The visuals were quite nice, and there was some fun action, but the writing and storytelling were awful. Maybe you can brush off the storytelling because of how it's based on a known myth, but in some respects that's lazy, and so is this movie. The actors don't seem to care about their roles, and they don't have any good lines to work with. Some of the dialogue and conversations made me cringe, they were just so unnatural.
The transitions between scenes were generally clunky, and it feels like I'd need several more hands to count the number of deus ex machina moments. I know it's about gods, but come on. Character motivations were limited where they existed at all. They took a classic myth and pasted modern visuals onto it, with very few serious attempts to weave any of it into an actual enjoyable story. If you just want the myth, bare bones, then I suppose this will do the trick. But if you expect a little more out of your movies than pretty visuals and wooden, paint-by-numbers storytelling, Clash of the Titans can't help you.
Overall, neither I nor the friend I watched it with thought it was worth the cost of admission.
The transitions between scenes were generally clunky, and it feels like I'd need several more hands to count the number of deus ex machina moments. I know it's about gods, but come on. Character motivations were limited where they existed at all. They took a classic myth and pasted modern visuals onto it, with very few serious attempts to weave any of it into an actual enjoyable story. If you just want the myth, bare bones, then I suppose this will do the trick. But if you expect a little more out of your movies than pretty visuals and wooden, paint-by-numbers storytelling, Clash of the Titans can't help you.
Overall, neither I nor the friend I watched it with thought it was worth the cost of admission.
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This message last edited by Nate on 20/04/2010 at 08:23:07 AM
Clash of the Titans
05/04/2010 02:41:37 PM
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Think I'll wait for it to hit my local cheap theater. It's never a loss on $1.75 Tuesdays. *NM*
05/04/2010 04:42:40 PM
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I am looking forward to going with the rest of my Classics-major friends. We're going to have FUN.
05/04/2010 09:55:18 PM
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Excellent review. Jason and the Argonauts is another one I always stop to watch when on. *NM*
06/04/2010 02:19:32 AM
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Problems aside, it sounds good.
06/04/2010 03:50:42 AM
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Fully agree, except for the shirt issue. And never having seen the original CotT. *NM*
07/04/2010 12:59:37 AM
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If you get a chance, try to see the original. Ultimately, I think it's a better story than the 2010. *NM*
07/04/2010 02:19:33 AM
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You can "Play Instantly" off Netflix, if you have an account. *NM*
08/04/2010 12:52:53 AM
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A fun popcorn flick, no more, no less
09/04/2010 11:30:00 AM
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In the myth and the original movie
09/04/2010 12:31:18 PM
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DJINN?!
11/04/2010 08:24:33 AM
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I know right. Sometimes its fun to be oppressed.
11/04/2010 08:05:40 PM
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I noticed Andromeda still had her ropes on when she was lying next to Perseus on the beach... *NM*
12/04/2010 04:19:58 AM
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The writing was atrocious.
14/04/2010 01:45:08 AM
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