The Losers Screening

Last Friday a bunch of my friends and I went to the screening of The Losers. I think this is the second movie to be adapted from DC Comics' Vertigo line. The first was Watchmen... which I liked, even though the ending was not the same as the graphic novel. The Losers ran for 35 or 36 issues. I only picked up the first couple of issues. Just couldn't keep up with it, since I already had too many books on my pull list to read at the time.

Think I am going to be picking up the graphic novels after seeing this movie. I really enjoyed it! The movie is about a military ops team that are betrayed and framed by this guy named Max and they are out to get revenge on him. Along the way they are helped and joined by Aisha, who is also out for revenge as well.

Action and fight scenes are great. After seeing her in this movie, Zoe Saldana needs to be in more action movies with fighting roles. She can kick some serious butt! The character of Jensen, played by Chris Evans, is super hilarious! The whole elevator scene, before and after, is just great. It'll be interesting to see how he is as Captain America. I didn't even recognize Jason Patric as the villain, Max. His character is completely insane.

The movie seems to cover the first 2 chapters of the series. So I can see them adapting the rest of the chapters into a trilogy. Hopefully it does well at the box office to do so.

Clash of the Titans Premiere

I scored some screening passes to the premiere of Clash of the Titans last night. One of my favorite movies of all time. I absolutely loved the original! Mainly because I was really into Greek mythology... which started my interest into the myths of other cultures. Even steered me into taking a course in Archaeology in college.

This remake was a bit of a disappointment for me. The storyline is changed from the original and deviates from the myth of Perseus... especially the ending. The flow of the movie seemed rushed. The scene with Perseus' conception/birth might have been a better opening to the movie, instead of putting that near the middle. Bubo has a really small cameo, which is really a shame...

All the Olympian gods, except for Zeus and Hades, are all just background extras. Apollo and Poseidon have one line speaking roles. Then there is the shiny gold armor the male Olympians are wearing... what the hell is up with that. Made them looked like spaceknights. It reminded me of the anime series Saint Seiya, one of my favorite anime series. Looks good in the anime, but not the movie. And why the Black Pegasus too? I always thought heroes rode white horses...

On the other hand, the effects and 3D were really good, especially the Scorpions, Medusa and the Kraken. I really liked the throne room chamber of the Olympians. The floor was the landscape of the earth with clouds. The fight scenes were nice. There were some occasions where I could not tell who was fighting and getting killed.

There are other things in the movie I wasn't too keen on: face of desert tribe men reminded me of a Decepticon from the Transformer movie and Calibos. I had hopes that this movie would be as good as the original, but to me it's not.