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posted 10-03-2010 22:11

 
No, not some Sky sports hype about a BRC or RBC "Stupor Sunday", but the remake of the film.

Trailer here.

I know a lot of people are going to be nostalgic for the stop-motion work of Ray Harryhausen, but the effect look pretty cool, better than 10' blue people and their horse/anteater hybrids anyway.
I'm practically moist with anticipation.
 
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posted 11-03-2010 08:40

 
I'm a little curious, but I never thought the original was any great shakes anyhow, and I thought that while seeing it at a time when fairly young and still openly susceptible to geeky delights.

Christ, I'm getting old though. I'm looking at all these CGI-drenched eye-candythons and thinking meh. Visual effects technology has taken quantum leaps to the point where I don't know where pixels end and life begins, and I couldn't give a toss.
 
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posted 12-03-2010 01:32

 
Clash of the Titans might have been Harryhausen going out with a whimper, but the saving grace was the incredibly scary Medusa. The new film, however spectacular it is, will do well to make those scenes any better.
 
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posted 12-03-2010 02:45

 
Harryhausen high-points (for me):

    Mysterious Island
    Jason and the Argonauts


(I must admit that I only saw Clash of the Titans in the last few years, and it really seems weedy).
 
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posted 12-03-2010 08:33

 
Jason and the Argonauts is my personal favourite, containing high points where the phrase 'the dog's bollocks' could easily apply to any of the stop-motion animation sequences. Plus a superb Bernard Herrmann score. Remake at your peril (actually they did in a limp telly staging that adhered much more closely to the mythical tale than Harryhausen's family-fest, and was all the much glummer and lifeless for it. I gave up after 10 minutes).

Clash of the Titans might have been Harryhausen going out with a whimper, but the saving grace was the incredibly scary Medusa. The new film, however spectacular it is, will do well to make those scenes any better.

I'd forgotten to mention the Medusa sequence, so thanks for that. I dare say the remake will have some treats to commend it, but it's under the helming of Louis Letterier, whose Incredible Hulk offering remains polished, technically-assured yet empty, shallow tat.
 
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posted 12-03-2010 12:58

 
The scene in Jason and the Argonauts where Jason fights the skeleton army scared me shitless as a kid. It still holds up really well.
 
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posted 14-03-2010 00:51

 
Chosen by Nick Park as his favourite film sequence, Stumpy.
 
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