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Clash Of The Titans Trailer looks baddass!

boohoo said:
My sister met Ray HarryHausen the other month. I am soooooooo jealous.
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Reno said:
He once gave a lecture at the studio I was working at at the time and I got to fondle his Medusa. :cool:
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I saw him do a lecture once too - he brought a skellington from Jason and the Argonauts with him.

He reminded me of Grandpa Simpson a bit. 'When I was making Mighty Joe Young we didn't have all these computers, we made all our models from dust and rainwater...'
 
AverageJoe said:
Premier tonight. They have turned Leicester Sq into a ruined temple!
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Fuck it, if I'd known earlier I would have gone and had a look during my lunch break. Still annoyed at Warner for pulling the print of the orignal from the PCC :mad: They were going to have a Jason/Titans double and it was going to be fucking awesome :mad: :(
 
go after work. It starts at 6 and they have bult a tunnel for commuters to get through (the red carpet is raised through the temple and into teh Empire with a tunnel to walk under. The rigger I was talking to said it was the first time he had seen a premier do that
 
I have a ten year old kid who is chaffing at the bit to watch this movie. His enthusiasm reminds me of my enthusiasm for star wars all those years ago.
 
If you go, don't see it in 3D - it's annoying and crap. Apparently it was filmed in standard 2D and "3D-ified" afterwards. Mostly there's almost no 3D apart from stupid shit like having the back of people's hair appear a bit further away, so it looks like they're standing in front of a hair cutout. I have no idea what was going through their heads there. There's maybe one bit where the 3D even slightly improves it (in the Medusa scene) and it's irritating for the rest of the time.

Edit: I went to the press screening last night, a friend had some tickets.
 
The 3D for Alice in Wonderland was appalling and that was a late conversion too.

On a different note, I just don't get the appeal of Sam Worthington. Every few years some non-descript actor gets hyped as the next big thing, stars in just about every blockbuster going and then drops out of the spot light (also see Colin Farrell, Orlando Bloom, Matthew McConaughey etc...)
 
I would say Colin Farrell has more too him than the others cited, but I would agree on the Worthington bemusement :confused: Fuck it, even McConaughey has a certain charm, there's a glint of personality there, I really haven't seen it from Worthington.

That said, I've only seen him play a cyborg and a big blue monster :D
 
He's okay in this though as you say fairly non-descript, but his accent's all over the shop - Irish, American, Australian, wtf man, at least stay consistent in the same sentence.

I don't find him actively annoying like, say, Jason Statham.
 
Lord Camomile said:
I would say Colin Farrell has more too him than the others cited, but I would agree on the Worthington bemusement :confused: Fuck it, even McConaughey has a certain charm, there's a glint of personality there, I really haven't seen it from Worthington.

That said, I've only seen him play a cyborg and a big blue monster :D
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Yup, he's just so bland and non-decript. It makes me wonder what everybody sees in him to cast him as the lead in just about every blockbuster going. The only thing I'd seen him in before his sudden Hollywood stardom was as crocodile bait in the Aussie monster movie Rogue, where he wasn't even the male lead.
 
All the fast editing and camera is rubbish regardless of 3D. I hate the idea that seems to appear in lots of action films with CGI that if you have lots of really fast-moving shit going all over the screen unpredictably while you're zooming through a scene, that's like really good. No it isn't! It's just confusing and boring. Yeah, we know, you can throw a shitload of polygons around, you have lots of computers.

The chase scene where he's going through the streets of Argos on Pegasus being chased by bat demon things, and then later on through the kraken's tentacles, is just dull - the only good bits are when one of the bat demon things hits something and falls to the ground because it stops moving then.

Also Liam Neeson is complete crap in it. He has absolutely zero gravitas, he's just playing his Star Wars role again, he even has almost the same facial hair. He certainly doesn't carry off a character who is supposed to be the sort of mass-murdering rapist that you end up respecting somehow. Ralph Fiennes isn't too bad as Hades, but it's mostly a Saruman-ish "I am a proper actor but I need the money so here's a villain" performance. Doesn't chew the scenery that well.

The Madusa scene is way better than the Harryhausen though. The Harryhausen Medusa was embarrassing even back then.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
If you go, don't see it in 3D - it's annoying and crap. Apparently it was filmed in standard 2D and "3D-ified" afterwards. Mostly there's almost no 3D apart from stupid shit like having the back of people's hair appear a bit further away, so it looks like they're standing in front of a hair cutout. I have no idea what was going through their heads there. There's maybe one bit where the 3D even slightly improves it (in the Medusa scene) and it's irritating for the rest of the time.

Edit: I went to the press screening last night, a friend had some tickets.
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Thanks for the tip. I am going on monday with my son. 2D it is then. still my kid is going mental for it and it appeals to me as someone who remembers the original.
 
Just been to see this because kick ass was sold out - it was utterly shit, no redeeming features whatsoever, none...

If you've got to take a kid then I guess the best thing to say about it is that you'll manage to fit in a nice little snooze....
 
I'm not impressed by the trailer.
Trying too hard, too much going on...
Won't waste time and money to watch it in cinema.
 
We didn't expect much so really enjoyed it:)

They didn't mess with the story too much and Sam Worthington is actually quite watchable.
It does suffer from the LOTR effect with too much fast action and big stuff so you lose interest in the big fight scenes and stuff, but on the whole looked fab and whipped along at a fair old pace.

Loved the giant scorpion caravan :cool:
 
I watched it and preferred the older version, at least that one had me on the edge of my seat. I was expecting a few jumps especially in '3D'. I spent most of the time trying to work out what was actually 3D, taking the glasses on and off to see if there was any difference. I did see a few bits that were, but would have enjoyed it more if I had just watched it as a film without much expectation. I actually thought 80s 3D beat this version.
Maybe different people see more 3D though as my other half saw lots more 3D than me in the scorpion fight and the Medusa bit, where I didn't see any. I can't see those magic eye things either :confused: wonder if that has anything to do with it?
I liked the Kraken and Medusa monsters anyway, they were quite well done. I should have seen it in 2D really as the 3D didn't add a lot. The end was cheesy and I wasn't massively impressed by the acting. I'd give it 6/10.
 
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