We watched this movie in school during our 6th-grade session on mythology, but all these years later I couldn't remember much about it (other than the fact that I agreed to be in a Goddess Beauty Pageant before I realized that my mother did not own any plain white sheets. Of course I lost.) Seeing previews for the current remake made me curious enough to re-watch the original. Need I even mention the sad state of the special effects in this movie? On the one hand, for having been produced nearly 30 years ago, I suppose allowances can be made for their laughable portrayal of a winged horse or a snake-headed woman. On the other hand, Star Wars came out four years before Clash. I guess it's easier to animate robots and other futuristic characters, but the makers of Clash obviously didn't have George Lucas on their team.
Hopelessly fake-looking special effects aside, those ancient Greeks were some pretty awesome story-tellers. I'm thinking with the current technology and these good old stories, the new Clash of the Titans movie just might be excellent. Even this old version can't be called eminently unwatchable.
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