This Perseus was no pretty boy but a fisherman, played by Sam Worthington who’s had some really interesting roles lately. He seems to be drawn into parts where he plays two roles in one, Terminator: Salvation, (human/cyborg) Avatar (human Marine/alien,) and now playing a demi god. Liam Nielson playing Zeus (and he’ll be playing Hannibal Smith in the movie version of The A-Team in a few months — now there is diversity for you) was outstanding, and Ralph Finnes is used to playing fiendish bad guy roles, and did an excellent job as Hades.

Medusa was just slithering around to — although I’m kind of partial to Uma Thurman playing the snake haired *itch from Percy Jackson. This was a pretty CGI version, though. Oh, the Kraken was pretty scary, and it was saved for last. I don’t think having a black Pegasus instead of a white one as in the original, added much to the story it worked out quite well. There was some humor sprinkled in, but it was all intended humor.

Be it in 2-D — or I’m sure even more so in 3-D — its a good old-fashioned Saturday afternoon popcorn movie (and pretty good for a Friday afternoon too). When I first learned this film was being remade my reaction was, why? Do we really need a remake?

Now I’m glad they did.

Adm.Bob Vosseller
VRC Region 7
CO USS Challenger

Hey, we’ve all had to take jobs we’re not proud of…  except that no one’s got footage of you cleaning up Aisle 5 at WalMart during your high school summer job. Hollywood actors are not so lucky. Check out these 5 examples of terrific talent and how low they have sunk!

From the Hollywood Reporter:

“Commercial director Carl Erik Rinsch was to have made his directorial debut with the “Alien” prequel. But since that didn’t happen, he took part in electronic giant Phillips’ short-film experiment, which allowed five filmmakers to make their own movie using the same piece of dialogue. Rinsch came up with “The Gift,” a melange of Bourne-with-a-robot, a unicorn Macguffin and a futuristic Moscow-as-police-state setting (oh, wait, that is already here).”