Posted by Alric Knebel on 07/22/07 05:01

Jim Beaver wrote:

> <zaryzary2003@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1185050532.969466.26120@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>
>>On Jul 21, 11:28 am, Alric Knebel <alric@[cableone.net]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I couldn't agree more. I saw all three of the earlier ones in the
>>>theater, because they were these BIG movies, with cutting-edge sound and
>>>so forth. But they're boring beyond special effects. The relationships
>>>are so childish, especially the one between the princess and Hans. They
>>>behaved like two elementary school children making faces and sticking
>>>their tongues out at one another.
>>
>>
>>Ok, I'll stick up for the Star Wars films. Yes, the first ones came
>>out when I was an impressionable kid, so I certainly can't pretend to
>>be objective about the whole thing. But even as an adult I've enjoyed
>>re-watching them for both the whiz-bang fun, and because Lucas knew
>>what mythic archetypes to use to draw us in. It's been said so much
>>as to seem cliche now, but he really did try and set up the whole
>>thing as a space-age myth with the associated quests, princesses,
>>heroes, old wizards, magic, and pirates to go along with it.
>>
>>Which is part of the reason why the character relationships aren't
>>complex on the surface. In other words, of course you're not supposed
>>to evaluate Luke Skywalker and Han Solo's actions in a modern,
>>"realistic" way, any more then you're supposed to think about how
>>illogical it is for Achilles to refuse to go to war just becaues
>>Agamemnon stole his girlfriend, or complain about the somewhat
>>illogical fact that Dido threw herself on the funeral pyre when Aeneas
>>left. Now, I'm not trying to imply that people will be watching "Star
>>Wars" in several thousand years the way we still read "The Iliad" and
>>"The Aeneid," but it's certainly fun to watch it now - at least for a
>>lot of us.
>
>
> Then why would I enjoy Jason and the Argonauts or even (shudder) Clash of
> the Titans about a thousand times more than the Star Wars pictures, which
> bore the bejabbers out of me? Because it isn't JUST about the mythic stuff.
> I've got to believe (within the context of a fantastic world) AND care.
> Most Kerwin Mathews movies pulled that off. Lucas didn't, for me.
>
> Jim Beaver

Come on. CLASH OF THE TITANS isn't even close to shudderingly bad.

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