Top 10 Remakes We Don’t Need
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
9. Clash of the Titans
The original: 1980
The remake: 2010
By redefining the sword-and-sorcery epic, 300’s now guilty of spawning just as many imitators. It won’t be hard for Conan the Barbarian and the Robert Rodriguez-produced Red Sonja to top the previous adventures that disappointingly featured these warriors. But why in the name of Zeus would Incredible Hulk’s Louis Leterrier bother redoing this campy mythological misfire for a generation that’s never heard of Ray Harryhausen? Despite the bad accents and wooden performances, Harryhausen’s last hurrah brought many memorable creatures to life through his stop-motion animation. Unfortunately, Leterrier plans to use 300’s greenscreen techniques to chronicle Perseus’ rescue of Princess Andromeda from the dreaded Kraken. And if Leterrier couldn’t create a realistic Hulk, what makes anyone think his monsters will be superior to Harryhausen’s creations?
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