Wrath of the Titans trailer

Originally Posted by Ak3mi

Back when I was at college I studied classical Civilization and ancient Greek so its sort of my topic and these films do butcher stories. But that's Hollywood you can't change it, luckily people who know anything about Greek mythology will use their noggin and realize the story has been brutally destroyed and wont recommend it to others and may not choose to go see it.

The original Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts, they were true pieces of film, which actually followed the story close enough.

Hollywood takes Greek Mythology like this, Dismantle it from having Deep meanings/very complex Hubristic and Animalistic themes/ deep culture references/very descriptive fights(if the story has any)/Gods which play with humans.Lastly women which are shown to be innocent,emotional and all that stuff.Obviously more would be involved but that will give you the gist of a average play/novel.

Then they assemble it to be this Action/ lots of hot women (shown to be fighters & disobey men(Some women would disobey there man, like Clytemnestra and Helen of troy but most woman wouldn't dare to))/More action and explosions(somehow)/Massive men with huge weapons(Some exceptions but overall it was very uncommon)/ Simplistic societies and the funniest is that Gods seem to have lost there actual meanings.

What I mean by this is that lets take Hera for example in many of the Greek plays and novels she is known to be very vengeful and very un-womanly and she hates Gods which interfere with human affairs, and usually has arguments with Zeus because of this. But to Hollywood she is shown to love her fellow Gods, and is apparently likes the idea of Gods helping Humans.

But lets be serious directors have been doing this for ages, not going to change so you might as well just enjoy it, and laugh at how incorrect the stories are.
I think the only time I was wrong about a film was LotR and Oh My God how I was wrong , but Peter Jackson actually had passion for the stories and I very much doubt that Louis Leterrier actually cares about the stories.

Sorry for the poor grammar and spelling very tired I just got off work

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

Oh boy, here comes another Hollywood abortion!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw7yUx-aZ8k

point taken from another forum

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

But lets be serious directors have been doing this for ages

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

The most humorous and recent example being the people who believe that the current Sherlock Holmes movies does a disservice to the character not as written but as portrayed in earlier movies.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Story tellers have been doing this for as long as the stories themselves have existed. All of the Greek mythological and heroic stories have evolved over time, probably from original stories we don't even actually completely know. Somehow, we give a pass to everyone from antiquity who embellished and otherwise bastardized folklore and mythology (see: Greek mythology, Norse mythology, Arthurian mythology), and then we expect everyone from the present day to respect one randomly selected version of those stories as "authoritative" without further embellishment, adaptation, or bastardization.

The most humorous and recent example being the people who believe that the current Sherlock Holmes movies does a disservice to the character not as written but as portrayed in earlier movies.

Originally Posted by Innovator

I think Arthur Conan Doyle would have made a horrible action movie director. For instance, the final fight at Reichenbach Falls was a lackluster yawnfest in comparison to the movie version.

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

Originally Posted by Jagged

This time in 3D!

Wasn't the last one in 3D?

This time in 3D!

I said wasn't the last one ....

Sush! 3D!

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

Oh boy, here comes another Hollywood abortion!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw7yUx-aZ8k

point taken from another forum

Originally Posted by Obsidius

I actually liked the first movie (the remake that is), and am interested in this one. But I could have definitely gone without that more-than-played-out Manson track. Something orchestrated and epic would have been a better fit for the trailer.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

The most humorous and recent example being the people who believe that the current Sherlock Holmes movies does a disservice to the character not as written but as portrayed in earlier movies.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Story tellers have been doing this for as long as the stories themselves have existed. All of the Greek mythological and heroic stories have evolved over time, probably from original stories we don't even actually completely know. Somehow, we give a pass to everyone from antiquity who embellished and otherwise bastardized folklore and mythology (see: Greek mythology, Norse mythology, Arthurian mythology), and then we expect everyone from the present day to respect one randomly selected version of those stories as "authoritative" without further embellishment, adaptation, or bastardization.

The most humorous and recent example being the people who believe that the current Sherlock Holmes movies does a disservice to the character not as written but as portrayed in earlier movies.

Originally Posted by Lothic

I've never had a serious problem with people "reimagining" stories that are relatively old and updating them for modern audiences. Obviously works as old as Greek mythology, Shakespeare and even Arthur Conan Doyle are well ripe to be modernized. I suppose what makes those examples acceptable is that there have been many, many years separating the source materials and present day generations.

Where this practice mostly goes haywire is when the period between the original and the remake becomes so short that it's almost a blur artistically speaking. You could take that scenario to its logical extreme by mentioning people like George Lucas who's not even content to be dead yet before he tries to remake his -own- masterpieces.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

There is no other, only Sherlock. Purest win, I say!

Originally Posted by tenzhi

while i like that sherlock (and rdj's), i still like jeremy brett's the best.