Clash of the TitansTrailer Getting around to watching
Clash of the Titans was very low on my list. As a kid, other than perhaps
Star Wars, I've probably seen the original
Clash of the Titans more times than I care to admit. It's not that I liked the original. I actually wasn't a fan of the movie at all. It was just always on TV. The story of
Zeus and all that it comes with went over my head. I never made the connection to what the mythology meant. All I saw on screen was
Laurence Olivier in a robe and he was playing some sort of God. I didn't know what he was suppose to represent or any of that Greek Mythology at the time. I didn't know any better. I was just a kid that thought that the movie visually (at the time) was something unique and something "groundbreaking", although still a few rungs short of
Star Wars mind you.
So, searching for a movie to watch, I decided to go ahead and knock the remake of
Clash of the Titans off my list. Visually, this new version of the movie is stunning. It looks great. I can't comment on the
3D version as the DVD I watched was the regular
2D print of the film. But you can clearly tell that this movie was designed for the
3D audience in mind. As for the rest of the movie and the story. Meh. The only thing that I'm taking from this is now I am able to finally see what the mythology of the original film was with regards to
Zeus. I can't recall if the original film even had a character named
Hades in it though and I really don't remember much of the "story" either because I haven't watched it since the mid 80's.
So, what went wrong with the remake? I dunno to be honest. Maybe because it was cut a little too much from the same cloth which left surprises in store for me, other than seeing the
God,
Son of God and
Satan connection that the story derives from. But the characters in the movie were just flat. I don't expect character development in a movie like this, but give me something to connect with at least. The only thing that I even remotely liked was
Medusa. I thought this was great. But this was way shorter than I would have liked it to be. The
Kraken scene didn't live up to the ground swell the movie was riding on. It too was a bit too short to my liking. I guess I wanted to see more destruction and carnage to fully sell on the idea that 'the end was coming'.
Anyway, this is definitely a
Skip. Who would have ever guessed that I would say stick with the original, which is clearly the better version of the two. In a nutshell,
Clash Of The Titans was a disappointment to say the least.