Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness: Jack The Giant Killer Trailer

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Jack The Giant Killer Trailer

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6 comments:

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...: Saw that earlier today on Edi's Book Lighthouse. Have you ever seen the original? It's not good...; December 17, 2011 at 3:45 PM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: I researched the original and it didn't look good.; December 17, 2011 at 3:46 PM
Debra She Who Seeks said...: Hmmmm.; December 17, 2011 at 4:58 PM
Erik Johnson Illustrator said...: Every time I see a trailer for a new "Fairy Tale" movie, part of me dies inside, I think I flew off the handles enough already in the post with the Snow White trailer, but here I realized how unimpressed I was with the thing visually.

I remember over the summer I was re-watching "Aliens" for the third time in a week, and was overwhelmed by all the tiny little detail that went into the miniatures and the precise timing by the puppeteers require to work the enormous Queen, the stop motion technique used to move the Facehuggers and I thought to myself "Wow. Going to the movies was an experience back then!"

I don't feel that so much these days. I look at this trailer and say "Why are you trying to hide the giant? I know it'll be all CG, so where's the suprise?"

Some of my best friends are CG Animators and I know they work really hard so I don't want to put them down, and there are plenty of movies with amazing computer effects that still inspire awe in me, but I just can't get excited about this giant because I know its not real in even the slightest way.; December 17, 2011 at 6:13 PM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: ALIEN was such a seminal movie in my life. It was the first movie I ever took a girl too and it was the perfect choice even though I held onto her as much as she held onto me. I am wishing for big things from PROMETHEUS the alien 'prequel'. Ridley Scott doesn't make movies like this every decade. Good CGI will never replace a good story. They can enhance a bad story but will never replace it. AVATAR is a perfect example of that.; December 17, 2011 at 6:42 PM
Erik Johnson Illustrator said...: I was surprised to learn that there was an original from '62. I though "Oh, if this were made by someone like George Pal in in the '50s, I would love to see that". After thinking some more, I don't know if thats true.

Sure it would have been interesting to see the technical side of effects during that time, but looking back, movies like "War of the Worlds" and "The Time Machine" don't do it for me anymore because their scripts are built around spectacle that doesn't dazzle anymore because of age.

Something like Jaws, Alien, Jurassic Park, The Thing or Terminator 2 work when you have your effects heavy villain hidden for a long time, but its presence can be felt. If they can pull that off here, I think it might just past muster.; December 17, 2011 at 7:48 PM

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