Comments on: A KRAKEN GOOD TIME

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:29:13 +0000

Nice one Tom/ Releasing the Kraken at the urinal, THAT’S a classic!

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By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:30:03 +0000

I agree with THUNDERINGBLURB in that it wasn’t a great movie. The CGI and special effects were awesome; however, they lacked character development and even though a plot was present it did not seem to get about it in a powerful manner.

Many of the characters did not seem to interact very realistically considering everyone in Argos hated the gods and then when Perseus arrives they only seem to show distrust for a small amount time until he is immediately deemed a warrior without any real training and the once hostile Argos soldiers are just pals around a campfire.

The action scenes seemed dull in comparison to the rest of the film. By that I mean most of the movie was the protagonists traveling whether it be by walking, scorpion, or boat ride so you would think the action scenes would be better to counter this; however, I felt they were not so dire as it seemed. Sure in the scorpion fight scene people were dying, but where was the comradeship that was once present? where was the need to kill the beasts quickly and without loses? Finally, the Medusa fight being the final fight? Sure it was the best fight scene, but seriously just because people are dying does not make it better once again. Also I thought the final fight scene was going to be the Kraken which apparently killed the makers of everything who were more powerful then the Gods, but instead we are left with some crap chase scene with some rodent monsters through the city just screaming “we just threw this in there because we have no idea what to put here for the next 20 minutes of the film.”

Basically what I am seeing throughout this whole film is that the writers were paid less then the CGI artists and the writing team didn’t have much time to work with at all so they had to throw in scenes just to add time to the movie.

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By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:08:38 +0000

@THUNDERINGBLURB, and I suppose the characters and overall story were that much better in the much-acclaimed 300? Give me a break. They’re very similar. Only difference really is 300 is stylized to the point where the rest of the movie didn’t matter very much, it just looked that good. Take away that layer of style and they’re similar movies.

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By: THUNDERINGBLURB

THUNDERINGBLURB — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:14:22 +0000

This was one of the stupidest movies I’ve seen. Dumb people doing dumb things for dumb reasons when they bothered to have one at all. Characters who were almost not discernible from each other and served no purpose – not even comedic in some cases even though you could see a draft of the movie where they CLEARLY were comic.

CGI was fine (didnt see 3d, so glad I didnt bother) Worthington is a snore and the rest of the cast was…. eh.

Yeah this was a pretty disappointing flick. Given my low expectations, that’s a real achievement.

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By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:35:29 +0000

Went to see the movie in 2D last night, I really enjoyed it. I found the special effects to be really well-done. The sheer size of the Kraken was impressive. I thought Sam was pretty good in it, but his role felt a little similar to his role in Avatar… he’s the chosen one, he has to save everyone, only him can mount the pegasus (as opposed to the big dragon in Avatar), etc, etc. If anything, I found that Liam Neeson did the worst job in the movie, he really wasn’t convincing as Zeus; I thought he looked stupid in his shiny armor. At least, Fiennes’s Hades had great special effects surrounding him, his entrances and exits looked great, and he really seemed commited to making his character work. To me, Neeson really mailed it in on this one and didn’t seem interested whatsoever…

I’ll try to track down a copy of the original to see how it compares, but I usually have a really tough time with 20+ year old movies that rely on special effects… we’ll see.

But yeah, the “RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!” line was great and I’ll remember it for a long time. It had a “THIS IS SPARTA!!!” ring to it.

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By: Jim Ryan

Jim Ryan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:06:03 +0000

@Dustin B., Oh dear God… Please, don’t send in your request for a remake of JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS. They start connecting the dots and rediscover some of the ancient evils of the past, we’re going to end up with Robert Zemeckis wanting to redo THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES if we’re not careful…

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By: noodles

noodles — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:08:27 +0000

I saw the 3D version at a midnight show… It literally made the movie worse. My biggest complaint was the 3D. It was absolutely abhorrent.

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By: trevor

trevor — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:59:28 +0000

Doesn’t Kraken come out from behind? Gross.

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By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:45:09 +0000

I actually didn’t think the movie was nearly as bad as people have been saying. In fact, a sa movie by itelf, I probably would have given it a 7.5/10. Its biggest drawback for me personally was the fact that it wasn’t just a movie by itself, it was a remake, and the original clash of the titans(alogn with ghostbusters and Willow) was one of my favorite mvoies as a kid. When comparing it to the old movie is where it really fallas behind, some of the added parts(the two hunters/brothers who were basically put in as comic relief IMO)/changes hurt the movie because you automatically put it up against the original. i will also say, the total removal of Archimedes(with the exception of a 5 second secene where he’s tossed away) was a big letdown for me. Alll in all, an OK movie, but nothing to get overly excited over.

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By: Dustin B.

Dustin B. — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:15:22 +0000

The film did take place in Argos, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch for the next sequel to be an adaptation of Jason and the Argonauts.

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