Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Jan 2025 15:47

Medusa is weird in the remake. What once was a highlight is now a disappointment. The CGI didn’t age well and I have no idea why they decided to doll her up. There’s a low hanging joke here with her stone-turning gaze and erection, but really who though it was a good idea? Are we supposed to feel sorry for her now? She still brutally kills Perseus’ allies and gets decapitated. Nothing changed except her being paradoxically both better and worse looking.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Jan 2025 15:24

The supporting characters (there’s 5 or 6 of them) are all so one-note and boring the movie just kills all of them in one fight. Why did we have to wait for a whole hour? Why waste good actors like Mads Mikkelsen and Liam Cunningham on such cardboard cutouts?

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Jan 2025 15:13

Ralph Fiennes is straight up doing Voldemort again (both the voice and the mannerisms) and wearing some embarrassing getup. Why is Hades always a bad guy in Hollywood movies? He’s the ruler of the Underworld but Hades is not supposed to be evil. Guess christians read about Underworld being dark and immediately think of hell so they make him satan.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Jan 2025 15:00

The pseudo realistic dark and dirty look is irritating. Ancient Greece was full of color, most ancient civilizations were. Also there are clearly blacks in the crowd. 2010s are probably remembered fondly, but let’s be real, woke didn’t start in 2020, it just got bolder.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Jan 2025 14:35

Well, that was worse than expected.I remember the movie being bad, but this is so generic and shallow it’s almost special. The plot is just a series of lame fights with shitty dialogues in between.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 11:27

Ray Harryhausen’s dynamation is what saved the movie. Can’t even imagine the story without his effects, probably because the man was very involved and many scenes were written purely to showcase his stop-motion talent. Clash was also Harryhausen’s final movie and is deservingly considered his swansong.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 10:49

No idea why they decided to call the creature Kraken (him being the last titan makes no sense too). It’s a memorable design though. Could have appeared at least one more time somewhere in the middle of the film, but guess there was no room left in the story for another city being destroyed.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 10:43

Compare to this photo. Shorter hair would have worked better.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 09:23

Calibos, while not from the myth, is a case of good inspiration. It’s absolutely in Zeus’ character to transform a criminal into a beast. Did just that to Lycaon.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 09:06

Another standout is Neil McCarthy as Calibos. While the character is definitively evil, he is not without a shade of grey and the actor managed to convey that even under all the make-up.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 06:57

Out of the main cast the standout performances are Laurence Olivier (naturally) and Burgess Meredith (whom you probably remember from Rocky). Guess it was to be expected that older, more experienced actors did a better job.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 06:49

Of course some of the effects didn’t age well, but I’m not bothered by it. Better this than a CGI mess we’d get today.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

19 Jan 2025 00:24

Decided to watch and review Clash of the Titans. It’s an interesting case of a movie where I have a lot of both praise and criticism.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Jan 2025 19:03

Man, christians love the movie. Little wonder why. Like how they shit on Tolkien who was equally (if not more) christian but not that blatant about it. Also, why is jesus a lion in Narnia? Isn’t he a sacrificial lamb or something? Guess a giant talking sheep would be too cringe.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Jan 2025 18:32

Movie night. Going to check something out soon keeping your comments in mind. Hatewatching Midsommar is not on the list today though. Maybe later.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Jan 2025 15:27

Now there are Djinn who look like arabs and one of them becomes part of the team. He speaks his own made-up language except one word. And as I was doing research for the movie turns out he has a name. Some muslim representation is exactly what the original needed, right?

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Jan 2025 15:20

Zeus is a complete idiot in the movie since he trusts Hades who couldn’t possibly look more evil. Liam Neeson was wasted even more than Fiennes. And, of course, he also wears something stupid.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Jan 2025 15:07

Remake’s Perseus wears black armor with a black shield and rides a black Pegasus. Add some generic rock in the trailer and we have the edgiest version of Greek myth yet.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Jan 2025 14:42

Sam Worthington was awful. Say what you want about Hamlin’s version, but overacting is better than not acting at all. Actually I haven’t seen a single movie where Worthington played anything but a serious military guy and that’s what he does here. Arguably looks the part, but has no charisma at all.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 11:33

Overall Clash of the Titans is a good movie, which could have been great. If for some reason you were hesitating, I recommend giving it a watch. As far as mythology inspired movies go, it’s still one of the best.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 10:57

The best creature is of course Medusa. Probably Harryhausen’s best work, though I prefer Ymir from 20 Million Miles to Earth.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 10:48

The movie doesn’t go for accuracy when it comes to clothes and armor, but the style is still recognizably Ancient Greece and it’s neighbors.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 10:42

Harry Hamlin is a bit blend as Perseus, but that’s not really his fault since the script didn’t provide much. At least his acting was better than what Arnold would have provided were he cast as the lead.
Also not the best choice of hairstyle which covered Hamlin’s forehead and made the head look asymmetric. Ends up looking goofy at times.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 09:08

Calibos is not based on any figure from Hellenic tradition. If anything he has more in common with Shakespear’s Caliban.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 08:55

On the female side we have great Maggie Smith (probably better known as Ms McGonagall) and Judi Bowker as Andromeda. The latter was attractive enough and managed to pull off a good crying scene. Meanwhile the former could act against Olivier (she was his close friend btw).

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 06:51

Here’s probably the worst effect in the movie. No idea why they didn’t just light up the eyes of the statue and play a voiceover (like the sphinxes in The NeverEnding Story)

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 06:42

Clash of the Titans has many things I love but at the same time causes frustration. The biggest issue is how far the story veers off from the tale of Perseus which has been one of my favorites since childhood. This gets to the point where Greek mythology is such a superficial element it feels wrong calling this an adaptation. There’s Charon, who has a boat and needs a coin, but here he’s a skeleton and does not transport souls to the Underworld. There’s Pegasus who’s a flying horse, but he is not born out of Medusa’s blood etc.
As someone who has always wanted an adaptation of the myth I am disappointed such a great opportunity was lost. Early 80s were the best time for one. Practical effects and actors are perfect, but the plot is not.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Jan 2025 19:56

Let’s fight evil!-said Jesus Aslan to his army of mythical monsters

christian fantasy, lol

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Jan 2025 18:50

Since the topic of movies came up, remember 2005 Narnia adaptation? Got some free time yesterday and rewatched most of it. Haven’t seen the movie since release (20 years ago, man time sure flies). No woke and practical effects are refreshing, but…christian propaganda is really on the nose. Why do fauns, dwarves, centaurs and other mythical creatures call humans sons of Adam and daughters of Eve? Why do they celebrate christmas? Why did Liam Neeson lion sacrifice himself to bad guys in a Pagan inspired ritual? C.S. Lewis was a huge christcuck that’s why. Otherwise a decent flick, nowhere near as good as LOTR, but that’s a high bar.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Jan 2025 18:18

Factual v Allegorical interpretation

Part 3

By saying the legends are allegory, the Allegoricalists are saying the legends, which is how we know who the Gods are, what they did and why they did it, are moving them from religious fact to religious fiction.

There are several problems that arise from this, unless the Allegoricalists take a quasi-atheistic style of understanding:

• When the Gods interact with & blessed mortals who gave sacrifice, is that just allegory?

• When the Gods interact with mortals in person, in disguise sometimes, is that just alligory?

• When the Gods have children with mortals producing Royal Lineages, Demigods & Heroes, which are found all throughout the legends & in all Pagan faiths, is that just allegory?

Sometimes people who take ancestral faith seriously get accused of being like christians; acting as if christians are the only ones who take their religious material seriously. The Gods do things irl, that's Paganism & how the average person in antiquity understood the faith