Is better, always better?

[Chuffy]

Perhaps we're due for a big-budget CGI remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space...

 

[Fnaar]

All hail the King of early special effects... ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ray Harryhausen... a pioneer in his field....

 

[Maz]

All hail the King of early special effects... ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ray Harryhausen... a pioneer in his field....

Ray H's stuff is the biz. Not a patch on what can be achieved these days, but his stuff scared the sh1t out of me when I was a kid watching those Jason/Sinbad films.

 

[TheDoctor]

Gary, I watched 2001 on DVD a few months back at a mate's house (he has a DVD projector, so it was a decent sized 'screen') and we all commented on how you couldn't make that film now. Some of the scenes went on for whole MINUTES!

2001. Best science fiction film ever... The whole bit with spaceships in orbit - and that big space station they dock with. That's so, so deeply cool. "Elite" was born from a desire to do that docking scene on a home computer.
The jump shot from the antelope bone to the spaceships - there has never been a better way of saying "2 million years later..."

*hits YouTube*

 

[fossyant]

Ohh I love CGI - Transformers is ace..no story but the effects and sound are fantastic - or am I just a big kid !

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i loved blake's 7 as a kid, but was unfortunate to see an episode as an adult, which made me realize what a pile of old tosh it was.

most remakes are poor, with the exception of the last 4 series of doctor who, imho.

 

[yello]

One of the things I dislike about the new Dr Who is the overuse of CGI. Sometimes it really looks pants and done, seemingly, 'because they can'. Give me men in suits (I loved the cybermen!) over millions of flying darleks any day.

But, yeah, I'll own up to grumpy old git as well.

 

[Night Train]

I remember Blakes7. Cally (Jan Chappell) in particular. I have videos and the book. I still watch them sometimes.

 

[Mac66]

I think CGI can enhance a programme/film but should not be the focus of said item. Don't think the MTV generation will agree with me though.

 

[Yellow Fang]

The first series of Blake's 7 was good. The 2nd series was quite good. Then they lost Blake and the girl and the chap with the chip in his head, and then, one by one, all the others except Avon and that thief character. Then they lost the ship. It steadily deteriorated. It was a mercy killing in the end. If they re-film the original series again that would be good. There weren't enough space battles in it for my liking.

 

[bobg]

So, I see Blakes Seven is due to return.

Yaay, Servalan, wet dream for a generation of kids ... or so I'm told

 

[Fnaar]

Yaay, Servalan, wet dream for a generation of kids ... or so I'm told

I hated Blake's 7. And Servalan looked like a poor man's Julie Covington.

 

[on the road]

If I remember correctly, they were all blown to smithereens, they can't possibly bring them back, and don't even try

 

[Dayvo]

Yaay, Servalan, wet dream for a generation of kids ... or so I'm told

Yeah, that's what I heard as well!

 

[Arch]

If I remember correctly, they were all blown to smithereens, they can't possibly bring them back, and don't even try

No they weren't, not in the final episode. Blake was the only one we saw fall to the ground bleeding from presumably fatal blaster wounds, all rest went down in slow mo without a mark on them, so could have been victims of stun rays only, and Avon was left standing at the end, hopelessly outnumbered. He grinned, raised his gun he shot Blake with and the credits rolled. So they could still be alive.

Hmm, do I remember that in WAY too much detail?