Re: Clash of Titans

2010-06-04 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Nick Arnett wrote:
 
 Our grandson wanted to see it for his birthday, so we went to
 the drive-in and saw Prince of Persia and Clash of the Titans.
 I slept through much of them.

At least Prince of Persia doesn't claim to be based in History,
but on a kill-em-all videogame.

 I don't know why they even used the names of various gods in
 the latter movie - the characters had hardly anything to do
 with the actual myths.  Well, perhaps I do know why - it
 makes it seem as though there might be some educational
 value in seeing it.  But that would be mistaken.  It is
 undoubtedly counter-productive for the most part. 

It's Evil, pure and simple Evil. Why they can't stick to History
or Mythology, or even stay close to the books the movie is
supposed to be based on, and just play with the visual? Those that
did that became classicals: Ben Hur, Caligula and 300 will be 
forever remembered, while this Clash of Titans (like the previous)
will be thrown in the trash.

Alberto Monteiro


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Re: Clash of Titans

2010-06-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Monteiro said the following on 6/4/2010 7:36 AM:
 It's Evil, pure and simple Evil. Why they can't stick to History
 or Mythology, or even stay close to the books the movie is
 supposed to be based on, and just play with the visual? Those that
 did that became classicals: Ben Hur, Caligula and 300 will be 
 forever remembered, while this Clash of Titans (like the previous)
 will be thrown in the trash.

Man!  I grew up on the original stop-motion-animated version of Clash of
the Titans.  It was a B grade move, but it was a GREAT B grade movie!

--[Lance]

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Re: Clash of Titans

2010-06-04 Thread John Garcia
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Lance A. Brown la...@bearcircle.netwrote:

 Alberto Monteiro said the following on 6/4/2010 7:36 AM:
  It's Evil, pure and simple Evil. Why they can't stick to History
  or Mythology, or even stay close to the books the movie is
  supposed to be based on, and just play with the visual? Those that
  did that became classicals: Ben Hur, Caligula and 300 will be
  forever remembered, while this Clash of Titans (like the previous)
  will be thrown in the trash.

 Man!  I grew up on the original stop-motion-animated version of Clash of
 the Titans.  It was a B grade move, but it was a GREAT B grade movie!

 --[Lance]


That's 'cause the great Ray Harryhausen was the animator on that movie.
But Harry Hamlin, shudder.

john
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Re: Clash of Titans

2010-06-04 Thread Charlie Bell

On 04/06/2010, at 9:07 AM, medieva...@aol.com wrote:

 AMAZING!
  
 Not the movie---an actual drive-in.
  
 Tucson lost the last one a few months ago.

There's one just across the creek from where I live. Still operational.

http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8ll=-37.722698,144.971445spn=0.004006,0.009645t=hz=17

Charlie.
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Re: Clash of Titans

2010-06-04 Thread Charlie Bell
 
 
 That's 'cause the great Ray Harryhausen was the animator on that movie.
 But Harry Hamlin, shudder.

His hair is terrifying in that film. Love it.
 :)



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