Well, that's not strictly true. Sam Worthington glares a lot, Liam Neeson gets angry, there are some big scorpions at one point, and a series of frankly not very impressive set pieces are strung together with a loose interpretation of a Greek myth.
But that's all that there is going on. It's a two hour trailer that makes little to no attempt at characterisation. Perseus's only personality trait is mildly angry at events. Angry that they killed his da'. Until the end, when he's suddenly fine with it. Angry that he's sort of a god. Until the end when it turns out that it was quite useful, which makes it okay. And angry that they killed the women he loves. A connection which is only implied after the event in order for him to be even angrier, and frankly only seemed to be in the film because he was the protagonist, she was female and that's just what happens in films.
As much as I like Pete Postlethwaite, his drowning and an apparent absence of fish are the only evidence we're given that gods are pretty shitty to people and on this basis we should support the mortals in their quest to stumble from one CGI monster to the next. Again, I'm big on fish, but I needed slightly more than that to empathise with this pack of faceless gibbons.
Agree.
ReplyDeleteTotally ruins the myth.
If you gonna do ancient greek myth - then at least pretend you have some kind of understanding of what they are about rather than this mindless americanised shit.
Really tries to piss on history to the extent that I get a little angered by the arrogance. Hopefull its so bad people will quickly forget it.