•There’s no defeat of Hades in the original script. While Hades is a villainous story motivator, he’s not the Big Bad of the tale, so Perseus is only dealing with the Kraken in the finale. Perseus’ victory, along with Apollo and Athena’s help, reveals Hades as a manipulator and the gods are able to crack down on him.

•Beyond that, Perseus goes to Olympus at the end of the original script. Zeus thinks that Perseus has come to finally take his place in the pantheon, but the reality is that Perseus throws the magic sword at Zeus’ feet and tells the god that while he may be Perseus’ genetic father, his real father is a dead fisherman. All throughout the original version of the film Io had been warning Perseus that the gods would corrupt him by offering him everything he ever wanted; in the finished film our hero is corrupted by Zeus, but in the original version Perseus remains his own man. He puts Zeus on notice.

•The original script reads more like a men on a mission movie, with each character having their own moments. There’s a terrible logic in these scenes being cut for story economy, but the rest of the changes baffle. Some make the movie internally inconsistent, while many others rob the film of its thematic resonance and meaning. Changing Perseus’ motivation, softening the edges of Zeus, cutting the other gods from the story (including completely chopping Athena, who has two major scenes in the original script), and screwing with the ending all add up to a film that doesn’t quite work and that feels tinkered with.

•There’s more. In the film Zeus has a mysterious and unexplainable change of heart about Perseus, his bastard son. While Perseus is on a quest to destroy the gods Zeus shows up and helps him out, which doesn’t quite make sense. In the original script (and the original cut) it wasn’t Zeus who showed up to give Perseus the coin he needed to cross the River Styx - it was Apollo.

•The theatrical cut of the movie repositions Zeus from a more villainous character to a bumbling but sympathetic distant dad. Yeah, maybe he raped Perseus’ mom, but he’s not that bad a guy, and he’s there for his son in the end. By making some judicious cuts and reshooting only a few scenes, the current cut of Clash betrays the spirit of the shooting script.

Bitte was? Extraklasse? Kollege du hast über 250 Filme auf Blu-ray und SOWAS ist für dich EXTRAKLASSE? Shit.

Bitte was? Extraklasse? Kollege du hast über 250 Filme auf Blu-ray und SOWAS ist für dich EXTRAKLASSE? Shit.

Bitte was? Extraklasse? Kollege du hast über 250 Filme auf Blu-ray und SOWAS ist für dich EXTRAKLASSE? Shit.

Aber lieber Kuma, was hat die Anzahl meiner Filme mit der Qualität zu tun. Habe ebenso noch über 1500 DVDs hier stehen, was sagt das aus?

Für mich sagt es aus, dass du schon viele viele viele Filme gesehen hast und daher Vergleiche ziehen kannst. Wenn jetzt jemand zum ersten Mal im Leben ins Kino geht haut den ein Film wie Kampf der Titanen wahrscheinlich echt aus dem Hocker, wenn man aber schon viele andere (vielleicht sogar vergleichbare) Streifen gesehen hat dann ist da ja eigentlich nichts zu sehen, was dieser Film besser (oder anders gesagt: nicht deutlich schlechter) macht. Aber wie gesagt, sollte gar kein Angriff sein, ich wollte nur meine Überraschung kundtun.