Posted on 04/01/2010 8:04:50 AM PDT by Neoavatara
So, I got to see this as a sneak preview, as I know a bunch of 'insider' friends. I, like many people of my age, grew up thinking the original Clash of the Titans was a classic and Ray Harryhausen's best stop-action work. Well, experience now tells me otherwise, but you can't take away that the original in many ways shaped my love of the Greek mythological genre, and of adventure movies in general. The original (which, unfortunately for it, opened the same week as Raiders of the Lost Ark, with the latter becoming an all-time money maker and classic, and the former more of a cult classic) was one of the great Greek mythologic tellings in Hollywood history.
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Remakes. Nothing but remakes. Be nice to see at least one new idea.
The “original” was a retelling of ancient myths too.
We DVR’d the Harry Hamlin version. My daughter, who is reading the Percy Jackson series, loves it.
I know where I will be on Friday... Saturday, too, probably...
If you liked the first “Clash of the Titans” you should be banned from reviewing movies.
We are going to see it, my wife will kill me if we don’t!
I’ll save reading the reviews till after.
Percy Jackson series is pretty good. The movie was pretty good also. The two had very little in common beyond that.
I was 10 in '53 and went to a Saturday matinee. I came home and marveled at the Movie I saw. It started in black and white and a tornado carried Dorothy over the rainbow! My Mom and dad exclaimed "You saw the Wiazrd of Oz"!
That evening we went to dinner at the Diner! We then went to see The Wiazrd!
the next day we spoke about this wonderful movie and my Mom said "Maybe you should read the book and see how well the Movie was produced compared to the book. I went to the Library and low and behold there were additional by Baum books about the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Lion!
Today the complaint is too much movies not enough reading! This can be turned around when we encourage our children to be movie critics by reading the books!
We got our first TV in 1948 and much of the time was filled with movies from the 30s and 40s. when I went to the library and got my library card I selected Ivanhoe, The Count of Monticristo and The Hunchback of Notre Dame!
I saw ‘Clash’ when it first came out. It was on Turner last week and I still liked the Harryhausen version.
That’s the ticket, alright. If there is a book with a movie tie-in, she reads the book first.
Of course, that means she has spent waaaaay too much time on the Twighlight franchise. What’s the deal with all these nice vampires?
Oh well... As my father always said, “Taste will come later!” (He’s still waiting, in my case...)
>>We DVR’d the Harry Hamlin version. My daughter, who is reading the Percy Jackson series, loves it.
I know where I will be on Friday... Saturday, too, probably...
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it’s also on Youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrHA120h2LU&feature=related
I was 8 years old at the time. I think you can give me a little leeway...It is corny in hindsight, but it made me love greek mythology growing up.
Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
I wouldn't swim in the lake or tank that summer and learned to swim very fast and keep my eyes open when swimming underwater - helped me become a strong swimmer, and lifeguard as a teenager.Psycho (Collector's Edition) (1960)
Learned to take very fast showers, LOL.Strait-Jacket (1964)
Learned the meaning of "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned", LOL.The Exorcist (1973)
Realized that I was not doing enough to practice and demonstrate my faith; rejoined a local church and became active again.Alien (1979)
Enjoyed the audience reactions as much as the movie, LOL.
The links above are to Amazon DVDs and some are not the original release movie version because I could not find them. Note that 'The Exorcist' version above has a different ending (which I have not seen).
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt for the moment. Did you like highlander 2?
My kids were young when it came out but they loved it, watched it over and over. I used it as a tool to teach them something about mythology and always questioned them about the key characters such as “what was the name of the river?” and “what was the name of the boatkeeper on the river Styx?”. It got all three interested in legends, mythology and history.
You mean Highlander 2: The Sickening? the movie that was so bad that the third installment started with an apology for the second and re-set the storyline to a few minutes before the end of the first?
I always thought that "Jason and the Argonauts" was far superior, but it may be a generational thing -- I was a kid in the 60's.
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