I would’ve added: “Why does everyone assume Hades is evil all because he’s Commander of the Dead? He’s one of the least problematic gods and only f**ks up those who really cross the line”.
Hades is just as problematic as the rest of the gods, he kidnapped a young girl and forced him to marry her. In this time period in ancient Greek & Rome woman were still property of the husbands and didn't really have any rights. So essential he made her a slave. Depending on the cult that worshiped Hades its stated that he raped her as well no different from Zeus or Poseidon.The only difference is that Hades got in trouble for his actions, because instead of raping humans and minor gods, Persephone had a powerful mother[Demeter] who could save her. Demeter also loved her daughter as well, as plenty of other demigods were ignored when they called upon their parents to save them. Not that different from crimes that still today. Rich powerful man commits a crime and he can get away with it, unless he commits a crime to someone equal rich and powerful.Its true that Christianity had some effect on Hades representation but the full truth is that the other gods/goddess choose their victims more carefully. Hades is ‘evil’ because not only did he do the crime but he got caught and called out on it by. In addition he choose to victimize someone with a powerful family that cared. Hades is just as complicit as his brothers just not as criminal sophisticated.[ In fact Zesus is the one that arranged the kidnapping ]
@@Plaid_pants_panter Actually, he didn't rape her. In the ancient times, the word rape meant abduction. It was later that the word rape became what it means today. Also, kidnapping your bride-to-be was normal back then. And some facts: unlike Zeus and Poseidon, Hades has only two mistress. Persephone only has one: Adonis. Hades is not technically evil. He's just greatly feared. Maybe because of the fact that he was assigned the task of punishing evil mortals in the Underworld. I also advise you to read the myths of Orpheus, Sisiphus, and Pirithous for measure
@Blue Bean you're probably thinking about the story of Theseus and Porytheous. Those were the only 2 mortals Hades screwed over, and trust me, both of them were assholes and had it coming.
Disney also commits that mistake. A thing about Hades is that people didn't really like to mention him in Ancient Greek due to his position. But the real reason it his most of the times portrayed has bad is that he is the god of the underworld, and people simply translate that into being a bad guy.
Sin: Medusa is supposed to be UGLY. Like, undeniably, not-just-because-of-hair-snakes ugly. Reversing her beauty was the WHOLE POINT of her origin story as the snake-haired monster.
Counter-Sin: that is one variation of the myth, and there are several. One variation claims she was indeed ugly as all hell. Another claims she had boar tusks and hands made out of gold. And yet another one claims that Athena took "pity" on Medusa after transforming her into a monster and decided to let her keep her beautiful face, and even make it perpetually youthful. And accounting for multiple variations when one does the job is just asinine.
Medusa the most pure and a virgin until zeus rapes her then aprodite gets jealous and curses her, im siding with the titans zeus was a prick who could worship him
fun fact: in the original Greek Mythology, Medusa never had a snake body She had her head of snakes (of course) A humanoid body and devil wings the snake body is purely Hollywood because hey... snake Medusa would be more fun in claymation than typical bat-winged gorgon. :P
Medusa never had wings and her head was not a snake her hair was snake. That was a punishment from Athena because she thought that medusa was disrespecting her by having sexy with Poseidon in her temple...
Actually it was known in mythology that Medusa was quite skilled with a bow and arrow, and the reason her stare worked on the kraken but not the jinn was because the stare only works on creature made of flesh and bone. That specific jinn no longer had any flesh or bone from all the battles it had encountered and was therefore immune. 👌 love the videos though
@@drakegrandx5914 Its not Medusa but her sister that is skilled with bows and arrows in the myths,but usually it is too much work to put the other two gorgons so they just smash everything into Medusa.
@@lordanonimmo7699 Her sisters are ever barely mentioned though?! The most characterization they have is trying to kill Perseus before he leaves the caves to avenge Medusa, aside that they are never elaborated upon.
Yeah. I hate when Hades is portrayed as a Devil-like figure and Zeus a super good guy, bc the actual ones in myth are far different. That’s why I like Hades, the only one of the big three to care about consent.
@@astra3310 I mean, the only real bad thing Hades did in the stories was kidnap his niece until she got Stockholm syndrome. That's still bad, obviously. But it's not as bad ad the things the others.
It's funny as that is also the source of inspiration for the Medusa character in the Heroes of Might and Magic games. Death glare, and with a bow and arrow at her side :) But as usual Jeremy half asses his way through any kind of extended research. Not defending the movie either, but that's worth at least 10 sins for him in every vid he does
@@chavamara It's probably more a thing about the Gorgons, as they are pretty often depicted with Bow and Arrow. Also Medusa herself (as far as I know) didn't use weapons in the greek mythology.
No, the reason why hades is the bad guy here is because the director is a huge fan of saint seiya where a where the athena have to fight with her saints the gods of olimpus, like poseidon and hades, and like in the movie hades wanted to make a eternal eclipse so you can see the inspiration.
Here, let me help. 1) It’s called Clash of the Titans but there’s not a single titan in the movie. 2) Medusa kills more people than the actual “kraken”. 3) They go from fighting in a forest to fighting in desert dunes in a single fight scene.
I mean... They said something along the lines of "why not use a titan to kill a titan" - referring to Medusa and the Kraken both being classed as titans in this film for... some reason. So it's "5 seconds of titans clashing in which the lazy writing one turns the cool one to stone"
1) False Advertisement *ding* 2) Potentially passable since in the mythology we don't have specific body counts between Medusa and the 'kraken' (i.e Cetus the sea monster) 3) Reeks of cut scenes, either that or a generally clueless editor team/director *ding* 4) I have no idea why I made this comment *gnid*
About your comment of "why would the head of Medusa work on the Kraken, but not on the Djinn guy". In the movie, those 3 witches specifically said "Anything of flesh is killed by her gaze", and the Kraken is obviously flesh and blood. The Djinn removed most of their organs and flesh to convert magic into them. I'm not necessarily defending the movie, but I'm just saying they explained it and you didn't pay attention.
I'm glad someone else brought this up! What is up with studios always using Brits & Australians to play characters in movies that take place in Ancient Greece? Troy, Hercules, 300, Clash of the Titans, The Odyssey, the list goes on!
Or maybe they “Zeus” know it’s incest and yet still they’re all like “Fuck this! Fuck that! Fuck you! Fuck me! Fuck that random-ass bush over there! Just Fucking Everyone!!
The thing i really laughed at was that when he pulled out the head out of the sack he got REALLY lucky it faced the right way, for the same chance he could have just stunned himself xD
Epimetheus created man, not Zeus... Perseus' mom survived her trip in the box, Humans defying gods usually ended badly in that mythology (it's called "hybris", yo !) Hades is not "bad", normally he just doesn't give a damn about mortals. His whole thing is to rule the lands of the deads, that's all The kraken is northern mythology, not greek The notion of "sin" is christian, not greek. So a greek would never say "we must pray to the one who showed us our sins" Djinns are from the muslim mythology, there's about a 1000 years and a whole continent's mistake !! There are TONS of demi-gods, and very few of them make it to the god status, let alone it be considered "normal" by Zeus In no story is Medusa in the underworld... And all these sins are just basic cultural knowledge, really. Seen the budget of that movie maybe they could have afforded to open one single freaking book on greek mythology ?
What about the time paradox when Perseus rides pegasus on his way to kill the medusa, wich gave birth to the first pegasus through her blood from severed head? Before Medusa's death there was no pegasus.
@@isaiahleach1604 that depends on versions, in some he is Zeus's son because Zeus transformed into a golden rain to impregnate his mother Severus Versus yes true, this one slipped by me ^^
Paying the ferryman(Charon) by putting coins on the corpse's eyes is actually something from Ancient Greece. I'm not too hung up on Io knowing these things like speaking Djinn or knowing entrances to the underworld, she's immortal and has lived for centuries. She's picked some things up. Also, not only Medusa using a bow and arrow from the original movie, but it'd make sense she'd not just rely on her petrification stare all the time just in case she can't get a clear look at them. She'd wound them with arrows like she does here and while they're in pain, petrify them. I think you can hyah any animal if it can understand you, pegasus or no.
I had to watch this movie in one of my mythology-related classes. I can't remember which one, but I remember being really mad that we were wasting precious learning time on something so thoroughly divorced from the actual material.
My class in school did Greek Mythology one year, and we watched this as well (We also watched Lightning Thief). I didn't really think how divorced it was from the source materials at the time (I was 11 though). What really ground my gears with that period of school, was that we were supposed to be doing Greek Mythology, but we covered the Norse myth where a giant steals Mjolnir, and Thor dresses up as Freja to get it back. This was after we'd covered vikings literally three years earlier. Unfortunately, I couldn't call my teacher out on this mistake, because she was one of those who got angry if a student pointed out a mistake, even if they were polite about it.
Also, the fact that they said God's "Immortality" is because of Human prayers is some bullshit. Gods are immortal, their strength is increased by worship. And WHY does every single movie about Greek Mythology have Hades going against Zeus directly even though that basically NEVER happens in Greek Mythology?
Because almost every single movie about Greek Mythology is aimed at a mostly ignorant audience who knows jackshit about mythology and, therefore, the writers use the dicotomy Zeus/Hades as an equivalent to God/Satan
Because Hades rules the Underworld so he has to be depicted as some variant of the Devil rather than just be the Keeper of the Afterlife who generally just hangs out with his dog and occasionally kidnaps Persephone to have some company
@@jefferycrouse4652 a movie about Persephone and how powerful & feared she eventually became would be bad @$$. Hades wasnt half as evil as movies depict. But she had some serious latent darkness issues. 😁
"He knows the men who broke the statue but then goes after the innocents on the boat" Do you now know greek myths? All of the gods are basically waiting to smite everyone in a 100 mile radius for the smallest things.
@@entropyzero5588 Yeah it's pretty fucked up that the God of the Underworld who kidnapped Persephone and fed her grapefruit seeds to force her to stay with him six months out of the year is actually one of the most moral Greek gods
That's one of things that bugs me about most of these movies based on Greek myth. Hades is almost always the bad guy, despite the fact that in the myths he's basically just the god of judgement and the afterlife. Hades is one of the only gods who DOESN'T randomly mess up things for humans or curse people for little to no reason. While he does 'kidnap' Persephone, in most versions I've heard she wants to be with him. There's only an issue because her mom wants her too. The only other god who is as moral as Hades is Hephaestus. Who does little except act as a blacksmith and prank Aphrodite for cheating on him.
5:16 I agree. "Agelessness" seems like a very convenient curse. At best it means you never suffer from old age - and then you die of it, at worst it means you have eternal life unless you get killed. Either way not that bad. Real immortality is a lot less convenient since it doesn't have an off switch.
Please sin American Psycho, that movie is made for you. 1 Brilliant also over the top dialogue 2 Ridiculous actor performance 3 One of the strangest antagonist : A restaurant Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think sam worthington is underrated. people don't like him for being put in big movies like avatar or clash of the titans. but he isn't that bad of an actor
Uh no? It's his acting that sucks. He can't seem to make good facial expressions. Dude is like a robot. Sounds like one too. Much like that chick from Twilight.
Dude's Alex Mason from the COD Black Ops series, man! He's awesome. Then again, that makes him both one of my favorite video game characters and a shitty version of one of my favorite mythological characters.
He's pretty fucking bad in big movies. He might be better in smaller ones, but he's been terrible in the ones I've seen him in. Also, he needs to keep a consistent fucking accent.
Let's not forget a lot of the monsters were made from Zeus sticking his dick in everything, or Poseidon also sticking his dick in everything. Getting weird creatures pregnant with even more weird creatures.
@@Assmaholic419 The Titans did not smite and rape and demand like the Olympians. In fact, when they ruled, the world was just and mankind was happy. Cronus termed this period the Golden Age.
@@yueshijoorya601 mankind was made in the olymapion age and the titans imprisoned their brothers the first 3 cyclops and hekintonkeries (I think I got that wrong) and their king Kronos ate his children
The really depressing part is that in Greek mythology, Perseus' mother Danae was actually allowed to live and marry his adopted father. It's rare for a modern version of an ancient story to be more harder on its female characters than the original.
This movie craps all over the actual Greek myth. Perseus’s mother didn’t die, the original king wasn’t Perseus’s mother’s husband but her father, Hades LIKED Perseus (and Hades like, isn’t evil), the Argos stuff had nothing to do with Perseus until after Medusa. Etc.
@@uyuman1 Hades is like the most chill dude in all the Greek Mythology. He at least stays faithful to his wife unlike his whore of a brother Zeus, who fucks anything chick that catches his interest.
That's pretty much 90% of Greek mythology movies, including Percy Jackson, which craps all over both Greek mythology AND the namesake books. The silver lining: do you know for how long I've been waiting for Cinemasins to tear them all apart in a shitty mythology movie marathon?! Hope the sequel, Immortals and Hercules (not the Dwayne Johnson one) are all next XD
@@chris-jq1se definitely clipping, there's only one line, and that's the string. and if it were a shadow, it would have wrapped around the side of her body, but this just stabs right through her
Seriously though, they transfer some of their essence when they give coin to Charon. Thus, prolonging his existance. I would assume that coins themselves are more or less useless to him.
@@jinxedly823 From what I've read of Greek mythology, it's just a custom. Give a drachma and take a ride across the Styx. Don't know if there's any specific reason
Read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and it was called: The modern Prometheus. Then I studied Epimetheus and his brother... they are the ones credited with making man.
9:57 Not like I want to be too much of a geek, but people were buried with coins so they had something to pay Charon, the ferryman, to board his boat and be taken across the river Styx. It was the way to Hades. If they didn’t have the correct fee, they would wander the banks of the river as wraiths for 100 years. However, coins were usually placed in the mouth, not on the eyes.
@@evanjenkinz maybe a proff that thosse who the ferry carry had paid?Kind of reminds me God of Egypt,where only those who paid enough were allowed go to to the afterlife,other were wiped out (once Buttler´s character set this rule).
He didn't question the intent of burying people with the coins but what Chiron would do with "quarters." And, in a movie so off the wall from the mythology, I'm personally surprised that this one bit was included.
Despite my degree in Ancient History, every single time I hear "soldiers from Argos" my first assumption is that they mean Argos the shop and have purchased some soldiers there...
I could have almost forgiven this movie if the Medusa scene had included Stheno and Euryale, because that would have been hilarious - "Epic battle, blah blah blah, oh no men dying, yay we killed the Gorgon, oh crap why didn't anyone tell us there were two more." And ah yes, Pegasus, son of Poseidon, born from the blood of a decapitated Medusa's neck stump; funny how you never see that version of Pegasus in the movies. Also why do we never get to see Hades in Elysium in these films? He's always residing over some sort of 'I can't believe it's not hell' dimension, but Greek 'heaven' was part of Hades underworld as well.
Elysium was a later invention for the Greek Underworld - it doesn't exist in the Odyssey. But I am 100% with you on Stheno and Euryale! They need to be referred to in more versions! Have you ever watched Class of the Titans? They appear in an episode of that!
Well think about it, Elysium is supposed to be 'heaven' right? Naturally a paradise wouldn't have a god to fear hanging around at all times, thus Hades avoids lingering there too much Well that's the excuse I came up with, a more likely reason is that Hades is always portrayed as evil (for some reason) and being in a paradise doesn't really invoke the same air of menace
>Picks up miniature pen < "Gods dam it...doesn't work!" >Picks up another pen...falls apart< "Hurrumph" >Picks up another pen from another bay< "ah HAH! Right...i want a...">begins writing...pen runs out< "Zeus dam it! I jus want a new kettle and a bed spread!" >picks up another pen< "O.K. caaaaalm...." >Begins writing, nib and ink pushes out through chewed end cap< "FUCK IT!!!!!!!" >Throws pen, walks out of store
I'm surprised Cinemasins left out that Medusa was a priestess turned into a monster as punishment for having been raped by Poseidon. So they basically killed a rape victim who didn't go out terrorising people, was constantly hounded by armed heroes trying to kill her and basically just wanted to left alone.
There debate on that topic as theirs some inconsistencies with the tapes by Posidon origin, as their is one thing not taken account of , Medusa has 2 sisters. And they are Gorgons just like her, they are never stated to work as priestess or were also raped by Posidon just Medusa so their isn’t an explanation of why they are Gorgons as well. Other myths just state that Medusa was born a Gorgon where she had 2 other siblings. Then again Myths are never consistent anyway and their different interpretations of everything.
I’m adding a sin for Medusa’s backstory- in Greek mythology she was never raped. It was the ROMAN author Ovid who changed Medusa from a bonefied monster into some nobody who was sex (in some translations it’s consensual) with Poseidon in Athena’s temple. Moreover, this story never appears in any other ancient authors’ writing because Ovid pulled it out of his arse to fuel his anti-authoritarian views (he was banished from Rome by the emperor because of his actions).
@Ethan Baker a "good series" is only a matter of opinion; so you can spare me the crying, okay? Lol And and it's not just the Greek gods that were badly represented, but the Norse ones, too
This movie has really got nerve trying to throw shade at the original. The '81 version was superior to this in every way, including special effects. I'll take Harryhausen's masterful stop motion over this generic CGI stuff any day.
I realize that scorning CGI seems fashionable to some people but claiming stop motion from the early '80's looks better than modern day CGI is just laughably absurd. If you showed the CGI scenes from this movie to audiences back then they would be left drooling in awe....and probably start new religions.
@@stiimuli : Harryhausen's stop-motion characters had more "life" and character than the CGI monsters in this particular movie. Creatures often fall "flat" in CGI. I have yet to see a CGI skeletal army fight that comes close to Harryhausen's from "Jason and the Argonauts". Edit: I still love Bubo.
They only snubbed the owl because he refused to do the role if the owl stayed; he thought the thing was stupid and demeaning. Just one more reason why this kid shouldn't be in any major role.
@@stiimuli Pretty much. I've seen the original. And calling those effects better is the ultimate example of rose-colored glasses. There are plenty of reasons to hate this version-- the terminal case of "action camera" topping my list-- but the effects are top-notch.
I'd love a Brit rom-com of two shop owners, conflicted over one woman who can make the best toad in the hole this side of Stratford upon Avon. Might be better than this film.
A movie watching the roaches who live in the walls of the shop would be better than this film. Two hours of watching the Avon flowing would be better than this film.
9:57 Actually, yes. Charon, the ferryman that transported the souls of those who died over the river Styx, actually wanted to get paid. If those people didn't have any payment he let them wander on the shores for over 100 years. So yeah, dude wants his yacht. 13:26 Yes, Medusa fought with a bow. It's even in the original film and other depictions of her as well as in the old greek poems. I also played Ago of Mythology back when I was a kid, so I'm a bit of an expert on this. Prostagma!
Okay, some of Cinema Sins "sins" for this movie are actually in the original myths. Case in point: 11:13-11:17. Perseus used Medusa's head (after it was cut off) multiple times. Also, most of the sins involving when the King of Argos locked his daughter and grandson in the basket and sent them to sea is another prime example, as is the complaint about Charon needing coins (most likely not quarters. This is ancient Greece we're talking about.)
+1 sin: Perseus isn't played by Ewan McGregor. Come on, we've all thought it. +1 sin: Apollo, the sun god, isn't blond and shining. Which is fine, get a dark haired guy to play him, but then why not have a blond guy play Hades and a ginger play Zeus? +1 sin: Hades looks like Hades from the PSX game "Herc's Adventures" (Lucasarts, 1997); a parody of evil characters. Even Disney's Hades had James Woods doing a more nuanced version with greater character depth. Why does he look and act worse than a Disney villain? And Hades had a helmet that turned him invisible. Where is the helmet? +1 sin: Perseus should've known the owl is goddess Athena's (his half-sister) guardian bird and a symbol of knowledge - in this context knowledge meaning info from spying on people and reporting to the headquarters. There's no reason to ask what the owl was. Like seeing a statue of a deer. Obviously it has something to do with goddess of hunters, Artemis. +1 sin: The Greek gods are all passive-aggressive arseholes. They want to fight each other, but instead they're like "Oh so Zeus is waiting for 12 ships of his devoted warriors to reach the shores of the city I am patron of and attack it? It would be shame if something happened to them while at sea". And Zeus be like: "Yeah? Well it would be a shame if lightning struck the city walls and crumbled them" and Poseidon be like: "You stupid fool, stone isn't a conduit for electric energy! Go back to school".
Zeus could totally be ginger because he’s not real, dickbrain. And Apollo was kinda hot (minus mustache or whatever was going on with Luke’s face). Your sins suck. Leave it to Jeremey and company.
The greek "gods" fought wars with the titans and the giants, zeus threw almost all of the titans into tartarus to be tortured for all eternity; with the exception of a few like atlas who he forced to hold the earth for all eternity(which makes no sense because he is larger than the earth and something or someone had to have held the earth before him), and prometheus who he strapped to a rock and sends an eagle to eat his liver every day for all eternity; he also turned his first wife into a fly and ate her in order to prevent her from giving birth to the son that would overthrow him (even though prophecies are always suppose to come true). The only reason why no one stands up to zeus is because he is more powerful than all the others combined(he is the only one of his siblings to not be swallowed by their father shortly after his birth and severely weakened, he is a in truth a Titan while his siblings are weakened titans and their children[and aphodite] are simply "gods")
@@zillah1157 if you haven't already, you should read Rick Riordans other series called Magnus Chase and the gods of asgard. Annabeth is his cousin, so it ties into Percy Jackson a little, and it's honestly a really good story.
0:27 Uh, no, what is wrong here is both the fact that that's not how the system works, mortals worship of the gods gives them status but doesn't make them immortal - if they weren't already immortal, then they would've died in their fathers stomach. Oh wait, this movie didn't tell us that either because no-one writing the script even bothered to actually research the Greek myths they were adapting. Plus, what else is wrong here, is that the Titan Prometheus was the one who created mortals. He also disobeyed Zeus by giving them fire, so Zeus punished him by having him chained to a rock and having an eagle eat his liver every day - being immortal with or without mans prayers meant that his liver grew back over night every night.
I agree. The mood set in the original for that scene really conveyed tension and fear. I remember almost holding my breath as she slowly hunted Perseus among the statues.
@Team Cap No, I recently watched the 1981 Clash of Titans and this one during a weekend. The 1981 version set an atmosphere of limited lighting, several obstacles, and kept Medusa concealed throughout the attack. The 2010 version had so many supporting characters being featured as death (especially Mads' and Nicholas Hoult's) that it loses tension. We as the audience know Perseus has to survive but the 2010 version disposes of supporting characters the way a horror film would.
@Team Cap The animation is not what makes or breaks a scene. The original animation is crude yes, but they don't show you much, the monster lurks in the shadows. There is danger and a creative way to defeat the monster. The new one feels like a video game, quick cuts, you see the monster right away and there is no tension.
@Team Cap : Even recent viewings of that scene in the 1981 version inspire fear and tension. As other commenters have stated, the creature is obscured by shadows. The director set a tone that inspired tension, a where-is-she? feel. The sound of sliding scales, her hisses, the sound of falling stone... CGI is not bad in and of itself. The problem is in thinking that CGI can run a scene on its own. You see the entire creature. There is little awe or fear inspired by the reveal. It is almost as if the director wants to show off the animation rather than set a mood.
15:52- on screen says "that makes me incredibly Mads" but if u turn on the captions he says "that makes me incredibly balanced"... so uhhh, wtf is going in there???
7:04 You made a mistake. Hades’ henchman was the king whose wife got screwed by Zeus. He was struck by lighting which I believe either killed him or made him look like his deformed version. It’s explained in the movie which is why he has so much contempt for Zeus and Perseus (the bastard child of Zeus and his wife) which he threw into the ocean out of anger.
In Sam Worthington's defense, he's been busy filming the Avatar sequels almost back to back. The first one took 7 years to make, part of that was the language, sure, but new cast mates still have to learn the language. And since there's supposed to be 5 or 6 Avatar sequels, him not being in every movie like Brad Pitt used to be makes sense. He's done some small stuff here and there between Avatar filming, and I'm sure after those start coming out he'll start being in more stuff more frequently.
“no man has ever ridden one” WELL EXCEPT FOR BELLOPHORON, who never gets movies about him because most of the world cannot pronounce his name without checking, myself included.
Yes, Medusa did have a bow and arrows, at least in the original "Clash of the Titans". I think having the ranged weapon is a convenient way to dispatch intruders who avoid looking at her face. She's not a one trick pony.
12:28 Adding a sin: Io tells Medusa's tragic story, we go to Medusa's lair and see her human features i think 5 times and in all she seems either very upset or utterly confused, and then we proceed to kill her because.... Why are we here again?
I would've added the fact that the Kraken is norse mythology, not greek. The closest sea monster would be Cetus, but just like doing justice to the hard-working Hades of actualy mythology, apparently "release the Cetus!" doesn't work as well for Hollywood XD
@MAVvH Dude, there's a guy talking about *sin* in the movie... *SIN* In a lore where the word or concept doesn't exist. I'm pretty sure the... let's call them "writers" didn't know where Greece is, when the movie is supposed to happen or even what "mythology" mean...
6:19 the poor man's Davos Seaworth, oh that is him 7:44 such a waste of Mads Mikklesen anyone could have played this part 8:28 that was Rory McCann (The Hound) who got ripped in half, he's in the movie for about two minutes, even Oliver Stone's Alexander utilized him better 9:20 what's his face, every bit as impressive and memorable as he was as 'not Beast" and saying the famous line in Fury Road which a million other actors could have said better, so 'excited' for him as Tolkien even Ramin Djawadi is slumming it with the musical score
0:58 this so much. Not for one moment did I see anything special about Sam Worthington. It just felt like someone wanted him to be the next Hollywood superstar but I've always seen him as bland and ordinary.
0:21 I forgotten the name who did it but I know its not Zeus that created man. Its the guy that is chained in the rock and a crow eats his guts every day I think
1) Were Djinn in the greek myth? I thought they were arabic. 2) Why didn't they try to ask Medusa for help? She was cursed by a god and has reason to hate them. 3) If the gods created Medusa couldn't they turn her back to human (thus making her head useless) the second Persius was revealed to have it?
@@McDeus Djinn have existed in various folk lore in the middle east for millennia. They are mentioned in the Quran as being false gods, and Mohammed warns people from worshipping them.
no they could not have asked medusa for help as ( at least in the myths, don't know how she is portrayed in the movie) she was driven mad ( in various ways, depends on author and transtlators) because/ during ( see above) the transformation.
Because Athena is one of Poseidons enemies so she'd want him to fail when he sent his sea monster to destroy that kingdom and devour the princess - that's what the monster was, not the Kraken (who is a monster from Norse Mythology). Hades had nothing to do with this story.
Medusa has a tragic story and she hates both Athena and Posiden as she used to be a priestess of Athena and very beautiful so Posiden raped her and medusa went to Athena for protection but Athena was mad that she was soiled by her enemy and cursed her beauty away and gave her protection in the form of any man she gazes upon would turn to stone. The Greek gods were pretty spitefull and petty and as medusa hates all men yea I think she wouldn't have helped them out.
I would’ve added: “Why does everyone assume Hades is evil all because he’s Commander of the Dead? He’s one of the least problematic gods and only f**ks up those who really cross the line”.
*Christianity*
J4 Genius it happened waay before Christianity
Hades is just as problematic as the rest of the gods, he kidnapped a young girl and forced him to marry her. In this time period in ancient Greek & Rome woman were still property of the husbands and didn't really have any rights. So essential he made her a slave. Depending on the cult that worshiped Hades its stated that he raped her as well no different from Zeus or Poseidon.The only difference is that Hades got in trouble for his actions, because instead of raping humans and minor gods, Persephone had a powerful mother[Demeter] who could save her. Demeter also loved her daughter as well, as plenty of other demigods were ignored when they called upon their parents to save them.
Not that different from crimes that still today. Rich powerful man commits a crime and he can get away with it, unless he commits a crime to someone equal rich and powerful.Its true that Christianity had some effect on Hades representation but the full truth is that the other gods/goddess choose their victims more carefully. Hades is ‘evil’ because not only did he do the crime but he got caught and called out on it by. In addition he choose to victimize someone with a powerful family that cared. Hades is just as complicit as his brothers just not as criminal sophisticated.[ In fact Zesus is the one that arranged the kidnapping ]
@@Plaid_pants_panter Actually, he didn't rape her. In the ancient times, the word rape meant abduction. It was later that the word rape became what it means today.
Also, kidnapping your bride-to-be was normal back then.
And some facts: unlike Zeus and Poseidon, Hades has only two mistress. Persephone only has one: Adonis.
Hades is not technically evil. He's just greatly feared. Maybe because of the fact that he was assigned the task of punishing evil mortals in the Underworld.
I also advise you to read the myths of Orpheus, Sisiphus, and Pirithous for measure
@@Plaid_pants_panter* forced her to marry him..
Your analysis is great tho
Basically the only reason there are any heroes in Greek mythology is because Zeus can't keep it in his pants.
He really gets around.
Perseus’ grandpa is Hercules who’s father was Zeus so Perseus is literally both the great grandson and son of Zeus lol
The genghis khan of Greek mythology
Actually perseus is the son of zeus
He's worse than wolverine
Seriously, add a sin for continuing to make hades the bad guy when he’s the most responsible god of the big three.
I will say it again : *Thank Christianity for that*
@Blue Bean you're probably thinking about the story of Theseus and Porytheous. Those were the only 2 mortals Hades screwed over, and trust me, both of them were assholes and had it coming.
@JurassicHero 3 Kronos is the bad guy in the sequel Wrath of the Titans
Disney also commits that mistake.
A thing about Hades is that people didn't really like to mention him in Ancient Greek due to his position. But the real reason it his most of the times portrayed has bad is that he is the god of the underworld, and people simply translate that into being a bad guy.
Hades is my favourite of the three
Sin: Medusa is supposed to be UGLY. Like, undeniably, not-just-because-of-hair-snakes ugly. Reversing her beauty was the WHOLE POINT of her origin story as the snake-haired monster.
Also Perseus killed her in her sleep. No big battle but then that's not action enough for a movie
Counter-Sin: that is one variation of the myth, and there are several. One variation claims she was indeed ugly as all hell. Another claims she had boar tusks and hands made out of gold. And yet another one claims that Athena took "pity" on Medusa after transforming her into a monster and decided to let her keep her beautiful face, and even make it perpetually youthful. And accounting for multiple variations when one does the job is just asinine.
Also there are actually 3 Medusa and only one can turn people to stone
Medusa the most pure and a virgin until zeus rapes her then aprodite gets jealous and curses her, im siding with the titans zeus was a prick who could worship him
@@toker6664 it was Poseidon not Zeus
fun fact: in the original Greek Mythology, Medusa never had a snake body
She had her head of snakes (of course)
A humanoid body
and devil wings
the snake body is purely Hollywood because hey... snake Medusa would be more fun in claymation than typical bat-winged gorgon. :P
\m/ Bat-winged Gorgon
Medusa never had wings and her head was not a snake her hair was snake. That was a punishment from Athena because she thought that medusa was disrespecting her by having sexy with Poseidon in her temple...
@@los2326 'She had her head of snakes'
Have you never heard the phrase "A head of hair?" he was referring to that phrase.
@@los2326 Medusa was begging Athena to protect her while being raped. She was punished for running for help.
Another fun fact: Io was a woman that got turned into a cow
Actually it was known in mythology that Medusa was quite skilled with a bow and arrow, and the reason her stare worked on the kraken but not the jinn was because the stare only works on creature made of flesh and bone. That specific jinn no longer had any flesh or bone from all the battles it had encountered and was therefore immune. 👌 love the videos though
Sorry not sorry but no, not even in a single source Medusa is known to be skilled with bow and arrow.
@@drakegrandx5914 Its not Medusa but her sister that is skilled with bows and arrows in the myths,but usually it is too much work to put the other two gorgons so they just smash everything into Medusa.
@@lordanonimmo7699 Her sisters are ever barely mentioned though?! The most characterization they have is trying to kill Perseus before he leaves the caves to avenge Medusa, aside that they are never elaborated upon.
A sin I find with this movie is they made Hades evil, when he's one of the most chill Greek gods. =/
Yeah. I hate when Hades is portrayed as a Devil-like figure and Zeus a super good guy, bc the actual ones in myth are far different. That’s why I like Hades, the only one of the big three to care about consent.
I think that’s more than just one thing
@@astra3310 I mean, the only real bad thing Hades did in the stories was kidnap his niece until she got Stockholm syndrome. That's still bad, obviously. But it's not as bad ad the things the others.
He just wanted to be left alone
The dudes dog is literally named spot
Not defending anything from this movie or anything, but in some sources, yes, Medusa was depicted as having skill with a bow
theres always some hidding truth, somewhere
I came looking for someone else correcting him on this!
Could you tell me where you found this information? I am genuinely curious, as I've never heard of that.
It's funny as that is also the source of inspiration for the Medusa character in the Heroes of Might and Magic games. Death glare, and with a bow and arrow at her side :) But as usual Jeremy half asses his way through any kind of extended research. Not defending the movie either, but that's worth at least 10 sins for him in every vid he does
@@chavamara It's probably more a thing about the Gorgons, as they are pretty often depicted with Bow and Arrow. Also Medusa herself (as far as I know) didn't use weapons in the greek mythology.
Can we add, "Hades is the villain even though he was about the most laid back god in Greek mythology" cliche?
Not to mention the most loyal husband despite the whole kidnapping his wife thing.
@@brandonlyon730 Yeah, for one he was faithful to Persephone, unlike his brothers to their wives.
Right ?? He’s like the only God who DIDNT seriously screw with the lives of mortals , why is he always portrayed as the villain?
@@blakemamba2067 Judeo-Christian influence associated him with their devil simply because he is an underworld deity .
No, the reason why hades is the bad guy here is because the director is a huge fan of saint seiya where a where the athena have to fight with her saints the gods of olimpus, like poseidon and hades, and like in the movie hades wanted to make a eternal eclipse so you can see the inspiration.
Here, let me help.
1) It’s called Clash of the Titans but there’s not a single titan in the movie.
2) Medusa kills more people than the actual “kraken”.
3) They go from fighting in a forest to fighting in desert dunes in a single fight scene.
😂😂😂damn this deserves more likes
I mean... They said something along the lines of "why not use a titan to kill a titan" - referring to Medusa and the Kraken both being classed as titans in this film for... some reason. So it's "5 seconds of titans clashing in which the lazy writing one turns the cool one to stone"
Yea... I also recall that movie, "Remember The Titans" but all I saw were football players. LOL
1) False Advertisement *ding*
2) Potentially passable since in the mythology we don't have specific body counts between Medusa and the 'kraken' (i.e Cetus the sea monster)
3) Reeks of cut scenes, either that or a generally clueless editor team/director *ding*
4) I have no idea why I made this comment *gnid*
Actually, no. The Kraken killes hundreds of people in his short time awakening. You can see them die on Olympus.
About your comment of "why would the head of Medusa work on the Kraken, but not on the Djinn guy". In the movie, those 3 witches specifically said "Anything of flesh is killed by her gaze", and the Kraken is obviously flesh and blood. The Djinn removed most of their organs and flesh to convert magic into them.
I'm not necessarily defending the movie, but I'm just saying they explained it and you didn't pay attention.
Are you new here ?
@@mossadon no.
Thank God someone else actually noticed that. As soon as he sinned it i was saying the same thing lol.
Still sounds really stupid... Not a accurate sin but deserved Nonetheless
The way Perseus defeats the Kraken is straight from Greek mythology so it's not like the writers just made it up.
Nothing is more Greek mythology than Greeks speaking in a British accent!
I mean to be fair the Greeks lived pretty close to where Great Britain is so I mean...
Their accents were SUPER far away though- even though they were kind of close (on a whole world scale- not on a normal scale)
They did a better job in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey!
I'm glad someone else brought this up! What is up with studios always using Brits & Australians to play characters in movies that take place in Ancient Greece? Troy, Hercules, 300, Clash of the Titans, The Odyssey, the list goes on!
I disagree....
Watching a ww2 movie when ever a German (including Hitler) speaks with a British accent,
Is way worse....
Seriously, why is Hades talking like Voldemort, LOL XD
Come on Ralph
If you was Ralph Fiennes and you was paid to act in this peice of shit movie- wouldn't you just do a cut and paste acting job from your last one?! lol
At least he wasn't doing it in 007 😂
i don't know
"AQUAMORT" XDDDDDDD
phoning it in for the paycheque
how did they not mention that io is literally perseus’s fairy godmother, shes thousands of years old, and they decide to have kids.
I totally agree.
I'd also like to point out Zeus' many affairs.
Funny though. One of Perseus' descendants was Alcmene, Heecules' mother
To be fair, Greek mythology has a long history problem with incest.
Or maybe they “Zeus” know it’s incest and yet still they’re all like “Fuck this! Fuck that! Fuck you! Fuck me! Fuck that random-ass bush over there! Just Fucking Everyone!!
no need for formalities just let the dick do its thing
The thing i really laughed at was that when he pulled out the head out of the sack he got REALLY lucky it faced the right way, for the same chance he could have just stunned himself xD
Epimetheus created man, not Zeus...
Perseus' mom survived her trip in the box,
Humans defying gods usually ended badly in that mythology (it's called "hybris", yo !)
Hades is not "bad", normally he just doesn't give a damn about mortals. His whole thing is to rule the lands of the deads, that's all
The kraken is northern mythology, not greek
The notion of "sin" is christian, not greek. So a greek would never say "we must pray to the one who showed us our sins"
Djinns are from the muslim mythology, there's about a 1000 years and a whole continent's mistake !!
There are TONS of demi-gods, and very few of them make it to the god status, let alone it be considered "normal" by Zeus
In no story is Medusa in the underworld...
And all these sins are just basic cultural knowledge, really. Seen the budget of that movie maybe they could have afforded to open one single freaking book on greek mythology ?
Prometheus and Zeus were more vital to mans creation than Epimetheus, he’s more the kinda every other animal guy.
@@mikegoldab9848 I agree on Prometheus, Zeus though did not much but hate them at first
What about the time paradox when Perseus rides pegasus on his way to kill the medusa, wich gave birth to the first pegasus through her blood from severed head? Before Medusa's death there was no pegasus.
@@isaiahleach1604 that depends on versions, in some he is Zeus's son because Zeus transformed into a golden rain to impregnate his mother
Severus Versus yes true, this one slipped by me ^^
@@isaiahleach1604 Perseus (the one that killed Medusa) is the son of Zeus. Percy is the son of Posieden.
Paying the ferryman(Charon) by putting coins on the corpse's eyes is actually something from Ancient Greece. I'm not too hung up on Io knowing these things like speaking Djinn or knowing entrances to the underworld, she's immortal and has lived for centuries. She's picked some things up. Also, not only Medusa using a bow and arrow from the original movie, but it'd make sense she'd not just rely on her petrification stare all the time just in case she can't get a clear look at them. She'd wound them with arrows like she does here and while they're in pain, petrify them. I think you can hyah any animal if it can understand you, pegasus or no.
in some version, its in the mouth.
The Greeks also put one coin under the tongue, which actually came first
I had to watch this movie in one of my mythology-related classes. I can't remember which one, but I remember being really mad that we were wasting precious learning time on something so thoroughly divorced from the actual material.
My class in school did Greek Mythology one year, and we watched this as well (We also watched Lightning Thief).
I didn't really think how divorced it was from the source materials at the time (I was 11 though). What really ground my gears with that period of school, was that we were supposed to be doing Greek Mythology, but we covered the Norse myth where a giant steals Mjolnir, and Thor dresses up as Freja to get it back. This was after we'd covered vikings literally three years earlier.
Unfortunately, I couldn't call my teacher out on this mistake, because she was one of those who got angry if a student pointed out a mistake, even if they were polite about it.
When i was in school idc how bad a movie was, aslong as we saw a movie lol. Those were the best days
The original movie was more in the line of Greek mythology
@@reggiefreeborn2143 That's what I think =)
Dont lie you were never mad to waste so called learning time and you know it.
Also, the fact that they said God's "Immortality" is because of Human prayers is some bullshit. Gods are immortal, their strength is increased by worship. And WHY does every single movie about Greek Mythology have Hades going against Zeus directly even though that basically NEVER happens in Greek Mythology?
Because almost every single movie about Greek Mythology is aimed at a mostly ignorant audience who knows jackshit about mythology and, therefore, the writers use the dicotomy Zeus/Hades as an equivalent to God/Satan
Because Hades rules the Underworld so he has to be depicted as some variant of the Devil rather than just be the Keeper of the Afterlife who generally just hangs out with his dog and occasionally kidnaps Persephone to have some company
BEcause idiotic hollywood archetypes...
@@jefferycrouse4652 a movie about Persephone and how powerful & feared she eventually became would be bad @$$. Hades wasnt half as evil as movies depict. But she had some serious latent darkness issues. 😁
Because the Percy Jackson movie fucked up its own source material...
"He knows the men who broke the statue but then goes after the innocents on the boat"
Do you now know greek myths?
All of the gods are basically waiting to smite everyone in a 100 mile radius for the smallest things.
Hades is usually pretty fair in the punishment he doles out (unlike basically every other Greek god).
@@entropyzero5588 Yeah it's pretty fucked up that the God of the Underworld who kidnapped Persephone and fed her grapefruit seeds to force her to stay with him six months out of the year is actually one of the most moral Greek gods
And most of the time in the story where Hades kidnaps Persephone, Persephone actually wanted to be kidnapped.
@@jefferycrouse4652 Hades is the God of Underworld. Thanatos is the God of Death.
That's one of things that bugs me about most of these movies based on Greek myth. Hades is almost always the bad guy, despite the fact that in the myths he's basically just the god of judgement and the afterlife. Hades is one of the only gods who DOESN'T randomly mess up things for humans or curse people for little to no reason. While he does 'kidnap' Persephone, in most versions I've heard she wants to be with him. There's only an issue because her mom wants her too. The only other god who is as moral as Hades is Hephaestus. Who does little except act as a blacksmith and prank Aphrodite for cheating on him.
5:16 I agree. "Agelessness" seems like a very convenient curse. At best it means you never suffer from old age - and then you die of it, at worst it means you have eternal life unless you get killed. Either way not that bad. Real immortality is a lot less convenient since it doesn't have an off switch.
Please sin American Psycho, that movie is made for you.
1 Brilliant also over the top dialogue
2 Ridiculous actor performance
3 One of the strangest antagonist : A restaurant
Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, man the scene when they compare business cards is one of my all time favorites
I thought grinning loony batman was the antagonist?
They need to sin The Departed
Good idea too @@grant3018
@@evansong8068 the fucking face Bale makes when Leto goes "Evelyn? GREAT ASS" is one of my favorite things ever
I think sam worthington is underrated. people don't like him for being put in big movies like avatar or clash of the titans.
but he isn't that bad of an actor
He's better than Vin Diesel, The Rock, and a lot of "big" stars today.
Uh no? It's his acting that sucks. He can't seem to make good facial expressions. Dude is like a robot. Sounds like one too. Much like that chick from Twilight.
Dude's Alex Mason from the COD Black Ops series, man! He's awesome. Then again, that makes him both one of my favorite video game characters and a shitty version of one of my favorite mythological characters.
@@shadowspider9
Can't disagree.
He's pretty fucking bad in big movies. He might be better in smaller ones, but he's been terrible in the ones I've seen him in. Also, he needs to keep a consistent fucking accent.
"What do the gods provide us"
Only protection from the other immortal beings who would kill everyone.
Let's not forget a lot of the monsters were made from Zeus sticking his dick in everything, or Poseidon also sticking his dick in everything. Getting weird creatures pregnant with even more weird creatures.
What other immortal beings?
@@yueshijoorya601 the titans
@@Assmaholic419 The Titans did not smite and rape and demand like the Olympians. In fact, when they ruled, the world was just and mankind was happy. Cronus termed this period the Golden Age.
@@yueshijoorya601 mankind was made in the olymapion age and the titans imprisoned their brothers the first 3 cyclops and hekintonkeries (I think I got that wrong) and their king Kronos ate his children
Oh hello "Liam Neeson isn't killing anyone in this scene", it's been a while!
but he is, he is killing _me_ smalls... with boredom.
Wait, didn't he send Hades to kill those people that destroyed his statue?
Technically he did
Attack on the Clash of Titans
Perseus Jäeger Kraken Hunter
Too easy
Having the sex with the Pegasus and the Chimeras!
*Titanfall
First Blood of the Revenge of the Attack on the Clash of the Titans: Electric Boogaloo
The really depressing part is that in Greek mythology, Perseus' mother Danae was actually allowed to live and marry his adopted father. It's rare for a modern version of an ancient story to be more harder on its female characters than the original.
This movie: exists
Me, every 15 seconds: big CGI fight, comin up!
This movie craps all over the actual Greek myth. Perseus’s mother didn’t die, the original king wasn’t Perseus’s mother’s husband but her father, Hades LIKED Perseus (and Hades like, isn’t evil), the Argos stuff had nothing to do with Perseus until after Medusa. Etc.
Why is Hades always evil in hollywood movies? Apart from kidnaping Persephone he doesn't do any other evil thing as far as I know.
@@uyuman1 because he's the god of the underworld and in Hollywood if you a deity with a connection to the dead.. you are evil.
Because Hollywood wants all the Christians to be able to relate so they need a devil character. It's really dumb.
@@uyuman1 Hades is like the most chill dude in all the Greek Mythology. He at least stays faithful to his wife unlike his whore of a brother Zeus, who fucks anything chick that catches his interest.
That's pretty much 90% of Greek mythology movies, including Percy Jackson, which craps all over both Greek mythology AND the namesake books.
The silver lining: do you know for how long I've been waiting for Cinemasins to tear them all apart in a shitty mythology movie marathon?! Hope the sequel, Immortals and Hercules (not the Dwayne Johnson one) are all next XD
13:30 How did you not sin the bow string clipping through her body?
Was that clipping or shadow of the bow string?
Either oops, bad clipping or nice, good shadow work.
@@chris-jq1se definitely clipping, there's only one line, and that's the string. and if it were a shadow, it would have wrapped around the side of her body, but this just stabs right through her
Oh my christ
Now I can´t wait to find a movie with a T-pose character model randomly glitching out in the background of a crowded scene
Luc Germain it most definitely is not. You can see the shadow across her abdomen as the string clips through her body.
Why is the ferryman saving up?
To buy a yacht?
I can't get enough of this😂😂
have you seen his boat? repairs dont pay for themselves.
He is saving up to build a bridge, as it is much easier to be a toll taker than a ferryman.
Seriously though, they transfer some of their essence when they give coin to Charon. Thus, prolonging his existance. I would assume that coins themselves are more or less useless to him.
@@jinxedly823 From what I've read of Greek mythology, it's just a custom. Give a drachma and take a ride across the Styx. Don't know if there's any specific reason
1:57 "Soldiers from ARGOS! They're armed to the teeth with catalogues and those little pens you normally see in betting shops!"
(It's a Brit thing).
P.S ...if anyone's ever thrown one of the catalogues at you, ya know they frickin HURT!
And the phalanx from Tesco
Followed by the hoplites from Waitrose
And the germanic tribes of aldi and lidl
and the horse lords of poundland
The Sarmatians of Sainsburys.
The greek myths in this movie is do damn messed up.
Same statement with Troy and Percy Jackson.
"AQUA VOLDEMORT" oh my greek gods XD
Also, because of the plot of these movies, "Zeus ex Machina" will not be a thing
You mean "deus ex machina" ?
Welcome to the internet/cinema cins/memes. You must be new here.
“Zeus created man”
Goddamnit. It was Prometheus. Great job, Hollywood.
Prometheus was part of man's creation but all he did was make them stand upright and give them fire, tbf
Fenrys Temple Ah, ok. Thanks for the correction!
@@pastabird2078 absolutely! (I had to look it up to double check haha)
Nah, it's a mistake.
But we've all learned from it, so no harm, no foul!
Read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and it was called: The modern Prometheus. Then I studied Epimetheus and his brother... they are the ones credited with making man.
The score need to modified for leaving out the fact that the Hound was under utilized in the movie.
It's wild that 3 game of thrones stars were in this.
No hound jokes! One sin! Ding!
@@360Fov Four - I count Alexander Siddig, even though Doran Martell got less time than he should've.
9:57 Not like I want to be too much of a geek, but people were buried with coins so they had something to pay Charon, the ferryman, to board his boat and be taken across the river Styx. It was the way to Hades. If they didn’t have the correct fee, they would wander the banks of the river as wraiths for 100 years. However, coins were usually placed in the mouth, not on the eyes.
Yup, talk about real laziness on his part.
hyethga Yeah. I guess it made for a funny quip.
He said why give him the coins, and then stated what is the ferryman going to do with any coins
@@evanjenkinz maybe a proff that thosse who the ferry carry had paid?Kind of reminds me God of Egypt,where only those who paid enough were allowed go to to the afterlife,other were wiped out (once Buttler´s character set this rule).
He didn't question the intent of burying people with the coins but what Chiron would do with "quarters." And, in a movie so off the wall from the mythology, I'm personally surprised that this one bit was included.
In the outtakes there at the end, when he started falling down the hill, I was waiting for "Aaaas...yooooooooou...wiiiiiiiiiiiish."
7:33 Acrisius got the slash on his head when Zeus struck him with lightning as punishment for executing his wife and child.
I'm pretty sure even frickin Percy Jackson is more accurate than this.
It is. They didn't include monsters from Norse mythology and rewrite the war between the gods and their father Cronus.
You are correct sir. But only the books not the movies
@@owenAIconcepts the movies are also trash and Iike to pretend they dont exist lol
@@agenttheater5 strictly speaking, the Norse gods do exist and show up in the percy Jackson Universe.
But then they're credited as Norse gods and figures right? Not as Greek figures? @@barryfraser831
Best “that was racist” sin EVER 😂
Despite my degree in Ancient History, every single time I hear "soldiers from Argos" my first assumption is that they mean Argos the shop and have purchased some soldiers there...
Wait why is Argos the shop called Argos? Is it like how the condoms are named after the trojans
I could have almost forgiven this movie if the Medusa scene had included Stheno and Euryale, because that would have been hilarious - "Epic battle, blah blah blah, oh no men dying, yay we killed the Gorgon, oh crap why didn't anyone tell us there were two more." And ah yes, Pegasus, son of Poseidon, born from the blood of a decapitated Medusa's neck stump; funny how you never see that version of Pegasus in the movies. Also why do we never get to see Hades in Elysium in these films? He's always residing over some sort of 'I can't believe it's not hell' dimension, but Greek 'heaven' was part of Hades underworld as well.
Elysium was a later invention for the Greek Underworld - it doesn't exist in the Odyssey. But I am 100% with you on Stheno and Euryale! They need to be referred to in more versions!
Have you ever watched Class of the Titans? They appear in an episode of that!
Well think about it, Elysium is supposed to be 'heaven' right?
Naturally a paradise wouldn't have a god to fear hanging around at all times, thus Hades avoids lingering there too much
Well that's the excuse I came up with, a more likely reason is that Hades is always portrayed as evil (for some reason) and being in a paradise doesn't really invoke the same air of menace
@@MoonPatch voldemort is just too goth to hang around in heaven
War of the Worlds with Tom cruise or Vanilla Sky with Tom cruise, next
Jerry Megurie
13:30 the string of the bow is moving straight trough her body.
@Kalimat .198 It's not. That's not how shadows work. If it were a shadow, it'd wrap around her body.
I'm sorry but as a British person where Argos is a shop I couldn't stop laughing
>Picks up miniature pen <
"Gods dam it...doesn't work!"
>Picks up another pen...falls apart<
"Hurrumph"
>Picks up another pen from another bay<
"ah HAH! Right...i want a...">begins writing...pen runs out<
"Zeus dam it! I jus want a new kettle and a bed spread!"
>picks up another pen<
"O.K. caaaaalm...."
>Begins writing, nib and ink pushes out through chewed end cap<
"FUCK IT!!!!!!!"
>Throws pen, walks out of store
@@mossadon That's why they're all pencils...
Dont shop at Argos, there is a Titan in there, and he doesnt take coupons.
Rhiannon Andrasko cool story
Same mate, its to hard to not hear it every time😂
I'm surprised Cinemasins left out that Medusa was a priestess turned into a monster as punishment for having been raped by Poseidon. So they basically killed a rape victim who didn't go out terrorising people, was constantly hounded by armed heroes trying to kill her and basically just wanted to left alone.
There debate on that topic as theirs some inconsistencies with the tapes by Posidon origin, as their is one thing not taken account of , Medusa has 2 sisters. And they are Gorgons just like her, they are never stated to work as priestess or were also raped by Posidon just Medusa so their isn’t an explanation of why they are Gorgons as well. Other myths just state that Medusa was born a Gorgon where she had 2 other siblings. Then again Myths are never consistent anyway and their different interpretations of everything.
femspeak BELIEVER much, the “rape” story isn’t even in the ORIGINAL mythology!
@@kathleenwiederman3279 I honestly don't know what this means
I’m adding a sin for Medusa’s backstory- in Greek mythology she was never raped.
It was the ROMAN author Ovid who changed Medusa from a bonefied monster into some nobody who was sex (in some translations it’s consensual) with Poseidon in Athena’s temple.
Moreover, this story never appears in any other ancient authors’ writing because Ovid pulled it out of his arse to fuel his anti-authoritarian views (he was banished from Rome by the emperor because of his actions).
Hands up if you forgot this movie was a thing
**raises hand**
Does not knowing it existed till this video count?
I remember very well, this was the first movie to insult me.
Just remember now.
It kinda never was...
And hands up if you (hopefully) forgot the 80s "Clash of the Titans" was a thing. 😀
I forgot how much of a crush I had on Gemma Arterton. Still do.
Mate ! She's soooo....>happy sigh<
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what was i saying ?
@@mossadon polly walker who plays casseiopeia (sp?) is also a doll. maybe a bit more, ah, 'mature', but then again so am i!
Saaaaasammme
She was okay in Quantum Of Solace.
7:12 he was stuck by a lightning when he is going to buried his wife and Perseus
Also gave him super strenght to lift the coffin
When I first saw the trailer for Clash of Titans, I was expecting something along the lines of God of War. Unfortunately that was not the case.
I was thinking it was going to be a straight up remake of the original and I was stoked. Then I watched it.
Gabriel Crosley please don’t give Hollywood any ideas
I honestly hated God of War, it's give people the wrong idea, most times
@Ethan Baker a "good series" is only a matter of opinion; so you can spare me the crying, okay? Lol
And and it's not just the Greek gods that were badly represented, but the Norse ones, too
This movie has really got nerve trying to throw shade at the original. The '81 version was superior to this in every way, including special effects. I'll take Harryhausen's masterful stop motion over this generic CGI stuff any day.
I realize that scorning CGI seems fashionable to some people but claiming stop motion from the early '80's looks better than modern day CGI is just laughably absurd.
If you showed the CGI scenes from this movie to audiences back then they would be left drooling in awe....and probably start new religions.
@@stiimuli : Harryhausen's stop-motion characters had more "life" and character than the CGI monsters in this particular movie. Creatures often fall "flat" in CGI. I have yet to see a CGI skeletal army fight that comes close to Harryhausen's from "Jason and the Argonauts". Edit: I still love Bubo.
They only snubbed the owl because he refused to do the role if the owl stayed; he thought the thing was stupid and demeaning.
Just one more reason why this kid shouldn't be in any major role.
@@stiimuli naaaa my grandfather watch this with me expecting it be cool. He said the movie was shit compare to the old one
@@stiimuli Pretty much. I've seen the original. And calling those effects better is the ultimate example of rose-colored glasses. There are plenty of reasons to hate this version-- the terminal case of "action camera" topping my list-- but the effects are top-notch.
14:44 Can I just add one sin for a bald eagle, a new world bird that appears in the context of an old world myth?
oh fuck off thats just average murrica murrica bullshit and you know it
I'd love a Brit rom-com of two shop owners, conflicted over one woman who can make the best toad in the hole this side of Stratford upon Avon. Might be better than this film.
A movie watching the roaches who live in the walls of the shop would be better than this film.
Two hours of watching the Avon flowing would be better than this film.
Liam Neeson, shop owner..."I have a particular set of skills... to bring you the best prices on ties in the district!"
"Might"?
Just the shopkeepers going enemies-to-lovers sounds better, no woman needed.
9:57 Actually, yes. Charon, the ferryman that transported the souls of those who died over the river Styx, actually wanted to get paid. If those people didn't have any payment he let them wander on the shores for over 100 years. So yeah, dude wants his yacht.
13:26 Yes, Medusa fought with a bow. It's even in the original film and other depictions of her as well as in the old greek poems. I also played Ago of Mythology back when I was a kid, so I'm a bit of an expert on this. Prostagma!
Okay, some of Cinema Sins "sins" for this movie are actually in the original myths. Case in point: 11:13-11:17. Perseus used Medusa's head (after it was cut off) multiple times. Also, most of the sins involving when the King of Argos locked his daughter and grandson in the basket and sent them to sea is another prime example, as is the complaint about Charon needing coins (most likely not quarters. This is ancient Greece we're talking about.)
+1 sin: Perseus isn't played by Ewan McGregor. Come on, we've all thought it.
+1 sin: Apollo, the sun god, isn't blond and shining. Which is fine, get a dark haired guy to play him, but then why not have a blond guy play Hades and a ginger play Zeus?
+1 sin: Hades looks like Hades from the PSX game "Herc's Adventures" (Lucasarts, 1997); a parody of evil characters. Even Disney's Hades had James Woods doing a more nuanced version with greater character depth. Why does he look and act worse than a Disney villain? And Hades had a helmet that turned him invisible. Where is the helmet?
+1 sin: Perseus should've known the owl is goddess Athena's (his half-sister) guardian bird and a symbol of knowledge - in this context knowledge meaning info from spying on people and reporting to the headquarters. There's no reason to ask what the owl was. Like seeing a statue of a deer. Obviously it has something to do with goddess of hunters, Artemis.
+1 sin: The Greek gods are all passive-aggressive arseholes. They want to fight each other, but instead they're like "Oh so Zeus is waiting for 12 ships of his devoted warriors to reach the shores of the city I am patron of and attack it? It would be shame if something happened to them while at sea". And Zeus be like: "Yeah? Well it would be a shame if lightning struck the city walls and crumbled them" and Poseidon be like: "You stupid fool, stone isn't a conduit for electric energy! Go back to school".
Stefan B. Loved every last sin especially the Ewan McGregor one
Zeus could totally be ginger because he’s not real, dickbrain. And Apollo was kinda hot (minus mustache or whatever was going on with Luke’s face). Your sins suck. Leave it to Jeremey and company.
@@Thomas20Smith - Thanks, I was a bit confused at first. I thought "Is that Ewan McGregor biffed up and made to look younger?"
The greek "gods" fought wars with the titans and the giants, zeus threw almost all of the titans into tartarus to be tortured for all eternity; with the exception of a few like atlas who he forced to hold the earth for all eternity(which makes no sense because he is larger than the earth and something or someone had to have held the earth before him), and prometheus who he strapped to a rock and sends an eagle to eat his liver every day for all eternity; he also turned his first wife into a fly and ate her in order to prevent her from giving birth to the son that would overthrow him (even though prophecies are always suppose to come true).
The only reason why no one stands up to zeus is because he is more powerful than all the others combined(he is the only one of his siblings to not be swallowed by their father shortly after his birth and severely weakened, he is a in truth a Titan while his siblings are weakened titans and their children[and aphodite] are simply "gods")
@@lilchristuten7568 pretty sure Atlas held up the sky not the Earth considering Gaia is the Earth mother
Still a better Percy Jackson movie than the Percy Jackson movie.
Well to be fair, Perseus and Percy Jackson are two different demigods. Perseus is the son of Zeus and Percy Jackson is the son of Poseidon.
@@KillianConnolly I know, I was making fun of how bad the Percy jackson movies are (mostly as an adaptation)
I liked the first one, but the second one felt lacking in effort and creativity to me.
Unfortunately true, the books were amazing and the movies were just a disappointment.
@@zillah1157 if you haven't already, you should read Rick Riordans other series called Magnus Chase and the gods of asgard. Annabeth is his cousin, so it ties into Percy Jackson a little, and it's honestly a really good story.
When will you do WRATH OF TITANS?
Never
Best "that's racist" so far
Voldehades
Hadesmort
AAAAAAAH I'll never be able to unsee or unhear it!!!
stfu
0:27 Uh, no, what is wrong here is both the fact that that's not how the system works, mortals worship of the gods gives them status but doesn't make them immortal - if they weren't already immortal, then they would've died in their fathers stomach. Oh wait, this movie didn't tell us that either because no-one writing the script even bothered to actually research the Greek myths they were adapting.
Plus, what else is wrong here, is that the Titan Prometheus was the one who created mortals. He also disobeyed Zeus by giving them fire, so Zeus punished him by having him chained to a rock and having an eagle eat his liver every day - being immortal with or without mans prayers meant that his liver grew back over night every night.
Gods? Titans? Zeus? What is this filthy Heresy? I must inform the pope!
one lie about one bitch not lying about cheating on her husband is your whole rationalisation for a lotta shit, isn't it?
Aww they dragged Mads Mikkelsen in to this sh*t didn’t they.
"Discount Mads Mikkelsen is a- HOLY SHIT THAT'S ACTUAL MADS MIKKELSEN?!" *DING*
Th original Medusa scene with Harryhousen animation scared the shit out of me as a child. This one made me laugh.
I agree. The mood set in the original for that scene really conveyed tension and fear. I remember almost holding my breath as she slowly hunted Perseus among the statues.
@Team Cap No, I recently watched the 1981 Clash of Titans and this one during a weekend. The 1981 version set an atmosphere of limited lighting, several obstacles, and kept Medusa concealed throughout the attack. The 2010 version had so many supporting characters being featured as death (especially Mads' and Nicholas Hoult's) that it loses tension. We as the audience know Perseus has to survive but the 2010 version disposes of supporting characters the way a horror film would.
@Team Cap The animation is not what makes or breaks a scene. The original animation is crude yes, but they don't show you much, the monster lurks in the shadows. There is danger and a creative way to defeat the monster. The new one feels like a video game, quick cuts, you see the monster right away and there is no tension.
@Team Cap : Even recent viewings of that scene in the 1981 version inspire fear and tension. As other commenters have stated, the creature is obscured by shadows. The director set a tone that inspired tension, a where-is-she? feel.
The sound of sliding scales, her hisses, the sound of falling stone...
CGI is not bad in and of itself. The problem is in thinking that CGI can run a scene on its own. You see the entire creature. There is little awe or fear inspired by the reveal. It is almost as if the director wants to show off the animation rather than set a mood.
15:52- on screen says "that makes me incredibly Mads" but if u turn on the captions he says "that makes me incredibly balanced"... so uhhh, wtf is going in there???
7:04 You made a mistake. Hades’ henchman was the king whose wife got screwed by Zeus. He was struck by lighting which I believe either killed him or made him look like his deformed version. It’s explained in the movie which is why he has so much contempt for Zeus and Perseus (the bastard child of Zeus and his wife) which he threw into the ocean out of anger.
Voldemort talking with Qui-Gon Jinn is amusing to me.
In Sam Worthington's defense, he's been busy filming the Avatar sequels almost back to back. The first one took 7 years to make, part of that was the language, sure, but new cast mates still have to learn the language. And since there's supposed to be 5 or 6 Avatar sequels, him not being in every movie like Brad Pitt used to be makes sense. He's done some small stuff here and there between Avatar filming, and I'm sure after those start coming out he'll start being in more stuff more frequently.
Maybe, if “avatar” wasn’t nothing more than a VIDEO GAME looking “movie” RIPOFF of ERB’s JOHN CARTER…!
“no man has ever ridden one” WELL EXCEPT FOR BELLOPHORON, who never gets movies about him because most of the world cannot pronounce his name without checking, myself included.
Yes, Medusa did have a bow and arrows, at least in the original "Clash of the Titans". I think having the ranged weapon is a convenient way to dispatch intruders who avoid looking at her face. She's not a one trick pony.
What a coincidence, I just watch this movie yesterday. And I watch “Wrath of the Titans” today.
I'm sorry.
JoshTheNerd it’s a good movie no matter what people say,
Also every sin in this movie was bullshit
I still watch that film, though.
Me too I liked when Apollo kicked the piss out of like all of the humans but in clash he did basically nothing
12:28
Adding a sin: Io tells Medusa's tragic story, we go to Medusa's lair and see her human features i think 5 times and in all she seems either very upset or utterly confused, and then we proceed to kill her because.... Why are we here again?
13:15 you finally referred to him as ser davos
18:20 I was expecting to hear Sarge from Red vs blue beating the crap out of Tucker for saying sup to the all powerful disembodied alien.
13:24 I specifically recall Medusa having a bow and arrow.
That's +1 movie sin for you Mr. CinemaSins.
"Though I do know who Keyser Soze is if you need that information" lmfaoo
I heard that Perseus cut off Medusa's head and Pegasus came out of the hole where her head used to be. ;)
True. Pegasus was her son, conceived from Zeus raping her.
"The Titans were stopped by their own children."
CinemaSins: Fucking Rams, Fucking Kurt Warner!
Me: Yay sports!
Clash of the Titans = me not wearing a bra
Picks or didn't happen
disappointment?
.....aka _Bangkok Bangers_ overseas
Nice.
Comment. Of. The. Day.
Bro, where is eww Saw 5, Saw 6, Saw 7 and Jigsaw????
no
@@taitjones6310 What
i think they already did jigsaw, if thats what you're asking
@@arissamardzic963 They only did Saw 1-4, they never did saw 5,6,7 and Jigsaw
If you SAW 1 then you SAW them all.
I would've added the fact that the Kraken is norse mythology, not greek. The closest sea monster would be Cetus, but just like doing justice to the hard-working Hades of actualy mythology, apparently "release the Cetus!" doesn't work as well for Hollywood XD
The fact that Hades called the monster a "Kraken" still annoys me.
Greek myth is like littered with sea monsters, but they decided to go with a creature from 17th century north-atlantic seaman stories?
It would have been cool if they made it the Scylla.
@@Czeus4500 Disagree, I think it has a very nice ring to it. And it would have been much more interesting visually!
@MAVvH
Dude, there's a guy talking about *sin* in the movie... *SIN* In a lore where the word or concept doesn't exist.
I'm pretty sure the... let's call them "writers" didn't know where Greece is, when the movie is supposed to happen or even what "mythology" mean...
Lmao love the way Jeremy says:
"We're such a cinematically-convenient fishing boat"
4:14 - in Greek mythology the gods controlled pretty much everything. They could have just made a solar eclipse 10 days from any time chosen.
Another movie from this era that's in need of the Cinemasins treatment - Prince of Persia.
6:19 the poor man's Davos Seaworth, oh that is him
7:44 such a waste of Mads Mikklesen anyone could have played this part
8:28 that was Rory McCann (The Hound) who got ripped in half, he's in the movie for about two minutes, even Oliver Stone's Alexander utilized him better
9:20 what's his face, every bit as impressive and memorable as he was as 'not Beast" and saying the famous line in Fury Road which a million other actors could have said better, so 'excited' for him as Tolkien
even Ramin Djawadi is slumming it with the musical score
Hey! ....you forgot Jason Flemyng as Calibos
"What's his face" is Nicholas Hoult.
0:58 this so much. Not for one moment did I see anything special about Sam Worthington. It just felt like someone wanted him to be the next Hollywood superstar but I've always seen him as bland and ordinary.
This movie was a deadly sin from the beginning to the end
**leaves the room**
I hated that I spent $1 to see this movie at the matinee but at least it was a borrowed dollar that I never repaid.
@@actionjackson3522
Even that still makes the movie questionably worth it at best tbh.
What about Kratos? He's never mentioned? I'll put 150 sins for that one
0:21 I forgotten the name who did it but I know its not Zeus that created man. Its the guy that is chained in the rock and a crow eats his guts every day I think
The 1981's version is better story and characters. The lead in it is better too.
Tigerfire75 Absolutely sometimes you just can’t beat the original
And Bobo the little robot owl 🦉from the original movie, was so funny, brave and lovely he deserve a lead roll in the new movie.
Em I was horrified when he just says whats that thing? Then just throws Bobo aside! 😱
@@fawcettimo1897 I saw a documentary on youtube and Bobo say they don't pay him for 2 days work. They cut most of his playtime 😡
And it has the wonderful Bubo!
LIAM ISN'T KILLING ANYONE IN THIS SCENE XD
OMG, your comment when the black Pegasus came swooping in, omg I laughed hard lol.
The part that killed me the most was "you cant expect to get a woman and a baby everytime you, oh...you meant fish"
1) Were Djinn in the greek myth? I thought they were arabic.
2) Why didn't they try to ask Medusa for help? She was cursed by a god and has reason to hate them.
3) If the gods created Medusa couldn't they turn her back to human (thus making her head useless) the second Persius was revealed to have it?
I'm pretty sure Djinn are originally from the Quran, but I could be wrong.
@@McDeus Djinn have existed in various folk lore in the middle east for millennia. They are mentioned in the Quran as being false gods, and Mohammed warns people from worshipping them.
no they could not have asked medusa for help as ( at least in the myths, don't know how she is portrayed in the movie) she was driven mad ( in various ways, depends on author and transtlators) because/ during ( see above) the transformation.
Because Athena is one of Poseidons enemies so she'd want him to fail when he sent his sea monster to destroy that kingdom and devour the princess - that's what the monster was, not the Kraken (who is a monster from Norse Mythology). Hades had nothing to do with this story.
Medusa has a tragic story and she hates both Athena and Posiden as she used to be a priestess of Athena and very beautiful so Posiden raped her and medusa went to Athena for protection but Athena was mad that she was soiled by her enemy and cursed her beauty away and gave her protection in the form of any man she gazes upon would turn to stone. The Greek gods were pretty spitefull and petty and as medusa hates all men yea I think she wouldn't have helped them out.
"Did he just 'hiya' a Pegasus"? That took me out. Freaking hilarious!!!!!!
We all be waiting for everything wrong with the infinity war
someone already did
No not really