I didn’t like The Incredible Hulk, bored the shit out of me actually, sorry I never got round to reviewing it but that movie didn’t deserve my time or effort. At this point, I don’t think Louis Letterier is capable of telling a story, the casting was all off – Norton and Tyler were as vacant together as I’ve ever seen in a comic book movie.
William Hurt gave his worst performance in years, the CGI was terrible, the movie had NO plot. How Letterier got away with making a movie that had no characterisation or logic and made the money he has with the film is beyond me. Yes the action was upped from the last Ang Lee movie and yes the film had a more straight forward narrative but structually it was appaling.
I now fear greatly for CLASH OF THE TITANS, the Lawrence Kasdan (Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark) written remake at Warner Bros.
Louis Letterier is directing according to Variety.
The mostly green screen CGI remake is been hyped up by the trade as going head to head with Tarsem Singh’s new project WAR OF THE GODS, which we found out about yesterday at Relativity Media. Apparentaly two movies about Greek Mythology that both have extensive chariot race scenes cannot co-exist, so the race is on as to who will be first.
Production will begin on WAR OF THE GODS before the end of the year, and presumably TITANS won’t be far behind as it’s been in development longer and they now have their director.
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I too fear for this movie, and I truly hope that the Gods of Olympus prevent its blashphemy. Although they failed miserably in preventing a robotic owl called Bubo appearing randomly in the Perseus myth on which the original was based!
You know Matt, the more I think about that Hulk film, the more I carn’t remember hardly anything in it! not a good sign.
I fully agree with you on most points about that film, the casting was totally off. I just happen to catch Ang Lee’s film the other day on film and you just carn’t beat Sam Elliot as Thunderbolt Ross and of course Jenifer Connelly was a great in it as was Eric Banna, shame about the end of the film though. I still think it made a lot more sense to me than the new Hulk film. A great punch up at the end of a film does not make a great film!
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Clash of the Titans is my favourite stop-motion movie, and one of my fav movies of all time groing up as a kid.
I’m sad to hear that it’s been remade at all, let alone the fact that the director they have chosen is inept.
Dear oh dear indeed.
I thought Letterier did a good job on the Hulk; I’m glad to see him taking on another high-profile action-comic-book type thing, I think he is suited for it. The idea of remaking Clash of the Titans is very weird, I’m a huge harryhausen fan so I’ll be dissapointed no matter what, but I like the way Letterier handles action and immense scale, and a new version of Clash of the Titans is pretty tantalising given what you can do nowadays. Hopefully this time Letterier’s budget can go to making the film larger than life instead of filling out the A-list screen talent’s paycheques, which probably cost as much as Hulk’s CG bill.
I’m hyped. I think Letterier will do ok. Finding a new Harry Hamlin should be doable, but just try to find anyone to match Laurence Olivier.