By I fell asleep during the middle third of Clash of the Titans, waking up in time to see the Perseus give a motivational speech to his faceless compatriots before leading them to slaughter at the hands of Medusa. “Don’t look directly at her or you’ll turn to stone!” “What, like this?” Then, Zeus politely asked the gods to leave him alone with his brother Hades as he whispered something about releasing the Kraken, a colossal beast that spends five minutes erupting from the water and even longer turning into stone immediately after.
Needless to say, I hated Clash of the Titans so naturally, they’re making a sequel. On the ‘bright’ side, Perseus himself, Sam Worthington, swears that it will be a better movie.
“I just think we can improve on it,” he told Moviefone of the upcoming ‘Titans’ sequel. “I think the first one, we kind of let down some people. And yeah, I totally agree. The only point of doing a sequel is either the audience demands it or you believe you can better the first one. What we’re setting out to do with this one — the writers and the director and myself — is improve….
I fell asleep during the middle third of Clash of the Titans, waking up in time to see the Perseus give a motivational speech to his faceless compatriots before leading them to slaughter at the hands of Medusa. "Don't look directly at her or you'll turn to stone!" "What, like this?" Then, Zeus politely asked the gods to leave him alone with his brother Hades as he whispered something about releasing the Kraken, a colossal beast that spends five minutes erupting from the water and even longer turning into stone immediately after.
Needless to say, I hated Clash of the Titans so naturally, they're making a sequel. On the 'bright' side, Perseus himself, Sam Worthington, swears that it will be a better movie.
"I just think we can improve on it," he told Moviefone of the upcoming 'Titans' sequel. "I think the first one, we kind of let down some people. And yeah, I totally agree. The only point of doing a sequel is either the audience demands it or you believe you can better the first one. What we're setting out to do with this one — the writers and the director and myself — is improve. I think I can act f***ing better, to be honest … Just take all the notes from people that I have been reading about on the 'net and give them a movie they f***ing want. This one I want to kind of try to satisfy a lot more people."
First Marky Mark and now Sam Worthington. It's like a renaissance of culpability. I love giant monsters and Greek mythology, so I'll give them a second chance. But you know what they say, "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, I'll release the Kraken."
[Via Moviefone]