NBC's Hercules

[Richards]

What a disappointment. Since when is it the "5 Labors of Hercules?" The Nemedean lion is now a shapeshifting, female sphinx? The Cretan Bull is just Anataeus (who may have been Hercules' real father, instead of Zeus)? The Stymphalian Birds are harpies? And Hercules goes all the way to Hades and doesn't even meet up with Cerberus?

Funny, I don't remember my Greek mythology like that. Somebody's been playing fast and loose with the myths! (No doubt some network executive who knows better than we do what we want from a Hercules movie.)

And for God's sake, Hercules...grow a damn beard already.

Johnathan

 

[Captain Tagon]

Blah, every time they said He-rah my ears bled. And the special effects were better with Kevin Sorbo.

 

[Mercule]

Right. Been a long time since I've really done much with Greek stuff. But Hercules really has become his 'Greek' name in popular culture these days...

Hey, I wasn't picking the nit, just explaining the nit that already was.

My wife and I only caught the last hour or so of the show. Lame. Lame. Lame. And I saw no indication that the prior two hours would have added much.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Sounds like, I saved tape space...

 

[RaceBannon42]

The effects were better in old Ray Harryhousen movies than in that piece of crap last night.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I watched the first 20 minutes then decided reruns of the American "Who's Line is it, Anyway" was much better. And I was right.

 

[Ghostwind]

I watched the first 20 minutes and then turned the station to "Antiques Roadshow", which was much more entertaining. The more I think about it, the more I think the Dungeons & Dragaons movie might have even been better...

 

[sniffles]

What a disappointment. Since when is it the "5 Labors of Hercules?" The Nemedean lion is now a shapeshifting, female sphinx? The Cretan Bull is just Anataeus (who may have been Hercules' real father, instead of Zeus)? The Stymphalian Birds are harpies? And Hecules goes all the way to Hades and doesn't even meet up with Cerberus?

Funny, I don't remember my Greek mythology like that. Somebody's been playing fast and loose with the myths! (No doubt some network executive who knows better than we do what we want from a Hercules movie.)

And for God's sake, Hercules...grow a damn beard already.

Johnathan

I didn't mind the alterations too much until they got to the "Luke, I'm your father" moment with Antaeus. I went to bed at that point. But the special effects were really disappointing, and I wish they'd found some way to keep the same actor as Hercules throughout - the actor playing him as a youth was much better than the adult cheesecake version.

Robert Halmi's completely lost his touch after the horror of Sci Fi's "Earthsea" abomination.

 

[Ranger REG]

Blah, every time they said He-rah my ears bled.

HE-ra, HERR-rah ... it's all Greek to me.

The story is decent. Leelee Sobieski have grown up nice since I have seen her in CBS's mini-series, Joan of Arc.

So far no uproar from NWO on the portrayal of Hera as a scorned, bitter wife goddess.

P.S. Paul Telfer should audition for the role of Caramon Majere (Dragonlance).

 

[shilsen]

What a disappointment. Since when is it the "5 Labors of Hercules?" The Nemedean lion is now a shapeshifting, female sphinx? The Cretan Bull is just Anataeus (who may have been Hercules' real father, instead of Zeus)?

That's a double muck-up there. Amphitryon is Heracles' possible father. Antaeus is the giant bandit he fights (on the way to retrieve the golden apples from the Gardens of the Hesperides) who draws his strength from his mother the Earth and Heracles has to hold him in the air and crush the life out of him.