Prepare to be disappointed when this lava guy doesn't even bother with a lazily-mimed "jerk-off" gesture before this moment. Already this sequel is failing to meet my extremely low expectations.
Left to right: "Fuuuuuuuuuck!!!" "Fuuuuuuuuuck!!!" "Fuuuuuuuuuck!!!" "We're best friends!" "Fuuuuuuuuuck!!!"
Below, one most poster, featuring Super-Jump Sam Worthington.
Upset that everyone thought his cool drawings of giant scorpions and shit were lame, Clash of the Titans has, like many a teased eighth-grader, taken solace in growing its hair out and listening to industrial metal. Tuning out all the parents and critics who just didn't understand, the Clash sequel's trailer just cranks up the volume on its Marilyn Manson CD and keeps right on with smearing dirt on everyone's face--as if that's not what gave it such difficult-to-look-at 3D acne in the first place.
How is Sam Worthington going to act from under so much hair, you ask? At first, he wondered the same thing, but he quickly found a solution: more screaming! And another stabby thing, please, prop department.
The above first look at Clash of the Titans sequel Wrath of the Titans comes to us the latest Entertainment Weekly, (as graciously scanned by The Playlist), which also contains a first look at the upcoming Akiva Schaffer-directed comedy Neighborhood Watch. Let's have a peek at that, too.
After Clash of the Titans' murky, universally-hated post-production 3-D conversion made it the whipping boy for after-the-fact gimmickry, you were probably under the impression Warner Brothers would make sure not to repeat their mistake for the film's sequel, right? Well, that was the wrong impression, because Battle: Los Angeles director Jonathan Liebesman--who's been given the thankless task of directing Wrath of the Titans--has revealed that this film, too, will be shot in film and converted to 3-D.
But it will be different this time! See, whereas the first film was constructed to be shown in 2-D, and converted at the last minute, Liebesman has the benefit of already knowing his film's going to look shittier afterward, which makes things better, he seems to think. The director explained to Cinematical:
"I think what you have to remember is the first film was neither shot nor edited with 3D in mind," Liebesman said Wednesday via telephone from the Los Angeles junket for 'Battle: Los Angeles.' "It was shot as a 2D movie and edited as a 2D film, and they decided to convert it with six or seven weeks to go until release, which is insane; the technology was not there. That's why we're conceiving it from the start, from the ground up, in 3D, editing in 3D for 3D."
Liebesman went on to explain his reasoning for shooting in film and converting, rather than just doing the more sensible thing and shooting with digital 3-D cameras, saying:
"I tested a lot of digital cameras, and quite frankly, because I'm going for a sort of much grittier, grounded look in 'Clash 2,' the look I want is almost 'Gladiator' with fantastical creatures in it, I found that the characteristics of film were more what I was going for."
Well, that makes sense, then. Nothing says "grounded" like the 3-D spectacle of Sam Worthington's t-shirt lunging out of the screen.
Sam Worthington has confirmed what everyone who saw the recent remake of Clash of the Titans already knew: if you walked into the theater with absolutely any expectations at all, you were going to be leaving let down--and also, Sam Worthington wasn't so great in it. Speaking rather frankly--as is the current trend--about the film and its upcoming sequel, Worthington told Moviefone:
I think the first one, we kind of let down some people. And yeah, I totally agree. The only point of doing a sequel is either the audience demands it or you believe you can better the first one. What we're setting out to do with this one -- the writers and the director and myself -- is improve. I think I can act f***ing better, to be honest ... Just take all the notes from people that I have been reading about on the 'net and give them a movie they f***ing want. This one I want to kind of try to satisfy a lot more people.
And you thought he wasn't paying attention when you called him "unremarkable," "boring," and "a dull man with a face like a blunt-featured parrot" with "[worse acting skills than] Tom Hardy's bowel movement" and "as much charisma as boiled potato."
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