Happy Trails Hans: Clash of the Titans
John Wayne? Rambo? Marshall Dillon? No, it’s super terrorist and exceptional thief Hans Gruber, back on RvR to take a look at the latest trailers.
Sand. Persian looking fellows. That’s Jake Gyllenhaal, I am correct? This must be that awful Prince of Persia rubbish – turn it off, it offends me. That’s surely a Gorgon, stolen from the myth of Perseus? Are there no depths Walt will not sink to? I hear you, Pete Postlethwaite: somebody must say ‘enough’. Hmmm…perhaps this burly chap will? It looks like Sam Worthington from that last Terminator film. Oh the music has just jumped ahead a few millennia. There’s that chap in the cloak pointing at me again.
Ah. Giant scorpions. Dragons. Is that a godly Liam Neeson? This is more like it. This music is very Muse – this is earning points by the second. Scorpions again, this time assisting percussion. That thing’s from Pan’s Labyrinth. The camerawork is very fast – I was under the impression that action films were only permitted to be shot in slow motion?
TITANS. WILL. CLASH. Oh Dear. And it was going so well. STARS WILL WAR. FICTION WILL PULP. LOST ARKS WILL BE RAIDED. SUSPECTS WILL BE USUAL. PRIVATE RYAN WILL BE SAVED. COUPLES WILL RETREAT.
Actually, it’s genius, it works with anything.
VERDICT: Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho.
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November 13, 2009 at 9:28 am
if only Scorpions did provide percussion for the movie – would be way better than Muse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taVW8Kv2HcQ
November 13, 2009 at 11:05 am
That’s just inaccurate, there was only one Titan in that movie. You need more than one to have a clash of them!
November 13, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Winds of Change – top ten songs with ‘Moskva’ in the opening line.
That’s a very good point General – I always thought Perseus was doing a bit a narcissus and refering to himself as the ‘titan’ clashing with the Kraken.
Truth is the Kraken wasn’t even a Titan! There are no titans in this film!
Well there were none in the original film, there might be in this remake.
Man I’m gonna miss Harryhousen’s stop motion monsters – PWN anything computers can generate!