Clash of the Titans

Watched this last night. It was shorter than I expected. I'd have thought it would be at least 2 hours, since the original is one of those old school epics. Better than I expected too. Not that it was amazing or anything, but it was good, especially the Kraken.

I thought it was a bit pants.

There was a bit too much of Sam Worthington staring just to right of the camera and being ruggedly defiant, but I was expecting to dislike it, and I didn't. I thought Medusa was good too.

Everyone was so wooden, even the usually good Neeson and Fiennes. They looked a little uncomfortable with it, uncertain whether they should ham it up or take it seriously. The Kraken wouldhave been good had it been on screen for more than three minutes, and a lot of the film was just Worthington's deeply uncharismatic hero brooding. Even Gemma Arterton, who showed in Prince of Persia that she can do this sort of film, looked bored by the end.

I wasn't expecting much of the Kraken, since I knew that it would just pop up and then be turned to stone, but it still looked good. Can't decide whether the joke with the mechanical owl was great or just annoying.

I'll have to watch the original one again at now point now, because I can't quite remember it all.