I liked 300 although is very very far from being historically accurate.It presented a historical event exaggerated and distorted from a comics-fantasy point of view. But Frank Miller is great, Snyder did a great job and the result was spectacular, enjoyable and fun to watch.
Clash of the titans loosely based on the story of Perseus and Andromeda at least kept the main story.
So i don't have problem with historical or mythical accuracy. After all we go to movies to watch fiction, if we want accuracy we watch documentaries.
But this movie has NOTHING to do with Hercules. The character is NOT Hercules, the story is NOT the story of Hercules, the representation of the 'ancient world' has NOTHING to do with ancient Greece of 1200 BC.
Its simply the story of a "Konan like" character living in an undefined historical period , who could be called Konanis Papadopoulos (if the director insist to present him as Greek) but no way Hercules.
Curious thing is that while the real mythological story of Hercules is a very interesting story with all the elements that a viewer would love to watch (monsters, violence, suspense, interesting character, story twists) NOBODY in the history of cinema tried to make a movie really based on it. Lets hope some day someone will.
Clash of the titans loosely based on the story of Perseus and Andromeda at least kept the main story.
So i don't have problem with historical or mythical accuracy. After all we go to movies to watch fiction, if we want accuracy we watch documentaries.
But this movie has NOTHING to do with Hercules. The character is NOT Hercules, the story is NOT the story of Hercules, the representation of the 'ancient world' has NOTHING to do with ancient Greece of 1200 BC.
Its simply the story of a "Konan like" character living in an undefined historical period , who could be called Konanis Papadopoulos (if the director insist to present him as Greek) but no way Hercules.
Curious thing is that while the real mythological story of Hercules is a very interesting story with all the elements that a viewer would love to watch (monsters, violence, suspense, interesting character, story twists) NOBODY in the history of cinema tried to make a movie really based on it. Lets hope some day someone will.