Is the new Clash of the Titans going to be good or bad?

[Cant trust em]

[Cant trust em]

1. I just watched the original, and it's really good.

There's some good tension in it and I like the interaction between the gods.

The new one just looks like a crappy CGI monster movie. Another triumph of technology over story telling.

[Forkboy]

2. One reviewer said Harryhausen's FX in the original were cheesy....

*sigh*...the guy was a master of stop motion, and they're being called cheesy by the vapid CGI swilling audiences of today. I'm hoping the movie is better than her review. :)

[NewJeffCT]

20. He was a master of stop motion

but, Clash of the Titans was post Star Wars & Empire Strikes Back, so it was behind the times FX wise. I still loved the original, though.

[Forkboy]

24. I know, it was a dying art.

But damn, he was amazing. That might be the toughest type of FX work to do (Toho wanted to use stop motion for Godzilla, but they had neither the budget nor the talent). Harryhausen was always amazing, from Jason and the Argonauts to 20 Million Miles To Earth and Clash of the Titans. I don't mind that people are moving on, but calling it "cheesy" is a damn travesty. Might as well say Willis O'Brien's work on the original King Kong was cheesy. x(

And fucking Valley of the Gwangi!!!!!!

[Jade Fox]

27. me too

[Lance_Boyle]

3. Doesn't matter if the movie sucks or not. The new Andromeda won't be as hot

as Judy Bowker was in the early 80s.

[CBGLuthier]

15. Watched the ending the other day on TCM. Had forgotten the partial nudity she did.

Always forget just how much nudity there is in that movie.

[NewJeffCT]

19. I was like 14 when that movie came out

so, that side glimpse of her breast & nipple made quite an impression on me back then... I've had the hots for her ever since.

[Moondog]

4. I'm trying to think of a remake, any remake that

was better than the original. There must have been one sometime ....

Anyway, the original was fine. And as another poster points out, any actress playing Andromeda is going to suffer by comparison to the original - that was a truly lovely woman.

[redqueen]

6. John Carpenter's The Thing

I thought it was better.

[Forkboy]

7. Not only better, the best horror film of all time, imho.

And I love the original.

[TommyO]

8. John Carpenter's, "The Thing" is one of those rare things

It's a great movie, and far surpasses the original. I watch it once a year, religiously, on the first snow day of the season.

[Forkboy]

9. I'm good for at least once a year myself.

When I got a DVD player it was the first DVD I bought (though to be fair that's only because the original Gojira wasn't on DVD yet ;) )

[redqueen]

10. I love it...

but The Exorcist gets my pick for best. That movie still gets under my skin.

[Forkboy]

21. That's not a bad pick at all.

When that came out I was only 6. At the time I had a babysitter who had seen it, and we were watching the Bionic Woman a year or so later (sue me lol), and there was a scene where they ripped off The Exorcist and the whole bed shaking scene. My babysitter, who had seen The Exorcist, freaked out so bad my mother had to come home from work. I hadn't seen The Exorcist, so I'm like "Why is my babysitter shitting Twinkies over The Bionic Woman?". Funny night...for me at least. My poor babysitter was traumatized, and a rare time when it wasn't my fault (I got stories about her not wanting me to watch The Night Stalker because I wouldn't go to bed alone after it....fucking McGavin!)

As for The Thing...I think it's pure brilliance. The original story it's based on (Who Goes There?) is very ahead of it's time in some ways. It goes into DNA and genetics long before we really understood them. The original is a fantastic movie (one of the first to use overlapping dialog), but they couldn't stay true to the novella, probably due to both budget and, more likely, the constraints on FX skill and technology at the time.

The remake wasn't constrained at all, and was able to stay a lot closer to the novella than the original. In the remake, it's not so much the alien that's the trouble as the paranoia it creates among the scientists. Suddenly you can't trust your best friend. All norms are instantly broken down as soon as they realize this alien can take on the form of any of them. The paranoia almost becomes a character unto itself, right to the last frame when Kurt Russell and Keith David share the drink as the camp burns and death awaits. Even at the end of the flick you STILL don't know for sure.

Add to this some of the best dialog in any movie ever ("Now if you don't mind, I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!"), and Rob Bottin's still jaw dropping FX work (I honestly have yet to see better within the context of a movie, almost 30 years later) and you have a masterpiece. Forget Halloween, this is Carpenter's most mature and well thought out film by far. Halloween is a standard slasher movie and hardly fresh, despite it's newness to many non-horror fans at the time (Dario Argento had been doing this shit for a decade, and Mario Bava even longer).

The Thing is the shit, and I'm still waiting for a horror movie that brings so many different elements into one film as well as that one did.

But The Exorcist is a great choice, and has to be mentioned in any serious top 5 list of horror flicks. :thumbsup:

[redqueen]

25. Hah, yeah, the testing scene.

There are so many good scenes in that movie. Now I want to see it again. :)

[Forkboy]

26. And how many movies can you say Wilford Brimley rules in?

"You guys think I'M crazy! Well, that's fine! Most of you don't know what's going on around here, but I'm damn well sure SOME of you do! You think that thing wanted to be an animal? No dogs make it a thousand miles through the cold! No, you don't understand! That thing wanted to be US!"

I love when he tells Kurt Russell that he's all better now and doesn't want to hurt anybody anymore...with a noose hanging in the background.

Classic flick, I tells ya! :D

[CBGLuthier]

16. The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart was the third version.

So it does happen.

[NewJeffCT]

18. And, the Bogart "Falcon" is pretty highly regarded

if I remember correctly.

[Forkboy]

23. "You won't need much of anyone's help. You're good."

:)

[caitxrawks]

5. oh i'm so excited for it.

I've been looking forward to it for months.

[Burma Jones]

11. The original is one of the best bad movies ever

I doubt the new one will be nearly as interesting.

And I gotta agree about the original Andromeda, she was hawt.....

[PassingFair]

12. "Release the Cracken!"

This is said around here whenever my 14 year old
bends over in her skinny jeans.

:rofl:

[charlie and algernon]

13. Careful, this question was last asked about Avatar on DU

and it went on to get $2 BILLION.

Clash has taken the Avatar 3D flag and is running away with it. In fact in every trailer, the 2D versions are just mentioned as an after thought.

[MrSlayer]

14. Looks like it's going to be good.

This is one of those movies that will benefit heavily from the new technology. The original effects just don't stand the test of time. Though I do think the original Andromeda (Judi Bowker) was better looking than the current. I might actually go see this.

[TheMightyFavog]

17. If it don't have the crappy Ray Harryhausen Specail Effects, it Ain't Clash of the Titans.

End of fucking line.

[hedgehog]

22. I have to say, one scene in the trailer brought up an unfortunate memory