Clash of the Titans

Sam Worthington's performance and the Cloverfiel...uops Kraken deserve the rise to Macdonalds Fast Food status. I could definitely give it a lower fast food analogy :)
 
SPZ said:
Terrible, campy movie. It is well known that some of Greek Mithology stories don't translate very well to the big screen or to today's storytelling standards, but the plot goes from ridiculous to laughable. I can only describe this as the Macdonalds equivalent for the epic movie genre.
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How would you compare Clash to other recent sword and sandals films like Troy or 300? I'd doubt it is as good as 300, but if it is comparable to Troy then I'd feel like I'm not walking into another Transformers 2 disappointment of epic proportions.

Yes, I'm one of those oddballs that actually liked Troy.

SPZ said:
Sam Worthington's performance and the Cloverfiel...uops Kraken deserve the rise to Macdonalds Fast Food status. I could definitely give it a lower fast food analogy :)
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Sometimes the big dumb summer fast food films can be fun though. Independence Day comes to mind. Of course, I don't see why Hollywood can't churn out more quality summer tent pole flicks like Jurassic Park or Gladiator on a more consistent basis. Is it the suits that run the studios being too conservative and hampering the writers and directors, or are the writers to blame for **** scripts? Maybe the studios should start looking at original spec scripts for big summer films, because it seems the remakes and adaptations they continually make for the summer slate aren't cutting it.
 
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Richard Roeper on Howard Stern this week: "Stop referring to the 1981 Clash of the Titans as 'the classic'. It's not a "classic" it's got Harry Hamlin in it."
 
SPZ said:
First, for most of its historical, or, shall I say, Mythological accuracy, it is well known that it is important to leave the outdated facts in order to make this story more believable. .
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Speaking about err.. "historical" or Mythological accuracy, what is this title all about anyway (and I´m asking myself since 1981) ?

The Titans were a race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia and Uranus, that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. The twelve Titans were Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, Cronus, Crius and Iapetus, Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia, Phoebe, Rhea and Themis.

So where are the Titans in that flick? Nope, nil, zip, zero Titans at all.
Why is it then called COTT? Only Harryhausen knows.

Then there is Sam Worthington looks like (always) straight out of a Marines recruiting clip. He plays something that is half human, half something else (semi god) and falls in love with a chick from the other side.

Isn't that something he did recently in an other film?

And then we have the Kraken. How lame is that? Adding a few tentacles to a Cave Troll/Rancor knock off is the best idea they came up with? Wow, so much fresh ideas.

And oh, yeah - it´s 3D. Not real 3D (which is actually stereoscopy and only a flat simulation of human three dimensional vision) no, its only fake 3D. They should call it "Two and a half D" but that would not make people spend so much on it. :violin:

I guess that flick will be a short succsess and than sink back into oblivion like the Kraken into the sea.

Frank
 
Postmaster said:
Speaking about err.. "historical" or Mythological accuracy, what is this title all about anyway (and I´m asking myself since 1981) ?

The Titans were a race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia and Uranus, that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. The twelve Titans were Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, Cronus, Crius and Iapetus, Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia, Phoebe, Rhea and Themis.

So where are the Titans in that flick? Nope, nil, zip, zero Titans at all.
Why is it then called COTT? Only Harryhausen knows.

Then there is Sam Worthington looks like (always) straight out of a Marines recruiting clip. He plays something that is half human, half something else (semi god) and falls in love with a chick from the other side.

Isn't that something he did recently in an other film?

And then we have the Kraken. How lame is that? Adding a few tentacles to a Cave Troll/Rancor knock off is the best idea they came up with? Wow, so much fresh ideas.

And oh, yeah - it´s 3D. Not real 3D (which is actually stereoscopy and only a flat simulation of human three dimensional vision) no, its only fake 3D. They should call it "Two and a half D" but that would not make people spend so much on it. :violin:

I guess that flick will be a short succsess and than sink back into oblivion like the Kraken into the sea.

Frank
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Wow, the above description has really soured my excitement for this film.

Of course, I never intended on seeing it in 3D since it wasn't shot in 3D. Why they thought this 2D-3D conversion was a good idea (just because of Avatar) is beyond me? I'd love to hear what James Cameron has to say about Titan's botched 3D transfer.
 
Nektonic said:
How would you compare Clash to other recent sword and sandals films like Troy or 300? I'd doubt it is as good as 300, but if it is comparable to Troy then I'd feel like I'm not walking into another Transformers 2 disappointment of epic proportions.

Yes, I'm one of those oddballs that actually liked Troy.



Sometimes the big dumb summer fast food films can be fun though. Independence Day comes to mind. Of course, I don't see why Hollywood can't churn out more quality summer tent pole flicks like Jurassic Park or Gladiator on a more consistent basis. Is it the suits that run the studios being too conservative and hampering the writers and directors, or are the writers to blame for shi* scripts? Maybe the studios should start looking at original spec scripts for big summer films, because it seems the remakes and adaptations they continually make for the summer slate aren't cutting it.
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Well, you give me Transformers 2, one of the worst films ever as a bottom line comparison, so its hard to say Titan goes so low. The problem with this film is that the script is all over the place, it is poorly written, with bad character development, bad plot development and many plot holes, it presents itself as an Epic and tries too hard to feel like one, which is bad. Personally I think The "epic" feel of an epic should be built opon the dimension of its characters and the world around them. In this case, the world was like a Sim City area. Everything seemed so close, yet so far. Too many great myths and stories are inside the "World" of Clash of the Titans, but it falls victim of trying to give us quantity, and not quality. The Medusa story could be a film in itself, for example.
 
SPZ said:
The problem with this film is that the script is all over the place, it is poorly written, with bad character development, bad plot development and many plot holes, it presents itself as an Epic and tries too hard to feel like one, which is bad.
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An interesting article about how this film was drastically rewritten in the editing process, which explains why it feels all over the place. I'm not bothering to see this one, maybe on cable--

http://chud.com/articles/articles/2...ASH-OF-THE-TITANS-YOU-DIDN039T-SEE/Page1.html
 
Batutta said:
An interesting article about how this film was drastically rewritten in the editing process, which explains why it feels all over the place. I'm not bothering to see this one, maybe on cable--

http://chud.com/articles/articles/2...ASH-OF-THE-TITANS-YOU-DIDN039T-SEE/Page1.html
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Interesting read. If this is true, a good film on paper was cut into a brainless FX fest. In no way I take the blame out of the director on this anyway. If they did such a travesty to the original idea, I would definitely sign this as an Alan Smithee film. Since he assumed this mess, then this is the version that stays, and exists. That good script might as well not have existed.
 
Yeah, this was junk. It always mystifies me when you have a version of a story that works, and then they go remake it and change the story just for the sake of changing it. The original Clash of the Titans is not one of the greatest movies ever made, but the story functions cleanly and makes structural sense. When you go messing with the motivations of the characters, but keep a lot of the plot elements the same, you end up with a story that's constantly working against itself. In the original Clash, Persus wanted to save the life of a girl he loved from the Kraken. That was his whole motivation and the story supports that. Here, Persus wants revenge on Hades, so he has to kill the Kraken, who is coming for the girl, and then Hades will be vulnerable. He doesn't care about the girl, so why do we? And then when Persus gets his revenge, well, he doesn't, because Hades can't die. He just gets sent back to the underworld. And Persus, who has spent the whole movie saying he doesn't want the gods help and railing against them, gets the god's help. His whole creed was that he wanted to defeat the gods as a man. Well, he doesn't. So he's basically one big giant failure.
 
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