Doubts:

1. NO SFX, and I MEAN NO SPECIAL EFFECTS, can ever match the realism and the feel that Ray Harryhausen created with his puppets and effects. He remains the king of special effects in my opinion

2. More about the effects -- someone has to figure out how to make the quality of the picture look "old and ancient." Sure the original Jason & The Argonauts, Clash of the Titans, and all those Sinbad movies are literally old, but if MGM can figure out how to make a new movie look "old and ancient," but NOT outdated, that would be key.

Positive Outlooks:

1. The Acting and Story will be hopefully be pumped up. A new cast sounds good.

2. A big-budget movie like this (if it's successful) will no doubt inspire other filmmakers to make more mythology movies, which I absolutely love, and for years TV's Hercules and Xena have been hacking Greek Mythology to death (their sarcastic and comedic approach just don't work very well) and they don't do Greek Mythology any justice.

Any Greek/Roman Mythology Fans out there who miss the "old and ancient" days with the hydras, serpents, and sea monsters?

I completely share your sentiments and doubts about the computer effects. I am a big Harryhausen fan as well. There is just something to be said about using Harryhausen's magic touch in puppeteering and miniatures.

In Jason & The Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, there was a definite aura of creepiness and mysteriousness mixed with fanatastical elements that so many mythology movies and television shows just can't capture anymore. The jagged-like movement of Medusa and the Cyclops are frighteningly scary (yeah the adjectives are redundant, but I just can't emphasize that enough). The big & small scale between giants and humans are so far apart, unlike today where giants are ONLY four or five times taller than the humans.