1 What the hell was the Kracken, anyway? Some sort of sea monster, I get it, but what kind?

2

Why this movie might actually be good

Umm, no. Nothing good about this movie-why? No Harry Hamlin in a loincloth.

3 I had the action figures.I shit you not.

4 If your date's gone well and you got the lady home, and you're about to seal the deal but you need to drop that lobster-dinner deuce first, excuse yourself quietly, and at the sound of the closing bathroom door, yell "UNLEASH THE KRAKEN!"

Always be closing.

5 Looks good, but I noticed a lack of clockwork owls.  Hopefully that will be fixed.

6 After all nothing says Greek mythology like a clockwork owl.

7 steevy at November 11, 2009 01:04 PM (XhRMg)

I dressed up like Andromeda

8 this movie will suck balls...hard. no matter how much cgi that is constantly shoved in my face i will never conceed it to be superior to ACTUAL fx (ray harryhausen[sp?] RIP), just ask yourself this: were the "effects" in the later star wars movies better than the earlier films? i have zero respect for cg and will be happy to see more people wake up and demand real artistry and innovation as it pertains to visual effects, sure it takes longer and requires real skill to pull off that type of effect but the payoff is far more realistic imo, as soon as i see some slick, shiny cgi "effect" i can't help being nostalgic and pine for simpler days, before fat slobs behind keyboards lazily mock up some supar-awesome monster that will "dazzle" everyone with its shininess, give me stop-motion ANYDAY/rant

9 Just found your blog on Big Government today and I really like it!  Great work.

I have a political blog of my own (rjmoeller.com), but I also do some stuff with the show LOST: http://johnlockespants.blogspot.com/

Anyway, keep up the great work. 

-RJ

10 CGI? I didn't need no god damned CGI.  Lazy sons of bitches. Gonna ruin my damn master piece. I hope that metal owl shits in your mouth.

11

i liked the original except for the owl from sharper image

my fav part was perseus looking at the medusa's reflection in his shield as they stalked each other

add some gratuitous nudity and the new flick will be a hit

12

excuse yourself quietly, and at the sound of the closing bathroom door, yell "UNLEASH THE KRAKEN!"

Alternatively, drive her out to the middle of nowhere, and tell her you're ready to move the relationship forward right now, or else you'd rather end it right there.

AIDA.

Attention: Do I have your attention? Interest: Are you interested? I know you are because it's fuck or walk.

13

Dating Advice: Pretty much why everyone comes here.

Epic Heh!

14 Ralph Fiennes took Maggie Smith's role?  Those crazy Greeks.

15

Hey, you're talking about the greek myth movie with the steampunk mechanical owl?

That was a great movie!

16 I hope in the remake they don't kill my favorite character.I forget his name but he was the commander of the soldiers that went with Perseus.I had the action figure.

17 I love the original. But I still think this is gonna be badass. Its gonne look double badass on blu ray.

18 what's on the slate for 2010, jason and the argonauts with some shiny-boned skeletons with uber-shiny sheilds/swords battling amongst some impeccably-rendered ruins that just happen to reflect everything with there awesome shininess, yeah i hate shiny things!

19

What the hell was the Kracken, anyway? Some sort of sea monster, I get it, but what kind?

It was a halibut in the original, but I think they'll CGI it as a Chilean sea bass in the remake.  Technology is amazing.

Of course, if aging lesbians John Cusack or Steven Seagal are involved, "Kraken" will be played by an evil oil company out to rape the pristine swamplands that Calibos calls home.

20 "Titans.  Will.  Clash."  Oh good god.  That's the best tagline they could come up with?  That does not fill me with hope. 

21 The whole owl thing was there for the toy line, and to give the movie its obligatory "R2-D2."

When Jon Peters was telling Kevin Smith what he wanted in a Superman Returns script, Peters kept insisting that Braniac (then the villain) have some kind of cute alien dog that he kinda hated, but would be "funny" as he drove Braniac nuts.

"I need my R2," Peters kept saying. For the Burger King toy promotion.

I just saw the incredibly awful GI Joe, and I gotta tell you, they had a really piss-poor script, made poorer by the fact that they were contriving different situations just to slip in additional vehicles. To make the toy line as large as possible.

22 I liked the original very much. A couple things I don't like with the trailer though.
Medieval armor on great gods? WTF? The robes are cooler and sexier.
The heroine was ridiculously HOT and in an old time way. Her coming out of that bath is seared into my friggin memory.
I don't want the updated skiny ass tough heroine, thanks.

and they better have the mechanical Owl. Completely wrong but so cool.

23 i weep when i think r2d2 actually had a real midget(small person?) inside of it once upon a time, if rotj were remade today just think of all the unemployed "small people", cgi is a job-killer!

24

Titans... Will...

Clash!

That alone makes me not want to see the movie. 

It's called Clash of the Titans. 

They sure as hell better be clashing, dammit. 

25 jake at November 11, 2009 01:19 PM (wlSqE)

It's a step up from Transformers 2, where the tagline was "Things go boom"

26

What the hell was the Kracken, anyway?

A giant octopus/squid type thing with tentacles.

The name gets tossed around alot though - sometimes it's like Cthulu and sometimes it's like Charybdis (a sea sarlac).

You may know this song, although it hasn't been sung in over a thousand years...

It's called.. Awaken, Awaken, Mustakrakish, The Lake Troll!

27 In one scene (IIRC), they're crossing the arctic for like five seconds in a large vehicle. For no good reason, the large vehicle spits out two smaller one-man vehicles to complete like the last 600 yards of the trip.

For. No. Reason.

And the shot was just a traveling shot. Lasted five seconds total.

Why the two new vehicles when the first vehicle was perfectly capable of moving an additional 600 yards? Toys.

That's kind of the least of that movie's problems but it's still rankling, to see the mercenary nature of the production so shamelessly in-your-face.

28 In the original, the "clash" was really anti-climactic. Medusa just mailed it in. Her body wasn't really into the performance.

29

The heroine was ridiculously HOT and in an old time way. Her coming out of that bath is seared into my friggin memory.

The both of us.  I remember screaming to my father in the theater that something was wrong with my wee-wee.

Ah, to be 18 again.

30 Judi Bowker as Andromeda, like you could forget. Kinda NSFW.

31

1 What the hell was the Kraken, anyway? Some sort of sea monster, I get it, but what kind?

A giant octapus-looking monster.  I thought the Kraken myths were more Norwegian and Scandi in nature, but they've make their way into several modern "Greek mythology" stuff like Clash of the Titans and God of War. 

I wonder if Harry Hamlin (the dude who played Perseus in Clash of the Titans) will make a cameo?

32

It's called Clash of the Titans. 

They sure as hell better be clashing, dammit. 

Actually, the original script called for a romantic comedy that included Medusa, the cheesemaker cyclops, the hydra and Chronos playing a 15 minute rendition of London Calling.

33 Hopefully the chick they get to play Cassopiea will be as hot as the one in the original.  There is no denying she was a babe.

34

#20.  "Titans.  Will.  Clash."  Oh good god.  That's the best tagline they could come up with?  That does not fill me with hope.

There's no damn Titans in either movie, so both the title and the lame tagline for the remake don't make any sense.  Now if say Atlas and Perses were attacking each other, then it's more appropriate to say it's a "Clash of the Titans". 

Lol on Ace bringing up TBS.  I remember seeing this movie played a lot on TBS, (but not on, alas, Skinemax), during the 90's, but I always caught the part right before Perseus cut off Medusa's head.

35 Bubo was also there to show off stop motion technique.  It was a cool effect. 

Good point on the R2-D2 comparison though.  If there is one thing I can't stand these days its the plucky droid saving the hero over and over, and in a sickeningly kid friendly way.  Bubo would almost certainly take that role in this movie and it would be annoying.

36 Well I believe they claimed the Kraken and medusa and gorgons were titans. I think they took the position that most of the monsters were "titans" from the old earth.

37

(ray harryhausen[sp?] RIP),

Happily, no need for RIP. Ray Harryhausen is still alive.

Wiki says he is, and Wiki wouldn't lie.

I'm a big Harryhausen/stop-motion fan and just rewatched Clash recently. I still enjoy it, despite its flaws. But this new one looks good, too. It might even get me into a movie theater. (Last film I saw in a theater was Peter Jackson's King Kong, so I'm not what you'd call a regular moviegoer.)

38

 I thought the Kraken myths were more Norwegian and Scandi in nature

No, they are. Kraken is norse.

But people use it as a name for Charybdis.

39 I like the movie before Clash of the Titans whose name I can't recall right now. Skeleton soldiers rising from the ground was pretty cool.

40

20 "Titans.  Will.  Clash."  Oh good god.  That's the best tagline they could come up with?  That does not fill me with hope

Titans.Will. Fluck. Chicken?

41 Sounds like either a Sinbad or Jason and the Argonauts.

42 Jason and the Argonauts.  yeah that's it.

43

Well I believe they claimed the Kraken and medusa and gorgons were titans.

I know the cheesemaker cyclops, and I believe the gorgons (and Medusa) were titans.

But the kraken (which isn't even greek) and hydras and crap are just monsters.

44

did y'all catch the gratuitous Sarah Palin reference on NCIS last night?

agents knock on door

response is shotgun blast thru the door

woman opens door holding shotgun

agent says "Who do you think you are? Sarah Palin?"

 

i mean, wtf?

45 I watched the trailer. Someone has played God of War a time or two, methinks. The original one was worth watching because it was the swan-song of Ray Harryhausen -- this CGI stuff will just be lame compared to the great stop-motion stuff of the immortal Ray.

46 The Kraken was already released...last November.

47 Titans. will. form. consensus. circles.

It could be worse.

48 yeah apparently harryhausen is still alive, i just assumed he was dead, he's friggin 89! wow! polynikes that was "jason and the argonauts", btw the new king kong flick sucked when compared to the 1933(?) original which incorporated very innovative special effects.

49 Bring on the Harpies, or am I thinking of Jason and the Argonauts?

50 27 The movie is based on a toy line.Still it was better in when the tie in was a comic book series(and a pretty lame cartoon,so lame me and my 10 year old friends made fun of it but wayched anyway).I remember seeing the comic GIJOE #1 my friend brought in to school.I managed to get it in trade and that Christmas was heavy on GIJOE as I recall.

51 The "Titan versus a Titan" thing was using the head of one titan (medusa) to turn to stone another titan (the kraken).

Yeah, the kraken doesn't belong here, but you guys are really overthinking "strict fidelity to shit that never, ever happened in the first place."

They also tossed in a bunch of things that Perseus didn't do, that other heroes did. I forget what was Perseus and what was others. Did Perseus have the pegasus, for example? I don't think he did; I think that was someone else.

52 I agree concerning the giant scropians. I think under agednaked boys would be more true to greek history and mythology.

53 49 Yeah that had the Harpies and the skeleton soldiers.They sell a DVD set of classic Harryhausen movies.

54 "Titans.  Will.  Clash."  Oh good god.  That's the best tagline they could come up with?  That does not fill me with hope. 

Posted by: jake at November 11, 2009 01:19 PM (wlSqE)

That's exactly what my husband said to me about the trailer last night.

55

In my movie Obama plays the role of Icarus.

56 51 The thing is way off on the mythology.I used to date a girl who knew her mythology and she shredded that movie.I thought it was fun anyway and I knew fuck all about Greek mythology at 8 or 9.

57
They also tossed in a bunch of things that Perseus didn't do, that other heroes did. I forget what was Perseus and what was others. Did Perseus have the pegasus, for example? I don't think he did; I think that was someone else.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2009 01:37 PM (jlvw3)

I think Perseus had the flying shoes.

58

Pegasus aided the hero Bellerophon in his fight against both the Chimera and the Amazons

 

but perseus did slay the medusa

59 I like the Sinbad movies better than Jason and the Argonauts, but I have that in my collection as well. Saw all those in the theatres when I was a youngin. I still think they rock.

60

>I think Perseus had the flying shoes.

with the Invisible Flying Wedge™

run faster jump higher

61

Yeah, the kraken doesn't belong here, but you guys are really overthinking "strict fidelity to shit that never, ever happened in the first place."

YES IT DID!

I believe in Homerian Creationism.

62 59 Sinbad was Muslim terrorist.

63 yeah I know he capped the medusa. But other parts of it were from other hero's stories.

I knew this stuff a lot better when I was a kid.

64

#51

Consulting with the unerring Wikipedia yields that Bellerophon used Pegasus to help him slay Chimera. 

65 Pelosi, Michelle, Hillary = Gorgan sisters?

66 The annoying thing about the movies/toy line nonsense is that they are marketing the toys to children too young to see the actual movies. Well, if their parents respect the ratings at all that is. I can't tell you the number of pissed off second graders I've encountered who were mad about seeing endless commercials for toys for movies they can't actually see--so why the heck would they ask for the toy? My son and his friends are very savvy young consumers.

67 46 The Kraken was already released...last November.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 11, 2009 01:34 PM (P33XN)

So then it's safe to assume Pelosi stood before Medusa at some point?

68

Yeah, the kraken doesn't belong here, but you guys are really overthinking "strict fidelity to shit that never, ever happened in the first place."

YES IT DID!

I believe in Homerian Creationism.

I take off all the mythical holidays from work.

69

I think Perseus had the flying shoes.

That was the god Hermes/Mercury.

70 65 Pelosi, Michelle, Hillary = Gorgan sisters?

The Stygian Witches

71 Or, if God of War is actually the correct version, I was given Pegasus by Gaia to help me enlist the aid of Typhoon and to get to the Island of Creation.

72 66 Well the old movie was a softish PG.Some violence and a chick in sheer outfits.

73
I knew this stuff a lot better when I was a kid.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2009 01:42 PM (jlvw3)

That's because if you know it as an adult you fail at life. Just sayin'.

74

#67  So then it's safe to assume Pelosi stood before Medusa at some point?

Yep, Medusa's gaze cannot turn to stone that which is already stone.

75

Well I believe they claimed the Kraken and medusa and gorgons were titans.

I know the cheesemaker cyclops, and I believe the gorgons (and Medusa) were titans.

But the kraken (which isn't even greek) and hydras and crap are just monsters.

Posted by: Entropy at November 11, 2009 01:33 PM (IsLT6)

Actually, the Titans were the precursors to the Greek Gods. They were essentially their parents. The Greek Gods overthrew them because they main titan king was eating his own children. Zeus managed to escape being eaten by his father because of intervention by his mother. Then he helped the other Gods escape his father's stomach and they had a big battle. The titans lost and were banished to the lowest level of the underworld, which is similar to our version of Hell.

The titans as portrayed in this movie are not the real titans. They're just the different monsters in Greek mythology.

76 And yes, I'm a total goober for knowing all that.

77 I look forward to the day when movie studios acknowledge the changing demographics of their ticket buying public and remake these classics with a cast entirely comprised of morbidly obese actors.  Maybe throw in a couple of retards.

78 If looking at Medusa gives you an erection lasting more than 4 eternities please consult Asclepius.

79 70 Yeah the witches scared me.I had the comic adaption too.I always used to get the comic adaptions of those movies.I still have BSG(the original bought on Ebay but I had it as a kid)and Blae Runner.

80 76 Did we used to go out?

81

  I look forward to the day when movie studios acknowledge the changing demographics of their ticket buying public and remake these classics with a cast entirely comprised of morbidly obese actors.  Maybe throw in a couple of retards.

 

Jason and the Forklift?

82 #75  God of War 2 cutscenes (Birth of Zeus and the Great War)!

83 Did we used to go out?

Posted by: steevy at November 11, 2009 01:48 PM (XhRMg)

Not likely. I'm a stay-at-home-mom. So when I'm not chasing my kid around or cleaning my house, I watch a lot of the History Channel.

84 Titans. Will. Clash.

Seriously? 'Cause in a movie called Clash of the Titans, that would totally blow my mind.

85 I also liked Piranha.

86

Actually, the Titans were the precursors to the Greek Gods. They were essentially their parents.

Yes, I know that.

The cheesemaker cyclops (and all cyclops) from the Oddessy were titans. Or the other children of titans (besides the Olympian gods).

I don't recall if the cyclops was in that movie or not. They all kinda blur. I like the old version of the Oddesy (or was it the Iliad?) the most.

87 Titans. Will. Clash.

Seriously? 'Cause in a movie called Clash of the Titans, that would totally blow my mind.

I think since it is the Pax Obama, the tag line should be , "Titans. Will. Negotiate."

88 83 Well it was like 10 years ago.

89

Titans.  Will.  Clash!

Titan 1:  Dude, what the hell are you wearing?
Titan 2:  Uhh, what does it look like to you?  Stripes, like we were told to...
Titan 1:  You idiot!  We are supposed to be in plaid!
Titan 2:  The hell...I heard stripes.  Since when were we moved to plaid?
Titan 1:  They sent out the memo yesterday.  Don't you ever check your t-mail?

90

88 83 Well it was like 10 years ago.

don't probe any further, one of her kids might end up being yours

91 I like the old version of the Oddesy (or was it the Iliad?) the most.

Sigh. Buncha damned philistines in this thread!

Iliad: Achilles/Siege of Troy.
Odyssey: Odysseus trying to get back home after the fall of Troy.

Neither story, BTW, bears much resemblance to the modern mythological mash-ups made of them. (Or maybe the Fagles translations left out the part where Odysseus fights off the animated skeletons while being menaced by giant scorpions while ogres threw boulders at him.)

92

The Greek Gods overthrew them because they main titan king was eating his own children.

That would be Chronos (father time).

Chronos himself overthrew his own father Uranus (the sky) who was keeping his own children imprisoned inside his wife (Gaia, the earth).

The cyclops were also the children of Uranus and Gaia, siblings to Chronos and uncles to Zeus.

93

I don't recall if the cyclops was in that movie or not. They all kinda blur. I like the old version of the Oddesy (or was it the Iliad?) the most.

Posted by: Entropy at November 11, 2009 01:51 PM (IsLT6)

I think it was the Oddessy. The Iliad was mostly about the Trojan war. Not nearly as much in the way of the Gods and monsters and such.

I know Medusa wasn't a titan, though. She was originally a virgin priestess to Athena (I think). Zeus basically raped her but Athena still took it as a personal affront and punished Medusa for it instead of blaming Zeus. Which turned her into a gorgon.

Jesus, I'm a dork.

94

(He'd been given Captain America's super soldier serum.)

Just like President Obama!

95

Iliad: Achilles/Siege of Troy.
Odyssey: Odysseus trying to get back home after the fall of Troy.

Were they actually 2 seperate movies? Or did they even do both? I don't think I saw the Iliad.

I know what Homer's stories are yes, but don't assume I'm assuming the movie version got any of it right.

Cuz I'm not.

96

#93 I know Medusa wasn't a titan, though. She was originally a virgin priestess to Athena (I think). Zeus basically raped her but Athena still took it as a personal affront and punished Medusa for it instead of blaming Zeus. Which turned her into a gorgon.

Zeus was a horndog, but wasn't it Poseidon that raped Medusa in the majority of the references?

97 I LOVED the original, this YARM looks great.
I also love the Voyage of Sinbad
battling skeletons and giant scorpions
some things never get old
my son loves them too

98

don't probe any further, one of her kids might end up being yours

Posted by: Ben at November 11, 2009 01:54 PM (wuv1c)

If that's the case then that's some super long-lasting sperm! My son is only two and I'm currently pregnant with number two. Been with my hubby for the last ten years, too. Plus, he's been my only partner ever, so unless I absorbed some of that super sperm via osmosis then I'm gonna have to stay with my answer of "not likely". Although I guess since we've learned this week you can get PTSD from osmosis, anything's possible, right?

99 90 That's what she said!!

100

I'm talking about this one

http://tinyurl.com/b6ll9k

I can't believe that 1997. Fun flick though.

101 entropy

my fave is athena the toothache birth

102

NERRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDS!!!!!!!!!!!

Of which I am proud to be a co-moron.

103

Zeus was a horndog, but wasn't it Poseidon that raped Medusa in the majority of the references?

Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at November 11, 2009 01:58 PM (9hSKh)

Yeah, you're right. It was Poseidon. It's hard to remember who seduced/raped who in Greek mythology. They were all so bad about it.

104 I'd like to think I have super sperm.I really would.

105

But the only remake you’ll be lining up to watch next year is Piranha*. That remake will star Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd, Eli Roth, Elisabeth Shue, Dina Meyer and Paul Scheer.

Oh, and Richard Dreyfus.

Piranha? Sounds more like Night of the Living Dead Acting Careers.

I would still hit Shue though, hard.

106

#103  Yeah, you're right. It was Poseidon. It's hard to remember who seduced/raped who in Greek mythology. They were all so bad about it.

Indeed.  I'm hoping Poseidon is a boss in GoW3.  I know Hades is. 

107 105 Dina Meyer is totally hot.Love the redheads...

108 I'd like to think I have super sperm.I really would.

[STEEVY enters the Hall of Justice. BATMAN and SUPERMAN look up and notice the new-comer.]

BATMAN (sotto voce): Who's the new guy?
SUPERMAN (shrugs): New recruit. We need all the help we can get against the Legion of Doom.
BATMAN: Yeah, but...well, he doesn't have a costume or wings or lightning bolts or any shit like that. He's not even armed. He's just, you know, some guy. WTF?
SUPERMAN: You should see his sperm!
BATMAN: (Edges away from Superman.)

109

my fave is athena the toothache birth

Athena's name was originally called Pallas. Pallas Athenae, Pallas of Athens.

110

Holy commentary, Batman!

Cheesy?  The orignal was great!  First time I ever saw boobies and ass - and what a set they were!  *Sigh* Judie Bowker.

 

It actually is pretty dramatic when Perseus is racing against time at the end to save her.

111 I just liked the steampunk owl.

112 In 1980 I was 16 and a pathetic nerd, so I almost certainly saw it, and it had that hawt english chick as the love interest, so...Oh, yeah, NOW I remember.

113 I liked the original as well.  This looks like it my be pretty good but the trailer didn't show who the obligatory babe was.

Please let it not be a totally hot babe that they have to keep covered up because she has a mess-o-ugly tats.

114 63 yeah I know he capped the medusa. But other parts of it were from other hero's stories.

I knew this stuff a lot better when I was a kid.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2009 01:42 PM (jlvw3)

Well, then you had to know it for Dungeons and Dragons cred.

115

The heroine was ridiculously HOT and in an old time way. Her coming out of that bath is seared into my friggin memory.

The both of us.  I remember screaming to my father in the theater that something was wrong with my wee-wee.

 

It's okay son. There was something wrong with mine too.

116 114 The cool thing about D&D was it borrowed from every mythology for source material.

117 Well, plus Deities and Demigods had all teh hot naked chicks in it.

118 Was the second Hulk film worth seeing?I tried to watch the Ang Lee "Brokeback Hulk"and couldn't get through it.

119 They need to remake Conan the Barbarian, but this time staring Shia LeBouff.

120 I believe in Homerian Creationism

Banned!

121 The cool thing about D&D was it borrowed from every mythology for source material.

Oh, that was the cool thing.  I always thought it was the rejection and ridicule of your peers, all-male bonding time and fantasy creation of a heroic alter-ego to replace the crushing scorn of reality.

122 119 As much as I like Millius that was not his best work.He screwed up the Conan mythology,Conan was never anyones slave.Plus what was with the friggin blondish hair?Everyone know's Conan had raven black hair was there no dye??

123 121 Well,there was some of that...

124

I have an important question for Mr. Monty.

Does Batman, in your fanfic up there, actually say the letters Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, or does he say the words which you have chosen to paraphrase / sanitize with the aconym?

125 "Pirahna" made trips to pet stores that much more exciting--glad I've only seen it as a kid.

DON'T BANG ON THE GLASS!!

As far a CGI goes, I like getting surprised that it was used, instead of grumbling about how fake it looks. That happened when I saw the "making of" clips from "Castaway", when he looked over the cliff, the shore/ocean is all CGI green screen. Nifty!

126 If Monty makes Batman say "double-u tee eff?" I'm going to mail him envelopes full of baking soda.

127 108 I would need wonder Woman or Power Girl(Supergirl?) to help me use my powers...

128 >>>Was the second Hulk film worth seeing?I tried to watch the Ang Lee "Brokeback Hulk"and couldn't get through it.

Yes, it was completely different and simply better on every conceivable level. I don't even like The Hulk. But it was fun and smart throughout.

I did a review, somewhere.

129 128 Hulk was never one of my favorites either.

130 This took me a few hourse to make, but I'm pretty proud of it.

131 Blegh.  Why is Hollywood just remaking old movies and recycling old storylines and scripts?  Where are the original movies?

132 119 They need to remake Conan the Barbarian, but this time staring Shia LeBouff.

Please dont give Hollywood any ideas.

133 Alexa Davalos plays Andromeda in this one.

134 I remember the Piranha in the movie were created by the US Government for use in Vietnam.To take away the use of the Mekong Delta.Somebody stumbles onto the old facility and turns a valve emptying the holding tank into the river.I bet the remake will be A.Evil corporation develops them for ??? and profit B.Government to use in WoT how?? C.AGW or Climate change causes Gaia to strike back at humanity with deadly fish D.All of the above

135 \sockpuppet

136 Entropy - A big box 'o cat crap.

137 steevy - I though Gaia already wrought her vengeance upon us in Day After Tomorrow and Deep Impact.

138 137 Yeah and that movie by Shamalama where the plants make us commit suicide.It's been done but you can never have too many apocolyptic events happen to evil humanity.

139 The trailer's kind of typical, but that music really needs to go.

140 The trailer's kind of typical, but that music really needs to go. Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Agreed. It sucked balls. Titan balls.

141 Ah...movies...Greek mythology...nerds...

I should hang out more.

Hated the original because of its lack of fidelity, cute owl and--nobody's mentioned this--the fact that the Kraken, the Big Freakin' Finale Big Boss Monster, was a freakin' guy in a freakin' rubber suit.

Where's your stop-motion now, scarecrow?

142 Mmmm Alexa was freakin hot in Chronicles of Riddick.

143 Also, Pirahna was a satirical take on Jaws, scripted by Indie-before-it-was-cool John Sayles and Joe "Gremlines" Dante.

It was remade in the '90s as part of the "Roger Corman Presents" series on Showtime, with William "Greatest American Hero" Katt.

For myself, I can't watch Dante since his leftwing diatribe on "Masters of Horror".

144

And here I thought this thread would veer in McNair territory at some point. Oh wait...

145

 But, still and all, giant scorpions are pretty unimaginative monsters, and aren't particularly unique to Greek mythology.

Have we become so jaded that giant scorpions don't thrill us anymore?

 

146

LEAVE THE OWL ALONE!

He was the best damn character in the whole show!

 

Seriously how cool would it be to have a mechanical owl...

147 Giant scorpions are great, nothing like saying "in trouble now" like a hostile arthropod the size of a compact car. But if they want to impress me I'd like to see them top the lamia-style Medusa created by Harryhausen. And stop bad-mouthing the owl, he had more persona and acting ability than Surfer Perseus.

So, the the dedicated remake squad finally got around to Pirahna, huh? No surprise, they've re-made just about everything else right now. The movie will still suck in cheap CG the same way it sucked with cheap models the first time around.  

148 I'm one of the few that actually liked the first Hulk movie.

149

LIAM NEESON, people!!!  That might just be enough for me to actually go to the movie.

 

Sigh.......  Lurve him.

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 Yeah that had the Harpies and the skeleton soldiers.They sell a DVD set of classic Harryhausen movies.

Own it, along with "Clash" and "Golden Voyage of Sinbad."  Ray rules.

His version of the Kracken looked an awful lot like his alien from "20 Million Miles to Earth."

152

I just saw a commercial.

They're now remaking the TV series The Prisoner.

153

They're now remaking the TV series The Prisoner.

Staring Shia Lebouf.

154

Staring Shia Lebouf.

I thought it was Jim Caviezel.

155 add some gratuitous nudity and the new flick will be a hit

Posted by: Jones at November 11, 2009 01:14 PM (KOkrW)

Could be mixing it up with another Greek mythology movie, but as I recall, the first one was PG, but actually had a very brief female nude scene. I remember because I was in grade school at the time, and this was therefore the the most awesome thing I had ever seen in my sad lonely life.

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