Wrath of the Titans (Jonathan Liebesman)

[Sxottlan]

IMDB page.

[Skitch]

I feel we really need a third option of 'harmless' or 'meh' or 'thumbs sideways'.

[Irish]

Every time you've enjoyed a Pirates of the Carribean movie, God makes a movie like this one.

[D_Davis]

Every time you've enjoyed a Pirates of the Carribean movie, God makes a movie like this one.

I think I'll watch At World's End today - love that movie.

[TGM]

I feel we really need a third option of 'harmless' or 'meh' or 'thumbs sideways'.

But isn't that what the star rating is for?

[Skitch]

But isn't that what the star rating is for?

True. I could justify enjoying it but still recognize it is a bad movie.

[Dukefrukem]

I had this big long explanation of the movie but then my PC restarted and I lost it all. I'll write it again later.

[Dukefrukem]

Ok rewrote what i said earlier:

This was much better than the first movie. It actually has a coherent story, likable characters, a clear conflict and climax... four things the first movie completely lacked. The action was smart, not drowned out by CGI and it was overall a fun movie to watch.

The biggest change I enjoyed was this movie is more of a journey with the Greek mythology woven into it. Go to A to get B and bring to C. It felt like it borrowed a lot from God of War (which is fine with me) in terms of setting and set piece specifically the Labyrinth, Mt Tartarus and Kronos. Kronos especially looks very God of Warish with the addition of magma spewing from him.

But i really enjoyed how they didn't define every little piece of Greek mythology to the audience. Hephaestus is there and the audience can figure out what he did without a voice over.

Then of course there's the Neeson-Effect, where he automatically makes every movie he's in appear to be better than it actually is. The biggest problem I have with this is the Deus Ex Machina ending;

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So Ares and Hades betray Zeus to steal his power and give it to Kronos. Why? because people aren't praying to the Gods enough, they're all losing their power and by releasing Kronos the Gods that ally with him will gain eternal life again. The biggest annoyance about this is 89 minutes into the movie, Zeus apologizes to Hades and asks for forgiveness that he banished him... to which Hades has a sudden change of heart and helps Zeus escape... why didn't Zeus apologize 81 minutes ago? or why is Hades suddenly a sucker for brotherhood?

Because of the problem above, It felt like Perseus's role was moot throughout the whole movie. The whole reason why Perseus got involved to begin with is he thought Zeus needed his help. He didn't know anything about the tri-weapon thing that can kill Kronos until he got to Agenor... So if Zeus just got over his ego at the beginning of the movie, him and Hades would have teamed up against Ares....

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Anyway, it's worth a viewing, but I have a hard time believing I'd watching it on HBO again.