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A nice YouTube feature!

Post by Little Sally » Sun Feb 15, 2026 10:30 am

Credit to Dan Monroe's "Movies, Music and Monsters" channel for this feature. With a small guest appearance from Mrs Monroe! :)


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Re: A nice YouTube feature!

Post by DocRick » Sun Feb 15, 2026 2:11 pm

That was quite fun. If they made the movie today with CGI and AI, it would have gone down in history as important as some random Saturday morning kid's cartoon. Although, it would be interesting if they could use today's technology to "clean" it up, sharpen the images and smooth out some of the rough movement of the monster models.

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Re: A nice YouTube feature!

Post by Little Sally » Sun Feb 15, 2026 4:09 pm

DocRick wrote:
Sun Feb 15, 2026 2:11 pm
That was quite fun. If they made the movie today with CGI and AI, it would have gone down in history as important as some random Saturday morning kid's cartoon. Although, it would be interesting if they could use today's technology to "clean" it up, sharpen the images and smooth out some of the rough movement of the monster models.
I agree, they could remake many movies with the effects available nowadays. I've never been opposed to CGI in films like Jurassic Park and Avatar etc, where I can happily suspend disbelief and imagine things to be real. But in their time when Ray Harryhausen was the master of animation, those old movies had a charm of their own.

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Re: A nice YouTube feature!

Post by DocRick » Sun Feb 15, 2026 4:28 pm

Little Sally wrote:
Sun Feb 15, 2026 4:09 pm

I agree, they could remake many movies with the effects available nowadays. I've never been opposed to CGI in films like Jurassic Park and Avatar etc, where I can happily suspend disbelief and imagine things to be real. But in their time when Ray Harryhausen was the master of animation, those old movies had a charm of their own.
I've always been a "how-did-they-do-that ?" movie buff and remaking the movie with CGI or AI would ruin it for me. I didn't care for the latest King Kong movie preferring Kong 33 and Kong 76 and the original Star Wars movie where the special effects were more complicated since they had to use green screens, miniatures, etc. Rather than remaking the Sinbad movie, I'd just like it cleaned up and not so grainy. Besides, I can't see anyone in the role played by Katherine Grant other than her. :D


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Re: A nice YouTube feature!

Post by Little Sally » Sun Feb 15, 2026 5:20 pm

DocRick wrote:
Sun Feb 15, 2026 4:28 pm
Little Sally wrote:
Sun Feb 15, 2026 4:09 pm

I agree, they could remake many movies with the effects available nowadays. I've never been opposed to CGI in films like Jurassic Park and Avatar etc, where I can happily suspend disbelief and imagine things to be real. But in their time when Ray Harryhausen was the master of animation, those old movies had a charm of their own.
I've always been a "how-did-they-do-that ?" movie buff and remaking the movie with CGI or AI would ruin it for me. I didn't care for the latest King Kong movie preferring Kong 33 and Kong 76 and the original Star Wars movie where the special effects were more complicated since they had to use green screens, miniatures, etc. Rather than remaking the Sinbad movie, I'd just like it cleaned up and not so grainy. Besides, I can't see anyone in the role played by Katherine Grant other than her. :D


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A lot of the stuff that gets posted on You Tube isn't the best quality anyway, and there's probably Blu-ray versions of Sinbad that are excellent. And also the earlier Kong movies.