RELEASE THE KRACKEN! perhaps it can destroy hollywood before they remake clash of the titans

is no crap sacred?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_the_Titans_(2010_film)

by the esteemed director of transporter 2

starring my two favorite drips, ralph fiennes and liam neeson

There are plenty of great Greek myths. Why only focus on that one?

Both those dudes seem kind of old to be playing Harry Hamlin, frankly.

Maybe they can introduce Medusa's sister, Zola, the chief Gorgon. She's the big cheese.

hmm, ilx didn't like that link

omg we ran out of films to remake

* Sam Worthington as Perseus
* Alexa Davalos as Andromeda
* Gemma Arterton as Io
* Mads Mikkelsen as Draco, leader of the Praetorian Guard[2]
* Liam Neeson as Zeus
* Ralph Fiennes as Hades[3]

actually I'd be kind of psyched if del toro were doing this

Neeson, being Irish, will just be there for the craic-en...

"Sims had difficulty designing Medusa, explaining "Are they all the same snake [in her hair]? Do they look more like hair? Are they different in silhouette or in light? And how much of a human face does she have, or is it more like a snake?"

this is not a good sign

(xpost) overthinking it just a tad there...
Although to help, maybe they could use certain song played in the background when Medusa makes her first appearance... Underworld's "Born Slippy"

No Ray Harryhausen, no credibility.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/kraken.jpg

Photos!

http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/img/clashtitans-newphotos102-full-02.jpg

Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus (Sam Worthington) is helpless to save his family from Hades (Ralph Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing left to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus (Liam Neeson) and unleash hell on earth. Leading a daring band of warriors, Perseus sets off on a journey deep into forbidden worlds. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, he will only survive if he can accept his power as a god, defy his fate and create his own destiny. Louis Leterrier is directing from a script by Lawrence Kasdan (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

I just love that it's the Schindler's List antagonists sixteen years on. In a way.

clash of the teutons

http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/36821.jpg
http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/36822.jpg
http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/36825.jpg

Will it have the little clockwork owl fella? He was my favourite.

Too frivolous. This is 'dark', 'serious', this is 'Perseus Begins' etc.

I'm guessing.

not every Liam Neeson movie is SERIUS BIZNIZ

(xxxpost) middle picture: Perseus takes out the recycling

although if they were, I would be lolling hardcore at this upcoming gem:

# The A-Team (2010) (filming) .... Col. John 'Hannibal' Smith

This looks like a weird cross between overly dark and totally ludicrous. I'll probably go see it no matter what though.

"What I wanted to do was just tell a very human story," says director Louis Leterrier. "Yes, I was really interested in doing the big monster fight at the end of that, but what was really interesting for me was the human side of it. Perseus is a conflicted hero, he hates it, which is so much better than a 'real' hero. The original Perseus is embracing it and takes the weapons Zeus gives him."

Worthington: "I feel when my Perseus starts out, he should be this bombastic tank. The gods have killed his family. He's Charles Bronson! He's gonna go for revenge, and the best way to achieve that is to kill the Kraken. Well, to kill the Kraken you gotta kill Medusa. To get to Medusa, you gotta take on the witches. Then once he kills the Kraken, he's gonna kill fuckin' Hades and Zeus and everybody else! But along the way he needs to learn to calm down, ask for help. And out of that comes the true hero. A hero isn't someone who leads men; a hero is someone that's in the trench with the men."

"we're not in fuckin' Harryhausen mode anymore"

A hero isn't someone who leads men; a hero is someone that's in the trench with the men.

kudos to the dumbest thing I have read today

no bubo, no credibility

kudos to the dumbest thing I have read today

Depends on the trench.

Yeah, I want my clockwork owl.

On a related note, has anyone caught any eps of the "Clash of the Gods" series that TLC/History channel has been running?

This movie is only going to be as good as its monsters, and I find it hard to believe they can outdo Harryhausen, at least in imagination.

I thought it was a Poseidon beef, what gives?

Poseidon was just in charge of the Kraken, which he released on the orders of Sir Laurence Olivier after the King of Argos got sonned in a casting-his-daughter-and-her-son-who-was-fathered-by-Zeus-out-on-the-waves beef. And then again when Queen Cassiopeia ran off at the mouth about how her daughter Andromeda was better looking than a goddess that I can't remember the name of, but I think she was Calibos's mother, so she was predisposed to be pissed about the whole situation anyway.

This remake is totally wrong on every level and I will probably go fucking see it anyway.

yep

will there be PG nude butts?

Queen Cassiopeia ran off at the mouth about how her daughter Andromeda was better looking than a goddess that I can't remember the name of

Reckon that'll be Hera. Hera was always getting pissed off about shit.

the King of Argos got sonned in a casting-his-daughter-and-her-son-who-was-fathered-by-Zeus-out-on-the-waves beef.

But he took it back within 16 days and got a refund...

Headbanger of a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcBNHZEiX0g

"Titans. Will. Clash."

Love the leap through the air ripped off from Pineapple Express.

why does everything have to be all nu metal all the time

enya didn't return their calls

that trailer was developed by the comic con hivemind

I'll go see this. H**h as fuck.

I don't even know what "Hoth as fuck" means

it means you stuff yourself in a Tauntaun and drag yourself to the theatre

hoping Han Solo shows up halfway through the movie

why does everything have to be all nu metal all the time

― goole, Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:39 AM (53 minutes ago)

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I'VE
BECOME S0
NUUUUUUUMB

tears

This summer. "Titans will Clash!!"

very good work there guys... what did you do with the rest of the day you came up with that?

good to see the Cloverfield monster getting some more work at the end there

^spoiler! haven't seen cloverfield

looks like the first crab-core action movie.

this looks so fukken rad

i mean dude busts out on a fukken pegasus fighten a seamonster @ the end of that trailer

Harry Hamlin approves:

GK: Had you ever thought over the years that there would come a day when you’d see a remake?

HH: No, it never occurred to me.

GK: Not even with the onslaught of technology? Even George Lucas revisited “Star Wars.”

HH: One doesn’t contemplate that kinda thing. It doesn’t seem like the type of thing you would make. To me, it seemed strange and bizarre. Now that they have different ways of filming, I’m sure it will be better.

GK: You have Sam Worthington taking on your role as Perseus … not a bad choice, right? Have you been in contact with him? Did you give him any sort of advice before they started filming?

HH: No, I haven’t, but I saw him in “Avatar.” He was great in that. I was concerned (about how) whoever was playing Perseus (would) create the arc of the hero. I used Joseph Campbell as my template. Having seen Sam Worthington in “Avatar” and how he constructed his journey in that, I’m almost certain he’ll do the same here.

And for your enjoyment, one of the accompanying photos:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f5a85b2970c-600wi

so glad im on record as predicting this will own

Sooooo.... anyone?

The reviews so far are bleah, and I'm disappointed that the movie
feels the need to be so humorless and grim as to casually reject a clockwork owl...

yeah be careful GISing tauntaun y'all

― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Friday, November 13, 2009 1:50 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark

statements which I wish I had taken more seriously

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/10/25/tauntaun-cake-4.jpg

Eraserhead in space?

this movie would be awesome if the monsters were actually transformers

good to see the armor from EXCALIBUR getting some work

This still holds up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqwO6hti6M&feature=related

saw this last night cuz i'm supposed to write about it. it's terrible, and mostly not in a fun or entertaining way. just ... bad. dull. derivative. (and not just of the first movie, obv -- it's like cobbled together from stray bits of star wars, lord of the rings and satyricon, and then ralph fiennes wanders in periodically on his off days from a harry potter shoot, without barely bothering to change his voldemort costume.

lousy movie.

(the kraken is kind of cool, tbh, but by then i was really just wishing it would be over.)

although even the kraken basically looks like a big, crabby giger alien

if you hated avatar you're gonna love this

you know I kinda feel bad for sam worthington, people give him a lot of shit, but then again he has to work with this

Im reading so many reviews today and all of them are negative. Except, of course, Armond White, who says it's better than Avatar and has a "better sense of meaningful, economic narrative than the mess that Peter Jackson made of the interminable, incoherent Lord of the Rings trilogy".

http://www.nypress.com/article-21081-ersatz-3-d.html

lol when watching this I was thinking 'peter jackson has so much to account for'

Moviegoers must learn to appreciate movies in measured terms, not the terms of hype.

love ya Armond don't ever change

Yes, teach me, Armond.

RELEASE THE ARMOND

^^^where is anigif

yeah but even armond doesn't really work up enthusiasm here. for anything by one of the transporter auteurs i'd expect a little more rapture.

Megan McArdle should give up the political/economic blogging in favor of film crit:

I gather that the idea was to do a sort of homage to eighties movies — indeed, to possibly the last of the great stop-motion monster movies. It was the kind of homage that is usually delivered by drunk wedding guests with a latent crush on the bride and a too-accurate grasp of the couples' worst qualities.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a212218/worthington-despised-titans-owl.html

?? The clockwork owl doesn't appear in this though, does it?

xpost Ned that actually makes it sound worth watching!

DM it does, for 1 sec

From a friend:

I went to Clash of the Titans on Friday when it opened. That was not my
best decision ever.

3D is such a gyp.

The mortals rebelling against the gods aspect was interesting, but other than that this was entirely medium. Also it was horribly over-designed. The screen was always way too fucking busy.

Also it was horribly over-designed. The screen was always way too fucking busy.

whoever said upthread that Peter Jackson has alot to answer for, George Lucas has more.

The design of the LOTR movies are very elegant, I think. Not so Episodes I-III, so yeah, I agree.

this movie was dumb and stupid and when they pulled out the clockwork owl and we never saw it again, that actually pissed me off a little. also every actor in this movie used a different action/fantasy movie accent. i felt like i might have been more impressed by the 3D stuff if i hadn't seen how to train your dragon.

how to train your dragon, btw, so far, best use of 3D graphics.

Better than Avatar? I mean, as much as I fucking hated that movie, the 3D effects were pretty phenomenal. I liked that it wasn't all "here comes a fist flying out of the screen at your face!".

Face Punch!

Nicely played.

RELEASE THE ARMOND

omigod I want this as a thread title, with this image:

http://theseventhvoyage.com/images/Clash%20of%20the%20Titans/medusa3.jpg

Just back from seeing this. Every seat in the cinema taken, though, tbf, it is Orange Wednesday. It was, um, yeah. I don't know, can't remember much about it. Gemma Aterton looked fine, Liam Neeson ridiculous, and when Sam Worthington was doing that scowl he looked like Private Pile.
Funny that the Kraken was talked up throughout the movie, even in the movie's intro, and it lasted onscreen for about 5 minutes not really doing much, and then was killed. Spoiler, sorry. + riding across the desert on giant scorpions set against setting sun skies was stupid. + Medusa wasn't scary but was v. good looking for a hag. + so on.

this sucked ass

except for that silent djinn dude, his death was kinda funny

Harryhausen 4-ever and ever

really hate how the default move for making things more memorable is to just make it BIGGER and HUMONGOUS

I was quite prepared to like this no matter what it threw at me - men v gods + fictional monsters = what could go wrong. For about the first ten minutes I thought it was doing ok (thought the 3d sea look pretty good).

However, it turned out of course to be mega shit and insanely boring in places (ok you're getting on the big scorpions again) and had that meaningless 'now for the next level' computer game plotting (see also the last James Bond and the last Bourne film). Weakest link Gods, weakest acting humans, and although I haven't seen the original for over a decade, I'm pretty certain Harryhausen's Medusa > this Medusa (although that was the best bit).

And, yep, the end was Cloverfield II: A New Beginning.

What a pointless crock.

just saw the new one tonight, i know this will surprise you guys but it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

this is on netflix and tuned in for a little last night and lollll