Despite it's mega-budget and star roster, "Clash of The Titans" was Ray Harryhausen's least engaging effort IMHO. Will this one be an improvement?

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It looks great but I'm sad in a way. Mr. Harryhausen Made these pictures come to life, and to have them made in CGI is almost like a slap in his face.

It actually looks like quite an homage to his style--although I have to wonder why the trailer focuses so much on the scorpions, which was kind of the throwaway animation scene in the original.

The modern movie studios don't get it. We went to the SPFX type movies to see HARRYHAUSEN'S WORK. the live action actors were at best forgotten.

The modern movie studios don't get it. We went to the SPFX type movies to see HARRYHAUSEN'S WORK. the live action actors were at best forgotten.

The apparent absence of Bubo the R2-D2 Owl is enough to recommend this version over the previous one.

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I always thought Clash was one of his weakest efforts (although ironically the Medusa scene is one of the best animation scenes he ever did)--the actors weren't the problem, they were just ill-used. I would love to see a movie where the characters, story and acting were on the level of Harryhausen's animation set pieces. If the new Clash can achieve that I'm all for it. From the clip this actually looks more fun than Peter Jackson's King Kong.

Certainly looks good from that trailer.

Will this one be an improvement?



No it won't.

From the trailer it looks in terms of it's styling very much like 300. Which was OK for 300 but I hate it becoming a standard for mythical epics. I'd prefer a brighter, vibrant look for most of the movie and a more stylised look for specific scenes like the Stygian witches and Medusa.

Don't like the heavy metal soundtrack much either.

The effects look good, as much as they are shown in the trailer. I hope the script is decent.

I do hope it's not a heavy metal soundtrack--it doesn't look quite as artificial as 300 to me. Some of it actually looks like it was shot in daylight and not on a stage...

COTT was weak Harryhausen, true, but this..."re-imagining"...feh.

The apparent absence of Bubo the R2-D2 Owl is enough to recommend this version over the previous one.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2007/04/bubo41607.gif

Interestingly, Bubo wasn't animated by Harryhausen at all. Clash was the first film in which he used an assistant.

yeah ol' Bubo might have been lame but the Kraken more than makes up for it . :thumbsup:.
hb

Big year for greek mythos what with Percy Jackson leading the pack on Pres Day.

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The apparent absence of Bubo the R2-D2 Owl is enough to recommend this version over the previous one.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2007/04/bubo41607.gif

Maybe they'll come up with a different cute little sidekick named after a plague symptom.

Maybe they'll come up with a different cute little sidekick named after a plague symptom.

Hopefully not. Bubo was but one example of a horrible post-Star Wars mania which spawned the following subjects. We can only pray that we do not see their likes again:

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I'm just hoping someday Hollywood just might come up with a few original ideas...seems to me they spend too much time on remakes...that really didnt need to be remade, IMO..and when they do remake them...to me, they stink...:"lost in Space", War of the worlds, Etc..and the supposedly upcoming "forbidden planet"..why BOTHER wasting time and money on time proven classic movies??..arent these writers paid enough to come up with original ideas , instead of pulling original Ideas from previous classics?? ..baffles and bores me at the same time...

Z

..arent these writers paid enough to come up with original ideas , instead of pulling original Ideas from previous classics??
Z

Sadly, no. Because the movie-going public proves over and over again that it's not interested in "original" films.

Besides which, "Clash of The Titans" wasn't exactly an "original" idea the first time around.

And, as an experiment - try starting a thread on this board about a truly "original" film and see how long the thread lasts. :p

i'm sure that back in the 30's there were probably folks saying , why can't Hollywood come up with something original instead of making movies from these old gothic horror novels . :thumbsup:
hb

i'm sure that back in the 30's there were probably folks saying , why can't Hollywood come up with something original instead of making movies from these old gothic horror novels . :thumbsup:
hb

And I bet a few of them thought "Dracula (1931)" was just a ripoff of "Nosferatu (1922)".