Clash of the Titans
So I don't remember the original all that well, tho I caught a little bit of it on tv not long ago and had a chat about the plot with a friend while waiting in line for Alice in Wonderland (Which is awesome btw.) But I do know the original is a bastardization of several myths. The remake continues that legacy in new and bizarre ways, tho it does at least give shout outs to the original.
We all know Hollywood is a rather atheist lot, and I swear it always shows. Personally I think it's rather silly to be pulling that axe to grind in a Greek mythology movie. At least they didn't take all the gods out completely like they did in Troy. You can't do that and have this movie make any sense at all, for one. Not that it always did, anyway.
Why do they constantly want to make Hades the villain in movies anymore? What ever happened to Hera being Queen Bitch? Is it that adultery in Hollywood is ok, so they don't like the idea of jealous wives making somebody's life hell? But they still fear death, so the King of the Dead must be bad! Oi, I happen to like the story of Hades and Persephone quite a lot thank you.
I'm none too pleased that the only two gods of any note whatsoever are Zeus and Hades. Oh they're all standing there, but we only get the name of one. The rest, we're left to guess who's who. Why even have them in the movie if they're just going to be wallpaper?
And Zeus's attitude "Humans suck, and Perseus too." Then sending Perseus magic gifts along the way? Yeah, no wonder this kid has issues. Make up your dang mind!
It wasn't enough the original pulled in the Kraken from Norse mythology instead of Cetus, the original sea monster. Now we pull in the Djinn from Arabic mythology? Why? I swear somebody was watching Transformers too much. Or possibly the Mummy.
The Gorgons originally had wings and golden scales. But the first movie has Medusa with a snake body, which they also went with in the remake. Why does no one ever depict Medusa's immortal sisters? Because they don't do anything, that's why. And I'm not sure they'd fit with the Roman poet Ovid's version of Medusa being originally a priestess of Athena raped by Poseidon in Athena's temple. What's with the Greek (and Roman) goddesses only punishing the poor women (and subsequent children) subject to the male gods' advances? Anyway, I quite like what they did with Medusa here. I liked her as a snake lady, she moved well. And I love what they did with her face. Making her beautiful and sad when she wasn't making her 'turn men to stone' face.
Also, Mads Mikkelsen looks like The Rock! Mayhap I will call him Rock Lite from now on.
Honestly, I'm a little creeped out by them inserting Io into this myth. She was originally one more woman Zeus messed around with. He turned her into a cow to try to hide her from Hera. That worked just as well as you might think it did. After being pursued by stinging gadfly all the way to Egypt, Zeus turned her back and she bore him his son. She was also Perseus' Great great great great great great grandmother! Eww.
In this one they have her as someone turned eternally youthful for rejecting a god's advances? I wonder if the time line is the same, she'd be really frikkin old!
I know they set it up that way from the start, but to have Perseus into Io instead of Andromeda is blasting one of the few correct things the original movie had right about Perseus! He's supposed to marry Andromeda and have like nine kids!
Heh. The actress that plays Io is the same chick in Prince of Persia. (And Elizabeth Bennett in Lost in Austen, where I first saw her.) One of Perseus' sons became an ancestor of the emperors of Persia. So if we say that in this version Perseus married Io, then you could say the chick in Prince of Persia is her decedent that looks just like her? Silly to contemplate, but it amuses me.
Seriously tho, I liked Andromeda. Particularly because it's the same actress that played Jack/Kyra in The Chronicles of Riddick. LOL, now I can't stop picturing her asking Medusa "How do I get eyes like that?"
We all know Hollywood is a rather atheist lot, and I swear it always shows. Personally I think it's rather silly to be pulling that axe to grind in a Greek mythology movie. At least they didn't take all the gods out completely like they did in Troy. You can't do that and have this movie make any sense at all, for one. Not that it always did, anyway.
Why do they constantly want to make Hades the villain in movies anymore? What ever happened to Hera being Queen Bitch? Is it that adultery in Hollywood is ok, so they don't like the idea of jealous wives making somebody's life hell? But they still fear death, so the King of the Dead must be bad! Oi, I happen to like the story of Hades and Persephone quite a lot thank you.
I'm none too pleased that the only two gods of any note whatsoever are Zeus and Hades. Oh they're all standing there, but we only get the name of one. The rest, we're left to guess who's who. Why even have them in the movie if they're just going to be wallpaper?
And Zeus's attitude "Humans suck, and Perseus too." Then sending Perseus magic gifts along the way? Yeah, no wonder this kid has issues. Make up your dang mind!
It wasn't enough the original pulled in the Kraken from Norse mythology instead of Cetus, the original sea monster. Now we pull in the Djinn from Arabic mythology? Why? I swear somebody was watching Transformers too much. Or possibly the Mummy.
The Gorgons originally had wings and golden scales. But the first movie has Medusa with a snake body, which they also went with in the remake. Why does no one ever depict Medusa's immortal sisters? Because they don't do anything, that's why. And I'm not sure they'd fit with the Roman poet Ovid's version of Medusa being originally a priestess of Athena raped by Poseidon in Athena's temple. What's with the Greek (and Roman) goddesses only punishing the poor women (and subsequent children) subject to the male gods' advances? Anyway, I quite like what they did with Medusa here. I liked her as a snake lady, she moved well. And I love what they did with her face. Making her beautiful and sad when she wasn't making her 'turn men to stone' face.
Also, Mads Mikkelsen looks like The Rock! Mayhap I will call him Rock Lite from now on.
Honestly, I'm a little creeped out by them inserting Io into this myth. She was originally one more woman Zeus messed around with. He turned her into a cow to try to hide her from Hera. That worked just as well as you might think it did. After being pursued by stinging gadfly all the way to Egypt, Zeus turned her back and she bore him his son. She was also Perseus' Great great great great great great grandmother! Eww.
In this one they have her as someone turned eternally youthful for rejecting a god's advances? I wonder if the time line is the same, she'd be really frikkin old!
I know they set it up that way from the start, but to have Perseus into Io instead of Andromeda is blasting one of the few correct things the original movie had right about Perseus! He's supposed to marry Andromeda and have like nine kids!
Heh. The actress that plays Io is the same chick in Prince of Persia. (And Elizabeth Bennett in Lost in Austen, where I first saw her.) One of Perseus' sons became an ancestor of the emperors of Persia. So if we say that in this version Perseus married Io, then you could say the chick in Prince of Persia is her decedent that looks just like her? Silly to contemplate, but it amuses me.
Seriously tho, I liked Andromeda. Particularly because it's the same actress that played Jack/Kyra in The Chronicles of Riddick. LOL, now I can't stop picturing her asking Medusa "How do I get eyes like that?"