{"id":12509,"date":"2010-04-29T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12509"},"modified":"2010-04-29T22:36:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:36:56","slug":"clash-of-the-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/29\/clash-of-the-titans\/","title":{"rendered":"Clash of the Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Last weekend I watched “Clash of the Titans<\/a>” with a bunch of friends.\u00a0 I was insisting on watching it in 2D, since it was widely known that 3D in the film was added in post-production and hence won’t be anything remotely similar to the real 3D, but my arguments weren’t convincing enough and we went to 3D cinema anyway.\u00a0 Don’t make the same mistake.<\/p>\n

As I expected it, 3D really sucked.\u00a0 Do you remember those bulky CRT monitors that we used to have with our desktop computers, back when everyone wasn’t a happy laptop owner?\u00a0 If you do remember them, then you probably remember the horrible experience when such a monitor was configured for a low refresh rate, say 60 Hz.\u00a0 The images on such a monitor were flickering, there was no sharpness, and your eyes and had would start hurting pretty soon.\u00a0 That’s very similar to the experience of the pseudo-3D.\u00a0 Horrible experience in other words.\u00a0 In fact, it was so horrible that we kept taking glasses on and off constantly.\u00a0 One could watch this film totally without 3D glasses, but in certain places it was easier to have them on.<\/p>\n

So, was pseudo-3D the only thing that spoiled my experience?\u00a0 Nope. I felt that the movie was very shallow in pretty much every aspect – acting, story, special effects, drama, scale, and so on and so forth.\u00a0 Just to give you some idea with a little spoiler – there wasn’t much of a clash in this film, and there were no titans.\u00a0 About 40 seconds of screen time were given to a rather large creature, which many might confuse with a titan.\u00a0 But when we are in Greek mythology, a word “titan<\/a>” actually has a very particular meaning.\u00a0 So, no titans.<\/p>\n

And yet another something else that didn’t help my perception of this film was a fresh memory of “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief<\/a>” – another Greek mythology action movie that was released recently.\u00a0 And as much as I didn’t want to watch “The Lightning Thief” it turned out to be quite a nice flick.\u00a0 And it happened to be way better than the titans with no titans.<\/p>\n

Overall, I’ll give the titans a 3 out of 5<\/strong>.\u00a0 Skip it and you won’t miss much.\u00a0 If you really want to see it though, make sure you watch it in 2D – save yourself some money and a headache.<\/p>\n

P.S.: I only now realized that I forgot to review “The Lighning Thief”.\u00a0 I will correct this shortly.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Last weekend I watched “Clash of the Titans” with a bunch of friends.\u00a0 I was insisting on watching it in 2D, since it was widely known that 3D in the film was added in post-production and hence won’t be anything remotely similar to the real 3D, but my arguments weren’t convincing enough and we went … Continue reading Clash of the Titans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1706,1,24],"tags":[2321,1677,1828,2032,2320,1875],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-stars","category-general","category-movies","tag-gemma-arterton","tag-jason-flemyng","tag-liam-neeson","tag-louis-leterrier","tag-ralph-fiennes","tag-sam-worthington"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12494,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/23\/day-in-brief\/","url_meta":{"origin":12509,"position":0},"title":"Day in brief","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mobile Twitter website is really slick in Opera Mini. 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