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No stop-motion photography.... it's gonna suck 
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And where's the mechanical owl???? 
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Can't tell much by trailers, but my guess is that it's gonna be a flop.
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No way it flops. We've got geeks who love the original, like me. We've got older people who want to see characters and monsters from Greek mytholoy [and butchered up into a new story ], and we have the younger crowd who go see anything with CGI and stupid, unnecessary metal music in the trailer. This movie makes money.
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Hollywood has very little originality these days. If they are not making comic books into movies, they are remaking classics into modern day crap and sequel after sequel.
I hope it will not be one of them crap flicks much like The Day the Earth Stood Still remake and Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds, (though not terribly bad, but both movies had a bratty kid in it, the first a preachy political message and the second never came close to the radio play that still gives me chills . . . the unknown)
Rest assured it will have spectacular special effects.
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Can't tell much by trailers, but my guess is that it's gonna be a flop.
Land of the Lost remake made money....this is a better idea and from the trailer at least looks like they spent some time on it (unlike LOTL which I think they did over a weekend and added some CGI into it later).
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Hehehe............yeah, heard some really bad things about that movie.
It's a tough task to blend CGI into a good story and make it plausible.
Seriously..........how plausible is the concept that in the future a race of machines will enslave all humanity by turning them into batteries, yet the CGI and storyline in the Matrix movies were top-notch (at least until the final fight between Neo and Smith way up in the air *L*).
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As a HUGE fan of the original, this movie looks like it will blow big time. I'm so tired of remakes of classic films and TV shows that butcher the original. Seriously, this looks like it will be one of those movies that is come and gone in the blink of an eye. And that is a shame because the orginal was one of my favorites of my childhood. Just a complete shame that something like this is even mentioned, let alone gets the green light.   Also, I remember reading that money spent vs. money brought in Land of the Lost was the biggest flop of the year.
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good call, i had thought it had made money...checking it out, it has not yet (DVD and Cable sales not yet part of the figure, but it's gonna be tough for such a bad movie to make up $34mil) http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=landofthelost.htmBudget: $100mil Domestic Gross: ~$50mil Foreign Gross: ~$16mil For a loss of ~$34mil That restores my hope for humanity a little bit (though it won't get my $1 and hour of my life back that I gave this movie).
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Rest assured it will have spectacular special effects.
Call me old school if you like but now that most special effects are done in a studio with a green screen and coupled with computer animation... great special effects don't really get to me any more. It used to be fun trying to figure out how they did some of the things they did, now it's not because computer graphics can do darn near anything without much thought or creativity...
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As a kid you wouldn't dare miss "Jason and the Argonauts" when it came on!
Ray Harryhausen effects were incredible in the 60's to us and as DC states, the excitement of this new stuff wears thin really quick.
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What do You mean "as a kid" ? I still have to watch that movie everytime it is on ! 
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I probably should have made it known that that remark about SFX is more tongue in cheek than serious.
It seems filmmakers use it as a crutch to compensate for everything else. Lucas is a prime example. It was the story/characters NOT the SFX that won over hearts with Star Wars and Empire. What kid didn't want to be Han Solo or Boba Fett or pick a fight with the evil empire?
It seems to me that today, film making is all about effects over substance. Give me the great dramatic weight of a camera slowly pulling back and high overhead emphasizing just how alone Gary Cooper was when he decided to face the thugs coming after him in High Noon.
I'll take the plot of L.A. Confidential any day.
I don't mind SFX in a film like Lord of the Rings et.al. but good story, characters, location scouting, camera work and lighting are often overlooked in favor of whiz bang CGI.
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This looks awesome. Original was great.
Unfortunately, I do not see Calebos is this trailer.
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Loved the original.
No interest in the CGI extravaganza that Hollywood is planning with their remake.
BTW, what happened to Calibos? No sign of Calibos in that trailer. Plus the CGI Medusa looks like crap.
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There's no sign of Calibos in the listed characters for this movie at Imdb.com What story is it again they're telling?
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Flop. Land of the Lost with a narrower fan base. First just stunk IMO. This may be worse. 
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As a kid you wouldn't dare miss "Jason and the Argonauts" when it came on!
Ray Harryhausen effects were incredible in the 60's to us and as DC states, the excitement of this new stuff wears thin really quick.
7th Voyage of Sinbad is my flick! 
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