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 Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:09 pm
WAIT. Where is this Macaw you speak of!? I never noticed it. D;
I thought his hair should have been long and flowing, not clean shaven off! He looked like he was about to join the American military. D;
Military men back then had long, luscious hair. ;D
Beautiful.
I realized that throughout the whole movie, I was too busy watching the horse-plumed helmets. For some reason, they always catch my attention. P:
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:23 pm
Goddess of The Century
WAIT. Where is this Macaw you speak of!? I never noticed it. D;
I thought his hair should have been long and flowing, not clean shaven off! He looked like he was about to join the American military. D;
Military men back then had long, luscious hair. ;D
Beautiful.
I realized that throughout the whole movie, I was too busy watching the horse-plumed helmets. For some reason, they always catch my attention. P:
The macaw was at the beginning of the movie. There was a short market scene when Perseus first arrives at Argos. And there's this split second where a guy has a blue and yellow macaw parrot that flaps its wings and screeches. And I was like, "WHAT?! THERE ARE NO MACAWS!" XDD
And I agree, I was quite horrified by his shaven head. I love long, dark, curly hair. <3 *swoon* Mediterranean hair...
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:33 am
They destroyed history...and it wasn't a good movie.
Also,there wasn't only one flying horse.It wasn't only Pegasus(Πήγασος),who was white.There was also Arion(Αρίων)who was a black horse.He was born when Poseidon(Ποσειδώνας)raped his sister Demetra(Δήμητρα).This black horse was used in the shield of the hoplites to frighten enemies,just like the Medusa(Μέδουσα).So,they showed the two flying horses in one... razz
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 1:18 am
The movie was dreadful. Didn't like it from the start to the end, all the story was told in a rush and in a very inaccurate way. They even dared to make Pegasus black.
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:08 pm
Akherontis Well, I just went to see it. I feel like crying. As both a lover of mythology and a lover of good cinema, I was horribly, horribly disappointed. This movie blew chunks. It was loathsome. At least the original movie was charming and didn't take itself too seriously. This remake just felt like a souless, hackneyed 3d-centric experience with nothing to keep us interested in the paceless unfolding of the plot, and no real reason for the characters to be invested in their quest at any rate. All the monsters and mythical references felt like they were just arbitrarily dropped into the story (some of them from entirely different mythologies). Why did they feel the need to insert the Djinn into this? What, they needed someone to be the Chewbacca? Calibos was also a hit and miss, since he was barely necessary in the original movie and seems to have no reason for being in this one, now that Thetis is absent from the plot. I don't buy the Acrisius story, not only because it's a contradiction of myth, but because it's a contradiction within the movie itself. If Zeus needs Hades and eventually Perseus to do his dirty work, then why would he intervene personally to monsterify Acrisius with a thunderbolt? The main character's new motivation for his quest (vengeance on Hades for killing his family) was completely the wrong way to go, and Perseus himself was a wooden and one-dimensional character who could only express himself as 'whiny' or 'angry'. There was no consistency in his attitudes either. One minute he's refusing the gifts of the gods, claiming he wants to do this as a man, and the next he's wielding Zeus' lightsaber and riding (the) Pegasus, oddly enough as though riding a winged horse was an ordinary daily affair. They eliminated the romance with Andromeda and reduced her role to 'obligatory damsel in distress', meaning the audience shouldn't even care about her fate. Instead, they threw in Io for no reason. The gods looked about as ridiculous as anyone could possibly make them, especially Zeus, whose performance was such that you could actually SEE Liam Neeson spending his paycheck in his head. The set pieces and character designs were uninspired for the most part, seemingly lifted from the first movie without actually breathing any new life into them. Pegasus was made black, among other deviations, only to emphasize how supposedly more 'badass' and 'edgy' this film is compared to its predecessor. Somehow, it only manages to seem more juvenile and inelegant, with not a lick of wit, charm or even grandeur. These are the gods we're talking about, why does this feel like an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond (or Zeus, rather) where the one brother antagonizes the other? Where's the pathos, where's the gravitas? The scenes all seemed unconnected to each other, and you would've rearranged the journey of Perseus and co. without affecting the lackluster proceedings of the story at all. The stereoscopic 3D apparently was rushed and tacked on (I went to see it in 2D specifically because people warned me of the bad post-production job they did on the 3D at the last minute to cash in on Avatar buzz). The climax made no sense, and essentially comprised of one anticlimax heaped upon another. And on top of all of it they drenched this witless, heavy-handed, unnecessary theme of man against gods. Tell me again what the point of that was? It seemed to leap back and forth between the subject matter to the point where I wanted to throw popcorn at Sam Worthington's vacuous, sullen, indecisive mug. This is not a Greek Myth. This isn't even a movie. This is a bad video game simulation made of pieces stitched together from Avatar, 300, Transformers and the Idiot's Guide to Mythology. Good grief, I felt like leaving the cinema only half an hour into it, and I've NEVER felt like that before. Boo, hiss. There, there, Professor. *brings in hot chocolate mixed with caramel to make it all better* We can go ahead and all watch 300 together, if you wish.
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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:43 am
I had a problem with the fact that they really mucked up the way it was portrayed in the first movie and how far removed it was from the original greek mythos.
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