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« on: February 04, 2010, 02:26:19 PM » |
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Apparently there's a remake of Clash of the Titans coming out soon with Avatar's Sam Worthington starring as Perseus. This made me wonder where the story of Perseus comes from. Ironically, it is not a Greek writer but rather Ovid. The Perseus story is in Metamorphoses, Book IV-V. There's also mention of him in Apollonius's Argonautica, but that is mainly about Jason and the Argonauts.
I need to find a copy of Metamorphoses because there's a bunch of other mythological "history" in there as well.
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« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2010, 06:12:51 PM » |
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I have a copy somewhere.
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« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2010, 06:12:51 PM » |
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« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2010, 06:22:14 PM » |
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Amazon has some used ones for < $5, I just want to find a good translation.
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2010, 03:41:24 AM » |
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I saw the preview for it last week when I saw Avatar, it looked ok but I probably won't see it in the theater because the clockwork Owl was not in the preview. The Owl is the only thing that made the first movie worth watching, it was like an ancient R2-D2.
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« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2010, 05:23:09 AM » |
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The Owl is the only thing that made the first movie worth watching, it was like an ancient R2-D2.
I thought the claymation was pretty cool. Think about the head of Medusa, all those snakes. I heard that COTT was the last big movie to use claymation....they then started using computer graphics to do it. |
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« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2010, 05:23:09 AM » |
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2010, 08:18:51 AM » |
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But the Owl was just plain COOL.  |
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2010, 11:56:56 AM » |
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Yeah, the whole movie was cool. I remember going to see it at the theater when I was a little kid. I was just talking about this with a professor a few days ago...how the movie caused a whole generation of kids to grow up thinking wrongly about Greek mythology. Oh well...I think it probably interested a lot of people in ancient Greece, though. |
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2010, 07:33:00 PM » |
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I can't wait to see the new movie. I loved the old one, but this one looks to really be epic. I hope I'm not setting myself up for a huge disappointment.
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« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2010, 08:17:33 PM » |
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I dunno....I just watched the trailer and it looks like a quasi-horror, over-the-top John Woo flic. Hopefully I'm wrong. We all know why we love Greek mythology, and it doesn't have to do with the gods flexing their muscles so much but instead the gods using humans as pawns in their political games. Hopefully this movie will include that aspect.
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« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2010, 05:09:39 AM » |
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I want the Owl.
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« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2010, 10:56:03 AM » |
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Just watched it this weekend. One of the most horrible movies I've ever seen in my life.  |
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« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2010, 02:43:27 PM » |
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Just watched it this weekend. One of the most horrible movies I've ever seen in my life. Hollywood has a bad tendency of taking great movies and TV shows from our youths, dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into remakes, and repulsing us. |
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« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2010, 03:30:53 PM » |
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Yeah it sucked compared to the original. Sam Worthington has yet to show me why he is getting all these big time roles.
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« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2010, 09:35:58 AM » |
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I watched it on the plane ride to Germany and thought it was horrible. It was not so much a remake of the original as a bad satire.
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« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2010, 03:31:52 PM » |
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I saw the preview for it last week when I saw Avatar, it looked ok but I probably won't see it in the theater because the clockwork Owl was not in the preview. The Owl is the only thing that made the first movie worth watching, it was like an ancient R2-D2.
Actually R2-D2 would be more ancient than the Owl. Star Wars is set a long time ago in a galaxy far away. Nerd war in 321.....LOL |
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