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[VBBN]

I saw book of Eli yesterday. An awwsome movie. But I also saw a trailer for a movie called clash of thetitans. Is anyone else lookig forward to it. It seems like the next biggest thing I have been excited about besides iron man 2.

[YG-49]

At least now we have another use for the new Atlantis giant Scorpion!

[Dunjohn]

... "Titans will clash?" Now THAT's an inspired tagline

[hollisbrick]

I saw he trailer a month back I got to say, it looks awesome!
I used to love all the oldskool greek myth stories as a kid

[Forresto]

I hope it's great because it is remaking a classic. It looks like it's going to be pretty spectacular however!

Too bad Lego had to go for POP instead of this. This seemslike it would be able to use many of the same elements as POP but also add the Greek twist into it.

[VBBN]

Actually, YG-49, there is a new trailer out, and if you watch it to the end, you will see thw Kraken.
And holy crap is that a crazy creature. It's Huge, And a mix between a squid nd CLoverfield.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=qpZ5D_Wc4cA

[Zarkan]

*sigh* remakes, remakes, remakes - can't Hollywood come out with any original movies these days? Yes, this is an exaggeration, but I'm still not happy about how many reboots we're getting this year.

VBBN, on Jan 18 2010, 06:55 PM, said:

Actually, YG-49, there is a new trailer out, and if you watch it to the end, you will see thw Kraken.
And holy crap is that a crazy creature. It's Huge, And a mix between a squid nd CLoverfield.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=qpZ5D_Wc4cA

So, in that sense, it's not like the PoTC Kraken at all, which was basically just a really ugly squid.

This post has been edited by Grevious: 20 January 2010 - 12:27 AM

[TheBrickster]

Wow! Neat trailer, and a great movie to remake.

Clash of the Titans from 1981 was a Ray Harryhausen film. He created the movie magic for the Sinbad movies, as well as films like Jason and the Argonauts and Valley of the Gwangi. To todays standards, many may not be real impressed, but his stop-motion effects were state of the art at the time, and he helped create stop-motion filming (with dinos and other mythical creatures).

To see a new remake of a great story with computer graphics and modern movie magic will be awesome. Thanks for sharing the news - I look forward to seeing this movie.

[Batbrick]

I'm sort of looking forward to this despite my personal investment in the original. The effects look good, but two things are bugging me;

1. Kraken. Dear grief the Kraken isn't even in Greek mythology!
2. The real bug though is that I hear Hades is being the villain. How very original. I mean c'mon, I know it's easy to write a villain who already has a dark look and motif (the dead) but I much preferred the idea of that being someone else not as obvious.

Batbrick Away!

[NorthernKnight]

VBBN, on Jan 18 2010, 06:55 PM, said:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=qpZ5D_Wc4cA

Wow, that's a trailer full of spoilers if i ever saw one.

[YG-49]

VBBN, on Jan 19 2010, 03:25 AM, said:

Actually, YG-49, there is a new trailer out, and if you watch it to the end, you will see thw Kraken.
And holy crap is that a crazy creature. It's Huge, And a mix between a squid nd CLoverfield.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=qpZ5D_Wc4cA

Needs more Pan and less Medusa. Scorpions are still as epic. I don't like how man-like they made the Kraken. It's supposed to be a giant squid.

[Forresto]

I just saw the movie and I came out of it pretty happy. It had a lot of great action especially the fight with the scorpians, which made me sort've nostalgic for the older Ray Harryhousen animated films (Jason & the argonauts, Sinbad, Original Clash of the Titans, Etc....). I loved the overall feel the film had and love all the little things they had in it that were different from the original like the desert people and the scorpian riding . I deffinantly know what that atlantis scorpian and those POP hassasins are going to be used for. I also like how theyhad the mechanical owl from the first movie and the one guy say "Leave it" .

I wonder though who in the end is the real victem, the kraken or the city of Argos? I mean the kraken must have been asleep for how long? A million years, a billion years? When he lashed out his tentacles hitting the city, all it really was doing was stretching. I mean come on would'nt you be stretching after sleeping in a small crevice for a billion years? Also does'nt he have the right to eat a couple humans, it's not like he gets to eat the muchthat often.

YG-49, on Jan 22 2010, 01:29 AM, said:

I don't like how man-like they made the Kraken. It's supposed to be a giant squid.

Actually that's only the western conception of it (still personally my favorite however ). I think that the greeks idea of it was more like the one in this movie and I know that another belief on what it looks like is a giant snake like creature.

[dragonboy79]

Yea, the kraken in Clash of the Titans is more true to the Greek version, while the kraken in Pirates of the Caribbean is the Western version.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the movie. I thought the trailer looked kind of cheesy, especially with the rock music, but it felt very mythological. The sisters/fates remind me of Pan's Labyrinth, and the desert people... they look like the "Persians" in 300.

Clash of the Titans - 300 desert people - people who compare it to the 1980s versoin = epic

[RileyC]

Meh it just seems like another Avatar movie to me. Lots of special effects and fighting and no real story behind it. It seems to be a bit of a trend lately.

[SWMAN]

Roncanator, on Apr 3 2010, 12:35 AM, said:

Meh it just seems like another Avatar movie to me. Lots of special effects and fighting and no real story behind it. It seems to be a bit of a trend lately.

From both a special effects and a story perspective I think that they are two completely different films. Avatar has revolutionized the film industry and how computers and technology can be use. While I admit that the story for Avatar borrowed quite a bit from previous films and ideas it was still a very original story. I feel like Clash of the Titans is playing off of Avatars success so it is not revolutionary. Plus it is a remake so the story is recycled and kind of run-of-the-mill.