15th April 2010, 9:43 PM
Stupid movie, and definitely bad as a film, but just lamely entertaining enough to make me feel that I didn't completely waste my time.
Oh, I saw it in 2d, not 3d.
Warning: Spoilers!
I mean, the movie had some big problems. First would be that it has an identity crisis in that it couldn't decide whether to be Clash of the Titans or God of War... it eventually decided on Clash of the Titans, but only after a lot of "I hate the gods" stuff that didn't end up going anywhere and just helped the movie make even less sense. "I hate the gods and I'm going to destroy them!" "... Well okay, maybe not, I'll work with them actually, and just fight the evil one..."... and in the film it's done even worse than that. It was just stupid. I know we're in a time of cynicism, as God of War shows (Kratos is a suicidal mass murderer who kills like half of the gods for really badly written reasons, and yet he's the "hero"...), and with that element of the film (if mostly just in word and not in deed) they were obviously trying to attract that audience more, I think, but because of how they resolved it, it just made it make no sense. They really needed to work that out and make the film more consistent. "We got no fish so I hate the gods and want them to die!" says the old fisherman at the beginning... and that theme comes back again and again, only for the movie to sabotage it at the end. The whole ending was just so bizarre... they could have done that same ending but made it actually made sense had actual good writers been working on this movie, but yeah, no luck in that department obviously. This movie's about the spectacle, you're supposed to ignore how bad the plot is. (And I've only scraped the surface in how stupid and broken the plot was... I won't mention everything right now, but it was just so dumb...)
Now -- I think that it is BETTER that they didn't go through with it. I don't like God of War's approach. But honesly, in this movie it just made no sense.
Beyond that, of course just like the first movie any attention to mythological detail is seriously lacking to the point where it's almost an accident when they actually get anything RIGHT, but with a movie like that you expect that kind of thing, so that didn't surprise me.
As for the movie itself, it was predictable, somewhat like the original 1980s movie and yet different in a some ways, including some I've mentioned. I thought parts of it were awful, a lot of it mediocre, and a few parts good. There were some pretty cool action scenes, such as the fights against the giant scorpions and then the Kraken. I liked the second half of the movie better than the first; while early on I wasn't liking the movie at all, by the later parts I was enjoying myself enough to make it feel worthwhile seeing. It's a bad movie, but entertaining bad, at least for anyone who likes fantasy movies, ancient Greek themed stuff, or things like that, as I definitely do.
Oh, the women with the vaguely Cretan/Mycenaean layered dresses in the Argos hall were a nice touch, maybe a tiny little nod to the period when the myths were actually set? (Greek myths were written down in the Classical era when everyone wore draped robes, as they do in this and every other Greek-themed movie, but the myths were mostly SET hundreds of years earlier, during the Mycenaean age before the Greek Dark Ages. Clothing, government, writing, political systems, and more were very, very different at that time.) Putting people in classical robes anyway is justifiable though, because the myths reflect the time they were written down in as much or more than the time they are supposedly set, but still if intentional it was a nice touch.) Having Medusa be beautiful and yet hideous was also interesting, it was an interesting take on the character for sure.
(Of course, after all five of his companions died in the successful effort to beat Medusa is when our hero abandons all his "I'm going to win with just human means" and uses the sword Zeus gave him and takes off on Pegasus, without a good enough explanation for why he changed, but yeah, I did say the plot was bad, so oh well. :))
... Also, after getting back from the film a few days ago I spent most of the next eight hours reading about various Greek myths on the web, which was pretty fun and interesting, so it definitely wasn't all bad if it got me to do that. But yeah, don't go in expecting a good movie... it's definitely not that.
Oh, I saw it in 2d, not 3d.
Warning: Spoilers!
I mean, the movie had some big problems. First would be that it has an identity crisis in that it couldn't decide whether to be Clash of the Titans or God of War... it eventually decided on Clash of the Titans, but only after a lot of "I hate the gods" stuff that didn't end up going anywhere and just helped the movie make even less sense. "I hate the gods and I'm going to destroy them!" "... Well okay, maybe not, I'll work with them actually, and just fight the evil one..."... and in the film it's done even worse than that. It was just stupid. I know we're in a time of cynicism, as God of War shows (Kratos is a suicidal mass murderer who kills like half of the gods for really badly written reasons, and yet he's the "hero"...), and with that element of the film (if mostly just in word and not in deed) they were obviously trying to attract that audience more, I think, but because of how they resolved it, it just made it make no sense. They really needed to work that out and make the film more consistent. "We got no fish so I hate the gods and want them to die!" says the old fisherman at the beginning... and that theme comes back again and again, only for the movie to sabotage it at the end. The whole ending was just so bizarre... they could have done that same ending but made it actually made sense had actual good writers been working on this movie, but yeah, no luck in that department obviously. This movie's about the spectacle, you're supposed to ignore how bad the plot is. (And I've only scraped the surface in how stupid and broken the plot was... I won't mention everything right now, but it was just so dumb...)
Now -- I think that it is BETTER that they didn't go through with it. I don't like God of War's approach. But honesly, in this movie it just made no sense.
Beyond that, of course just like the first movie any attention to mythological detail is seriously lacking to the point where it's almost an accident when they actually get anything RIGHT, but with a movie like that you expect that kind of thing, so that didn't surprise me.
As for the movie itself, it was predictable, somewhat like the original 1980s movie and yet different in a some ways, including some I've mentioned. I thought parts of it were awful, a lot of it mediocre, and a few parts good. There were some pretty cool action scenes, such as the fights against the giant scorpions and then the Kraken. I liked the second half of the movie better than the first; while early on I wasn't liking the movie at all, by the later parts I was enjoying myself enough to make it feel worthwhile seeing. It's a bad movie, but entertaining bad, at least for anyone who likes fantasy movies, ancient Greek themed stuff, or things like that, as I definitely do.
Oh, the women with the vaguely Cretan/Mycenaean layered dresses in the Argos hall were a nice touch, maybe a tiny little nod to the period when the myths were actually set? (Greek myths were written down in the Classical era when everyone wore draped robes, as they do in this and every other Greek-themed movie, but the myths were mostly SET hundreds of years earlier, during the Mycenaean age before the Greek Dark Ages. Clothing, government, writing, political systems, and more were very, very different at that time.) Putting people in classical robes anyway is justifiable though, because the myths reflect the time they were written down in as much or more than the time they are supposedly set, but still if intentional it was a nice touch.) Having Medusa be beautiful and yet hideous was also interesting, it was an interesting take on the character for sure.
(Of course, after all five of his companions died in the successful effort to beat Medusa is when our hero abandons all his "I'm going to win with just human means" and uses the sword Zeus gave him and takes off on Pegasus, without a good enough explanation for why he changed, but yeah, I did say the plot was bad, so oh well. :))
... Also, after getting back from the film a few days ago I spent most of the next eight hours reading about various Greek myths on the web, which was pretty fun and interesting, so it definitely wasn't all bad if it got me to do that. But yeah, don't go in expecting a good movie... it's definitely not that.
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