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So I recently saw Clash of the titans( with Sam worthington) and I thought this movie was very gimmicky. It felt like they crammed in special effects randomly with little or no plot. He finds a robot super owl in a barrel of swords and stuff, a sword in the forest, and those 2 guys in the beginning. It was dazzling and shint but I felt like the first one did a much better representation of the plot. And the pegasus being all dark and emo was phail. Some other stuff was kinda butchered greek mythology wise!



Basically tell your opinions of this movie, old or new version I want serious discusion not just "it sucked....eggs!" But you can if you want to, rather not though!

I gotta pull this up, since I just saw the movie yesterday.

Oh lord, what a suck-fest. I heard plenty of people complain about Avatar and that one not having a story ... well these kids are gonna have a field day with clash of the titans. While not as bad as "the happening", this movie definately rates in the top two of the crappiest movies ever list of mine.

No story, horrible dialogue (okay, that one could be down to lame translations we get here in germany..) and crappy characters.

Good thing it was "movie-day" and I only paid 5 bucks for it.

I posted my review in the previous thread, reposted here for good measure...


I saw it on the weekend, it's an alright movie. There's already been a bunch of people saying it's horrible, but we're all geeks and geeks do love to claim something is so awful or so wonderful, so whatever.

The script is the most noticeable element in the film. It really does have some interesting ideas but just fails to establish or develop them. Man is apparently angry with the gods but we're not really shown why, they just keep saying they're pissed. This kind of leads to an idea about fearing the gods or loving them, and a better script could have worked with these ideas to produce something pretty interesting, or at least something a little more coherent. The movie ends with Zeus and Perseus having a chat where they basically fail to address the premise of the movie, all just underlying how incoherent the film had been. I suspect the film passed through a whole lot of rewrites, drifting away from the interesting original idea and towards the mess we ended up with.

That inconsistancy can be felt elsewhere in the film. Much of the first act feels like a slightly camp melodrama as they earnestly set out all the themes and character relations, only to see the film settle into a generic actioner and completely forget about almost everything that had been established.

That said, it's a more interesting idea than most blockbusters, as the premise is something more than 'believe in yourself' or similar tosh. I thought Io was an interesting romantic lead, and the grizzled band of adventurers that set off with Perseus were pretty cool (a lot more interesting than Perseus), and I like that they gave a pretty good account of themselves in the various battles, not just getting wailed on until Perseus saved the day.

The special effects are of the exceptionally high quality you'd expect from a modern blockbuster, and there's some really good action scenes (I really like the fight with Medusa, but got a little confused in the fight with the scorpions - I couldn't figure out for most of the fight if there was meant to be one or more scorpions). The set designs are really impressive as well, the palace layout is particularly lush and would have cost a fair penny.

It's a decent spectacle that, like so many other blockbusters, just needed a tighter hand in the script to make it a really solid film.

Reading your review seb, I have somewhat calmed down and I have to agree with you. Visually, the movie is great and has some interesting characters. But the script made the movie quite a bit.

What I can't believe is Sam Worthington was allowed to speak in his Australian accent.