[Frank J Manrique]

Both DVD Empire and Amazon.com have announced pre-order availability of Clash Of The Titans (August 6, 2002), a fantasy film that is high on many movie buff's list, including mine; have ordered a copy from DVDE already!


Unfortunately, technical information anout the DVD transfer given by both retailers is rather skimpy, relegated to simply stating the transfer will be anomorphic and with an aspect ratio of 1:85:1 ("flat"); no mention as to what the soundtrack will be was given.


Here again, I just want an image that's EE and other video-derived artifacts free as possible, clearly detailed and sharp as the format allows.

A well mixed soundtrack in 5.1 would be the icing on the cake too!...


-THTS

 

[Larry Davis]

Hi Frank,


The good news is it's from Warner, so it may have a very good looking transfer.

 

[Mister E Man]

That's very good news! I can't wait.


This movie is still amazing to me.

 

[Art Sonneborn]

Frank,

Sounds like good news so please fill me in before I buy This, I think, represented the pinnacle of stop motion animation. I remember seeing the trailer for this film at the theater before it's release and getting an epinephrine rush from the anticipation.

Art

 

[Digital Howie]

I'm also really excited about this. Yet another title to soon cross off from the top of the waiting list.


I think I'll have to watch this one alone...my wife still thinks Harry Hamlin is a hunk!


Howie

 

[Frank J Manrique]



Originally posted by Art Sonneborn:


"This, I think, represented the pinnacle of stop motion animation."

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And Harryhausen's last film, I believe...


-THTS

 

[Frank J Manrique]

Originally posted by Larry Davis:


"The good news is it's from Warner, so it may have a very good looking transfer."

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Yes, WB will be the "culprit" in bringing us this tittle.


COTT (love it! ) exhibited quite a bit of film grain in original theatrical prints; that was true when I first saw the flick when it first came out...and remained so even up to fairly recently (a few years back anyway) when I viewed it again on 35mm at a private exhibition.

Btw, the widescreen LD transfer shared much of that "problem" too.


This had to present quite a transferring challenge for telecine operators and authoring techs, so let's hope the DVD visual PQ results exceed in quality those from previous video transfers...


-THTS

 

[Shaded Dogfood]

pinnacle of stop motion animation


Nah... Jason. Talos, the Hydra, the skeletons. And a Bernard Herrmann score! 7th Voyage of Sinbad my runner up.

King Kong, of course, is in a class by itself.

Titans... I don't know. Pegasus didn't look good (mammals are extremely difficult to animate; to my mind only Kong and Son of Kong looked good) the Kraken looked bad, the owl was R2D2 cutesy-poo. Undistinguished to poor performances from all, even Olivier (but that is to be expected in Harryhausen films). Medusa was pretty sharp, however.

 

[Art Sonneborn]

Dogfood,

You may be right, Jason may be better but certainly this is right up there. I have both on LD and Jason on DVD( had to have it right away and one that I watch over and over) and on my " classic list".

Art

 

[rhett7660]

Yes...I love this movie........Can't wait.


R~

 

[videonut]

You can see "Clash Of The Titans" in widescreen at 4pm on Saturday, May 25 on TCM.

 

[Mattman]

Some DVD's have alternate endings. Wonder if the y could come up with a way to release them with alternate actors?

 

[DFletcher]

Actually, wouldn't "Chicken Run" be the pinnacle of stop-motion video?


"Jason" certainly should be considered Harryhausen's best work, he thought so himself.

 

[Shaded Dogfood]

wouldn't "Chicken Run" be the pinnacle of stop-motion video?


You have a very good point. Wallace and Gromit's The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave are also contenders