Is the real problem with Sam Worthington’s Clash of the Titans‘s its down-market 3-D effects, or that Worthington’s scenes always have him clad in armor, rather than shirtless and showing off his bulging pecs? [Musto]
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gayfamilyvalues
I watched the movie with my son and we may not get the chest shots but I have always been a butt and leg man and I was pleased with what I got :O)
james_cambridge
@GayFamilyValues: Did you mean to sound as creepy as you did?
emb
Nah, the real problem with “Clash of the Titans” is that it’s an awful, awful movie. I suppose some Worthington-pecs might’ve helped pass the time, but (like so many gentlemen I’ve brought home from bars) at some point words come out of his mouth, and this movie’s words (and editing, and story, and effects) were (again like those bar-gentlemen’s)…deeply disappointing and annoying.
REBELComx
No the problem with the movie is that it sucked overall. No amount of rippling pecs, abs, or bare muscled asses could have saved it. And I’m not saying that because I grew up with the original (it was released only 2 days before I was born). It was just so wrong on so many levels.
The 3d effects were barely there. I actually took my 3d glasses off several times throughout the movie and could see everything perfectly clear. They were more like sunglasses.
I grew up with the original movie, and while it did take it’s own artistic liberties with the original myth, it was nowhere near as off as this movie. I mean, Hades the bad guy? Um…no. Hades wasn’t even IN the original film. And Hades was not portrayed as a villain in Greek myths at all. And certainly not the Voldemort-like, spiteful thing played by Ralph Fiennes. In fact, he almost played Voldemort better in this movie than in the Potter films.
And Djinn? Seriously? You’re going to import a creature from middle eastern lore, a figure that exists nowhere in Greek mythology AT ALL, let alone in the Perseus story? And then even portray them wrong? I mean they looked friggin cool and their design and idea were probably one of the better parts of the movie (despite the lead Djinn having a face like a wooden Ewok), but they just didn’t fit and weren’t even accurate per actual Djinn mythology!
The original Perseus myth and the 1981 movie, there is no real bad guy (well, maybe Calibos in the 1981 movie, but even he’s not the driving force), and it made for a complicated story of adversity. This new version was a tired, simple revenge story, poorly done. It’s basically the plot to the God of War video game franchise. And speaking of God of War, did the sets and scenery look familiar to anyone who’s played the games? The entire city of Argos was a near exact copy of the city of Rhodes from the start of the 2nd game; and Medusa’s temple, with it’s overturned pillars and lava flow, bore a striking resemblance to the level centered around Atlas.
Then there’s the whole (almost Christianized) “gods needing our prayers/fear to live” sub-plot. It ranged from being militantly atheist to almost sympathetic to the plight of the gods, neither of which were attitudes held by the ancient Greeks.
Perseus only got one gift from the gods in this movie, as opposed to 3 in the original and 5 in the myth. There was an entire herd of pegasi, entire characters were deleted added or changed completely, ancient Greek gods wear medieval armor, Zeus turns into a BALD eagle (really?), and almost snide, demeaning references to the original movie are hinted at, and more than halfway through the movie they introduced a half-assed love story that, not only exists nowhere in Greek mythology, but is contrary to at least two established myths about the participating characters.
I could go on and on, but I’ve already written a friggin book about how bad this movie was. And it’s nothing to do with the acting… the acting was fine. It wasn’t great but it wasn’t bad at all. Worthington was, however, rather bland. The character and creature designs were interesting (despite the armor on the gods and the wooden Ewok faced Djinn) and the action scenes were…okay. But overall, this movie was more like a bad piece of Fan Fiction.
Dave
I liked the movie overall. It is meant to be good, old fashioned popcorn fluff, nothing more. Plus catch Sam in the film Somersault….he has a brief kissing scene with another dude!
Mike L.
@james_cambridge: I think he meant He and the rest of the gays, not he and his son. Should’ve made the statement a little more clear.
Mike L.
@Mike L.: AND I didn’t make my statement clear either, lol. By “We” he meant he and other gays, not he and his son with whom he went to see the movie.
NAP79
Definitely needed much more skin. Half the audience is gay dudes. Not too bad of a movie though, its meant to be a CGI popcorn piece, and it does that. Medusa was terrible though, completely unbelievable.
Wade MacMorrighan
@REBELComx: Actually, I must admit that I had a few problems with the movie as well; I look on the original with fondness as I adored it growing up. But, they seemed to be drawing too much from popular television, such as “The Legendary Adventures of Hercules”. They were even seriously inventing new myths that appear NO WHERE in Greek antique scriptures, such as Hades seeking to overcome Zeus. WTF? Now they are ripping off plot elements from Disney, too?!
Indeed, as I recall, from the Quran, the Djinn were s’posed to be formed from smokeless fire! …or, was it light? (I need to go look that up again.)
And, yes, another fault I severely had was the notion of revenge against the gods by the Greeks. generally, the Greeks loved their gods. And, must of them likely had similar views as we do today: some are religious, others are not, and still others were atheists! Though, I really didn’t *get* the lava in Athena’s temple-prison, nor the appearance of Io as a replacement for Athena!
As for Zeus shape-shifting into an Eagle: While the American species was certainly a poor choice, the eagle *was* his cult-animal, as an Indo-European thunder-god; and the myths recount how he often took this form, as with Ganymede’s abduction. Ya’ know, it would have been nice if the other gods had gotten lines and even been introduced throughout the film, rather than mere living props (oops, I mean “extras”!). And, btw, where WAS Ganymede, anyway? ;o) Not to mention that there really SHOULD HAVE BEEN some homoeroticism going on…
Though, I seriously would have preferred some muscle-daddy, like Jeffrey Dean Morgan or Gerard Buttler, because all the barely-clad images of Zeus were HOT! :o) Indeed, the original had a tough of more authenticity when the goddess pronounced her judgement onto Argos for her mother’s vanity by speaking through her sacred image. In most ancient cultures, the gods inhabited their sacred images when they descended to Earth for their worshipers. The Greeks were no different.
Jason
Yeah. this craptacular display shoulda had at least a nipple in it.
Kyle
You guys are scaring me
Arkano18
I can take the fact that the picture is a stupid copy of God of War.
I can take the fact that the picture is an awful remake of the masterpiece its predecessor was.
I can take the fact that there’s no homoeroticism in the picture, whatsoever.
I can even take the fact that Sam Worthington is not showing off his hotness on the silverscreen.
But what I can’t really take, is to make a picture as bad as this one, not really thinking that the plot had nothing to do with Greek Myth, and worst of all: making us see it in totally not worthy 3-D.
They-can-kiss-my-furry-ass!