Clash of the Titans (2010)
Directed by Louis Leterrier
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate and creates his own destiny.
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We might as well be watching Clash of the Titans.
Immortals plays like the illegitimate offspring of 300 and Clash of the Titans , but while it represents a substantial improvement over the latter, it falls short of the former.
The less said about the most recent entry, the lamentable remake of Clash of the Titans, the better.
Where the remakes of Clash of the Titans and Conan the Barbarian failed to quench the thirst of fantasy action fans, Immortals should appease many a swords and sorcery junkie.
Don't look for sharp dialogue or multifaceted character in this sword 'n' sandals bloodbath, the latest in the abs-obsessed genre featuring " 300 ," " Clash of the Titans " and " Conan the Barbarian ."
Following in the sandals of Zack Snyder’s 300 with a splash of story inspiration from Clash of the Titans, Immortals is a chest-thumping sword, sandal and CGI Greek mythology actioner for those who like their violence with a side of splatter.
Horus’ journey is fairly standard fantasy material and tracks Clash of the Titans well (as one might expect), but there’s a fatal mistake.
In fact, Gods of Egypt is far and away the more enjoyable update of 1981’s Clash of the Titans—Harryhausen’s final movie—than Louis Letterier’s groaningly dull 2010 reboot.
Yet there’s something satisfying about a good 300/Clash of the Titans knockoff; Immortals, Pompeii, this movie, and even the 300 follow-up are more enjoyable, in their disreputable and expensive ways, than the self-important genuine articles.
It’s a mix of “300,” “Clash of the Titans” and “Prince of Persia,” all rendered to look like a video game.
It has bits of other modern spectacles: the monsters are copy-and-pasted from “Clash of the Titans,” while the gods stand several feet taller than the wee mortals, just like “Lord of the Rings” (or, less charitably, “Battlefield Earth”).
The fishing family is present when soldiers of Argos defy Zeus by toppling his giant statue into the sea because King Kepheus (Vincent Regan, "Troy," "300") has determined the gods needed them more than they need the gods.
Clash of the Titans takes the secularizing bent of the 2004 film Troy a step further.
Since Benioff has elected not to include any participation from the gods -- and there are times when "Troy" might have benefitted enormously from a little "Clash of the Titans"-style lunacy -- his retelling of the epic is left without much of a core, and all the grandiose spectacle with which Petersen saturates the screen leaves no lasting impression.
The filmmakers wanted this movie to follow in the footsteps of Braveheart and Gladiator rather than Clash of the Titans.
A film that may evoke more Troy Donahue and the golden era of Hollywood than the doomed city and the ancient age of Homer�s epic, Wolfgang Petersen�s Troy replaces the gods (not a bad idea, given 1983�s camp classic Clash of the Titans) with the 21st century�s new deities of computer-generated special effects and celebrity icons.
This ain't no "Clash of the Titans."
From the vague mythic references to the bizarre crustacean tribesmen to the bonkers backstory, this is a movie built to be beloved by people who are thrilled whenever Excaliber or Clash of the Titans pops up on the channel guide.
His epic battles with gnarly undersea monsters gives the film a Clash of the Titans vibe.
But the looks can’t match the story, a hodgepodge screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (“Wrath of the Titans”) and Will Beall (“Gangster Squad”), with story credit going to Geoff Johns, Wan and Beall.
Playing like a modern-day parody of ’80s fantasy films like Clash of the Titans , Aquaman embraces the camp, the zany, and the weird, to create a movie that’s one part fish soap opera and another globetrotting adventure you’ll be unable to take your eyes off of.
Imagine if someone cut together all the biggest action sequences from the last few decades of Hollywood, resulting in a mash of Tron , Avatar , Clash Of The Titans , Superman , Jurassic Park , and Gladiator .
It’s not as cornball and goofy as Clash of the Titans (either the 1981 or 2010 versions), but it nudges close to that territory.
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That Black Adam kneels before and could simply be mashing up parts of 300, Clash of the Titans and Tomb Raider for much of its running time, especially visually, just makes a dull movie duller (the DCEU really can't move on from Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League director Zack Snyder, so it seems).
There’s even a Gollum to contend with in this weird Clash of the Titans/Lord of the Rings hybrid.
At first, the actors' knowingly square portrayals feel like a fun throwback to the cheesy, enjoyably wooden fantasy movies of yesteryear like Clash of the Titans.
Whatever verve Nispel exhibits from depicting people chased by masked psychopaths, he shows none of that in "Conan the Barbarian," a sword-and-sandals action-adventure so amateurish and asinine and rampantly unpleasant it might just drive viewers to seek out 2010's heinous (but comparatively competent) " Clash of the Titans " reboot just so they can replace a terrible memory with a less injurious one.
"Conan the Barbarian" surpasses last year's "Clash of the Titans" for the worst use of 3D I've seen.
It tries to feel large scale and with a universe of magic and creatures like Clash of the Titans but never comes close.
It emerges as another figurine in the ongoing retooling of 1980s pop touchstones for know-nothing 2000s consumers, following The Smurfs, Transformers, TRON, The Karate Kid, Clash of the Titans, to name only a few.
Then they're paid a visit by Shaw's minions Azazel (Jason Flemyng, "Clash of the Titans") and Riptide (Álex González, "Milk"), capped with Shaw himself whose departure marks the death of one of the newly recruited.
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Which is somehow a good thing: Rather than a bone dry, boring version of King Arthur, we get this rock and roll version, which has elements of “300,” “Mission: Impossible” and “Clash of the Titans” baked into its DNA.
But Ritchie and his writers don’t give viewers enough reason to want to keep up, unless they’re fully satisfied with the kind of slapdash episodic fantasy combat that made movies like the Clash Of The Titans remake and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters feel so repetitive.
It has the Greek mythology and swordplay of Clash of the Titans.