Clash of the Titans (2010)

[Dave]

Hearing some of the praise in this thread for movies I thought were awful when I saw them makes me think that given enough time anything becomes a classic.

Granted that Clash of the Titans (1981) was awful. I've never seen Alexander or Troy, but Jason and the Argonauts? It is a true classic! I've watched it loads of times since I was a small boy. Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park says that it is what inspired him to become an animator.

 

[Culhwch]

Alexander and Troy were both woeful, and no amount of time will make them classics...

 

[Mary Hoffman]

Saw it last night. Was pants.

 

[Mary Hoffman]

Have blogged about it here: Book Maven

Come and vote in my "favourite Olympian" poll there too!

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Hearing some of the praise in this thread for movies I thought were awful when I saw them makes me think that given enough time anything becomes a classic.

Well said. I think some of these claims of 'classics' are made as a result of the whole cause and effect thing.

I don't know how many claimed Clash of the Titans to be a classic before. But now that they're remaking it, it seems to have suddenly raised the supposed classic-ness of the original, almost as if a light-bulb has gone off in reviewers minds that if a filmmaker is remaking an old movie, then the original must have been good.

As far as the new one - I haven't seen it, yet. Has anyone who did see it go for the 3D version? I've read in multiple reviews that the 3D is very poorly done, and in many ways you're better off seeing it as a standard screening. A quote from a critic at the Los Angeles Times:

It's doubtful that records are kept about this sort of thing, but consider the possibility that "Clash of the Titans" is the first film to actually be made worse by being in 3-D.
...3-D clutters the film's innumerable battles, making them harder to follow rather than exciting.

 

[Mary Hoffman]

As far as the new one - I haven't seen it, yet. Has anyone who did see it go for the 3D version? I've read in multiple reviews that the 3D is very poorly done, and in many ways you're better off seeing it as a standard screening.

I saw it in 3D. I don't think it made any difference.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

This movie should have never seen the light of day.


The producers, director, everyone involved in it, except the actors, should be dragged out into the street and shot.

The actors should be flogged. (Except Liam Neeson, I feel he did his best in this film, but he couldn't have done too well, I'm sorry to say.)

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Angry, much?

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

As a Greek mythology buff, I have my reasons for it. This is the third movie I've described like this. The other two, of course, being New Moon and Cloverfield.


I would've described the Matrix movies this way except that such a punishment would've been far too lenient in their cases.

 

[Culhwch]

Such a shy and retiring type, Manarion - do tell us what you really think! I can't cut through these layers of subtlety!

 

[Dave]

I'm not a Greek scholar so can I ask a question, and then based upon that an observation?

Is there just the one single source of these stories i.e. Homer?

If so, unlike something like the tales surrounding King Arthur, which are manifold, there is only one 'correct' way to tell the story. If they are mucking about with it too much, I can certainly see where Manarion is coming from.

 

[Culhwch]

There's no one correct way to tell any story, though...

 

[Dave]

Accurate, faithful then!

 

[Mary Hoffman]

Dave, there are myriad sources: Homer, Hesiod, Scholiast, Apollodorus, Pausanias, Strabo, Hyginus, Pindar, Ovid, Herodotus, Apollonius of Rhodes - and that's just for Perseus!

As I said on my blog, just because it's a myth doesn't mean anything goes.

 

[Moonbat]

I saw this at the weekend and, being a fan of the orignal (80's version) I wasn't holding much hope, but it was very entertaining and well worth a watch. It isn't accurate to the original legends, but its hollywood, they can't even tell a true story accurately (it has to be based upon a true story). But what struck me, once again, was how inventive the greek myths are, IMHO they are some of the most creative and inventive stories ever told. Medusa is an amazing tale, a horrific creature/monster that hasn't been exploited (in hollywood) enough. also the witches that share 1 eye is good, although I prefered the fate of the eye in the original. Pegasus was a bit naff, why was he black? (is pagasus a he?) and the whole demi-god Io thing was a bit annoying. I thought she was turned into a goat, not given the 'curse' of agelessness!

 

[The DeadMan]

I saw "Clash Of The Titans" yesterday and I was not impressed to say the least. The 3D effects were poorly done and the action scenes were blurry. The storyline and acting were an improvement over the the 1981 movie but that's about the best I can say for it.

 

[AE35Unit]

Well to be honest noone goes to see these films for the acting performances,they're all about disengaging the brain and enjoying the action-forget the story! I can't see 3D so I'll watch it on blu ray, for a laugh. Gotta be better than that 1981 rubbish

 

[The DeadMan]

Well to be honest noone goes to see these films for the acting performances,they're all about disengaging the brain and enjoying the action-forget the story! I can't see 3D so I'll watch it on blu ray, for a laugh. Gotta be better than that 1981 rubbish

It's definitely better than the 1981 movie. If you watch closely you will even notice them make fun of the 1981 version in a couple of places.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

I'm not a Greek scholar so can I ask a question, and then based upon that an observation?

Is there just the one single source of these stories i.e. Homer?

If so, unlike something like the tales surrounding King Arthur, which are manifold, there is only one 'correct' way to tell the story. If they are mucking about with it too much, I can certainly see where Manarion is coming from.

I posted my reasons about in Last Movie You've Seen thread.


They did muck about it far too much. They pretty much tried to wrap all the major Greek heroes into one in this movie, like they usually seem to try to do, and it just doesn't work.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

As a Greek mythology buff, I have my reasons for it. This is the third movie I've described like this. The other two, of course, being New Moon and Cloverfield.

I would've described the Matrix movies this way except that such a punishment would've been far too lenient in their cases.

Are New Moon, Cloverfield and Matrix supposed to be based on Greek mythology? I can't say I was aware of that, but then again, I know next to nothing of the Greeks.

I do know, however, that Brad Pitt sucked as Achilles in Troy... I can only imagine how angry that movie made you...