Clash of the Titans - Remake

[Vanguard]

I saw the original movie as kid in the theatre.   Absolutely loved the movie then.   For some reason, I can't get excited about it this time around.  I think I've become jaded when it comes to remakes.

[shmokes]

I don't know about the quality of the movie itself but if there is one concensus, it's that the 3D is really poor. See it in 2d if you can.

Not to mention the critical consensus that the movie sucks.

[RayB]

Not to mention the critical consensus that the movie sucks.

The remake of a turd is a turd? What a surprise!!

[Xiaou2]

The Original Clash is very far from a turd.

 Its also better than probably 75% of what they have been popping out these days.

[Ginsu Victim]

The original wasn't very good. Some of the stop-motion is pretty neat, but the movie itself has always been kinda slow.

[Malenko]

I dont really go by reviews, especially ones where fanboyism could be an aspect. For example RT gives the 2004 Punisher movie pretty low marks but I really like that movie  

EDIT: I wont be seeing clash on sunday, I just won tickets to the flyers vs redwings game, woot!

[Ginsu Victim]

Yeah, it wasn't bad. Definitely better than the first Punisher movie.

[Vanguard]

The original wasn't very good. Some of the stop-motion is pretty neat, but the movie itself has always been kinda slow.

If your age in the profile is correct, that explains a lot.   In 1981, Clash of the Titans was bad ass.  We didn't have all the fancy ADHD, blow ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- up, don't stay on a scene for more than 30 seconds, action that we have today.

[Ginsu Victim]

I saw when it came out and it was pretty good, but the more I saw it over the years, the less I liked it.

And I hate all the ADHD stuff of today. I love my movies good and slow. (and if I go to the movies, the movie had better be at least 2 1/2 hrs to get my dough)

[AcidArmitage]

i take offense... i could watch things blow up all day 

[shmokes]

 if I go to the movies, the movie had better be at least 2 1/2 hrs to get my dough

The ---fudgesicle---?  That's like the most insane thing I've ever read.  2 1/2 hours is WAY too long for some movies, including some very good movies.  You're seriously telling me that Wedding Crashers should be 2 1/2 at least 2 1/2 hours long? ? ?

[Ginsu Victim]

 if I go to the movies, the movie had better be at least 2 1/2 hrs to get my dough

The ---fudgesicle---?  That's like the most insane thing I've ever read.  2 1/2 hours is WAY too long for some movies, including some very good movies.  You're seriously telling me that Wedding Crashers should be 2 1/2 at least 2 1/2 hours long? ? ?

I don't usually go to the movies for that sort of stuff. I just wait for the DVD.

We don't go to the movies very often, but when we do, it's usually for certain types of films (for instance, Grindhouse)

[shmokes]

Grindhouse, by the way, was awful.  It was better than Deathtrap.  But neither was good.  Both, in fact, were pretty bad.  The fake movie trailers were the highlight of the experience.  That doesn't say much.

[RayB]

Like was already said... seeing a movie when you were 11 and being wowed by it doesn't mean it was great.  I finally watched Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure again last night (first time since originally seeing it in the theatre). Holy crow, why did I originally like it?!? Yikes. Low point of George Carlin's career. And for that matter, why did directors keep giving Keanu more work?!

[Ginsu Victim]

Grindhouse, by the way, was awful.  It was better than Deathtrap.  But neither was good.  Both, in fact, were pretty bad.  The fake movie trailers were the highlight of the experience.  That doesn't say much.

Grindhouse (Planet Terror and Death Proof) was great. It was one of the best experiences we'd ever had as a group at the movies.

[shmokes]

Shrug.  Planet Terror (what I was thinking was Grindhouse, I guess) was at least campy and had some fun parts, but I didn't think it really succeeded at what it was trying to do.  Death Proof was just a gigantic bore from beginning to end.

[Ginsu Victim]

Planet Terror was spoofing John Carpenter movies, and as a Carpenter fan, I think Rodriguez did an excellent job.

I can see saying you were bored with Death Proof....but all the way through? The car chase was fantastic (it was no To Live and Die in LA, but it was very well done).

[shmokes]

The car chase was the best part, of course, and it was technically impressive in terms of the stunt-work (I sort of have the impression that the whole movie was an ode to unappreciated stuntmen and women).  But I just didn't care about any of the characters at all. And, in fact, I was still reeling from the fact that they had left their friend behind to be raped by that redneck.  Or had they?   . . . my memory may be fuzzy on that.  At any rate . . . I was so bored by the time the car chase took place that it did little to pique my interest back up.  And then the fight at the end was just retarded.  I was surprised they didn't all jump in the air for a group high-five and yell, "Girl power!"

Oh yeah . . . the worst thing by far about the movie is that as is typical of Tarantino, it was filled with lots and lots of dialogue.  Normally his movies have seemingly pointless dialogue . . . just every day banter, but it's so real and interesting and funny and sharp.  The dialogue in this movie seemed perfectly authentic and real, but it was insufferably tedious.  Just chicks talking about lame lame personal, uninteresting ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.

[Ginsu Victim]

And, in fact, I was still reeling from the fact that they had left their friend behind to be raped by that redneck.

Yeah. He's supposed to be the same character from Kill Bill vol 1 that pays Buck to let him have sex with The Bride while she's in a coma.

It ended the way a lot of films used to end. Bad guy dead....THE END. It's by no means a great film (it's Quentin's worst, but I still love it), but the second half is great (I love car chases -- hell, I own Short Time with Dabney Coleman because it has one of the best car chases not shot by William Friedkin).

[Cakemeister]

Saw the movie tonight. Pretty good action-adventure.

Never saw the original.

[hyiu]

I saw it in 3D because I got invited to a free screener.

action / story / cg is ok... not impressive... (given that my last movie at theater is imax 3d avatar...)

I would not pay to go to theater to see it...
to me, this is a home theater dvd movie...

I think I saw the original long time ago from like tv re-runs...
my memories of it is I do like it....
just added it to my netflix so that I can watch it again...

oh... and one thing...
on this one... when they have fast fighting / action...
it seems to me like the 3d effect is a little jittery....

[Silas (son of Silas)]

I had absolutely zero interest in watching this movie until I just watched the trailer on Youtube and noticed that Pete Postlethwaite's in it. Can't be all bad? I may go see this.

[Ginsu Victim]

I had absolutely zero interest in watching this movie until I just watched the trailer on Youtube and noticed that Pete Postlethwaite's in it.

He does add points to any movie he's in.

[dre-w]

the worst thing by far about the movie is that as is typical of Tarantino, it was filled with lots and lots of dialogue. 

+1
I almost started to think he did it on purpose.. so when the girls get killed, you get some sorta satisfaction from it.  Which I did.. but still came out not liking it and only bought the planet terror movie and soundtrack.

I saw this Clash remake in 2D yesterday.  Didn't care that much for it.  Did anyone like the original better..?  I still have yet to see it

[DaOld Man]

Went to see it yesterday.
I thought it was pretty good, but maybe not worth what it cost. (10.50 per ticket)
The effects, IMO, were pretty good.
I watched it in 3d, and I was not impressed with that. (But, take into account that the last 3d movie I saw was when I took my then young daughter to see Spy Kids 3D, and Titans 3D was a lot better than that piece of crap.)
Someone mentioned the metal owl. It is briefly in this film, but I thought the owl was a bit silly in the original movie, so Im glad they cut it.
The blind witches, IMO, were not as good as the original, but the scorpions were much better, as was Pegasus and the Kraken.

[Malenko]

went and saw it, it was good. It was not great, its definitely a watch on DVD/On-Demand. Some of the CGI was pretty bad, and the fight scenes were pretty average. Some cool effects, I got a chuckle at the OBVIOUS Original Movie reference. Its right on par with the first, I mean the first will always mean more to me because it was so magical in my youth, but this one wasn't a let down.  I expected average and that's what I got.

[Xiaou2]

R2D2 and C3PO was also "silly", but Starwars probably just would not have
been the same without them.  That touch of lite comic relief really helps a movie
from becoming too serious.

 Just as the Metal Owl, had this quirky & funny personality, really helped bring
the movie that much more to life.  (and seemed a bit more fitting than a rolling
trashcan that appeared to have no way to navigate stairs)

 I remember as a Kid watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and not liking how
they were Always happy and smiling.  However, Ive seen an episode of the remade
TMNT, and they are always Fierce looking.  I dont know why, as a
director/creator, you wouldnt want to portray at least some sort of realistic emotions.

 Maybe the Happy gen kids grew up angry, and made the Turtles Angry just to
counter the babyish pampering and phony moods portrayed in the past.

 ehh

 IMOP, the Metal Owl doth Rule   

[Epyx]

Watched it and while not great it certainly wasn't as terrible as I had feared it would be.  I also have to agree with Ginsu in that I prefer a long movie (given the right genre)...A good fantasy or SF movie almost always deserves to be 2 1/2+ hours long.

I would have watched Lord of the Rings even if they were 4 hours each...no problem

[shmokes]

Shrug.  I think it depends far more on the quality of the director, the depth of the story being told and so on.  I mean, Das Boot was like 3.5 hours long or something and every second was riveting.  U-571, on the other hand, not so much.  A 3.5 hour U-571 would have been horrifying.  I suppose there's probably some correlation with genre since, for example, comedies are not usually telling deep stories with complex characters and story lines.  But every minute of extra Phantom Menace footage would have made the movie even worse than it already was.  Or Battlefield Earth.  My god.  Even Lord of the Rings.  They're pretty good movies but The Two Towers in particular would have been better with some more editing and maybe ten minutes or so shaved off.  2001: A Space Odyssey would have been considerably better if an hour or more of the film had been left on the cutting room floor.

[garnerb350]

SPOILER ALERT
Me & some friends went to go see it...and I thought it was a good adventure flick, I was blown away just because "I'm seeing the remake" and then i realized it when i saw the ending credits...It was a piece of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- wrapped in shiny gold pretty foil!...There were so many continuity problems and holes in it that ticked me off...Top of my head...

1. In the original, It was Poseidon who was the one who started everything. Remake was Hades...
2. What was up with the Gay blurry armor on Zeus?...
3. Hades, played by Ralph Fiennes, was basically Lord Vordemort playing Hades, playing Lord Vordemort...For a min there i thought he was going to do the "Red Dragon" scene at any min...

4. It took the group 10 days to get from Argos to the Stygian Witches...but it took Perseus and Pegasus to get back to Argo within 5 min.
5. I wanted to slap the cult leader (leaded the rioters)
6. Apollo was gay...
7. Perseus was a fisherman, but give him 2 mins of sword training, and he becomes a jedi...WTF?
8. Perseus can break through the body of a scorpion like tearing into a wet paper bag...but can use the armor against Medusa?
9. Wood man with exploding heart....WTF?
10. I felt like I was watching Qui-Jon instead of Zeus...

In the end, we were disappointed because we were comparing the original to the remake...and yeah, the original wasn't a great film, but it was a blockbuster when we were kids...and we kept that "vision" as a child as awesomeness...I was just disappointed...

[shmokes]

It sort of sounds like you liked it right up until the point where all your friends started talking ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- on it.  Stand up for yourself man!   

[SNAAKE]

watched it earlier. wasnt bad at all. pretty good actually. I dunno what most people were expecting but I knew it was gonna be silly and heard about 2.5D too. I dunno why people are complaining about clash while harry potter movies get away with 2 hours of random nothing and 10 minutes of mediocre CGI.

sam worthington yelling > everyone in harry potter movies combined

[Malenko]

1. In the original, It was Poseidon who was the one who started everything. Remake was Hades...

And if it was still Poseidon people would complain it was exactly the same.

2. What was up with the Gay blurry armor on Zeus?...

It was their "Godly Armor" If they were in cloaks you'd say it was Quai Gon Jin (no Im proud to say I dont know how to spell that right)

3. Hades, played by Ralph Fiennes, was basically Lord Vordemort playing Hades, playing Lord Vordemort...For a min there i thought he was going to do the "Red Dragon" scene at any min...

Ummmm... I didnt draw any similarities and am Im glad I didnt hafta see his ball bags again.

4. It took the group 10 days to get from Argos to the Stygian Witches...but it took Perseus and Pegasus to get back to Argo within 5 min.

Flying usually always takes less time. Would you prefer he didnt make it in time? That woulda been a twist of ending though.

5. I wanted to slap the cult leader (leaded the rioters)

I think that was the idea.

6. Apollo was gay...

I saw no man love on screen, dont know where you got this.

7. Perseus was a fisherman, but give him 2 mins of sword training, and he becomes a jedi...WTF?

Agreed, that bugged me too.

8. Perseus can break through the body of a scorpion like tearing into a wet paper bag...but can use the armor against Medusa?

the sheild was made from the claw, the body is softer, I guess

9. Wood man with exploding heart....WTF?

I actually liked that part, wasnt expecting it. I was asking myself what was goignto happen to the guy if Medusa got him.

10. I felt like I was watching Qui-Jon instead of Zeus...

  Did you say that when you watched Taken too?

In the end, we were disappointed because we were comparing the original to the remake...and yeah, the original wasn't a great film, but it was a blockbuster when we were kids...and we kept that "vision" as a child as awesomeness...I was just disappointed...

Sounds like you were expecting way too much