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Camille Deadpan
This movie is amazing! Totally better than all the remakes.Zeltaebar
A pleasant surprise! Loved the Harryhausen special effects, especially the Medusa. I wish I saw this one as a kid. My mind would have been blown :-)dr_death_proof
Far outshines the abominable remake. Some of Harryhausen's best work, especially the Medusa. A consistent favorite of mine.badblokebob
This is the original...Some people, eh?
DisneyStitch
A swashbuckling mythological adventure. Pretty entertaining despite showing its age. I found the scenes with Medusa to be the most impressive.Groovy09
Really enjoyed it! A lot better than the remake without a doubt.That robot owl was freaking awesome :D
Siskoid
When I was a 10-year-old, there was one movie I desperately wanted to see but that never came to theaters: Clash of the Titans. I wasn't as interested in fantasy later, I suppose, and it fell off my radar. Looking at it today, it's a real throwback to sword & sandal films of yore, and as Ray Harryhausen's last film, a real tribute to an earlier era's well-integrated stop-motion creatures. And it's pure myth, that of Perseus, told AS myth. In other words, it's not big on developing character motivations and the like. While it has memorable set pieces (usually due to effects wizardry), its hero (played by pre-L.A. Law Harry Hamlin) is a humorless cardboard figure. Somehow, the big names in the cast still bring something to it - Burgess Meredtih is funny, and everyone who plays a Greek God is well cast. But here's the thing. Because it's essentially the myth told without comment, it smacks of Zeus' Patriarchy, HARD, which dates this 1981 effort spectacularly. Perseus is Zeus' favorite son, while Thetis' son Calibos is cursed. As Perseus is pulled into an adventure that will get him Calibos' girl, Zeus makes all the goddesses help him. And so Perseus triumphs (and Calibos dies), but he couldn't have done it without all these women sending him magic items and a comedy robot owl. Result? Zeus is real proud of his boy and forbids anyone from taking vengeance, and look how my boy did well... The very definition of white male privilege. Maybe it isn't date after all...EylemBasakEkinci
Even more haphazardly plotted than the original, "Clash of the Titans" boasts 3D imagery and kinetic action that can't obscure a movie that is, finally, pretty flat. Influenced almost as much by "The Lord of the Rings" as a 1981 namesake most notable for Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion effects, the technical upgrade doesn't improve the clunky mythological underpinnings, while the script ratchets up the man-vs.-the-gods quotient. Result feels mostly like a (very expensive) kids' pic, and international prospects appear more promising than domestic box office, which, after a muscular opening -- with apologies to the gods -- should be somewhat less than titanic.