Why did I not hear a single thing about this?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/jour...nteroftheearth/

I've seen some bad CGI/green screen work before, but this makes the SPY KIDS flicks seem realistic.

Yes, this looks terrible. It was trailered with BEOWULF. I'd hate to see Fraser, who I like, strike out twice in August, with this and the MUMMY (which I hold out some hope for).

It was remade in 1989, 1993 and 1999 too. What took them so long to do this one?

Hey, at least one of those was for tv, so does it really count :P


Does 1989 refer to ALIEN FROM LA (imdb lists it as 1988).

But,but...it's in 3D!!!

Might be good for a few thrills. I can't say cheap, because theaters now charge extra for the privilege of wearing the glasses :/.

I'm sure you could find the glassess online, if you wanted them badly enough. Don't know what the prices would be like. The theaters probably wouldn't ban you from bringing your own, probably...

I think you can just bring in your own pair. I kept mine from BEOWULF.

I kept some from CHICKEN LITTLE. The Dolby 3d ones are usually confiscated, as Dolby uses a unique system. But I'd imagine that this would be in the Real 3d format as well.

Oh, they don't so much as charge for the glasses, they just charge extra for the 3d film. Whereas, in the good old days, 3d films were treated like any other movie.

No, but Kathy Ireland was in both.

The Asylum just finished filming their remake, as well, which should be released on DVD around the same date as the new one.

This is an odd property for Asylum to piggyback off from, given that only the first, 50-year-old version was a success. I can't see this new one going anywhere.

I hadn't heard about this either but yesterday the multiplex had a big diorama and filled most of one of the two main corridors with posters. Stuck out because I thought surely there must be a bigger summer movie they could be pushing. This was one of my favorite books as a kid, partly because I loved the cartoon though they were fairly different (book more moody and dense, cartoon more well cartoony). The first movie is a guilty pleasure though I haven't seen it in about 20 years.

I grew up watching the 1959 version all the time (it was, along with The Time Machine, one of my perennial favourites for watching if I was off school sick) and even now I keep watching it expecting to finally realise that it's not very good and that it's only rose-tinted spectacles keeping it a favourite. Not so. Every time is as enjoyable as the first and while its flaws might be more obvious to me now* I still love watching it.

*For example, being more-or-less local to Edinburgh I pay close attention to those scenes, which (on one viewing many years ago) made me realise that James Mason never actually set foot in the place. It's all false backgrounds or location shooting where you can't see the character's face. I have a similar experience watching I Know Where I'm Going, but like JTTCOTE it never once impacts on my enjoyment of the film.

It seems like a natural to me. Like War of the Worlds, the source book is in the public domain, which is perfect for The Asylum.

The audience for Beowulf seemed excited by the trailer for the Brendan Fraser-starring remake, and the 3D looked fun, if a bit too much like one of those IMAX 3D mine-car ride type shows, but it seemed like something worth catching on the big screen. 3D is in right now, so it could do very well.

Naturally, The Asylum is here with their version.

http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=145

I saw the 3D JOURNEY this afternoon. It's a modest B-picture (with really just three actors, including stalwart co-producer Brendan Fraser), and as much THE LAND UNKNOWN with CGI and comin'-at-ya effects than anything else. It was I guess a relief to find a summer flick of its type that's not trying too hard to wow you but it might have tried harder. (It's scoring strangely high on ye olde Tomatometer.) That said, the flying piranha fish/seagoing dino attack is fun and a crossing of a magnetized rock bridge, with the rocks poised in midair, genuinely suspenseful. (The runaway mine bit is pretty much a direct rip from TEMPLE OF DOOM.) It turned out better than the (awful) BEOWULF preview led me to believe, but even at 93 minutes I wouldn't chance it without the 3D diversions. I missed Gertie the duck; the Tinkerbell-ish "glow bird" is no substitute. Funny, too, how the best gag is a simple yo-yo demonstration, from the dawn of 3D time.

Albert Brooks does a very funny rip on this in the 3-D trailer for REAL LIFE.

I wonder if anyone is interested in remaking/readapting At the Earth's Core. I'd love to see someone make a good Pellucidar movie (or two) with contemporary special effects.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nU-1zq0-AtM

If there were a theater near me that was going to show the 3-D version of this new Journey to the Center of the Earth, I might give it a look. It doesn't look like it would have much going for it otherwise.