It might just be me, but the style and costuming of the Gods reminded me greatly of Zardoz. Very 70s-ish.
Escape to the Movies: Immortals
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I use to think it look like a good movie, but the aggressive ad campaign on television just made me sick of it. Besides, I have more important things to spend money on like Halo Anniversary Edition.
The reason I say this is that, these days, I only watch about 2 hours of actual TV with commercials a week and the commercials for this movie practically air during every commercial break. To me it was bad advertising, because I saw the commercial for it so much that I actually got sick of hearing about it that I would rather stay home and save money.
I wonder if you actually watch any television, or if it just wasn't advertised in your area.MonkeyPunch said:
The reason I say this is that, these days, I only watch about 2 hours of actual TV with commercials a week and the commercials for this movie practically air during every commercial break. To me it was bad advertising, because I saw the commercial for it so much that I actually got sick of hearing about it that I would rather stay home and save money.
Okay this is the final straw i have tried to listen to your series on a large number of things but enough is enough.I dont know if its just you being you but you let shit films and ideas get a easy pass because it has good and different effects.
Effects are killing the industry alot quicker than anything else as your promoting alot of shit films on the story line side just because the film has a new take on effects.A number of times i have thought yes bob knows what he is doing but on a number of key topics you seem to want to advise the world into going stupid directions
I know that me saying this wont change your following i just hope that people catch on before you lead them down a dark hole.
Effects are killing the industry alot quicker than anything else as your promoting alot of shit films on the story line side just because the film has a new take on effects.A number of times i have thought yes bob knows what he is doing but on a number of key topics you seem to want to advise the world into going stupid directions
I know that me saying this wont change your following i just hope that people catch on before you lead them down a dark hole.
Well, I can't see this movie because I'm in Japan (even though I'd like to), but on the other hand I can make you all jealous by having bought Super Mario 3D Land last week.
On a related note, why is it that every movie or game about Greek mythology falls back on this "releasing the Titans" idea? It has absolutely no grounding in any of the actual myths and comes off as unabashedly silly to anyone who's ever studied them even briefly. I'm not saying unabashedly silly is wrong, I just don't get why it always has to be the same unabashed silliness. It's just like the way everyone always gets lazy and decides that Hades should be portrayed as the Christian devil, even though he's actually probably the nicest of the gods (still kind of an asshole, but much less of one than even Athena tends to be).
On a related note, why is it that every movie or game about Greek mythology falls back on this "releasing the Titans" idea? It has absolutely no grounding in any of the actual myths and comes off as unabashedly silly to anyone who's ever studied them even briefly. I'm not saying unabashedly silly is wrong, I just don't get why it always has to be the same unabashed silliness. It's just like the way everyone always gets lazy and decides that Hades should be portrayed as the Christian devil, even though he's actually probably the nicest of the gods (still kind of an asshole, but much less of one than even Athena tends to be).
Really? Cause I was expecting that to be what was reviewed.misterprickly said:
Though its not really like we wouldn't know what to expect: as of earlier today, Jack and Jill was at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, and now is at 3% because two critics were a bit too forgiving on the movie. If you couldn't tell Jack and Jill was tosh from the previews, then you aren't paying enough attention to the world and/or your sense of humor is that of an 8 year old boy.
Kick-ass!
Glad it's not another action-bomb (no pun intended), because there have been far too many attempts that fall on their faces embarrassingly. I don't want to see Clash of the Titans treatment with any mythology (no culture deserves that), and I'm glad to hear that we get some no-holding-back violence and gore.
No Frank Miller makes it sound that much more better. My reasoning is simple and down to two words: The Spirit.
I didn't know that was a comic or anything when I rented it, but damn was that movie horrible! I don't think I actually even finished that one, come to think of it...
Glad it's not another action-bomb (no pun intended), because there have been far too many attempts that fall on their faces embarrassingly. I don't want to see Clash of the Titans treatment with any mythology (no culture deserves that), and I'm glad to hear that we get some no-holding-back violence and gore.
No Frank Miller makes it sound that much more better. My reasoning is simple and down to two words: The Spirit.
I didn't know that was a comic or anything when I rented it, but damn was that movie horrible! I don't think I actually even finished that one, come to think of it...
The story in Immortals is nothing fresh, but at least it's essentially grounded in human concerns, rather than 300's unpleasant predilection for the institutions of military and empire. It has little of The Fall's sweetness and imagination, but plenty of its beautifully bonkers production design. The jury's still out on whether Tarsem is any good at directing actors talking though.
Just saw it and the action is a over the top gorefest especially once the gods get in volved. Great movie had loads of fun at the theater.
Spygon said:
It's good to know that you are the end-all, be-all authority on this subject, correct? This is in no way just a personal opinion of yourself that you have taken and projected to become the one truth, is it?
Why am I getting the nastiest feeling that this film is going to be critically mauled by every single critic EXCEPT Bob and will turn into a massive box-office flop (just like Sucker Punch, Scott Pilgrim vs The World and every other visually daring and experimental film that deserves better than it gets from the braindead mainstream public)?
My, SOMEONE is certainly full of themselves (hint: I'm not talking about Bob here). I'm SO glad people like you are around to prevent people like Bob from destroying the entire film industry (hint: I'm being sarcastic here)!Spygon said:
It's kind of difficult to criticize the "braindead mainstream public" for not going to movies that are advertised as CGI drenched spectacles that go light on characters and plot. Not to give "the mainstream" too much credit but it's hard to get people to show up for a movie that doesn't ask the audience to think, laugh, cry, or have any emotional investment in what's happening on the screen.Arcane Azmadi said:
"The Cell: kinda sucked" ?? The Cell 2, yes the first half did (I didn't see the second half, maybe it had redeeming value but I can't guess) in the sense it had nothing in common with the first one and looked more like some telefilm than a real movie, but what's wrong with the first one ? :-(
I just saw Immortals, and yes, I can unequiviocally say that eye candy is enough. Moviebob is totally right, 300 has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on this level of hyper-violence. It more than makes up for the lackluster story, although it was an interesting re-imagining of some classic Greek stories.
