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Anybody seen the original?

posted 11 years ago by deatman9
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Here is another remake big suprise eh? However I am 100% percent confident that this one will be superior. If you have seen the original you know its the worst piece of garbage ever made.

The special effects if you can call them that also known as claymation just makes it unwatchable. Throw in some over the top terrible acting and you got one hell of a turd.

So to all haters of remakes I am going to love to hear how you defend the original because I know lots will. Dont mention it was great for its time. Thats not a valid point.

Any other comments are more then welcome.

"Oh no you dont, THAT TRAMPOLINE IS MINE"!

[–] orchids-734-138671 11 years ago

Yes I did. It looked cool to a seven year old in 1964 but it does suck now. The trick these days is to make movies (and other things, ice cream for instance) as impressive as they were to us at a young age. Give the original (the original original, not the rerelease with the songs added) a break, medium grade stop motion animation for the time, not as good as Harryhausen or Willis O'Brien but good for little kids. Now let's see this new one and be little kids!

[–] volvorod 11 years ago

This is not really a remake of the old movie. This is only The Asylums try at fooling people that this is the new movie 'Jack the Giant slayer'.

If it says 'The Asylum', expect a crappy movie.

There are probably MUCH better effects in the original than this one...

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The remake of the old one is called 'Jack the giant slayer':
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1351685/?ref_=sr_1

[–] dreamstate123 11 years ago

Unbelievable that studios try this. Way to confuse the hell out of people and try to suck them into watching this. Good thing I download everything and never invest any money into the movie industry. Bite me hollywood.

[–] thepistols 11 years ago

I saw it as an eight yr old in the 70s and loved it. Thing is is this an actual remake of that one or does it just have the same name? Beanstalk???

[–] Maglir 11 years ago

The OP is confusing this movie with "Jack The Giant Slayer". This is just a typical Asylum production. It is not a remake of the 1960's movie, this doesn't even have giants in it, it has dinosaurs and robots and such. It's not set in medieval times either. They merely tacked on the "Jack" title to confuse people into thinking it's the new big budget remake.
And by the way, the animation technique used in the '60s film is
not "claymation". The animation used involves stop motion photography of articulated puppets,as used in films like "The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad". Claymation uses plain sculpted clay, like in "Gumby". These are two different, albeit similar things,both using stop motion photography.
I will not be defending the original film, since I'm not in the mood to take the bait and get into a fight.

[–] omendata 9 years ago

What a load of rubbish the original was a great movie and made in 1962 so the effects were of the era its a classic from the makers of the Sinbad Voyage series.

With top cgi effects available these days the remake could have been a hundred times better.

Besides the two movies are entirely different and set in entirely different locations so you arent really comparinglike for like.

Call me an old fart but i can still suspend belief and become one with the movie, something which folks like you dont seem to be able to do these days unless it has 100% cgi.