Jason & The Argonauts

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Todd Armstrong, who plays Jason, is a relatively unknown actor, and from what I have seen, didn't go much beyond this film. Some reviewers say his performance is wooden, but I would disagree. The script doesn't give him many good lines or play up his emotions well, and that's not his fault. What he does bring to the film are some wonderful facial expressions as he delivers those not-so-inspiring lines. It's a pity his career didn't go much further, I saw real potential in him, and I enjoyed him very much as Jason. well-paced film that finds a place for all it has to offer; never does the picture suffer when there's a Audio choices are English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, English Mono with English subtitles and English captions for the hearing impaired. plenty more. Film buffs, historians, budding special effects artists, and of course fans of the film will

Jason's fleece isn't too shabby, either. Additionally, the story is well thought-out with plenty ofJason assembles the finest men in all of Greece and constructs the greatest ship ever built, hoping And of course, the fighting skeletons... you have to love the skeletons! Excellent animation and detail even in a bunch of bones! I mean, a skull that frowns (as these characters do)... now THAT's artistry! In the 80's they had another so called advancement in film and movie technology, but as you rightly see, that in fact was a reduction in quality in film not an advancement at all!!!

You have to remember that the giant Talos was only about 1 or 2 feet tall (I don't know the exact size), and the Hydra, with the full seven heads visible in a couple of places (though I believe only five were animated because of budget-- or was that in the giant Octopus movie?) probably wasn't much bigger than a cat or dog. The actors had to imagine them life size and react to them effectively, which they did for the most part quite well. Seeing high definition fully restored upgrades of classic films such as this and others like Ben Hur Cleopatra etc is always a irresistible curiosity that few can resist, but with films such as Jason and the Argonauts, the ingenious yet primitive tools Ray Harryhausen had to work with are only left even more open to the exposing of their flaws in the glare of digital HIgh Definition. overly bright nor at any point even the slightest bit dulled. Both brighter and paler shades -- bright redDoes this Blu-ray restoration yield a better, cleaner image? Yes and no. It's clear the disc restoration supervisor wanted to create a presentation that was consistent, as best possible, with the original theatrical exhibition (i.e. the image hasn't been sharpened or smoothed over with DNR). In that manner, the film isn't incredibly sharp or cleaner than the DVD, per se. But colors are much bolder and brighter than ever before, though there is some bleed. The film, for those who might not know, is about a man named Jason, an explorer searching for a magical tree called the Golden Fleece. Once he finds the tree, he will regain his rightful ownership as the King of Thessaly. But nefarious foes await Jason and his able crew as monsters, both man and magical, are out to stop him before he reaches his destination.

On the other hand, what is wonderful is the way they handle the interaction between Jason and the Gods on Olympus. He doesn't grovel and snivel in awe and fear. He stands bold and true (which in the Greek religion was expected). And for their part, Zeus and the Gods treat him with respect, even though he is a plaything to them. In the film, Hylas was killed when the crumbling remains of Talos crushed him. However, in mythology, Hylas was actually kidnapped by a naiad who fell in love with him as he took a drink from a spring. When Hercules could not find him, he believed him to still be alive, and stayed behind on the island to look for him (as in the film). The five-issue comic book miniseries Jason and the Argonauts: The Kingdom of Hades (2007) from TidalWave Productions' Ray Harryhausen Signature Series, continued the story. It was followed by Jason and the Argonauts: Final Chorus (2014). Or you would have thought so, but in truth, the fact is even if they wanted to they couldn't because the sad fact is that digital technology is crap, and they could never hope to match the true blues and true earths of the real world i am asking them to duplicate, to cover over the faded areas, for the digitial colourist is like you and me, at the mercy of button A B or C or a combination of all three, unlike the artist sat at his easil who can truly mix colours to produce a great work of art, truly capturing the beauty of sunset over a landscape, with all its light and shade, reflecting the glory of nature through the myriad of lights and colour, the modern colorist that sits in a little booth after a film has been made has become the final director of movies, replacing the skill of the cinimeatrography artist' s who worked as one mind with films director's to create great works of art not spit out by machines but crafted by man with nature and light!

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Hermes takes Jason to Mount Olympus to speak with Zeus and Hera. Zeus decrees that Hera can help him only five times, the same number of times that Jason's murdered sister called on her for protection. She directs him to search for the Fleece in the land of Colchis. Zeus offers aid, but Jason declines.