to be a Star Giant Productions movie… You read that correctly.
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmsky #moviesky #TCM #carsky #NorthbyNorthwest Giant heads. Giant American cars.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Iron Giant (1999) Directed by Brad Bird
neutral · AI labelView post →Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) in gouache for FILM SCHOOL, this Saturday at Giant Robot Gallery
neutral · AI labelView post →FILM SCHOOL II: THE RETURN next week at Giant Robot Gallery! RIP to the great Tony Scott, True Romance (1993) film study in gouache
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a film flop that you wish had done better at the box office. To me it’s always The Iron Giant.
positive · AI labelView post →I started my fall movie binge with The Iron Giant earlier this week hehe
neutral · AI labelView post →Iron Giant by Jim Calafiore. #artlife #comics #art #film
neutral · AI labelView post →The Iron Giant is the perfect movie.
positive · AI labelView post →#nowwatching The Giant Claw (1957) Like a movie length Twilight Zone episode, a giant bird-like creature attacks America during the Cold War. Wonder if it's a metaphor for anything. A stand out classic of the 50's classic. #filmsky #horrorsky #moviesky
positive · AI labelView post →#filmsky #moviesky #western #OTD #photography James Dean’s final film, GIANT, premiered on this day in 1956. Dean using his Bolex 16mm motion picture camera on set in Texas, 1955
neutral · AI labelView post →Giant clapper for a giant movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Missing the point of the movie by as wide a margin of miss as the presence of the Iron Giant in the battle scenes in Ready Player One.
neutral · AI labelView post →OTD 10/10/1956: George Stevens' multi-generational epic GIANT premieres in NYC. Rock Hudson James Dean Elizabeth Taylor Mercedes McCambridge Carroll Baker Dennis Hopper Earl Holliman Sal Mineo Chill Wills 10 Oscar noms: Hudson's only one & Dean's posthumous nod. Stevens wins Director. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →My most favourite horror film of all time is myself at ten years old not being fed from Saddam's GIANT birthday cake after I sang for him on his birthday. Happy Halloween x
neutral · AI labelView post →I have told this story before, but my mom took me to see The Little Mermaid in theatres. I was 3 at the time. When Ursula was laughing across that GIANT screen I apparently stood up, told her indignantly that this movie was "for BIG girls!!" and marched right out of the theater. Boundaries!! 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Improve a movie by replacing a word with "sex" Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Sex
neutral · AI labelView post →The First Contact figs were great but even 30 years (!) later I’m still annoyed that Playmates randomly made them MUCH larger than every other Star Trek figure they’d made despite them being in exactly the same style. Whhhy Playmates? Giant Bev is annoyed she’s stuck in a zombie film, wrong genre! 👻
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight: I feel like there's a lot to say about Giant Monster movies, Creature Features, and their place in horror, and like, "is it really a 'halloween' movie?", but you know what, FUCK IT- tonight: KAIJU DOUBLE FEATURE Starting with GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE
neutral · AI labelView post →[movie trailer voiceover guy mode ACTIVATED] From the studio that brought you Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus comes the ultimate showdown: DICK TIPS VS. FERAL HOGS
neutral · AI labelView post →While filming The Princess Bride, Andre the Giant was in such physical pain he was unable to film most any action scene. In the fight with Wesley, they alternate between long shots of a very obvious body double and close ups where Cary Elwes is walking along specially built ramp platforms.
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduced kiddo to The Iron Giant tonight for our Friday pizza & a movie tradition. Parenting win.
positive · AI labelView post →Yesterday’s movie snippet answer: The Giant Gila Monster, 1959 Did the movie deliver on what the poster promised?
neutral · AI labelView post →In a TRANSFORMERS mood lately (more than usual), so I finally watched BUMBLEBEE and am currently watching RISE OF THE BEASTS. 'BEE is a photocopy of IRON GIANT, but if you're going to rip something off, you might as well steal from the best. It was a cool little Movie all things considered, and
neutral · AI labelView post →Films I Need Made Yesterday: 1. Lilly Wachowski's The Hunted 2. Julia Ducournau's My Real Name is Elizabeth 3. LAIKA's Piranesi 4. whatever Celine Sciamma makes next; seriously hurry pls 5. Guillermo del Toro's The Buried Giant HMs: Jordan Peele's fourth film Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg's next film
neutral · AI labelView post →James And The Giant Peach. Don't judge me. I already burned through all the other scary movies for my annual Disney+ Halloween movie marathon.
neutral · AI labelView post →Giant worms destroy a town in Nevada. That’s it, that’s the movie. It’s perfection. Starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, and Reba McEntire. Written by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock. Directed by Ron Underwood. Episode 255 - Tremors sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the kind of movie where if it bombs, this shit better get Iron Giant, Prince of Egypt levels of resurgence with how much those movies got pushed in the 2000s on TV and streaming
neutral · AI labelView post →The Soho Horror Film Festival returns for it's 9th year with their biggest ever lineup! Giant spiders, influencer cults, medieval puppets, vampire rappers, abusive magpies and LOTS of exploding penises. Dig in for the full details @ www.sohohorrorfest.com Tickets on sale now.
neutral · AI labelView post →#bales2026moviechallenge #filmsky 📽️ 29-1990-2010 film everyone should see Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
neutral · AI labelView post →The film world talk a lot about “Citizen Kane” being great, and it is terrific. But “Giant”, for its scope, pace, raw emotions, and varying themes, is truly amazing. It deserves more love, and I believe it rivals “Kane” as the best American film ever made. It’s an epic about being human.
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