[Trailer] Clash of the Titans

[Mouseferatu]

Too far. I'm with you on "stupid Bubo" but Jar Jar was a whole other level of something else entirely. Let's not create mental space where Jar Jar can be looked on as simply something stupid. Bubo is a distraction in a B-Movie, Jar Jar is a cultural offense.

Okay, fair enough. Too much hyperbole on my part.

But the practical upshot is "Bubo bad."

 

[ssampier]

Let's just hope the film lives up to the trailer... Frankly, I'm hoping we get big time action and stirring drama. The one thing the original was missing (by necessity due to the nature of the technology at the time) was great fight sequences. This looks like that's been rectified, particularly with Medusa.

The only thing I don't like is that Hades (in yet another recent movie) is the villain. Clearly, these guys didn't read much Greek myth and/or are cutting things down to suit the lowest common denominator: Hades = The Devil. Lame.

Whoa. Is my hair out?

 

[frankthedm]

Whoa. Is my hair out?

AT least Disney made their Hades entertaining. Their Zeus on the other hand That one is tied with the mummy franchise's "Dark god Osiris".

 

[Remus Lupin]

The trailer made me interested in seeing the movie, but only for those shots that lasted for more than 1 second. I seriously got a headache trying to keep up with what I was seeing! When did it get to the point that a movie trailer wasn't allowed to stop and show you a portion of the movie without immediately racing off to a completely different image!

 

[Crothian]

I liked this trailer and it is a movie I'll be seeing.

 

[David Howery]

This does look good. The original movie had a few problems. The owl was pretty silly. The actors playing Perseus and Andromeda were rather wooden. It wasn't a really bad movie, but it was one of the last with stop motion animation, and the limits on that technology really show...

 

[ShadowDenizen]

But Bubo was stupid. He was the Jar Jar Binks of Clash. He was clearly shoehorned in as slapstick comic relief for the kids. That's fine in a kids' movie, not anywhere else.

Agreed.
Though the orginal still holds up fairly well overall, IMO, that stupid owl just annyoed me, even as a child.

I'll reserve judgement on the new movie until I see it. Though I'm glad Sam Worthington continues to get work (he was a standout in both "Avatar" and "Terminator"), I will say the trailer left me a little cold.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Saw the trailer and I have to say.... it was pretty useless.

Irritating flash cuts with almost zero content. Plus.... the Kraken was asinine. I think my wife was actually irritated. At the end, she leaned over again and said, "The Kraken should be a squid, dammit!"

And that is how I now define the movie in my head. It is supposed to be a one thing, and has some of the characteristics of that thing, but I have no idea at all of what it really is. And I fear that the filmmakers may be in the same position I am. "We are the simultaneous progeny of Harryhausen and 300! We will make money from nostalgia and testosterone porn!" That's how you market to movie execs, not how you actually make the movie.

 

[Mouseferatu]

At the end, she leaned over again and said, "The Kraken should be a squid, dammit!"

Given that the kraken is a Scandinavian/Norwegian myth, and has no place in Greek mythology at all, it seems that arguing what it's supposed to look like is rather beside the point.

 

[Klaus]

Given that the kraken is a Scandinavian/Norwegian myth, and has no place in Greek mythology at all, it seems that arguing what it's supposed to look like is rather beside the point.

"Must spread XP before giving to Mouseferatu again"

Curses! Foiled again!