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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You saw it too? My condolences.
In the theater even. Maybe not day of release, but close.
Rumor is the “Renegade” version is an edit that chops it up so much it eviscerates the whole “alien” thing and manages to turn it into a viable sequel, way different than the original atrocity.
I can’t quite bring myself to watch it.
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