Do not upset the Gods.
Rule number two.
Prepare yourself for you have already upset one of them.
The gods of Greek mythology are a jealous, short-tempered, reactionary, group who would sooner throw you to the sea then hear your explanations for. Well. Pretty much any of your actions.
Did you boast about your beauty, boast about the beauty of someone else. Not build a statue to the right preparation.
maybe you praise one of the other gods a little too much. And now somebody else is becoming jealous of their admiration.
The point I'm trying to make is regardless of your actions something is going to come about this either going to throw you into turmoil or force you into a grand Adventure.
In this case it's the mortal man known as Perseus. A demigod whose father is Zues (like so many others).
He had this life of adventure thrust upon him. For none of his actions led him to any sort of ill-will wrongdoing.
He was simply the wrong person.
And his would-be (kind of) father is the reasons that he should pay for his actions. Which is a little disconcerting given that his father tried to drown him in a giant box.
Now because of the admiration and jealousy of the Gods, Perseus has been thrown into a near-death situation stuck in an alien land he hardly understands.
He's lucky given possession of a few God like weapons. But in receiving these gifts he's now put on a quest of almost certain death yet again.
He has to hunt down Calibos and try to save this woman from being eternally torn from her own soul with a dead of night.
He'll eventually have to fight Medusa and then try to survive an encounter with the Kraken.
It's all fairly normal stuff for your typical demigod but unlike Hercules there's nothing about Perseus that seems to indicate that he has any sort of power.
He's just a attractive man with a few decent gifts.
I feel really bad for Calibos. The guy gets worped into this strange werewolf like creature, is banished from his own home and loses the love of his life.
We're told by Zeus that he was boastful and a little too full of himself. But have you ever known Zeus to be a teller of truth.
I sure as heck haven't.
Zeus is the kind of guy that gets ticked off on a whim and might very well just decide to kill you because you raise the wrong hand in a salute to him.
I always disliked that 'Clash of the Titans' ultimately turns into a big debate of rather it's good or bad.
Some people want to phrase it for its use of claymation monsters and fun sword and sandal cinematography. While others want to badmouth for the very same reasons claiming that it's quite out of date and kind of a tacky film.
And I find neither side is really worth getting worked up over.
From a story perspective it's fine.
It's your typical Greek mythology adventure story, the characters are all kind of One-note but good spirited enough that you want to watch them in their endeavours. The special effects are combination of good and bad simultaneously.
The overall aesthetic of the monsters movement are really good while some of the green screen and superimposed images on the cityscapes and backdrops are horrible.
The whole movie feels quite dated for 1981 and honestly wouldn't have held up on that well even if it was 1971 that's how bad some of the effects are.
Once again it doesn't matter.
This movie was trying to go for a purposely older style much like the film Superman. Only it doesn't get the landing as well.
It's still fun to watch but it's nothing that's going to blow your socks off.
You can find better sword and sandal movies but it's worth seeing at least once.
Also sweet God Star-Wars left a hell of an impression on this movie. The ridiculous robot owl is pretty much a flying artoo-detoo.
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