Clash of the Titans Remake
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I'm seeing this on Tuesday, looking forward to it 
I remember watching the original in my Mythology class back in high school, and I've been rewatching it the last few days to refresh my memory. It'll be exciting to see a remake for this kind of movie.
I remember watching the original in my Mythology class back in high school, and I've been rewatching it the last few days to refresh my memory. It'll be exciting to see a remake for this kind of movie.
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I'm seeing this on Tuesday, looking forward to it
I remember watching the original in my Mythology class back in high school, and I've been rewatching it the last few days to refresh my memory. It'll be exciting to see a remake for this kind of movie.
ouch...that may be a mistake...like when I watched Terminator and T2 before going to see T3
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... as enjoyable as the original COTT was, it's no "The Terminator".
I think this is a worthy remake.
I think this is a worthy remake.
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I got to say this remake was pretty terrible.
The design of the monsters overall was pretty good and interesting. I was pretty disappointed with Medusa though, she was not really all that scary looking a lot of that has to do with she looked way too CG.
It was really hard to care about any of the characters at all, it is sad but the only character I was able to care about was Medusa after her story was told, which in that case should have made her more of an ally...
Just a fare warning I would save this as a rental at best, the original had a much better story that presented characters you could feel something towards.
The design of the monsters overall was pretty good and interesting. I was pretty disappointed with Medusa though, she was not really all that scary looking a lot of that has to do with she looked way too CG.
It was really hard to care about any of the characters at all, it is sad but the only character I was able to care about was Medusa after her story was told, which in that case should have made her more of an ally...
Just a fare warning I would save this as a rental at best, the original had a much better story that presented characters you could feel something towards.
Okay, well, I don't know how many of you are actually going to read all of this, but here's my (rather long) review if you're interested. SPOILERS AHEAD. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Clash of the Titans - 6/10
We need to be reminded of the order of things, don't we?
We spend a lot of time on the internet, b**ching up a storm about remakes. It stems from the constant belief that Hollywood has no original ideas, and it's only hope at producing quality material is to hit the reset button on something from 20 years ago and soup it up with better special effects and whatever actors are [Mugatu]so hot right now.[/Mugatu]
Yet despite all of our complaints, we all know that 9 times out of 10 when these remakes hit theaters, whether its out of actual interest or perhaps simple morbid curiosity, a percentage of us will go see them. In fact, as the release date nears, we often get excited for them. We begin to relish the possibility that a remake of a film we loved when we were kids might blow the old one completely out of the water because all of the crappy effects and inconsistent story elements have been excised.
And yet, when we see it... it's simply not that good. Never mind the fact that the original wasn't that good either... that movie (for some reason) is sacred to us and the only way we could accept the new version is if it is, in every way possible, a better film than the original (even though we know it will still be inferior, in our eyes).
It is the natural order of things.
But Clash of the Titans poses an interesting question. When remaking a film, how closely do you stick to the original? Perhaps it is possible to take various elements from an old movie (or and old myth) and craft something of a new story with them, while keeping with the spirit of what came before? That sounds like a novel idea, right? After all, Tim Burton and Andrew Kevin Walker did this pretty well in Sleepy Hollow.
Unfortunately for Clash, the one thing consistent with the original is its overall mediocrity. It's been a while since I've seen the original, but the often silly turns the story takes, the questionable lead actor and the silly looking sidekick are all here. The story has been butchered to turn Perseus (Sam "I Still Can't Do An Accent" Worthington) into a lazyass Batman/Maximus hybrid whose sole motivation is to kill Hades (who talks like he has emphysema for the first part of the movie).
See Hades (Ralph Fiennes) wiped out his family after he (apparently) recognized Perseus for being Zeus' son. The strange thing about that is that Hades originally showed up to kill a bunch of soldiers from Argos for tearing down a statue of Zeus and Perseus' family happened to be sailing nearby. Even though Hades hates the king of the gods for being a general *****ebag (Zeushebag?), he's trying to get back in his good graces for his own nefarious purposes. Because apparently Zeus would want to slaughter a bunch of jerks for tearing down a statue, but he probably wouldn't bat an eye if his son is murdered, right? Never mind, there's a lot about this movie that doesn't make any sense.
Speaking of Zeushebag. I gather that we're supposed to like him because he's played by Liam Neeson and he pops in from time to time to give Perseus advice and weapons (such as the lightsaber he dropped at the end of The Phantom Menace). Sure, that's great, but we're also talking about a guy who screwed his brother over and had him banished to the underworld (thus putting into motion the horrible events of the movie), more or less raped Perseus' mom by disguising himself as her husband (which ultimately got her killed) and towards the end, commands the Kraken to kill a few hundred people. Great guy.
Anyway, we're eventually introduced to Andromeda (Alexa Davalos), whose mom, in typical stage-mother fashion, proclaims that her daughter is more beautiful than the gods. This of course incurs their wrath and nearly gets Argos wiped out.
I wonder if Alexa Davalos read the script of this film before signing onto it. I would wager that she didn't. I know that she's not a huge star by any means, but she probably thought that this could be a big break for her, since Andromeda is supposed to be the love interest of Perseus. That's one of the things that the original got right... Perseus and Andromeda get together.... that's a pretty big part of the myth.
Not here though! Andromeda is relegated to a plot device and Perseus' love interest is instead Io (Gemma Arterton), some chick who shot down a horny god and he cursed her to remain young and hot for all eternity. I'm not exactly sure why, of all the mythological figures they could have used, they picked Io for this. According to the myth, she was seduced by Zeus and afterward, he turned her into a cow.
Anyway, Perseus teams up with Draco (Mad Mikkelson), Io, and a small band of soldiers to go kill Medusa, take her head, and use it to slay the Kraken before he wipes out Argos in 10 days. Among these soldiers is Hans Matheson, who does nothing interesting in the movie. Still I've seen this guy in plenty of other things, and he really deserves better than this. I would argue that he should have been Perseus, because even with this script, he probably could have made me give a crap about the character. Instead, we're stuck with Worthington, who looks like he should be playing tight end for the Patriots - well, actually, that's a little too kind - the Raiders, maybe - and tries to hide his Aussie accent by grunting every other line.
Along the way, Perseus does everything he can to refuse the help of the gods. Why the gods would want to help a vengeful guy who wants to wipe one (and perhaps all) of them out is a bit puzzling. It's also puzzling why the guys he fighting along side, who earlier in the movie declared WAR on the gods, are pissed at him for refusing the gods' gifts.
Anyway, long story short, they get attacked by Calibos (Jason Flemyng), then fight some giant Scorpions who look straight out of Might Morphin Power Rangers, and team up with some weird guy made of bark. Barkman is hilarious, by the way. I don't know if he's intended to be, but I couldn't stop laughing every time this character was on screen and delivered lines like "Arrguguuuuhggggrrfaaa!!!" (some of the best dialogue in the film).
Our heroes later have to confront the three long lost sisters of the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth, and later find their way to the underworld and confront Angelina Jolie's CGI doppleganger from Beowulf, who now has snakes growing out of her head. During the battle with Medusangelina, everyone (predictably) dies except Perseus and Io. Then Calibos shows up again and Io gets capped.
Perseus takes Zeushebag's lightsaber and Medusangelina's head and rides Pegasus to go fight the Kraken. Much has been said about how brief the Kraken scene is, but really, it's one of the better parts of the film. The Kraken looks cool and though it's not a long scene, well... if it was any longer the audience would be left to wonder just how in the hell someone who is clearly tied up as a sacrifice could have not become Kraken-food already. He saves her and then defeats Hades, who is apparently stupid enough to reveal himself to our hero right at the exact moment he's been weakened. Everyone in the film seems to realize this but him, I guess.
Andromeda gives Perseus the opportunity to become king (and presumably bang her on a regular basis) but being the emotionless jerk that he is, Perseus says that he already has everything he needs, which consists of a wrecked ship, a winged horse and two statue feet of Zeus, apparently. But then
Zeus returns and, since you know, he's not a bad guy, he brings Io back to life. Well, I have to give this movie some points for that. Even though they got the love interest wrong, at least they had the good sense to bring our leading lady back for a happy ending, instead of pulling a Van Helsing. I'm not opposed to a bittersweet ending, but when you're making a mindless, craptastic popcorn flick with the depth of a dixie cup, just go for the crowd pleaser at the end. Don't try and be pretentious. Killing off the heroine or the hero won't make this story a brilliant tragedy... it will just piss your audience off.
In the end, I know I've kind of torn this movie to shreds, and well, that's because it really isn't very good. But it is fun. And it's worth seeing at least once (though if you go, pick the 2D version). The only thing that concerns me here is that this was the first big budget venture into Greek Mythology in a long while (I don't count films like Troy because they cut out the fantastical elements). I was hoping that it would really set the bar high and we could expect a whole slew of these films based on classic myths. I know a few others are in production, but even if those are really solid, negative reactions to this movie could hurt their chances.
But here's to hoping they'll have more than cool looking creatures and actually focus on interesting heroes and villains, and a story that makes sense. Hopefully they'll look at this film and avoid its flaws, while taking a cue from some of its better points. That would, hopefully, be the natural order of things.
Clash of the Titans - 6/10
We need to be reminded of the order of things, don't we?
We spend a lot of time on the internet, b**ching up a storm about remakes. It stems from the constant belief that Hollywood has no original ideas, and it's only hope at producing quality material is to hit the reset button on something from 20 years ago and soup it up with better special effects and whatever actors are [Mugatu]so hot right now.[/Mugatu]
Yet despite all of our complaints, we all know that 9 times out of 10 when these remakes hit theaters, whether its out of actual interest or perhaps simple morbid curiosity, a percentage of us will go see them. In fact, as the release date nears, we often get excited for them. We begin to relish the possibility that a remake of a film we loved when we were kids might blow the old one completely out of the water because all of the crappy effects and inconsistent story elements have been excised.
And yet, when we see it... it's simply not that good. Never mind the fact that the original wasn't that good either... that movie (for some reason) is sacred to us and the only way we could accept the new version is if it is, in every way possible, a better film than the original (even though we know it will still be inferior, in our eyes).
It is the natural order of things.
But Clash of the Titans poses an interesting question. When remaking a film, how closely do you stick to the original? Perhaps it is possible to take various elements from an old movie (or and old myth) and craft something of a new story with them, while keeping with the spirit of what came before? That sounds like a novel idea, right? After all, Tim Burton and Andrew Kevin Walker did this pretty well in Sleepy Hollow.
Unfortunately for Clash, the one thing consistent with the original is its overall mediocrity. It's been a while since I've seen the original, but the often silly turns the story takes, the questionable lead actor and the silly looking sidekick are all here. The story has been butchered to turn Perseus (Sam "I Still Can't Do An Accent" Worthington) into a lazyass Batman/Maximus hybrid whose sole motivation is to kill Hades (who talks like he has emphysema for the first part of the movie).
See Hades (Ralph Fiennes) wiped out his family after he (apparently) recognized Perseus for being Zeus' son. The strange thing about that is that Hades originally showed up to kill a bunch of soldiers from Argos for tearing down a statue of Zeus and Perseus' family happened to be sailing nearby. Even though Hades hates the king of the gods for being a general *****ebag (Zeushebag?), he's trying to get back in his good graces for his own nefarious purposes. Because apparently Zeus would want to slaughter a bunch of jerks for tearing down a statue, but he probably wouldn't bat an eye if his son is murdered, right? Never mind, there's a lot about this movie that doesn't make any sense.
Speaking of Zeushebag. I gather that we're supposed to like him because he's played by Liam Neeson and he pops in from time to time to give Perseus advice and weapons (such as the lightsaber he dropped at the end of The Phantom Menace). Sure, that's great, but we're also talking about a guy who screwed his brother over and had him banished to the underworld (thus putting into motion the horrible events of the movie), more or less raped Perseus' mom by disguising himself as her husband (which ultimately got her killed) and towards the end, commands the Kraken to kill a few hundred people. Great guy.
Anyway, we're eventually introduced to Andromeda (Alexa Davalos), whose mom, in typical stage-mother fashion, proclaims that her daughter is more beautiful than the gods. This of course incurs their wrath and nearly gets Argos wiped out.
I wonder if Alexa Davalos read the script of this film before signing onto it. I would wager that she didn't. I know that she's not a huge star by any means, but she probably thought that this could be a big break for her, since Andromeda is supposed to be the love interest of Perseus. That's one of the things that the original got right... Perseus and Andromeda get together.... that's a pretty big part of the myth.
Not here though! Andromeda is relegated to a plot device and Perseus' love interest is instead Io (Gemma Arterton), some chick who shot down a horny god and he cursed her to remain young and hot for all eternity. I'm not exactly sure why, of all the mythological figures they could have used, they picked Io for this. According to the myth, she was seduced by Zeus and afterward, he turned her into a cow.
Anyway, Perseus teams up with Draco (Mad Mikkelson), Io, and a small band of soldiers to go kill Medusa, take her head, and use it to slay the Kraken before he wipes out Argos in 10 days. Among these soldiers is Hans Matheson, who does nothing interesting in the movie. Still I've seen this guy in plenty of other things, and he really deserves better than this. I would argue that he should have been Perseus, because even with this script, he probably could have made me give a crap about the character. Instead, we're stuck with Worthington, who looks like he should be playing tight end for the Patriots - well, actually, that's a little too kind - the Raiders, maybe - and tries to hide his Aussie accent by grunting every other line.
Along the way, Perseus does everything he can to refuse the help of the gods. Why the gods would want to help a vengeful guy who wants to wipe one (and perhaps all) of them out is a bit puzzling. It's also puzzling why the guys he fighting along side, who earlier in the movie declared WAR on the gods, are pissed at him for refusing the gods' gifts.
Anyway, long story short, they get attacked by Calibos (Jason Flemyng), then fight some giant Scorpions who look straight out of Might Morphin Power Rangers, and team up with some weird guy made of bark. Barkman is hilarious, by the way. I don't know if he's intended to be, but I couldn't stop laughing every time this character was on screen and delivered lines like "Arrguguuuuhggggrrfaaa!!!" (some of the best dialogue in the film).
Our heroes later have to confront the three long lost sisters of the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth, and later find their way to the underworld and confront Angelina Jolie's CGI doppleganger from Beowulf, who now has snakes growing out of her head. During the battle with Medusangelina, everyone (predictably) dies except Perseus and Io. Then Calibos shows up again and Io gets capped.
Perseus takes Zeushebag's lightsaber and Medusangelina's head and rides Pegasus to go fight the Kraken. Much has been said about how brief the Kraken scene is, but really, it's one of the better parts of the film. The Kraken looks cool and though it's not a long scene, well... if it was any longer the audience would be left to wonder just how in the hell someone who is clearly tied up as a sacrifice could have not become Kraken-food already. He saves her and then defeats Hades, who is apparently stupid enough to reveal himself to our hero right at the exact moment he's been weakened. Everyone in the film seems to realize this but him, I guess.
Andromeda gives Perseus the opportunity to become king (and presumably bang her on a regular basis) but being the emotionless jerk that he is, Perseus says that he already has everything he needs, which consists of a wrecked ship, a winged horse and two statue feet of Zeus, apparently. But then
Zeus returns and, since you know, he's not a bad guy, he brings Io back to life. Well, I have to give this movie some points for that. Even though they got the love interest wrong, at least they had the good sense to bring our leading lady back for a happy ending, instead of pulling a Van Helsing. I'm not opposed to a bittersweet ending, but when you're making a mindless, craptastic popcorn flick with the depth of a dixie cup, just go for the crowd pleaser at the end. Don't try and be pretentious. Killing off the heroine or the hero won't make this story a brilliant tragedy... it will just piss your audience off.
In the end, I know I've kind of torn this movie to shreds, and well, that's because it really isn't very good. But it is fun. And it's worth seeing at least once (though if you go, pick the 2D version). The only thing that concerns me here is that this was the first big budget venture into Greek Mythology in a long while (I don't count films like Troy because they cut out the fantastical elements). I was hoping that it would really set the bar high and we could expect a whole slew of these films based on classic myths. I know a few others are in production, but even if those are really solid, negative reactions to this movie could hurt their chances.
But here's to hoping they'll have more than cool looking creatures and actually focus on interesting heroes and villains, and a story that makes sense. Hopefully they'll look at this film and avoid its flaws, while taking a cue from some of its better points. That would, hopefully, be the natural order of things.
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It's not "Perceus". It's "Perseus".
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Saw this yesterday. I really enjoyed the Calabos/scorpion attack scene, which was great fun. The pegasus scenes were very well done. Other than that, well...if you've ever seen The Mummy, The Scorpion King, etc. then this is just another one of those big, cheesy, typical Hollywood action flicks.
The dialogue is extremely dumbed-down. Some of the acting is really good, but they didn't have much to work with. Sam Worthington fails as Perseus. He's a bland, wooden, one-note actor. His travel companions are very good, though. CGI Medusa didn't hold up well. It just wasn't convincing at all. By the time the Kraken arrived, I was ready to go. This movie was mostly bad, but not horrible. I'd recommend waiting for it to come to cable, or dollar theater at best.
Rating: 3.5/10.
The dialogue is extremely dumbed-down. Some of the acting is really good, but they didn't have much to work with. Sam Worthington fails as Perseus. He's a bland, wooden, one-note actor. His travel companions are very good, though. CGI Medusa didn't hold up well. It just wasn't convincing at all. By the time the Kraken arrived, I was ready to go. This movie was mostly bad, but not horrible. I'd recommend waiting for it to come to cable, or dollar theater at best.
Rating: 3.5/10.
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Went to see this yesterday, didn't have particular high expectation if I'm honest.
This is a very average movie, and once again Sam Worthington is pretty poor. This guy has zero charisma or charm, and I'm beginning to get quite bitter that the Australian is getting all these major leading roles.
Also 3D? Nope this is a 2D movie that tricks you through the ticket price and glasses into thinking its a 3D movie. (plainly a late April fools from Hollywood? ) The glasses actually detract from the spectacle ( no pun intended ). Its far too dark with the glasses on and I was constantly taking them off to watch certain parts of the film.
Some and I say "some" of the effects are impressive, however it was CGI overkill for the most part to me.
Its a 3/10 movie to me, and a film I will never re-visit to watch.
I think word of mouth will kill this movie off quite quickly.
This is a very average movie, and once again Sam Worthington is pretty poor. This guy has zero charisma or charm, and I'm beginning to get quite bitter that the Australian is getting all these major leading roles.
Also 3D? Nope this is a 2D movie that tricks you through the ticket price and glasses into thinking its a 3D movie. (plainly a late April fools from Hollywood? ) The glasses actually detract from the spectacle ( no pun intended ). Its far too dark with the glasses on and I was constantly taking them off to watch certain parts of the film.
Some and I say "some" of the effects are impressive, however it was CGI overkill for the most part to me.
Its a 3/10 movie to me, and a film I will never re-visit to watch.
I think word of mouth will kill this movie off quite quickly.
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i haven't seen the movie yet, but i'm glad that it's getting bad reviews and word of mouth. it's clear to me that most of this movie was done just for the money and not necessarily because of the love for the original. they took Clash of the Titans (which they knew was in demand) and tried to make it into God of War (which they know is in demand) and tacked on 3D at the last moment (because they know it's in demand). hopefully this will teach Hollywood a lesson about remaking movies (in general) and shoving 3D into a movie that never had the intention of being 3D in the first place.
on average, movies need to make 3 times it's budget in order to turn out a REAL profit. so, it would need to make at LEAST $300 mil to justify a sequel.
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I liked it. And I wish they had that 2 headed dog in it. I'm not sure if that was suppose to be Cerbues or not. Cerbues has 3 heads.
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It seemed to be shorter than the original.
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Yeah that Barkman and his "Toegethaaaaaaaaaaaaa" line. That should be used to inspire confidence for sports teams.
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that's the thing made me so mad: the Barkman was such a cool character and yet..he doesn't do a whole lot.
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I have a feeling we'll get an extended edition of BluRay and dvd.
...and the two-headed dog in the original was called Dioskilos.
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i was also frusrated how we could get a good wide shot of the Kraken. from the movie, he's just tenticles with a Cloverfield head.
here's the concept art, and the Kraken looks more epic here:
http://io9.com/5509472/ogle-a-sexy-medusa-from-clash-of-the-titans-concept-art/gallery/
here's the concept art, and the Kraken looks more epic here:
http://io9.com/5509472/ogle-a-sexy-medusa-from-clash-of-the-titans-concept-art/gallery/
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CGI Medusa was lame. Maybe it would've been nice if it was in a video game instead of this movie, but if I wanted to play video games, then I would have just stayed home and saved my money. I didn't like how she kept giggling. They could've made Medusa really scary and memorable, but they blew it.
When the Kraken showed up, we mostly saw lots of tentacles and tidal waves flying around. There were a couple of good shots of his head and upper body, and his tentacles destroying stuff, but then there were so many cuts with all the other stuff going on, that it was just frustrating to watch. Especially with that crazy Hades worshipper, who was so over the top stupid and ridiculous that it just made everything worse.
When the Kraken showed up, we mostly saw lots of tentacles and tidal waves flying around. There were a couple of good shots of his head and upper body, and his tentacles destroying stuff, but then there were so many cuts with all the other stuff going on, that it was just frustrating to watch. Especially with that crazy Hades worshipper, who was so over the top stupid and ridiculous that it just made everything worse.
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i do have to say that the one thing that i liked about the new Medusa was that I felt bad for her. She, in some ways, was a victim and was cursed to be a snake woman.
And this is exactly why I can't take reviews here seriously. It's the same old fanboy sheep mentality that plagues websites all over the Internet.
Was this a great movie? Hell no. But it was a decent action adventure that gets bashed because it stars a guy who's currently cool to hate.
It paid enough tribute to the original, which hey, I still love, but is not as great as some people make it out to be. Acting was no worse than a lot of big budget adventure movies out there, the action scenes were well filmed and it was overall an entertaining movie.
It definitely needed more fleshing out, but I'm sure they'll fix that with the DVD.
This is IMO a solid 7. Could have been much better, but nowhere near the abomination that people here make it out to be.
But hey, if you bash this and love the original, you get some awesome (useless) geek cred.
Pffft please
Was this a great movie? Hell no. But it was a decent action adventure that gets bashed because it stars a guy who's currently cool to hate.
It paid enough tribute to the original, which hey, I still love, but is not as great as some people make it out to be. Acting was no worse than a lot of big budget adventure movies out there, the action scenes were well filmed and it was overall an entertaining movie.
It definitely needed more fleshing out, but I'm sure they'll fix that with the DVD.
This is IMO a solid 7. Could have been much better, but nowhere near the abomination that people here make it out to be.
But hey, if you bash this and love the original, you get some awesome (useless) geek cred.
Pffft please
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And this is exactly why I can't take reviews here seriously. It's the same old fanboy sheep mentality that plagues websites all over the Internet.
Was this a great movie? Hell no. But it was a decent action adventure that gets bashed because it stars a guy who's currently cool to hate.
It paid enough tribute to the original, which hey, I still love, but is not as great as some people make it out to be. Acting was no worse than a lot of big budget adventure movies out there, the action scenes were well filmed and it was overall an entertaining movie.
It definitely needed more fleshing out, but I'm sure they'll fix that with the DVD.
This is IMO a solid 7. Could have been much better, but nowhere near the abomination that people here make it out to be.
But hey, if you bash this and love the original, you get some awesome (useless) geek cred.
Pffft please
I can agree with this. I wanted so much to not like this movie, I probaly even tried to makes myself not like this movie. But I ended up really liking the movie and I'm glad that they didn't just use the same story which they would have also been bashed for.
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And this is exactly why I can't take reviews here seriously. It's the same old fanboy sheep mentality that plagues websites all over the Internet.
Was this a great movie? Hell no. But it was a decent action adventure that gets bashed because it stars a guy who's currently cool to hate.
It paid enough tribute to the original, which hey, I still love, but is not as great as some people make it out to be. Acting was no worse than a lot of big budget adventure movies out there, the action scenes were well filmed and it was overall an entertaining movie.
It definitely needed more fleshing out, but I'm sure they'll fix that with the DVD.
This is IMO a solid 7. Could have been much better, but nowhere near the abomination that people here make it out to be.
But hey, if you bash this and love the original, you get some awesome (useless) geek cred.
Pffft please
And this is the apologetic fan mentality that gets us 7 Saw sequels. Fix it on the DVD? This isn't golf. You don't get a mulligan.
Is it the worst movie ever? of course not. There's not a poll up but most of the people here are giving it 6 from what I can see.
The movie was just lazy. Forget Worthington. What's the point of making a bad version of another bad movie? So it had better effects? You could just remaster the original Star Wars style if that's all it takes. You have the original right there to see the mistakes it made and you just make the same ones(and in some cases worse) and that's supposed to be cool? Not for me.
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And this is exactly why I can't take reviews here seriously. It's the same old fanboy sheep mentality that plagues websites all over the Internet.
Was this a great movie? Hell no. But it was a decent action adventure that gets bashed because it stars a guy who's currently cool to hate.
It paid enough tribute to the original, which hey, I still love, but is not as great as some people make it out to be. Acting was no worse than a lot of big budget adventure movies out there, the action scenes were well filmed and it was overall an entertaining movie.
It definitely needed more fleshing out, but I'm sure they'll fix that with the DVD.
This is IMO a solid 7. Could have been much better, but nowhere near the abomination that people here make it out to be.
But hey, if you bash this and love the original, you get some awesome (useless) geek cred.
Pffft please
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TheComicbookKid
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What the hell? Saying I have a point instead of reacting like my opinion somehow invalidates your opinion so we end up in a never-ending posting war trying to win. What is going on here!!!?
This is the internet. That's how this goes.
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