Immortals

Anybody see this?

It was almost certainly a case of low expectations being exceeded, but I actually liked it a lot more than I thought I would.

I thought it was kind of hilarious that this movie had far more right to the name "Clash of the Titans" since it actually had, y'know...Titans clashing.

It also struck me as the director having watched both Clash of the Titans and 300 and said, "Heyyyy, I can do something cool in this sandbox."

I wasn't exactly worried before, but I don't think anyone will have much of a problem with Henry Cavill as Superman. He's practically playing the Greek version here.

If you thought this was decent, take a look at a film called "The Fall" done by Tarsem Singh, the director. The characters in the story the main character tells are awesome, but the visuals are INCREDIBLE. It is also boasted that there is not one single shot of CGI in the film and I'm not so sure about that yet.

Worth a look and I believe it's still on netflix.

Yeah, I've heard all kinds of stuff about the director (and even the reviews for Immortals all made a point of mentioning how visually striking the film is and praised the director for it).

I'll see if I can find "The Fall."

I have just seen the IMMORTALS movie, its visually stunning eye candy! I cant wait to get the Blu-Ray for this movie!

i seen this preview few weeks ago at the movies, i was like this looks bad ass, but i actually hate that matrix type battle shit, the slow motion crap, that shit needs to die, i mean that shit needed to die the day after it was in matrix, i'm seriously not impressed and intrigued by that shit. i think it's retarded.

side note, the writers to this story graduated from my high school, they are two brothers from seaside park.
pretty bad ass, and made me wanna see the movie even more, now..

eat that...

Actually the speed-ramping in this movie is pretty appropriate, since it's only really used for Gods and Demigods.

And I'd take two hours of "that Matrix shit" over the barely-comprehensible "quick-cut shaky-cam" method which seems to be the only other way moviemakers do action these days (usually to cover up the shortcomings of their actors and/or costuming...see the "Bourne" trilogy or Nolan's Batman films). At least with the slow-mo I can actually see what the hell is going on.

Just watched it and thought it was pretty cool, unnecessarily bloody though, but not nearly as bad as 13 Assassins IMO. I just like the gods though... they were so cool looking. Kinda sucks that they ended up being a bunch of wusses though.

Watched it the other night. Was pretty good.

Watched it last night ... what a letdown. Plot was ok, but the pacing of the movie was damned slow. Fight scenes were decent but not plentiful enough.

^ Yup... even though I kinda liked it... I was expecting another 300... all I got was way too much Mickey Rourke though (whoa, didn't realize he is almost 60 now).

Immortals was one of my all-time disappointments... right up there with The Fifth Element. At least I got to see Freida Pinto though... and the Gods themselves looked cool lounging around on Mt. Olympus.