Immortals (2011)

WingedSerpent · November 11, 2011, 10:18:38 PM

Let me start off by saying that while I enjoyed this movie, I could also see how a lot of people wouldn't.

Secondly, if your guessing that its essentially a rip-off of 300 I really couldn't argue with that either. In fact it was pretty blatant in some parts. Main Hero walking through enemies in Zack Synder-esque slow-mo., ancient civilization shown as scarred strange armor wearing monsters more that human. Two armies fighting in a narrow passage where its mentioned that the enemies vastly greater numbers would be meaningless.

And on top of that its CHEESY AS H-E-DOUBLE HOCKEY STICK! It's as cheesy as a block of cheese dipped in more cheese.

But....

It's a good kind of cheese that had me laughing in some parts and really liking the movie overall.

The movie has Theseues going up against King Hyperion played by Micky Rourke whose looking for a divine bow which he intends to use to release the titans in an effort to exterminate the greek gods. Yeah, its pretty light on story.

Still visually this movie is great. It is heavy on the CGI, but I think sense this movie never really tries to portray itself as realistic and instead pretty much says this is a fantasy I didn't mind it so much. It is art designed to the gills. With bright colors contrasting against darker ones. Again, a somewhat nod to 300 I'd post in in a thread we had hear a few months back about movies being "Artsplotiation" but I really don't feel looking searching for it right now.

The movie is fun too. The final action scene with the Greek Gods going against the Titans in a martial arts brawl (almost like a bloody version of Power Rangers) was great. There's some wonderfully awful dialogue. A little gratuitous nudity (but only in once scene) And a health amount of CGI blood. (Again, something I know a lot of people don't like, but didn't bother me given the stylized fantasy nature of the film)

I'd recommend it for fans of somewhat goofy fantasy, very stylized, action films. You can skip the 3D version though.

akiratubo · November 11, 2011, 11:04:13 PM

BROWN. That's what I took from this movie. BROWN.

It was a purely bad movie. Not cheezey bad, not "expensive trash" bad, just bad. Bad pacing, bad acting, cheap looking costumes (a lot of the costumes looked like off-the-shelf Halloween stuff). Plot? Whatever the plot was, it involved a lot people leaping at each other. A lot. In slow motion. Wearing their BROWN armor, clutching their BROWN weapons, against BROWN backgrounds. I'm sure there was an actual plot but it got lost in all the BROWN. Even the freaking water was BROWN.

Ok, ok, there were scenes with color. A little bit. Most of the movie was just BROWN.

This movie can kiss my ASS.

Archivist · November 12, 2011, 12:46:57 AM

Quote from: akiratubo on November 11, 2011, 11:04:13 PM

Ok, ok, there were scenes with color. A little bit. Most of the movie was just BROWN.

This movie can kiss my ASS.

If the movie is as brown as you say it is, perhaps it already did ...

Can I say that I'm rather looking forward to it? I'm expecting a lavishly overdone 300 ripoff, so it's not like my hopes are particularly high.

You know, it strikes me as funny that a studio and hundreds of people can put all this work and money into a movie, only to have us on the outside going, 'damn that was a crappy movie'!

Cthulhu · November 12, 2011, 06:19:03 AM

I didn't like 300, but the trailer for this one seemed fun.
I may check this out.

InformationGeek · November 12, 2011, 09:16:57 AM

Quote from: akiratubo on November 11, 2011, 11:04:13 PM
BROWN. That's what I took from this movie. BROWN.

Frankly, that's what I took from the commercials.

http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/immortals-audio-review

tracy · November 12, 2011, 01:09:54 PM

Maybe for a dollar rental later on....I just can't get enthusiastic about it.

Flick James · November 14, 2011, 12:01:24 PM

At work there are certain people that are practically a litmus test for movies I won't see. If they like it, I avoid it. If they love it, I avoid it like the plague.

They are raving about it. RUUUUNNNN!

Plus I'm not a fan of brown.

JPickettIII · November 14, 2011, 12:13:37 PM

I looks like a rip off of 300, but it also looks good. I am going to wait for it to come out on DVD though. Movie theaters are just too damn pricey.

Later,

John

The Burgomaster · November 14, 2011, 12:17:23 PM

They should have made a movie called THE IMMORALS and made it about the producers of THE IMMORTALS.

JPickettIII · November 14, 2011, 05:05:42 PM

Quote from: The Burgomaster on November 14, 2011, 12:17:23 PM
They should have made a movie called THE IMMORALS and made it about the producers of THE IMMORTALS.

That is funny. I like that.

Jim H · November 15, 2011, 02:17:21 PM

Quote from: akiratubo on November 11, 2011, 11:04:13 PM
BROWN. That's what I took from this movie. BROWN.

It was a purely bad movie. Not cheezey bad, not "expensive trash" bad, just bad. Bad pacing, bad acting, cheap looking costumes (a lot of the costumes looked like off-the-shelf Halloween stuff). Plot? Whatever the plot was, it involved a lot people leaping at each other. A lot. In slow motion. Wearing their BROWN armor, clutching their BROWN weapons, against BROWN backgrounds. I'm sure there was an actual plot but it got lost in all the BROWN. Even the freaking water was BROWN.

Ok, ok, there were scenes with color. A little bit. Most of the movie was just BROWN.

This movie can kiss my ASS.

Interesting, I pretty much totally agree. That's a rarity with you akira.

Bad plotting, some sloppy editing, very muddled storytelling, muddled dialogue, bad performances, atrocious design (just LOOK at Poseidon in the image below), stupid logic (like, for example, why didn't Hyperion just shoot his magic bow a few times down the hallway where all the Greeks were?), wasted sideplots (the traitor guy should have been written out, as it goes no where), terrible alterations to Greek mythology (the whole "free will" thing is just stupid, as is the stuff with the Titans, and the ending of the film) just bad bad bad.

I will attempt to highlight a few of the good things too, why not. Some of the action is well-handled, though the best action scene in the entire film is a very brief one where Theseus tries to save his mother - I remember getting my hopes up for some action of that caliber, but I never got it again. Some of the final battle stuff is alright, though it has significantly less of the clarity and very little of the originality that 300 brought (a film I like, but don't love for what it's worth). There's some decent looking photography, and Mickey Rourke does a reasonable job as a poorly written, under-motivated villain.

And just look at Poseidon. Man the designs are almost universally bad. It reminds me of the kind of concept stuff thrown around in the 60s, only it doesn't take it that far into ridiculous, so it is just awful, rather than memorably awful.

3/10. The worst film I've seen in theatres since Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (that one is worse, but not by a whole lot).