{"id":9005,"date":"2010-04-20T21:04:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T05:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9005"},"modified":"2010-04-20T22:36:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T06:36:15","slug":"clash-of-the-titans-louis-leterrier-2010-ukusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9005","title":{"rendered":"Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier, 2010): UK\/USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=49\">Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at Camino Real Marketplace, Santa Barbara, CA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/mimg.ugo.com\/200906\/9846\/cuts\/perseus-medusa-clash-of-the-titans-remake_288x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/>\u00a0 Is it possible to re-make a film, whose characters were originally brought to life on the big screen,\u00a0by the iconic stop-motion artist\u00a0Ray Harryhausen, and meet certain criteria?\u00a0 The main criteria being that the CGI must not overpower the film or look intensely phony, thus diminishing the wonderful characters in the original.<\/p>\n<p>Stop the press!\u00a0 It has been accomplished, and\u00a0kudos to Louis Leterrier for\u00a0achieving this extraordinary feat in his 2010 remake <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0800320\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clash of the Titans<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Half-god, half-man Perseus (Sam Worthington)\u00a0has a destiny to fulfill.\u00a0 He\u00a0has been chosen\u00a0to kill the monstrous\u00a0Kraken, defeat the hideously evil\u00a0Hades (Ralph Fiennes), and thus\u00a0redeem\u00a0the beautiful Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) from her fate.\u00a0\u00a0 In order to succeed, Perseus must first battle the horribly disfigured Calibos, fight off giant scorpions, encounter Stygian Witches, and finally,\u00a0cut off the head of Medusa without looking her in the eye.\u00a0 Before this occurs, he is\u00a0aided with the wings of\u00a0Pegasus and also a\u00a0specially forged sword, gifted to him by Zeus (Liam Neeson).<\/p>\n<p>With a\u00a0customary roll of the eyes upward, I approached this\u00a0remake with much trepidation.\u00a0 In this case,\u00a0 not only was I\u00a0plesantly surprised, my enthusiasm was boundless &#8211; I returned home and promptly\u00a0Netflixed the original.<\/p>\n<p>The film contains well-written dialogue with the help of Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark), which doesn&#8217;t leave you feeling like a blockbuster sap.<\/p>\n<p>How was it in 3-D you ask?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know and\u00a0don&#8217;t care.\u00a0 I went to the 2-D screening and enjoyed it.\u00a0 I\u00a0became engrossed in the action as well as the plot, and I didn&#8217;t miss the glasses, the headaches, or paying the higher price!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leterrier pays homage to Harryhausen in his remake, but I&#8217;m not saying anymore, I challenge viewers to watch both.\u00a0 There are two sequels in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at Camino Real Marketplace, Santa Barbara, CA. \u00a0 Is it possible to re-make a film, whose characters were originally brought to life on the big screen,\u00a0by the iconic stop-motion artist\u00a0Ray Harryhausen, and meet certain criteria?\u00a0 The main criteria being that the CGI must not overpower the film or look intensely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}