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** Aphrodite's cursing of Medusa in the first place. Was it an example of JerkassGods? Or maybe in [[BlueAndOrangeMorality her own way]] she felt she was helping Medusa out - giving her the power to take revenge on men who would try to wrong her. Medusa retains some of her beauty in this version.
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** Aphrodite's Athena's cursing of Medusa in the first place. Was it an example of JerkassGods? Or maybe in [[BlueAndOrangeMorality her own way]] she felt she was helping Medusa out - giving her the power to take revenge on men who would try to wrong her. Medusa retains some of her beauty in this version.version.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Apollo is seen with a sword in the scenes with the gods, despite him being most commonly depicted with a bow and arrow. One of his symbols was also a sword, and he was even born clutching a golden one.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Apollo is seen with a sword in the scenes with the gods, despite him being most commonly depicted with a bow and arrow. One of his symbols was also a sword, and he was even born clutching a golden one.
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** Even though she doesn't appear in the film proper, except essentially as an extra, this version's depiction of Artemis is quite well liked for her costume and appearing to be an OnlySaneMan.
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* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks: The movie got lots of flack for recycling the 'Zeus as benevolent dad, Hades as bitter younger brother who tries to take over Olympus' plot that Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' also did.
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* MisBlamed: Sam Worthington found himself at the centre of controversy for allegedly demanding multiple changes to the story, including Bubo being DemotedToExtra. However, the only source is an interview that has never been verified, and the actor himself later said he had no idea what he was filming half the time because of all the studio interference.
* PresumedFlop: The film is often spoken about as a StarDerailingRole for Sam Worthington, as if it were a Box Office failure, when it was very successful financially and got a sequel. This is likely because nostalgic fans of the original were outright vicious towards it, giving the impression of a huge failure. Sam Worthington still appeared in mainstream roles such as ''Film/ManOnALedge'' and instead preferred smaller independent films, disliking his action hero typecasting.
* QuestionableCasting: Izabella Miko as Athena is an odd choice, since with her blonde hair and typecasting as MsFanservice, she seems ill suited to playing the Goddess of Wisdom, and a better fit for Aphrodite. Indeed, in one of her scenes, she tries to seduce Apollo, meaning that had she been credited as Aphrodite instead it likely would have made more sense.
* QuestionableCasting: Izabella Miko as Athena is an odd choice, since with her blonde hair and typecasting as MsFanservice, she seems ill suited to playing the Goddess of Wisdom, and a better fit for Aphrodite. Indeed, in one of her scenes, she tries to seduce Apollo, meaning that had she been credited as Aphrodite instead it likely would have made more sense.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: The alternate ending from the Blu-Ray is closer to the original in that Perseus and Andromeda fall in love...even though they barely share screentime together due to Andromeda being DemotedToExtra, Perseus is a DarkerAndEdgier hero than the "motivated by love" original, and the rest of the movie builds up a different love interest in Io. This is due to ExecutiveMeddling finding Io as a better love interest, cutting most of Andromeda's scenes and re-editing Io from a platonic figure to a romantic one. In the original ending, they do share a kiss...because Perseus is saving her from drowning, and they end on a MaybeEverAfter.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: The alternate ending from the Blu-Ray is closer to the original in that Perseus and Andromeda fall in love...even though they barely share screentime together due to Andromeda being DemotedToExtra, Perseus is a DarkerAndEdgier hero than the "motivated by love" original, and the rest of the movie builds up a different love interest in Io. This is due to ExecutiveMeddling finding Io as a better love interest, cutting most of Andromeda's scenes and re-editing Io from a platonic figure to a romantic one. In the original ending, they do share a kiss...because Perseus is saving her from drowning, and they end on a MaybeEverAfter.MaybeEverAfter, since the movie was planned as a trilogy and their romance would presumably develop across it.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: Perseus sports a highly modern-looking buzz cut more akin to today's soldiers or [[ActionGenreHeroGuy action video game protagonists]].
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: Perseus sports a highly modern-looking buzz cut more akin to today's soldiers or [[ActionGenreHeroGuy action video game protagonists]]. Soldiers in Ancient Rome did have buzzcuts, but of course Perseus isn't a soldier. Supposedly, the hair is a remnant of an early idea where Perseus would give himself an ImportantHaircut before going on the quest, but the scenes were scrapped.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The whole soundtrack, courtesy of Ramin Djwadi of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' fame, is an absolutely epic collection.
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* FanPreferredCutContent: Safe to say the majority of viewers would have preferred the original subplot involving Apollo and Athena conspiring against the rest of the gods to help Perseus, as well as Andromeda being the love interest for Perseus rather than Io.
* FranchiseOriginalSin: A lot of fans attacked the film for elements that were actually there in the original too. Namely the liberties with Greek mythology - it was the original that used the Kraken rather than Cetus, had Thetis be the one Cassiopeia angers rather than Poseidon, adapting out Medusa's sisters, and creating the Calibos character out of whole cloth.
* FranchiseOriginalSin: A lot of fans attacked the film for elements that were actually there in the original too. Namely the liberties with Greek mythology - it was the original that used the Kraken rather than Cetus, had Thetis be the one Cassiopeia angers rather than Poseidon, adapting out Medusa's sisters, and creating the Calibos character out of whole cloth.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: The alternate ending from the Blu-Ray is closer to the original in that Perseus and Andromeda fall in love...even though they barely share screentime together due to Andromeda being DemotedToExtra, Perseus is a DarkerAndEdgier hero than the "motivated by love" original, and the rest of the movie builds up a different love interest in Io. This is due to ExecutiveMeddling finding Io as a better love interest, cutting most of Andromeda's scenes and re-editing Io from a platonic figure to a romantic one. In the original ending, they do share a kiss...because Perseus is saving her from drowning, and they end on a MaybeEverAfter.
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** Poor Bubo, often regarded as TheScrappy is reduced to a cameo, and a rather callously offhanded one at that. This is because Sam Worthington hated Bubo and kept complaining about it until the director removed it almost entirely to appease him.
** Loads of characters had bigger roles that were cut down in editing. Apollo and Athena played a big part in the plot, scheming against Zeus. In the final film, Apollo only gets a couple of lines in the first council scene and Athena is DemotedToExtra. Likewise Alexa Davalos delivers a good performance as Andromeda. But most of her scenes were cut. She at least gets a larger role in the sequel.
** Loads of characters had bigger roles that were cut down in editing. Apollo and Athena played a big part in the plot, scheming against Zeus. In the final film, Apollo only gets a couple of lines in the first council scene and Athena is DemotedToExtra. Likewise Alexa Davalos delivers a good performance as Andromeda. But most of her scenes were cut. She at least gets a larger role in the sequel.
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** Poor Bubo, often regarded as TheScrappy is reduced to a cameo, and a rather callously offhanded one at that. This is because Sam Worthington hated Bubo and kept complaining about it until the director removed it almost entirely to appease him.\n
** Loads of characters had bigger roles that were cut down in editing. Apollo and Athena played a big part in the plot, scheming against Zeus. In the final film, Apollo only gets a couple of lines in the first council scene and Athena isDemotedToExtra. DemotedToExtra.
** Likewise Alexa Davalos delivers a good performance as Andromeda. But most of her scenes were cut. She at least gets a larger role in thesequel.sequel, although there is replaced by Rosamund Pike.
** Loads of characters had bigger roles that were cut down in editing. Apollo and Athena played a big part in the plot, scheming against Zeus. In the final film, Apollo only gets a couple of lines in the first council scene and Athena is
** Likewise Alexa Davalos delivers a good performance as Andromeda. But most of her scenes were cut. She at least gets a larger role in the
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* EvilIsSexy: Many viewers were surprised at being aroused by Medusa, who was still a snake monster, but this time a GorgeousGorgon with [[https://www.deviantart.com/julio7/art/MEDUSA-287706697 a supermodel face]].
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The whole soundtrack, courtesy of Ramin Djwadi of {{Series/Game of Thrones}} fame.''Series/GameOfThrones'' fame, is an absolutely epic collection.
** Regardless of the comparisons with the original, both good and bad reviews agree this was a film that had the cast, the flair, the soundtrack, the visuals, and even the ''premise'' to be outstanding. Being a film about the value and meaning of humanity in a world of gods, it actually features a variety of characters that could explore it in different ways: Acrisius (a man who paid the price for challenging the gods), Perseus' comrades (overwhelmed human soldiers), the Djinns (basically magical transhumans), Medusa (whose unfair treatment to the gods' hands needs no explanation) and even Hades (who has a potent FreudianExcuse after all). However, in a general waste that is almost a feat by itself, we end up knowing almost nothing of the inner world of ''any'' of them, leaving them as underdeveloped one-notes and nothing more.
** There were times when it felt it they were setting up to deliver the message "just because they're your children/you created them doesn't justify abusing them," but it never happened. Arguably, however, as Zeus seems to [[HeelRealization come to a realization along those lines by the end]]: if the gods hadn't been so hard on the mortals, the mortals never would have rebelled, and the stage for Hades's takeover would never had been set.
** There were times when it felt it they were setting up to deliver the message "just because they're your children/you created them doesn't justify abusing them," but it never happened. Arguably, however, as Zeus seems to [[HeelRealization come to a realization along those lines by the end]]: if the gods hadn't been so hard on the mortals, the mortals never would have rebelled, and the stage for Hades's takeover would never had been set.
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** There were times when it felt it they were setting up to deliver the message "just because they're your children/you created them doesn't justify abusing them," but it never happened. Arguable, however, as Zeus seems to [[HeelRealization come to a realization along those lines by the end]]: if the gods hadn't been so hard on the mortals, the mortals never would have rebelled, and the stage for Hades's takeover would never had been set.
** If one goes by the behind the scenes notes, the final plot was actually going to be quite interesting, with Athena and Apollo essentially scheming against Zeus, and Perseus's comrades getting more character development. For whatever reasons it was heavily cut down into a rather simplistic revenge plot.
** If one goes by the behind the scenes notes, the final plot was actually going to be quite interesting, with Athena and Apollo essentially scheming against Zeus, and Perseus's comrades getting more character development. For whatever reasons it was heavily cut down into a rather simplistic revenge plot.
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** There were times when it felt it they were setting up to deliver the message "just because they're your children/you created them doesn't justify abusing them," but it never happened. Arguable, however, as Zeus seems to [[HeelRealization come to a realization along those lines by the end]]: Even if the gods hadn't been so hard on the mortals, the mortals never would have rebelled, and the stage for Hades's takeover would never had been set.
** Iffinal product, if one goes by the behind the scenes notes, the final plot was actually going to be quite interesting, with Athena and Apollo essentially scheming against Zeus, and Perseus's comrades getting more character development. For whatever reasons it was heavily cut down into a rather simplistic revenge plot.
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* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: For those watching the film in 2D however, the CGI is exceptional. Painfully averted with the slapped on 3D, but even then the Kraken looked ''freaking awesome''. It's a shame he was only there for less than five minutes. For those watching the film in 2D however, the CGI is exceptional.
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** The conversation that young Perseus has with Spyros about his anxieties regarding the new baby and Spyros not being his biological father. It has no bearing on the plot except to set up a character who is killed a few scenes later without so much as a single line. It makes more sense with the original ending where Perseus rejects Zeus and says that his real father is a dead fisherman (the moral being that blood ties mean nothing without a familial bond). But with that plot point dropped, it does seem a tad random.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: The alternate ending from the Blu-Ray is closer to the original in that Perseus and Andromeda fall in love... even though they barely share screentime together due to Andromeda being DemotedToExtra, Perseus is a DarkerAndEdgier hero than the "motivated by love" original, and the rest of the movie builds up a different love interest in Io. This is due to ExecutiveMeddling finding Io as a better love interest, cutting most of Andromeda's scenes and re-editing Io from a platonic figure to a romantic one.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: The alternate ending from the Blu-Ray is closer to the original in that Perseus and Andromeda fall in love... even though they barely share screentime together due to Andromeda being DemotedToExtra, Perseus is a DarkerAndEdgier hero than the "motivated by love" original, and the rest of the movie builds up a different love interest in Io. This is due to ExecutiveMeddling finding Io as a better love interest, cutting most of Andromeda's scenes and re-editing Io from a platonic figure to a romantic one.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Medusa is portrayed as a TragicMonster rather than the DesignatedVillain she is in the original, while also becoming a lot more blood thirsty and malicious.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Men don't need gods. Is it really necessary to remind us of that every ten minutes though?
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!! ''Clash of the Titans''
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!!''Wrath of the Titans''
* AntiClimaxBoss: The minotaur was beaten surprisingly quickly.
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** Sam Worthington was allowed to show his [[http://www.mtv.com/news/1681917/sam-worthington-wrath-of-the-titans-hair/ naturally curly hair]], which looks more appropriate (as hair served to help pad helmets) than his previous buzzcut.
** The sequel finally pairs Perseus and Andromeda.
** To make up for the first film's NonindicativeName (there were no Titans to be seen), ''Wrath'' has a story revolving around the resurrection of the Titan Kronos.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the sequel there are a couple of times in the Labyrinth where Andromeda thinks she sees Korrina walking around and Perseus sees Helius. There is a line from Hephaestus referencing possible hallucinations -- but it's not drawn attention to that much. Also when Perseus is separated from the others, he's attacked by a minotaur. After he kills it, it's not mentioned again and there are no other monsters put as obstacles in the Labyrinth.
* CompleteMonster: [[TheHeavy Ares]], the [[WarGod god of war]], is the [[AntagonisticOffspring disloyal son of Zeus]], who sides with Hades as the Titans awaken. While Hades is motivated by his fear of death and ultimately redeems himself, Ares is completely unrepentant and is DrivenByEnvy of Zeus showing favor to his demigod son Perseus. Ares and Hades sell out Zeus and the other gods to die to awaken Kronos in exchange for being spared, during which Ares needlessly beats and tortures Zeus in captivity. Ares later kills some of his mortal followers, impaling and tossing aside a devout worshiper who prayed to him for salvation and tried to appeal to him. When Zeus manages to reach out to Hades, Ares immediately tries to kill Hades and proceeds with awakening Kronos to wipe out the world, [[spoiler:mortally wounding Zeus]] in the process. During the final battle, Ares takes Perseus's young son Helius captive intending [[ForcedToWatch to force him to watch as he kills his father]].
* CriticalResearchFailure: The Chimera has wings, which would have been cool but misses out one ''important'' bit of the myth: the reason Bellerophon had to go through all the trouble of capturing Pegasus so he can ''fly above'' the monster, safe from its flames and fangs. ''This would, quite logically, not work if the Chimera could fly.'' The filmmakers clearly went for RuleOfCool.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Hephaestus, thanks to being a hilarious LargeHam played by Creator/BillNighy.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Creator/LiamNeeson [[{{Film/Taken}} is the one in danger.]]
** Creator/RosamundPike and Creator/LilyJames star as friends. Pike had already played Jane Bennett in ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005''. James would eventually play Jane's younger sister Lizzie...in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies''.
** Heck, even the fights against the Titans might get interesting when you find out about ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. It even has an arc of the same name.
* IdiotPlot: If Perseus had just gone with Zeus when he asked him to, he probably could have stopped Ares and Hades from imprisoning Zeus in the first place. What's worse is that he makes a big deal out of not leaving his son's side... and then five minutes later, leaves his son's side and a Chimera attacks his village, nearly killing the both of them.
* RetroactiveRecognition: John Bell, who would go on to join Luke Evans in ''Film/TheHobbit''. It also has Lily James as Korrina.
* StrangledByTheRedString: Perseus and Andromeda kiss at the end. They hadn't really had much in the way of romantic development, aside from clear tension when they first meet again. In the movie's defence it's entirely a MaybeEverAfter situation. Likewise a third film was planned, but eventually dropped, so presumably the romance would have been developed a lot more in that.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: A few audience members were more acceptive than the predecessor, with a few highlights being a whole new story and actually putting effort into the 3D effects.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[spoiler:Poseidon]], who dies fairly early.
* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Hephaestus.]]
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The film's special effects are spectacular, most notably Kronos, who's essentially a walking volcano of death and destruction. He's truly a sight to behold.
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* IdiotPlot: If Perseus had just gone with Zeus when he asked him to, he probably could have stopped Ares and Hades from imprisoning Zeus in the first place. What's worse is that he makes a big deal out of not leaving his son's side... and then five minutes later, leaves his son's side and a Chimera attacks his village, nearly killing the both of them.
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** If Hades hadn't gone out of his way to be a dick by [[spoiler:killing Perseus's family]], he would have been able to pull off his plan to seize power without a hitch.
** If the Harpy that stole the bag with Medusa's head in it had, say, dropped it in the sea, or fed it to the Kraken, Hades would have won straight off.
** Or they could have turned right around and, you know, used it on Perseus. Just saying.
** Guys... just leave Argos before the Kraken shows up.
-->'''Podcast/RiffTrax''': Don't skip town or anything, that would be cheating.
** If Hades hadn't gone out of his way to be a dick by [[spoiler:killing Perseus's family]], he would have been able to pull off his plan to seize power without a hitch.
** If the Harpy that stole the bag with Medusa's head in it had, say, dropped it in the sea, or fed it to the Kraken, Hades would have won straight off.
** Or they could have turned right around and, you know, used it on Perseus. Just saying.
** Guys... just leave Argos before the Kraken shows up.
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* WhatAnIdiot: If Perseus had just gone with Zeus when he asked him to, he probably could have stopped Ares and Hades from imprisoning Zeus in the first place. What's worse is that he makes a big deal out of not leaving his son's side... and then five minutes later, leaves his son's side and a Chimera attacks his village, nearly killing the both of them.
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* CriticalResearchError: It's an easy mistake to make, considering the sheer volume of Greek monster lore, but the Kraken is ''not'' greek in origin. It's Norse.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Hephaestus, thanks to being a hilarious CrazyAwesome LargeHam played by Creator/BillNighy.
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** Rosamund Pike and Lily James star as friends. Pike had already played Jane Bennett in ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005''. James would eventually play Jane's younger sister Lizzie...in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies''.
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** Rosamund Pike Creator/RosamundPike and Lily James Creator/LilyJames star as friends. Pike had already played Jane Bennett in ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005''. James would eventually play Jane's younger sister Lizzie...in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: John Bell, who would go on to join Luke Evans in ''Film/TheHobbit''. It also has Creator/LilyJames as Korrina.
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* DieFourOurShip: Io is this to fans of the original, for being Perseus's love interest instead of Andromeda. What's more is that Alexa Davalos's performance as the latter was one of the things fans reacted positively to, so Io being the love interest left a bad taste in fans' mouths -- especially with the news that she was shot as a platonic figure to Perseus at first and then retconned into being a love interest.
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* DieFourOurShip: DieForOurShip: Io is this to fans of the original, for being Perseus's love interest instead of Andromeda. What's more is that Alexa Davalos's performance as the latter was one of the things fans reacted positively to, so Io being the love interest left a bad taste in fans' mouths -- especially with the news that she was shot as a platonic figure to Perseus at first and then retconned into being a love interest.
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* DieFourOurShip: Io is this to fans of the original, for being Perseus's love interest instead of Andromeda. What's more is that Alexa Davalos's performance as the latter was one of the things fans reacted positively to, so Io being the love interest left a bad taste in fans' mouths -- especially with the news that she was shot as a platonic figure to Perseus at first and then retconned into being a love interest.
* EvilIsCool: Weak plot aside, Hades made for a very chilling villain with a proper air of ominousness.
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* TheScrappy: Io is this to fans of the original, for being Perseus's love interest instead of Andromeda. What's more is that Alexa Davalos's performance as the latter was one of the things fans reacted positively to, so Io being the love interest left a bad taste in fans' mouths -- especially with the news that she was shot as a platonic figure to Perseus at first and then retconned into being a love interest.
* SignatureScene: The battle with the giant scorpions in the desert.
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* TheScrappy: Io is this to fans of the original, for being Perseus's love interest instead of Andromeda. What's more is that Alexa Davalos's performance as the latter was one of the things fans reacted positively to, so Io being the love interest left a bad taste in fans' mouths -- especially with the news that she was shot as a platonic figure to Perseus at first and then retconned into being a love interest.
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** The battle with the giant scorpions in thedesert.desert.
** The battle in Medusa's lair with all the soldiers getting turned to stone.
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** The battle with the giant scorpions in the
** The battle in Medusa's lair with all the soldiers getting turned to stone.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Alexa Davalos's Andromeda. Despite the backlash from fans of the original, when the first trailer was released -- response to Andromeda's "have you seen what's happening out there?" was very positive.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Alexa Davalos's Andromeda. Despite the backlash from fans of the original, when the first trailer was released -- response to Andromeda's "have you seen what's happening out there?" was very positive.
** Alexa Davalos's Andromeda. Despite the backlash from fans of the original, when the first trailer was released -- response to Andromeda's "have you seen what's happening out there?" was very positive.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The entire film was subjected to this, being criticized by nostalgic fans of the original over just every difference, but the decision to turn a relatively faithful Greek story into a thoroughly unsubtle Christian allegory received particular flaks by more intellectual pundits.
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** The first draft of the film was completely different: it mixed several mythologies, and it had Zeus, Thoth, Marduk, Osiris and even ''Yahweh'' going against Tiamat and her followers, while Perseus had to join forces with an Earth goddess LoveInterest to fight a human cult of Tiamat led by a priest named Fantasos. Even if it was guaranteed to be a religiously controversial film, there is no doubt it would have made a really interesting story.
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** The first draft of the film was completely different: it mixed several mythologies, and it had Zeus, Thoth, Marduk, Osiris and even ''Yahweh'' going against Tiamat and her followers, while Perseus had to join forces with an Earth goddess LoveInterest to fight a human cult of Tiamat led by a priest named Fantasos. Even if it such film was basically guaranteed to be open a religiously controversial film, religious can of worms, there is no doubt it would have made a really interesting epic story.
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** If Perseus had just gone with Zeus when he asked him to in the sequel, he probably could have stopped Ares and Hades from imprisoning Zeus in the first place. What's worse is that he makes a big deal out of not leaving his son's side...and then five minutes later, leaves his son's side and a Chimera attacks his village, nearly killing the both of them.
** Guys...just leave Argos before the Kraken shows up.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: Perseus sports a highly modern-looking buzz cut more akin to today's soldiers or [[ActionGenreHeroGuy action video game protagonists]]. For ''Wrath'', Sam Worthington was allowed to show his [[http://www.mtv.com/news/1681917/sam-worthington-wrath-of-the-titans-hair/ naturally curly hair,]] which looks more appropriate (as hair served to help pad helmets).
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: Perseus sports a highly modern-looking buzz cut more akin to today's soldiers or [[ActionGenreHeroGuy action video game protagonists]]. For ''Wrath'', Sam Worthington was allowed to show his [[http://www.mtv.com/news/1681917/sam-worthington-wrath-of-the-titans-hair/ naturally curly hair,]] which looks more appropriate (as hair served to help pad helmets).
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* WhatAnIdiot: If Perseus had just gone with Zeus when he asked him to, he probably could have stopped Ares and Hades from imprisoning Zeus in the first place. What's worse is that he makes a big deal out of not leaving his son's side... and then five minutes later, leaves his son's side and a Chimera attacks his village, nearly killing the both of them.
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** The Djinn too, particularly Sheikh Sulieman, thanks to being total badasses who defeat giant scorpions by ''taming them''.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Hephaestus, thanks to being a hilarious CrazyAwesome LargeHam played by Creator/BillNighy.
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* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Hephaestus.]]
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* DesignatedVillain: Medusa again, with a deeply tragic backstory. Io even seems to think she deserves pity. Of course, she's more of a means to end to defeat the ''real'' villain, but still. Although here she's shown to be far more malevolent than her counterpart in the 80s version -- where she appears to take great delight in killing the soldiers, and cackles whenever she successfully scares them.
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* DesignatedVillain: Medusa again, with a deeply tragic backstory. Io even seems to think she deserves pity. Of course, she's more of a means to an end to defeat the ''real'' villain, but still. Although here she's shown to be far more malevolent than her counterpart in the 80s version -- where she appears to take great delight in killing the soldiers, and cackles whenever she successfully scares them.
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** There were times when it felt it they were setting up to deliver the message "just because they're your children/you created them doesn't justify abusing them," but it never happened.
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** There were times when it felt it they were setting up to deliver the message "just because they're your children/you created them doesn't justify abusing them," but it never happened. Arguable, however, as Zeus seems to [[HeelRealization come to a realization along those lines by the end]]: if the gods hadn't been so hard on the mortals, the mortals never would have rebelled, and the stage for Hades's takeover would never had been set.
