Last year's Clash of the Titans wasn't just another unnecessary and artless remake. No, it was downright obnoxious about it. Lacking the appeal of the original 1981 film and Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion effects, the 2010 Clash of the Titans dumped out a grab-bag of Greek myths and stomped them into bland CG-processed paste. But it also made 164 million damn dollars in the U.S. alone, and you can't argue with that when someone's trying to bankroll a sequel called Wrath of the Titans.
All right, let's try to be nice. Wrath of the Titans is about Perseus taking sides in a war among the gods: specifically, the reigning Greek deities and the older Titans that they kicked out a long time ago. That's not an idea without potential (after all, it helped God of War players forget that they were guiding an unlikable turd of a hero). Secondly, the trailer shows a blonde (and recast) Andromeda, who was basically in the first film to be rescued, following Perseus into battle. She's probably a more interesting character for it. Thirdly...uh, you can squint at the trailer from a distance and pretend it's based on Kid Icarus. <P>
OK, there's not much to suggest that Wrath will win you over if you hated Clash of the Titans. The trailer's even lacking in decent monsters. Aside from a half-impressive multi-armed warrior, the movie apparently borrowed a Balrog, a generic dragon, and Jack the Giant Killer's main creature. At least the first film had Medusa and giant scorpions. And to top that, the trailer's closing hook is a bland, puzzling exchange about Perseus sweating.
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Marilyn Manson's Sweet Dreams? What? I mean, I love that song, but it just doesn't fit at all.
As for the movie, It doesn't look that impressive. This trailer didn't look as exciting as the first one, and Sam Worthington's acting is still bland and boring.
But I'll go see it anyway, because it has giant monsters destroying stuff. I Know.
Oh great, the obligatory "tough chick".
And why is Thor in it? 1:17
Also, I like Marilyn Manson "Sweet Dreams " cover, btu it has no reason to be used here.
The idea is nice, but these kinds of movies need to go the way of dinosaurs.
What was the appeal of the original? Harry Hamlin in a toga? A mechanical owl?
The original was goofy, the remake was tepid, and this looks like it could be fun. I mean, overall it will probably be thoroughly mediocre, but there are some cool looking scenes in that trailer.
Well, at least Zeus does not look like a knight of the round table in shining plate armor like in the 2010 shit fest that was clash of the titans.
So... Andromeda.... daughter of the king and queen of Ethiopia in the Greek myth... will be blonde.
Ah well, not like the last one looked even remotely Ethiopian, and I don't think they're exactly going for accuracy here.
"So... Andromeda.... daughter of the king and queen of Ethiopia in the Greek myth... will be blonde."
Daughter of the king and queen of the *mythological* Ethiopia, which was an entirely different kingdom from the African one. The mythological Ethiopia was located in Asia (i.e. anywhere east of the Nile, but generally meaning the immediate vicinity as opposed to somewhere like India or China), and there were a wealth of blondes in the region before the Arab conquests, so a blonde Andromeda's fine.
Original was a better movie, and way cooler. Remake was stupid, action-heavy and cgi-porn. I didn't have a problem with that, as I wasn't expecting GRR Martin story telling, nor Orson Wells level acting. Just solid, stupid, fun. It delivered, and I think this one will as well. I wasn't disappointed by naff of the titans because I expected dungeons and dragons. Besides, I've written dissertations on Tolkien, but have Robert E Howard on the same shelf as Tolkien and TH White, with David Gemmell to stop them from fighting. You can love good story-telling and still enjoy a nice helping of blood, guts and the lamentation of some poor bastards' women.
I demand they bring back Alexa Davalos as Andromeda, not that I'd actually watch this one either.
That's because mainstream America is afraid of a divinely-empowered golem raised by sporty pagan lesbians on a foregin island telling the rest of the world it's doing peace wrong.
I think God of War had better graphics, plot and 'gameplay'.
Also... can we get a moratorium on using Sweet Dreams, especially Manson's, in movie trailers?
Hollywood Exec #1: "We need someone less nauseating than Shia".Hollywood Exec #2: “I hear Sam Worthington in available".
Liam Neeson's dulcet tones provided the exposition for an accurate Percy Jackson and the Olympians film adaptation.
And then we got the rest of this trailer. Heaven help me, the Rifftrax crew were hard-pressed to make the first movie entertaining.
That 'blonde' is Rosamund Pike, most well known for her role in Bond ... The sword fighting chick in Die Another Day.
It seems to me that there is an atrocious animated sequel to the original Clash of the Titans on Netflix called Wrath Of The Titans. Could this be a remake of that? I hope not.
I had the opposite reaction: this short trailer has more emotion, acting and excitement than the entire first film did. Plus Perseus finally has hair. That skinhead look drove me insane in the last film. Then I remembered the last film, and how much I hated it. Then I heard Marilyn Manson. Then I saw the suplex... I hate this series.
" Aside from a half-impressive multi-armed warrior, the movie apparently borrowed a Balrog, a generic dragon, and Jack the Giant Killer's main creature."
Never thought I'd be defending the film, but... The "Balrog" is Kronos, the "generic dragon" (I guess a three-headed monster is generic to you then?) is a chimera, and "Jack the Giant Killer's main creature" is a cyclops. All of which you might remember from Greek Mythology, which you also might remember predate most works of modern fantasy literature and movies. This is a good thing, certainly better than the last film throwing in those weird wood genies and Silent Hill witches. The Kraken and scorpions were bad enough considering they were in the original, but it's nice to have a film based on Greek Mythology that kept to the mythology.
Is anyone else amused by the realization that SW's new hairdo looks like it's supposed to be mimicking Harry Hamlin's from the original?
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There's a PerfectPlex at the 1:43 mark. I'll prob see it just for that. And when it happens on screen I'll be that guy that yells "Ohhhhhh! SNAP! Yo! Yo! You see dat?!"
Hooray, another lame film generated by film audiences flocking to see the previous lame film (though I don't care much about the original 80s film either)
Clash of The Titans bored me to tears. Which should be impossible as I love everything even slightly mythological. So does my little brother and even he couldn't manage to care--even with the 3D!!!!!!
And on a shallow note, it doesn't even look awesome. If you're gonna be boring at least be pretty to look at. Maybe if Fassbender was in this....
I'm gonna go and say Rob is somehow bitter about something. First the Muppet Babies and now this... Now, now, we already know this movie isn't gonna win an Oscar for best acting or script, but seems filled with CGI-powered fun (take it as you wish). On the other hand, what a wasted oportunity to put Kratos in that...
Rob, are you... The Grinch? (My God, just had a vision of him in Jim Carrey's furry costume. What's wrong with me?)
Fuck the remake, and it's charmless, by-the-numbers shitery and christian mythology shoe-horning-ining.
That was honestly the first thing I thought about the remake. It was completely devoid of any charm whatsoever.
I didn't watch the first movie; but from the title and the trailer, I thought it ought be about what THIS movie is actually about - a war fought between Gods. Yay!
Well, this looks like an *almost* accurate rendition of the myth of the Giant-o-machia. The Titans and the Giants rise, trying to take back the position the Gods had taken from them. At first, the Gods lose. Like, they BADLY lose. Then they find the one hero who's destined to win this war - a half God, half human, which in the original story is actually Hercules - and fight back, and kick ass. The multi-armed guy looks like Typhoon to me. Well, the one of the myth was supposed to have something like 50 arms and be so huge that Athena defeated him by slamming friggin' SICILY on him, so this is quite the poor rendition. I admit however that island-brandishing Gods aren't a good cinematographic subject.On another note... what I truly LOVED about Clash of the Titans trailer was that instrumental version of the Worm and the Bird. And this? "Sweet dreams" cover by Marilyn Manson? Come on XD.
I hated the first movie - it was shrill, glum and committed the worst of all possible sins for an action adventure using mythology as source material by being unforgivably dull.
This trailer...didn't suck? I can't explain it but on this first glance, I might actually go to see it in a cinema.
Rosamund Pike=Win, that's all I'm saying.
Oh good, they used Marilyn Manson's cover of Sweet Dreams. I was worried that the song would never turn up in a movie trailer.
When I heard the intro I could hardly pay attention to the trailer anymore... Marilyn Manson? really?! Some of the action in it looked pretty good though. I will not pay money to see this movie...
