The big-ass scorpions were cool, even though I first didn’t realize there were more than 1 (was that just bad editing, or wasn’t I paying close enough attention?).Īnd then there’s the 3D. I admit I’ve seen better (we all have), but it was still enjoyable. The action scenes and the CGI is one of the things I actually did like in this movie. And also goes through some wishy-washy-ness releasing the Kraken on the humans, yet giving Perseus the tools to defeat the Kraken. I had hoped more from him here, but Zeus wasn’t impressive at all. Liam Neeson as Zeus get some of the worst dialogue and some shiny CGI armor (it’s Twilight sparkly armor). But with all the gods? And not to use his demigod-ness while they have such a short period to save Argos? It also doesn’t help that Sam Worthington fails to give Perseus any charisma or likability I still don’t see what people see in that guy. Okay, Hades killed his family, so he’s got a reason to be pissed off with that god.
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Perseus is basically whining the entire movie that ‘gods killed his family’ and that although he is a demigod, he’ll slay the Kraken as ‘a man’. There’s no character development in this movie whatsoever. But to me, it felt like huge action sequences with bits of dialogue and ‘plot’ to string it all together. Somewhere in the process it turned out not bearing any resemblance to the myth at all. It could have worked, if the story actually was interesting. The 1981 movie was a loose interpretation of the myth already, and now this movie was loosely based on the 1981 movie. Finally, most of the main story was just complete nonsense. Then there’s Danae (Perseus’s mother) and her husband King Acrisius.
Turning her into a love interest just felt wrong. But why Io? Haven’t they done any research at all? She’s Perseus’s ancestor. I understand why they added her to the story: to add a female heroine to the epic journey, because Andromeda is stuck in the city the entire time. Hell, the Kraken never appeared in any Greek myth… he’s from Norse mythology.īesides those mistakes though, this Clash of the Titans messed up the story even more. Same with the ‘Kraken’ this newer movie took it from the older one, but the Kraken never was in the Perseus myth. For instance, the fact that there aren’t any Titans in either of the movies, yet the movie is called ‘Clash of the Titans’ can be blamed on the 1981 one (Titans were the gods before the Olympians and not one of them appears in this movie). Some of the mistakes I can forgive, cause they were remaking an older movie. It’s like changing the basics of a fairy tale (hey, let’s add one of the seven dwarfs to the Rapunzel story!). I know most people won’t care about the accuracy of the mythology while seeing this movie, but for me it was a serious annoyance. Together with a small group of soldiers and the immortal Io (Gemma Arterton), Perseus embarks on a quest to save Argos. When the city of Argos is threatened by Zeus (Liam Neeson) and Hades to sacrifice their beloved princess Andromeda or risk the wrath of the Kraken, Perseus swears to defeat the Kraken. It features Sam Worthington as the halfgod Perseus, who wants revenge on Hades (Ralph Fiennes) for killing his family. As in Clash of the Titans.Ĭlash of the Titans is the remake of the 1981 movie with the same name. So I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for mythology movies, but am also waaay more quicker annoyed when they don’t get their mythology right. I love reading all the different tales about the Greek gods and heroes, and it’s the main reason why I went to ‘ gymnasium‘ (Dutch high school type), so that I could have learn Latin and Ancient Greek.
I don’t write about it that often here on this blog, but I’m a bit of a Greek mythology geek (and also other mythologies, like Egyptian, Roman and Norse, but mainly Greek).
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