Steve loves all those old greek mythology films with plasticine monsters in so he bought Clash of the Titans on Blu Ray. I always fall asleep whenever they’re on telly because a) they’re long and b) they’re on at prime naptime. I managed to stay awake for the new Clash of the Titans though and that’s because a) it wasn’t naptime and b) it’s really rather good.
Steve thinks I fancy Sam Worthington but I don’t, not even in a leather skirt and riding a Pegasus. He’s all right, but his Australian accent has a mind of its own and it winds me up a bit – not because there’s anything wrong with an Australian accent, but if you can’t do a different one properly, don’t even bother, eh cobber?
So it’s good, yes. The little clockwork owl from the original film makes a brief cameo appearance, which is quite nice, and all the beasties and monsters are suitably scary. Some of the CGI is appalling but most of it’s very good. And Liam Neeson is very Zeus-like. It’s slightly off-topic but I just wanted to throw a theory I have at you: Liam Neeson has ‘mega facial hair’ written into his contracts otherwise he won’t accept a part, with the exception to this being ‘Taken’ because he got to say ‘I will find you, and I will kill you’ which he pwns* as far as cool movie quotes go.
Back to Clash of the Titans – is it better than the original? I don’t know. I already told you – I was asleep. Would I watch it again? Yes, but if it’s on between 2pm and 6pm on a Saturday or Sunday I can’t guarantee I’ll catch it all.
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*’Pwns’ is something I read on Xbox Live a lot. Apparently it means ‘owns’ but people can’t spell that properly (I didn’t realise it was that difficult) so they write ‘pwns’ instead.
