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

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