serv63
Jr Member
I will admit I had low expectations for this, but I just watched it and I will have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a really nice romp in giant monsterville! Samuel Jackson plays a good Captain Ahab which I didn't expect and of course he (almost) gets to say exactly what you know he is going to say. Solid Saturday matinee fun type movie. I absolutely hated Peter Jackson's version, give me the Jeff Bridges version any day, that's the one I grew up on. Yeah, I know the original is classic, but I never even saw it until I was in my thirties, so for me it was just another "old" movie.
Dealing with the "hollow Earth" theory of this movie, anybody else think it could somehow fit into the Pacific Rim world? Sure had some weird giant monsters in it, not just your average run-of-the-mill overgrown animals.
Peter Jackson's version is the best. It's faithful to the original movie.
And the original movie is a master piece in the history of cinema. The special effects are incredible (stop motion).
In the Jackson's version, some scenes are in stop motion cause Jackson wanted to respect the original movie.