Ethically, I have no issue with motion-smoothing or otherwise retouching old films, as long as the original is always available to watch. A great example of this is Metropolis, which I personally find a joy to watch in the “enhanced” version — though in that case, that was an actual restoration of damage, not just adding extra sauce on top.

But overall, I think it’s normal for artists to play around and riff on the work of older artists.

That being said, I think this attempt doesn’t quite work. With motion smoothing, the monsters look almost cartoonish, or like video game animations. And it has the unfortunate side effect of motion smoothing the human actors (particularly in that boat escape from the Colossus), which gives the film a cheap video-like sheen.

I’m assuming the artist here took the final movie and just motion-smoothed it — I’d be curious to see how this might work if they could access the original matte layers and tweak only those, in isolation.

Also, fwiw, I think the “jerkiness” actually plays into the physicality of the colossus and the skeletons — watching it again, it seems weird that creatures of bone or metal would move smoothly...

Just my two cents! Interesting experiment in any case!

Also vodka.

In Soviet Union, rings lord YOU!

Obviously the best death scene ever is from The Naked Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQts7E1FvrE

Aww nuts! I would totally buy it, but I just spent six billion dollars on Girl Scout Cookies.

Speaking of which, does anyone have a little extra freezer room? I’ve got 70 million boxes of Thin Mints...

Good stuff, thanks Jason!