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by **Captain Genius** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:07 am

thank god

by **HellboyOne** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:14 pm

Bah! Bubo was one of my favorite bits of that movie when I was a kid. I hope he's in the remake, somehow.

by **Captain Genius** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:45 pm

Bubo, while a cute design, felt like it belonged in the Lou Ferrigno Hercules movies that would come out in the wake of Clash of the Titans.

Which I fucking love btw.

by **Lester Toil** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:41 pm

Ray Harryhausen's special effects in the original are MUCH more believable.

by **HellboyOne** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:30 am

Captain Genius wrote:Bubo, while a cute design, felt like it belonged in the Lou Ferrigno Hercules movies that would come out in the wake of Clash of the Titans.

Which I fucking love btw.

You don't make sense and must be destroyed.

by **RandyPanTheGoatBoy** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:26 pm

I'm always up for a fun fantasy flick, but fuck me, if that wasn't one of the most meatheaded, dumb, trailers I have ever seen... "Titans...Will...Clash". Really, Hollywood? In a film called "Clash Of The Titans"? Thanks for clearing that up for us. Jesus, do those muppets think the general public are as dumb as this trailer?

by **Captain Genius** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:39 pm

yes

yes they do

by **williambloke** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:21 pm

Exactly. How can you take mythology and giant monsters and make a movie that looks to be no fun at all?

The old movies, despite their flaws, were made with the best intentions.

I don't mind rock-n-roll Kelly, but couldn't they do better than prepackaged Garageband riffs?

by **HellboyOne** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:37 am

Shitty trailers are par for the course. Marketing people are shit.

by **Lester Toil** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:48 pm

Because I can.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FRnKu4FEr0[/youtube]

by **Charles at NC** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:45 pm

Meh

me thinks Ray Harryhausen's version is better

by **williambloke** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:47 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-r6YvB5vCI[/youtube]

by **Gibson89** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 1:59 pm

It looks good enough, but the thing is that it looks like they just borrowed a bunch of ideas from already existing movies. Off the top of my head, 300, Lord of the Rings, and the designs look like they were stolen from Guillermo Del Toro. The Del Toro part is just a tease, because if I had my say I'd have just really gotten him to do this movie.

by **steve-O** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:28 pm

So there's another trailer out that you've probably all seen already, but I'll post it anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpZ5D_Wc4cA&feature=fvw
I like it much better than the first.
Also, the new tagline -"Damn The Gods"- is much cooler than the insultingly dumb first one. Maybe I'll go see it now.

by **daniel cox** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:50 pm

I'm keen to see this

I'm sure like the rest of you, I've always had a list of projects that I would explore if I had access to George Lucas' goitre...and a remake of Clash would certainly be one of them.

Let me just first qualify that statement by saying that it would be through an absolutely desperate love of the original - both the amazing work of Mr. Harryhausen and the ridiculousness of Hamlin's scantily clad Perseus - that remaking this film wouldn't ever be about replacing it. That film was made then (1981), with that particular narrative thread and the back projection and optical effects that were available to the filmmakers then...and I love it.The craftsmanship of the Medusa sequence holds up as one of the classics in movie history...bravo Ray!

But seeing a new version of this story is a thrilling prospect. Leterrier certainly isn't my ideal director (his general filmic vision is much too stepped in a gritty,dirty city realism for my liking), but his work on Hulk was admirable, if flawed (his version of the Hulk, while much better than Lee's, was too real world with all the pitted skin and monstrous veins and they went from the day glo green of the first film to the overly desaturated in the sequel -- or pre-quel or whatever they called). That said, it had alot of great qualities and I enjoyed that film very much.

So all that said...I'm up for this. Going by that new trailer, Medusa certainly moves alot quicker in this film, and that's going to be interesting to see. The Kraken looks a little space alien for my tastes, but the scale is impressive. I don't remember seeing Calibos in the trailer, so perhaps they are holding back on him (since obviously they chose to show the Kraken to get bums on seats on opening day).

At any rate, I'm never one to discount a film based on a trailer so looking forward to seeing this in the theatre. It's not 3d, is it :wink:

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