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That was some nine-day vacation from writing, although only a four-day continuous vacation from work with one more Sunday (Palm) thrown in. Do I have an excuse for it? Yeah, but it’s not one that I want to present here at the moment. Let’s just call it a bad lapse.

All I can say is that I did attempt to write down some things for posting postdated, but seeing as they would now be counted as part of April instead of March (which already has a higher post count that the previous months by itself), and there has never been an instance where I posted something that was mean to be as far back as ten days before, I decided to just stick with the truth this time, which is that on those days I did not have enough time to write and post something.

@@ I watched “Clash of the Titans” on its first day of showing, at the nearest 3D cinema, SM Sta. Rosa again.

It was a big disappointment, even before I realized how much they changed from the original mythology.

Just like Percy Jackson the action was over before I knew it, and we were in the climactic battle scene. In fact, there are several irritating parallels with that other Greek pantheon movie.

They just had to put in the home of the Gorgons in the underworld, something that has not been referred in Greek mythology since the early writings (yes, I had to research this) but obviously that is one of the staple images of Greek gods that they wanted to show, the ferryman to the realm of Hades.

Even though this is in the original movie, it just shows how much Hollywood would distort literature for a few so called money shots.

My main consternation is that if I have to teach constellations again, I will have to undo a lot of the revisions that Hollywood presented, such as the kingdom under attack being Ethiopia and not Argos, Pegasus having sprung from the blood of Medusa and not just “tamed” by Perseus, Poseidon being the main villain instead of the overused Hades, and the men rebelling against the gods for no apparent reason (it would have been better if the gods were shown playing cruelly with the fates of men to deserve this outrage), the gods taking sides in helping out Perseus with weapons instead of being from Zeus, and Perseus and Andromeda not getting married afterwards.

But kudos to them for explaining the R-rated origin of Medusa, even if it did just make Poseidon into a side note, as well as how Perseus was conceived, although they changed it from Zeus coming as a now kinky “golden shower” to the queen to disguising himself as the king.

Also, I did like that the floor of the meeting room of the gods was like the Earth in that the clouds and mountains were actually nestled at their feet, and they did retain the human figurines from the original.

Action wise, besides having seen the round table of the gods with no table, Medusa and the ferryman to the underworld in Percy Jackson, I also saw the fight of man on winged creature versus giant monster in “How to Train Your Dragon” and depicted better at that. I also saw the giant scorpion versus men fight in the desert in Transformers already. Sam Worthington is now officially overexposed in the science fiction and fantasy genre, and with her big part in the upcoming “Prince of Persia”, so is Gemma Arterton and her distinctive accent and foil for the hero.

Another gripe I have is the overextension of the use of 3D. Do we really have to see that a person in half profile has the front of their face almost elongated just to appear solid against the back of the hair?