This to me is a good thing:
Harry Potter 3D release cancelled, says Warner Bros
The studio said it could not complete the 3D conversion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 in time for its 19 November UK and US release date.
Note: “3D conversion.” Which means the movie was not meant to be 3D in the first place. Personally I’ve little enough use for 3D; I’ve seena number of movies in both 3D and 2D, and honestly can’t really see much value in the 3D versions. Might be a matter of taste, or it might be a matter of depth perception, I can’t say. But as minimally beneficial as 3D was to movies like Avatar which were meant from the beginning to be 3D, the 3D in movies like “Clash of the Titans” which were 3D conversions of standard 2D movies was just a complete waste of effort, time and money, IMO.
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Animated 3D is gorgeous.
3D with live people is… not quite there yet.
Damn! And I was so looking forward to seeing the cast run through that 3D woodchipper.
Critics who saw “Clash Of The Titans” in 3D said it was unintentionally quite amusing in a horrible sort of way.
Not only were the battle scenes so screwed up in perspective that you couldn’t tell what was going on, but apparently in one scene Perseus does a sharp turn while riding Pegasus, and his hair extends halfway through the theater. 😀
You know, there were a lot of Harryhausen films you could re-do, so why pick that one, which was one of his weakest efforts?
I hated that mechanical owl in the original; Athena deserved better than that.
You re-do “The Seventh Voyage Of Sindbad” with top-notch special effects – now that would kick ass.
> in one scene Perseus does a sharp turn while riding Pegasus, and his hair extends halfway through the theater.
That’d be a neat trick… Perseus is essentially bald.
> I hated that mechanical owl in the original
Then you’ll be thrilled that he makes an appearance in the new one. And promptly gets tossed.
>re-do “The Seventh Voyage Of Sindbad”
Well…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636629/
BTW, everybody’s favorite one-trick-pony – George Lucas – is going to re-release the whole “Star Wars” saga in 3D, and based on the horrible added Jabba footage in “A New Hope” this could also be a laugh riot to watch.
Peter Jackson filmed the entirety of all three parts of LOTR in digital format, so that could be converted to 3D far more successfully… and that would _really_ be something to see in 3D, as even in 2D that set the bar far higher*, the way “Jurassic Park” did for CGI.
*Back when people were going bonkers about the Battle Of Helm’s deep in “The Two Towers” the crew working on “The Return Of The King” were snickering and saying “You think that’s really impressive, huh? Well, there’s going to be these big elephants, and these Nazgul riding around on winged critters like Stuka dive bombers, and really big battering ram, and a whole shitload of catapults…and a spider with a stinger in its ass” 😀
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“That’d be a neat trick… Perseus is essentially bald.”
I’ve never seen the new one (I sort of regret spending the ticket money to see the old one to tell you the truth, ranking it right up there with “The Black Hole” from around the same time.), so can only repeat what I’ve read on “Rotten Tomatoes”.
However, it is nice to hear that Bubo the mechanical owl is burning down in Tartarus with Boxy’s Daggitt.
You ever want to see how to do Greek mythology, catch this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_%28TV_miniseries%29
That came as one of the most pleasant surprises of my entire life; I’d seen some stills of the cyclops and was expecting a disaster area… instead I got something that was even better than Harryhausan’s “Jason And The Argonauts”.
And they didn’t even cop out on the ending; he and Telemachus start nailing everyone in sight to the walls, pillars, and doors with arrows and spears, so that they all end up just the way he promised them around a minute before: “…and for that you are all going die in a river of blood”.
You could sense the spirit of Robert E. Howard hovering over the set and urging them on. 😉
BTW, knowing how much you like Norse mythology, have you seen the Asgard set out of the new “Thor” movie?:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pb2vMIsRP8Q/TEzzfrQcNiI/AAAAAAAAAy8/hgAhuCeppTs/s1600/Thor+Hall+of+Asgard.jpg
Now that, by the gods, is how you do Odin’s throne… and look – Huginn and Muninn – Odin’s ravens, are there.
It would be fun to know who the other gods in the image are.
Ugh. Ridiculous ostentatiousness. Not at all what one imagines the Odin of the Norse (as opposed to “the Odin of Marvel Comics”) to surround himself with. And the god at far left with the ridiculous horns is Loki.
And, yes, the Odyssey miniseries kicked substantial ass. It and “Gullivers Travels” were both quite impressive.
Busby Berkeley would love that set. It looks like something out of “Lost Horizon.”
Hey, he’s king of the Norse gods – you expect him to have some sort pre-fab build-it-yourself throne by IKEA?
If that’s the case, it’s no wonder that Fenris Wolf and The Midgard Serpent thought that they could kick these bastard’s asses.
Let’s face it; they can make a rainbow bridge and a longship that you can fold up and stick in your pocket. Making a cool looking throne room is probably not beyond their abilities. 🙂
Loki’s helmet is portrayed the exact same way it was in the Thor comic books, and I don’t remember ever reading he _didn’t_ have a cool helmet in the Norse myths, which would indeed fit in with his vanity and ego.
I’ve got a illustration of an ancient piece of Norse/Germanic art around here somewhere showing two shamans in side-view kneeling down before a “something” between them, and wearing helmets that look just like that …which I assume is where Marvel got the idea from.
They look male in that scene, but what would be really cool would be if that double line of guards were Valkyries.
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“And, yes, the Odyssey miniseries kicked substantial ass. It and “Gullivers Travels” were both quite impressive.”
Yeah, Armand Assante _ruled_ in that part and that’s the only time Athena has gotten her justice on film.
For a fun trivia challenge, figure out who all the gods and godesess are in this still from “Jason and The Argonauts”:
http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Argonauts3.jpg
Left to right: Poseidon, Hephaestus (?), Ares, Aphrodite, Zeus, Apollo, Hades(?), Hermes, Hera, and “god X”.
Though not shown in that still, Athena is also in the scene.
One reason that the movie worked so well as that the scriptwriter had a doctorate in Greek mythology, which explains why Heracles was portrayed so well.
> he’s king of the Norse gods – you expect him to have some sort pre-fab build-it-yourself throne by IKEA?
Actually, something like that would be appropriate. Or the Captain’s Chair from the Enterprise. Odin is a god with a job, not a “sit on high and act like a jouvenile jackass” god. When odin went out and about, he typically looked like either a beggar or a random wanderer. A one-eyed Gandalf the Gray.
Baldur and Loki moight well go out of their way to look ostentatious, but the likes of odin and Thor were more interested in practicalities.
> Making a cool looking throne room is probably not beyond their abilities.
Remember, “they” *didn’t* build the cool stuff. Mostly that was the dwarves. The Aesir used rather a lot of contract labor.
In any event, the Aesir depicted in the Marvel universe are not the same Aesir from Norse lore. IIRC, the Marvel “back story” has Ragnarok having occured in the past, with the Norse gods being wiped out, and a whole new set of more or less unrelated gods with the same names and general characteristics arising to take their place. Thor in Marvelverse is beardless and blond; Thor in Norseverse is a bearded ginger. I’m not overly aquainted with the Marvel Thor, but he doesn’t seem to come across as a blue-collar sort of guy, while the Norse Thor was indeed very much a Regular Guy… just a sorta overpowered regular guy who loved wenching and drinking and barfights. And didn’t at all approve of people playing pranks on his wife.