This is the Pure Movies review for Clash of the Titans (directed by Louis Leterrier and starring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng, Gemma Arterton, Alexa Davalos, Nicholas Hoult, Tine Stapelfeldt and Mads Mikkelsen). Is it wrong to fault a movie like Clash of the Titans for not making sense? If feels wrong. I mean, I loved Jason and the Argonauts and all those Sinbad movies so I feel the nag of genre loyalty. But those movies—even for a 12-year-old only there for the Cyclops and the army of skeletons—felt more narratively nourishing. The cardinal law, the primal imperative, of all fictive works is that you can create a universe with whatever rules you want —one that can include Death Stars, cowardly lions, scorpions the size of P & O Ferries—but you have to stick to those rules. In other words, you can have a spaceship come down in Independence Day,...
- 7/24/2010
- by Garth Twa
- Pure Movies
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