Clash Of The Titans (the remake)
Only about halfway through but It is already apparent that I can't judge this based on the original film as it bears little resemblance. I will say I am enjoying performances by actors such a Sam Worthington as Perseus and Liam Neeson as Zeus. I think the main problem is the script. Now I loved the Greek Myths as a child. I read them repeatedly and even directed a one act based on the Medusa myth my senior year of high school. Now the most famous action of Perseus is supposed to be the slaying of Medusa. However roughly halfway into this film there is no mention of Medusa. So far the main focus is the journey to kill the Krakken. Now I remember Perseus defeating a sea monster and saving a princess but if I remember correctly he did by turning the sea monster to stone with the head of Medusa. There have been a few familiar bits tossed in here and there and a bunch of things I don't remember at all. Athena's mechanical owl showed up briefly. It's almost like the script writer took the Perseus myths tossed them in a blender, tossed a bunch of random idea that they felt fit the genre and hit the power button and went from there. How does one tame a giant scorpion into being a beast of burden anyways? I guess the black magic helps. Gonna try to suffer through the rest and finish this post. I don't remember o being a beautiful immortal woman who was cursed with immortality by the gods for rebuffing their advances. I do remember the Io Zeus transformed in to a white calf to save her from Hera's wrath over his infidelity. Hera then demanded that calf as a gift but that's a whole other myth in itself. Ah now it;s shaping up to be the myth I know. While Perseus's primary goal in the myth is to slay Medusa. A quest given to him by a king who wishes to marry Perseus's widowed Mother and gives Perseus a quest to get him out of the way. In the myth the slaying of the sea monster seems to just be a bonus. In the movie it seems that the two have been reversed. The primary goal to slay the sea monster and slaying Medusa is just so they can use her head as a weapon. Although since when does Medusa reside in the underworld? The Krakken in this film looks kinda of what would happen if Cuthulu and Rancor had a baby.
Ok my final thought is that this would have been a halfway decent film if they hadn't tried to bill it as a remake of Clash of the Titans. If they hadn't made the gods the Greek Gods and rewritten and omitted many of the references to similarities to the myths it might have been a somewhat decent fantasy film. There would still be a few kinks to work out and some rewrites but it would have been doable.
Ok my final thought is that this would have been a halfway decent film if they hadn't tried to bill it as a remake of Clash of the Titans. If they hadn't made the gods the Greek Gods and rewritten and omitted many of the references to similarities to the myths it might have been a somewhat decent fantasy film. There would still be a few kinks to work out and some rewrites but it would have been doable.