YMMV / Immortals

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Was Hyperion really sincere about how he was waging war on the gods to avenge his wife and family, or was he just using a Freudian Excuse to tear down a power greater than himself? The tie in prequel comics shows his family's suffering before the start of the story, but did he really still care about them by the start of the story or was he so consumed by blind rage and hatred that he just didn't care any more and was just throwing his weight around because he thought it was fun to go around brutalizing people weaker than himself?
• Cliché Storm: Big Bad with his unstoppable army raping and pillaging the civilized world while searching for the one artifact that will release an ancient evil, with only a single chosen hero to stop him. Said hero is mentored by an aging wise man who is not who he appears to be. Hero declares revenge on Big Bad after having his loved ones and home village destroyed, and himself enslaved. He joins up with a lovable rogue, a mute priest, and a prophetic priestess overcoming challenges until they finally find the artifact only for the Big Bad to take it and release the ancient evil. Our hero then makes a last stand, triumphs over evil, and ascends to a higher state.
• Genius Bonus:
  • Why is Poseidon the first Olympian to actively help Theseus? Because according to the original Greek myth Theseus is his son.
  • In the comic book tie-in for Immortals, the origins of the Epirus Bow is shown. It is said that the bow was made from one of the oak trees from the sacred grove at Dodona, in Epirus. The oak tree itself was a conduit of Zeus' power, because of blood sacrifice, until Heracles fashioned the tree into the Epirus Bow. In Ancient Greek mythology and religion, there was a shrine at Dodona, in Epirus; which is a region in Greece. At Dodona, there was a sacred grove and an oracle dedicated to Zeus. It was the second most important oracle in the land, next to the Oracle of Delphi. All of the trees in the grove, were Oak, which is associated with Zeus.
  • The Mountain in which the Titans are held, is known as Mount Tartarus. The prison in which the Titans are kept inside of, is known as the Tomb of Tartarus. According to the comic book tie-in, standing inside of the Tomb of Tartarus, feels like falling inside of an infinite abyss of pain and darkness. In Greek Mythology, Tartarus is the prison of the Titans, and it's said to be a deep abyss.
  • In the movie, Hyperion is stated to be a "Heraklion King". Heraklion is a port city in Crete. Nowadays, its the largest city and the administrative capital of Crete. Since Hyperion is the stand-in for Minos, linking him to Heraklion is a nice way to establish who He's supposed to be.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • At one point Theseus delivers a 'Superman punch' to Hyperion^note made even more amusing when you remember that one of the many Alternate Company Equivalents that Marvel, DC Comics's rival, has to Superman is also named Hyperion.
  • Since the Superman films play with the idea that his alien father Jor-El is some sort of God figure to Superman's Jesus figure, the Zeus/Theseus scenes can evoke Jor-El/Superman scenes for viewers. (Being only in his thirties, Luke Evans also looks closer to Jor-El's appearance in the comics than the middle-aged actors playing Jor-El in real Superman movies.)
  • The working title of this film was Dawn of War. Henry Cavill would later co-star in a film subtitled Dawn of Justice. Lines in Theseus's speech about cowards who hide behind masks and "bleed like you and I" are also humorously prescient of the conflict in that film.
  • In this film Kellan Lutz played Poseidon, Greek God of the Sea. A few years later he would play the more famous Greek demi-god/half son of Zeus, Hercules of Thebes, in The Legend of Hercules.
  • In the same vein, it seems that Apollo had upgraded himself into Zeus.
• Moment of Awesome: It's a movie about Greek gods and Badass Normal mortals battling against various things. Of course there'll be awesome moments.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • You may hold a little sympathy for Hyperion for a while, knowing his past - a man of humble origins who became a powerful leader, yet lost his family to illness... You think life has driven him over the edge. Then you see the death he reserved to the three girls and understand he's beyond any redemption.
  • He crossed it back when he killed Theseus' mother and didn't even give Theseus a chance to save her.
• Narm:
  • The various articles of headgear; Poseidon's and Ares's being top of the list.
  • Theseus' Rousing Speech is also pretty hilarious, as he stirs up the Greek defenders into a manly, shield-thumping froth and then lets out a supremely hammy yell before leaping down from the top of an arch he somehow got up onto.
  • The gods' golden armor looks incredibly fake and plasticky.
  • The castration of Lysander by the Minotaur by way of a really big sledge hammer. Though obviously meant to be a moment of Body Horror (with a little Laser-Guided Karma thrown in for good measure) the scene comes off being more funny than frightening (possibly due to the Laser-Guided Karma - Lysander was after all a Dirty Coward who sold out his people to save his own ass - at the cost of his nuts, no less). Could also be seen as Narm Charm.
  • The Titans. They're supposed to be more powerful than the Gods - which they might be. But they look like thin chimney sweeps who haven't showered in awhile, spastically biting on poles. Seriously, Kirby Mooks look more menacing.
  • Zeus with a pencil mustache as opposed to the manly beard he's usually depicted with.
  • The war in the heavens at the end, with the camera zooming out from a god's crotch.
  • The fight between Theseus and Hyperion being choreographed with very evident and modern Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
  • The "Greek" spoken in this movie is absolutely atrocious. The worst is probably the "Kolpos Peninsula", which is Greek for "Gulf". Not only that, but kolpos is used as the scientific term in Greek for female genitalia, similar to the English "vagina". So when the protagonist runs around shouting "I AM THESEUS OF KOLPOS", you can just imagine how well that went over in Greek cinemas.
• Nightmare Fuel: The Bronze Bull. It appears to be a normal statue of a bull making odd noises when heated up. It's not until later that we find out that people are locked inside it and then roasted alive, with a series of pipes and tubes making their screams sound like bull grunts. The worst part? This thing really existed and was really used.....on its creator.
  • The nightmare fuel comes early when you realize exactly what it is from the start.
  • Hyperion. He's basically the worst type of human being.
  • Lysander's initiation and castration, especially for any man watching the said sequence. Whilst it could be argued that the maiming was justified, the latter action seems very extreme and needlessly cruel. Especially given how it is carried out ... with a mallet, wielded by an insanely strong giant no less. Lysander is shown limping for the rest of the movie, showing that the injury never fully healed.
  • Making it even worse is Hyperion's reaction to the whole event. Although Lysander is defecting to his side, Hyperion points out that as far as he is concerned, Lysander deserves what is about to happen to him because he is a coward who ran to him out of a desire for self-preservation and revenge, rather than loyalty. As the said punishment is being carried out, he speaks in a bone-chillingly calm voice and watches the whole thing unphased. If you needed any proof that the evil King is a psychopath, you see it here.
  • Speaking of Lysander, during the final battle he calls out to Theseus, and advances towards him, unarmored, with his chest exposed. Instead of fighting, he throws away his weapon and allows his enemy to impale him. That's right, his treatment under Hyperion broke him to such an extent that he chose to kill himself rather than continuing to serve under the man he no longer considers his King.
• Special Effects Failure: In one scene late in the film, Theseus takes off the armor he was wearing. It bounces and wobbles as it hits the ground, as if made of rubber, yet should be stiff.
  • Theseus is giving a Rousing Speech to the soldiers, and they are beating their shields with their swords in approval. One of the soldiers (in several shots) beats the paint off of his shield.
• Spiritual Licensee: This movie is said by some to be a better remake of Clash of the Titans than the actual 2010 remake. It helps that there are actual titans in the movie, but keep in mind the original 1981 classic did not have titans at all either.
• Squick: The torture scenes. Especially the bronze bull and the castration-by-mallet scene.
• Strangled by the Red String: On top of ahem, inaccuracies, we have the "relationship" between Theseus and the oracle. Summary? Oracle predicts Theseus's actions. She fawns over him pointlessly. They do it. End.
• Tear Jerker: The apparent death of Athena, which angers Zeus so much that he literally drops a mountain on the bastard Titans.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: A much more interesting film probably could have been made about the conflict between the Greek Gods and the Titans.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Henry Cavill (Theseus) and Luke Evans (Zeus) both make a pretty valiant effort with what they're given. Most of the actors do - barring Mickey Rourke, who seems to be sleep walking through the film.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: It's a Tarsem Singh movie. Cliché Storm though it may be, it's chock full of cool visuals and Scenery Porn.

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