Intro and Wrath of the Titans movie review

Hello there everyone. I'm The Deceptive Oracle, I'm 20 years old and a student looking for work.

I've decided to go ahead and do this blog to do movie reviews. I shall be doing really any movie, new ones in theaters, Disney, Dream Works, if you have a request feel free to ask me. I'm working on live video chats possibly through Oovoo or livestream if I can get the dang thing to work, so that I can actually speak to you about my movie reviews so you can give me spoken feedback, whether negative or positive, critique is the best way to learn and adapt. I may even start a special youtube account for this as well.

 I will not however accept racism, homosexual bashing, insults of gender, or any other nonsense. Everyone in the world IS entitled to opinion, but that does not mean it's alright to insult other based on gender, race, religion, political party, or sexual orientation, nor will i allow it once i start doing videos.

Now then! I believe I want to start off with a movie review: Wrath of the Titans. If you haven't seen it and wish to, you may continue to read without spoilers UNTIL I start talking about it. I'll be talking about the original Clash of the Titans first.

Today I saw Wrath of the Titans, and it was fantastic. The original Clash of the Titans never had a sequel, and although the remake did have some wonderful effects, it just didn't feel right to me. Some things I loved about the 2010 Clash of the Titans were using a Friesian horse for Pegasus, the design for Medusa and the Kraken, and other cgi creatures. However, the story line wasn't really what I expected as a fan of the original film. I did not like Calibos' design either. After seeing 2010 Clash of the Titans, I played God Of War: Ghost of Sparta, and the Kraken and Scylla looked very close in design. I'm not complaining, I absolutely loved it. I thought however that Clash of the Titans was as close as we'd get to a God of War movie.

If you have not seen the original Clash of the Titan's, here's the storyline:

It starts off with a king putting his wife and her child into a box (more than likely it is a coffin) and throwing her into the sea because she was impregnated by Zeus. As the coffin is thrown to the sea, a seagull flies away towards the mountains, where it then sheds it's form revealing that it is in fact Zeus. To punish the king for his behavior, he orders that Poseidon release the Kraken to destroy the kingdom. We do not, however, actually see the Kraken yet. He orders that the girl and the child, Perseus, are to be sent to a safe land, and they wash ashore to a land called Seriphos, where Perseus lives and grows.

Meanwhile, in the city of Joppa, a handsome man named Calibos, son of the sea goddess Thetis, is to marry the princess Andromeda, but Calibos being the cruel man that he is, has the audacity to slaughter all but one of Zeus' winged horses. Thetis begs Zeus to be merciful, but Zeus does not grant her this, he transforms Calibos into an ugly creature. In rage, Thetis decides that it's not fair to have the son of Zeus sit comfortable, and using her godly powers, sets Perseus into the old ampitheatre of Joppa. When he arrives, Zeus grants him gifts, a shield which is foretold to guard his life, a sword, and a helmet which grants the wearer invisibility. When he's there, he finds that if anyone wishes to marry the Princess, the suitor must answer a riddle, which changes every day. If he answers correctly, they are to be married, if he answers incorrectly, he is killed. (In the film, they are burned alive in bonfires in the city.) Perseus learns that Calibos is using a dark magic to bring Andromeda's soul to his swamp every night, and gives her the riddles that she asks, and finds and captures Pegasus- the last of Zeus' winged horses. He wears the helmet and learns the new riddle by following Andromeda's soul (which is being carried by a giant vulture) on the back of Pegasus and wearing his helmet of invisibility. He fights with Calibos after Andromeda's soul returns to her body.

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The next day, he goes to the palace and announces himself as a suitor. Andromeda (who doesn't realize that her soul has been seeing Calibos every night, believing that these are just dreams) recognizes him, saying that she saw him in a dream once. She begs him to not ask for the riddle, but he insists. The riddle is as follows:

In my minds eye
I see three circles joined in priceless harmony.
Two, full as the moon
One, hollow as a crown.
Two from the sea
Five fathoms down
One from the Earth
Deep under the ground

Perseus tells Andromeda that he does in fact know the answer, and pulls from behind his cloak the hand of Calibos wearing a ring with two pearls combined. It is the answer, therefor they are to be married.

That night Calibos goes to Joppa and stands before the statue of Thetis and begs her to grant him justice, but she tells him that he brought his troubles upon himself and that it is not justice that he seeks, but revenge.

Everything seems fine and peachy until Andromeda's mother Queen Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis. There is a short earthquake and the head of the statue of Thetis talks her down for the audacity of speaking such in the goddesses temple, and now she must offer up her daughter, Andromeda, to be a sacrifice to the Kraken in three days. If Andromeda does not go, or they put another virgin maiden in her place, the Kraken will destroy Joppa.

At this point, the 2010 version of Clash of the Titans actually got it right, giant scorpions and all.

Then after Perseus kills the Kraken is when things got funny again. In the 2010 version, Perseus marries Io (who was not in the original film) but in the original, he marries the princess Andromeda.

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Now, let's talk about Wrath of the Titans.

The story is basically that men have stopped praying to the gods and they are dying. There are only 4 left: Zeus, Poseidon, Aries, and Hades. Zeus tells Perseus that he needs help because the father of the gods, Kronos (or Cronus) might be freed and will destory the world. In actual Greek mythology, he was overthrown by Zeus and locked away in Tartarus. This is basically the storyline in Wrath of the Titans, though they make many inferences that the three brothers Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades all overthrew their father together.

Regardless, Poseidon, Zeus, and Aries go to the underworld where Hades tricks them, and Aries reveals to be working with Hades to bring Kronos back to life by draining Zeus' power. Poseidon is badly wounded though we don't really see how, and transports himself to Perseus. Poseidon gives Perseus his trident and tells him that he's their last hope, and that he must find Poseidon's son who is with Queen Andromeda.

So he goes and picks him up, where they find out that Aries is still strong because Andromeda's army prays to him (Aries is the god of War) for help in their battles. Andromeda and a few soldiers go with Perseus to find Hephaestus who forged the three brothers weapons, Poseidon's Trident, Zeus' Lightning Bolt, and Hades' Pitchfork, which when brought together create the only weapon that can beat Kronos. Hephaestus agrees to assist them, and shows them a secret entrance into Tartarus, but one of the soldiers prays to Aries who finds them and kills the remaining soldiers as well as Hephaestus, leaving only Perseus, Agenor (son of Poseidon), and Queen Andromeda.

They reach Tartarus after going through a Labyrinth which continues to change, where they find Zeus who has been drained of most of his powers, and Kronos is beginning to wake.

I don't want to give away the rest, so i'll stop there. That's the gist of the film.

We are either all dead, or we win.

Okay, so here's some of what I didn't like about the film. The beginning was very slow, but then suddenly the film was taking all kinds of flips and turns, and was rushed. The film really wasn't that long either. For this kind of film, I prefer them to be longer. For example: It's pretty hard for me to sit through the 2005 version of King Kong for 3 hours. The action (when it was there) did keep me entertained, but it really wasn't much different from any of it's predacessors save for cgi and Jack Black.

Wrath of the Titans however isn't a remake. It was a sequel to a film that's only been remade one time. I wanted to see much much more for the story line, and I was hoping for more creatures than what it gave. As far as creatures, there really werent that many, and for a few of them it was really difficult to tell what they were because the camera kept flying around. The only creatures I got a good look at were what I believe were Hell Hounds, Cyclops, a Minotaur, and Makhai. But there were other creatures in the film where the camera wasn't on them long enough for the audience to figure out what they were.

Now what I did like about the film. This film was fantastic with cinematography. After the boring as Hell intro, I was on the edge of my seat every second. Remember what I said before about how I thought 2010 Clash of the Titans was as close as we'd get to a God of War film? Wrath of the Titans devilivered for me. I still want it to get it's own film like crazy, but this film just had my mind flying. Honestly, every scene where Ares was being a complete and utter attention whore, I wanted to yell "WHERE THE ARE YOU KRATOS?!". Kronos looked amazing, and the second I saw him, I was thinking "oh my god it's Thera. Atlantis is doomed". My heart was going crazy wanting the character(s) to get out of that one. Kronos really was done very well, and you could definitely tell that we're all pretty much walking corpses with this guy.

I also loved how Bubo the owl made a brief appearance in this film. Bubo was a huge deal in the original Clash of the Titans, and was only given a second glance in the 2010 film, so to see his cameo appearance in Wrath of the Titans, this pleased me, even if it was just for one scene.

Well, overall it was a great movie, it made me beg for more. I wish it had been abit longer and hadn't rushed the fight scenes, but I did enjoy it very much. I don't think I will ever buy the 2010 version of Clash of the Titans, but I'd definitely buy Wrath of the Titans, and I plan on watching it a few more times.


Well that's it for today. This is The Deceptive Oracle and thank you for reading.