The Glade 4.0

The Hollywood has, yes....

So I am watching the movie Taken for the first time, and for some reason I wondered how old Liam Neeson is...

And looking him up on IMDB I found something incredibly depressing two titles he is working on...

Liam Neeson is playing Hannibal in the A-Team.
He is also Zeus in a remake of Clash of the Titans that is in post production.

And I am spoilering the rest of the cast for Clash of the Titans.. this one has potential to be awesomesauce

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

I am curious to see Clash.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Dude.. Zeus was one of the gods you did not want involved in your life. Eventually.. man or woman he would try to f**k you. Hell he would even turn into other species to get some ***...

Hades just gets a bad rap because he tricked some prissy valley girl into eating a damn pommeganate.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

To be fair, they'd "run out of ideas" when they started telling stories based on 3000 year old greek fables on film to begin with.

Sortof. All fiction is just a retelling of ancient ideas. In thousands of years of human society, we've probably told every basic idea there is to tell, starting with the word-of-mouth fables our tribal shamans would have related before the dawn of recorded history. And the stories get improved and retold and adapted to fit different situations; really, movie-making has advanced so much in 30 years that there's as much difference between modern films and those from the 70s and early 80s as there were between those 70s and 80s films and shakespearian stage plays. There are reasons to remake and retell stories.

What's remarkable is that new stories get made at all, actually. Oh sure, there are always tropes reused in every tale, but there is still enough originality that it speaks wonders for the creativity of our species; after a hundred thousand years we're still coming up with new ideas. And this isn't to take away from the art of improving upon and retelling that which has been told before, either.

Unlike many people, I have no issues with a "remake." The question isn't "is remaking an old movie a bad thing," but rather, "Is this a story worth retelling." Too often, I'd say no. But this is a subjective thing, there's always someone to disagree, and I don't have to watch what I don't feel like watching.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I honestly can't think of any Greek gods that were particularly benevolent.

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The Dude abides.

The closest you'd come is probably Athena or Demeter.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Hephaestus wasn't bad, either.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Asclepius.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

No, they've run out of ideas when they decide to make a movie of Risk (the boardgame).

No, really. They have.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

Apollo wasn't too bad either.

In the old BSG, he was okay. In BSG re-imagined, Apollo was a whiny brat and an idiot.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Zeus gave his only father to save his brothers and sisters so they might live to create us. How is that not benevolent?

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

This would be awesome!

"Sir, we have our forces in place ready to capture their strategic nuclear weapons in Ukraine."

"No lieutenant, get Logistics and Airlift on the line, we're going to redeploy to Australia."

"Sir???"

"Trust me."

Stories that never get old = "Guy has everything but his physical life taken from him and crushed. Guy goes on a vendetta and kills everyone. Everyone dies in a very brutal and violent manner."

i.e.

Payback, The Punisher, etc.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

You mean... "The Western genre."

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Payback was a bit different since all he wanted was his $70k back. It was sort of a cynical version of that plotline, with a dark humor. Punisher wasn't near as good a movie. It was decent, but it was a bit sappy and over the top in some places.